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Jackie Dias wins Dialog GSM Trophy
Dialog GSM co-sponsored the 125th anniversary celebrations of the Royal Colombo Golf Club just concluded. It was a massive effort which was enormously successful. Hans Wijesuriya, the buoyant Chief Executive of Dialog, an eloquent speaker expressed his distinct pleasure in extending support towards the milestone event in the history of the Royal Colombo Golf Club. He said, "We shall support Golf whenever possible and we look forward to the next occasion". Loud appreciative applause followed.

Awards
The Award Ceremony was fun filled and absolutely posh in style and much credit to the indefatigable Zarina Rahim for her classy and splendid organising skills. Kumar de Silva compered a crowded and varied programme quite skilfully.

Visitors
The celebrations were packed to capacity - strongly represented by several visitors from Royal Clubs. The chief guest was Harry McCaw, the amiable and most genial past captain of the Royal & Ancient of St. Andrews supported by his charming wife Brigit. The Stableford Competition was outstandingly successful with returns of excellent scores.

New on the scene golfing Ambassador U. Tan Tun played an extremely impressive round. Excellent off the tee and quite positive on the greens he collected 40 points and a handsome trophy from Harry McCaw. A.H. Sheriffdeen now come to be known as "Mr. Runner-up" once again failed to clinch the trophy beaten by a slender one point. He was popular at the award ceremony receiving prolonged applause which he acknowledged with a gentle bow. Dr. H. Boralessa, brother of Captain Kumar visiting from UK was quite impressive too and came a close third. In the disaster zone there were stacks of messing around. Riddled with aqua phobia three Doctors Shelton Jayasinghe, P.N. Thenabadu and Hemal Fernando failing to diagnose their own ailments were securely stuck in the mess.

Ladies
Little L. Dharmaratne was overjoyed with an amazing 45-point victory and she much deserved a pretty trophy and loud applause. Jackie Dias had a creditable round to win the gross score event.

Main event
Elegant left-hander C. Thurairaja won the classic beating an outstanding player Bandula Weerasinghe by one point.

Accolades
Much credit to Dialog GSM for a gorgeous party, Cocktails, Cabarets and Dinner. Zarina Rahim handled the fun-filled night in style.

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