RCGC’s golf for charity a success

Richard Dwight

The raising of funds for charitable causes, was initiated in the year 2004 by the Royal Colombo Golf Club, by annually setting apart a poya day each year for this benevolent purpose through a golf tournament. The fifth of its kind was held last Saturday at the RCGC to collect funds to complete the construction of a 24 bed elders home for the blind at Kadawatha, the awards ceremony was held the following day.

There were around 240 golfers taking part, with the eventual winner in the ‘A’ division being the captain of RCGC, Tissa Jayasinghe, with a score of 37 points and the overall winner was Prasanna Madanayake with 44 points.

At the awards ceremony, where Minister Sarath Amunugama was the chief guest, amongst others was an auction and a large amount of money was collected for this worthy cause.

Also seen was the philanthropic hand of the captain of the RCGC, Tissa Jayasinghe, when he donated a property including a house at Bandaragama to the visually handicap was very much appreciated by the advisor to the Sri Lanka Federation for the visually handicapped Dr. Wickrema Weerasooriya, the prime mover of the charity golf tournament.