Sunday, November 25, 2007

Sri Lankan Men, Indian Women Grab the Titles Surya Nepal 9th SAARC Golf Championship

Sri Lanka won the Men’s Title in the Surya Nepal 9 th SAARC Golf Championship played at Le Meridien Gokarna Forest Golf Resort by winning two matches and halving one to cumulate 5 points against Nepal ’s 1 in the men’s finals.
In the ladies category, India took the medal home while Sri Lanka ended up the second leaving Pakistan and Nepal in the third and fourth place respectively.
In one of the men’s finals matches, Tisa Chandradasha of Sri Lanka defeated Nepal ’s Tashi Ghale easily after 12 holes. The most exciting was the match between Rupak Acharya of Nepal and K Prabagaran of Sri Lanka which was squared. In the other match, Mithun Parera of Sri Lanka defeated Rabi Khadka of Nepal .
In the Losers’ Match between Pakistan , Bangladesh , India and Bhutan ; the winning team was Bangladesh with an aggregate score of 1 under par.
In the friendship cup match, Wang Yi scored 39 stableford points to win the championship. In the ladies category of friendship match, Kesang Lama and Eu Hazur Thapa were tied at 32 stableford points however Kesang bagged the title on account of better back nine. Min Gu Cho got both longest drive and closest to the pin award. The championship of team managers was grabbed by Nepal ’s Rabindra Shrestha.

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