Entries pouring in for Oman Air golf

S.M. Jiffrey Abdeen Kandy Sports Corr. at Victoria

Over 60 golfers have so far entered the inaugural Oman Air Stableford Golf Championship organised by the Victoria and Country Resort and sponsored by the newest player in the Airline Business Oman Air which will be worked off at the picturesque Victoria golf course at Rajawella off Kandy on Saturday commencing at 7 a.m.

But the total number of competitors is bound to increase further in the next few days, as there is always a last minute rush for entries depending on the time available for the competitors during the festive season.

The weather in the hills is wet and there is a good growth of grass in the course which had been trimmed to set up challenges for the golfers as excitement and challenges are an essential ingredient for golf which is quite an expensive individual game.

Golfers will have to use all their experience to come to terms with the course said the golfing General Manager of the Victoria Golf and Country Resort Errol Johnston himself a reputed golfer who has been playing the game both in Sri Lanka and abroad which has seen his handicap being scaled down to 13 and with more competitions wins, this will be sliced further. Despite the wet conditions, the Course Manager Maheel Bulumulla has been on the job to shave off the excess grass where necessary.

Some of the top golfers from Kandy who have entered this competition so far are the winner of the Swedish Golf Classics 2009 Chamil Wickremasinghe, Sujeewa Lankatillake, Ian Tait, Bo Lindberg, Veinert Holm, Ravi Mediwake, Sam Gunaratne, Sirath Kasthuriratne, Errol Johnston, Rolf Tibblin and among the ladies it will be Sonia Boyle, Tina Hannsson, Lillian Perera, Pauline Morley, Manori Jayakoddy, Niloo Jayatillake, Jyoti Haynes, Linda Harris and many others.

Entries are still being received by the golf clubs at Nuwara Eliya, Royal Colombo Golf Club and Victoria Golf Club. The awards ceremony will be at 8 p.m. at the Victoria Club House.