Stroke play gives way to match play

Richard Dwight

The qualifying first two rounds of the annual Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) Amateur Championship, was played on the stroke play format last Saturday and Sunday at the RCGC.

There were 140 participants in the qualifying rounds playing in the four divisions, as determined by their respective handicaps, viz, the RCGC club championship, silver, bronze and the masters.

Out of the 140 contestants only 27 have been found eligible to play on the match play format with the semifinal on Saturday and the final on Sunday. The winner of the RCGC club championship, will be the RCGC champion for the year 2011.

RCGC Club championship Leader Board: Romesh Abhayaratne 152, S J Kim 153, Nirmal Hettiaratchy 153, Alain Gyi 155, Rusi Captain 157

Masters Division: Bjorn Bjerkaas 143, H B Koralegedera 149, Kumar Borelessa 150, Dr N Wijemanne 150.

Silver Division: Suren Kohombange 139, Gerard Fernando 144, Nimal Perera 145, Chandana Weerasinghe 145, Ranjit Perera 145, Dinesh Fernando 145

Bronze Division: N Ranchigoda 145, Ravi Gooneratne 146, Milinda Ratnayake 146, Nishan Nawaratne 146