Sirath overall winner at Victoria

S. M. Jifrrey Abdeen Kandy Sports Corr.

Veteran golfer and cricketer Sirath Kasthuriratne was the overall Nett winner while Sam Gunaratne won the Gross title at the August monthly medal golf championship organised by the Victoria Golf and Country Resort which was worked off at the Victoria Golf course at Rajawella.

Back to form Sirath Kasthuriratne playing to a handicap of 16 got a net 72 and Sam Gunaratne playing to a handicap of 10 followed closely with Nett 73 and Voinert Holm was in third place with 75 Nett playing to a handicap of 20. Former Vidyartha cricketer Sam Gunaratne came good to win the Gross title for men with a gross score of 83 and with the hassle of handicap gone, he had a comfortable lead of 5 strokes over Sirath Kasthuriratne who got 88 gross and in third place was Englishman Ian Tait with 92.

It was quite a remarkable performance both by Gunaratne and Kasthuriratne for having forged ahead of Ian Tait a golfer with immense skills and has won many major events at Victoria and also has lot of golfing experience in Dubai.

But Ian Tait did not go home without a title when he lifted the Mens Division One title for handicappers between 10 to 12 with a score of 85.

The Division two title for handicappers between 13 to 28 was won by Swede Voinert Holm with a score of 75.

Norwegian born Lillian Perera won the Ladies Nett title with a Nett

score of 73 while Linda Harris pocketted the Gross title for Ladies with a gross score of 93.

Nike Penn was the chief guest at the awards ceremony which was held at the club house.