Pro-AM Team Golf C'ships conclude in style

S.M. Jiffrey ABDEEN Kandy Sports Corr

The team of Sanjeewa Wickremanayake, Awanka Herath, Vijitha Bandara and Don Klenk won the first place in the Pro-AM Team Golf Championship organized by the SriLankan Airlines and the Victoria Golf and country resort and worked off at the Victoria Golf Course at Rajawella off Kandy.

This team championship formed part of the SriLankan Airlines hosted senior PGA Asia Pacific Champions tour event and also to give Sri Lanka amateur golfers a chance to play with a Asia Pacific Tour Professionals. Each team had four players and three of them being Sri Lankans and the fourth one a professional.

It was a good experience for the local golfer to play along side the professionals and gain valuable experience.

The course itself was in excellent condition and the professionals were thrilled with the challenges it had to offer.

Finishing second was the team which had Lasantha de Silva, Asiri Iddamalgoda, Gihan Wickremasinghe and Mike Harwood.

It must be recalled that Australian Mike Harwood won the SriLankan Airlines Asia Pacific Senior Masters Championship with a total of 136 points after a virtual flawless performance.

Don Klenk from the United States of America who finished seventh in the PGA Master Championship with 149 points was a member of the home ground advantage too is lost.

It is reliably understood that the Lake View grounds is required for athletic purposes probably before the sports meet.