RCGC Caddies victorious

P. Rajaratnam in Nuwara Eliya

The Caddies Championship for the Beadons Cup was worked off recently at the Nuwara Eliya Golf club, where the Royal Colombo Golf Club Caddies won, while the runners up were the Nuwara Eliya Caddies, and third was the caddies of the Digana Golf club.

The event was gallantly fought by the caddies and there was a tough competition witnessed by a large crowd of spectators.

This annual event has become noteworthy, since the families of the late Beadon family, including the daughter of late Beadon, who was a pioneer planter in the hill country Peme Gordon, and her children including the son and daughter Graham Gordon and Wendy Gordon all from United Kingdom were present and graced the occasion, and distributed gold, silver and bronze medals to the winners, together with cash prizes.

Peme Gordon, daughter of late Ray Beadon, who herself was a student in Nuwara Eliya at the then prestigious Hill School, which catered to the British children, paid glowing tributes to the vast developments of Nuwara Eliya specially around the Lake Gregory area where the then Hill School was situated.

She told me that the Beadon family had made it a point to visit Nuwara Eliya annually and participate in the Beadon Cup annual event, and they hope to do so for many more years.

She recalled her days as a child at St Leonards Estate in Ragala and thereafter she migrated to London for her further studies along with her late father Ray Beadon and who was a keen Golfer of the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club, while being its President at one time.

She was amazed at the vast strides made in the tea plantations in the Nuwara Eliya district, and particularly at St Leonards Estate, where her late father was a planter during the British time.

She also complimented the staff and caddies of the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club, particularly the Secretary Rienzie Perera and the rest of the employees for the excellent arrangements towards conducting this event.