Anura Rohana-Men’s Golf Champion

Richard DWIGHT

The four-day Sri Lanka Men’s Open Golf Championship co-sponsored by Ceylon Cold Stores and generously supported by Pam Fernando, ended on a triumphant note for leading front line golfer, Anura Rohana when he came right on top yesterday at the RCGC to be Men’s Golf Champion for the year 2010.

The fast becoming much travelled professional, Rohana did not have it easy, for closely following him were N. Thanga Raj and Tissa Chandradasa. Rohana did appear to play well in patches for on the opening day in round one he had a one under par 70, on the third day he slipped in the third round to have a four over par 75 and on the final day in the fourth round he did even worse to have a five over par 76.

It was his five under par 66 on the second day in the second round, which gave Rohana the distinctive advantage of having a comparatively winning aggregate of 287.

N. Thanga Raj who on the penultimate day was placed second after the third round with a par 71 to have a total of 216 and be five shots behind Rohana - did not fare well yesterday in the fourth and final round to strike a six over par 77 and have an aggregate of 293 to be placed third six behind Rohana. Tissa Chandradasa performed extremely well to redeem himself from fifth position to end up as runner-up. This was mainly due to his playing steady golf right through the four rounds with scores of 74, 74, 73 and 70 to have an aggregate of 291 to be four shots behind the winner Rohana.

Sri Lanka Men’s Open Championship
			1st	2nd	Total	3rd	Total	4th	Grand
			Day	Day	Gross	Day	Gross	Day	Total
			Gross	Gross		 Gross		Gross	Gross
1. Anura Rohana		70	66	136	75	211	76	287 
2. K. A. Chandradasa 	74	74	148	73	221	70	291  
3. Thanga Raj		72	73	145	71	216	77	293
3. M. Arumugam		76	70	146	74	220	73	293
4. Lalith Kumara	74	70	144	76	220	80	300
4. Navinda Ranga	76	77	153	75	228	72	301
5. Wijitha Bandara	73	74	147	74	221	80	301
6. Zen Dharmaratne	76	74	150	74	224	77	301