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golf at the Ridgeways
Hemaka Amarasuriya, chairs Singer (Sri Lanka) Ltd. with success
and distinction. A sportsman and enthusiastic follower of most competitive
games, he has over a long period of time sponsored several sports
activities with success projecting the image of Singer and its world
renowned range of products, one of which is Hitachi, the pride of
Japan.
Hitachi
took over the sponsorship of an extremely successful golf competition
at the Royal Colombo last Saturday, smartly organised and superbly
put together, the contest was followed by cocktails and an elaborate
Awards Ceremony. The ‘sew easy’ programme was outstanding.
Sheron
Fernando, a strikingly good looking 6 handicapper comes good off
and on. Tremendously talented, the young man struck great form at
the Singer contest when he cracked a great nett 66 to pick the ‘A’
Classic, a Hitachi TV and massive applause at the Award Ceremony.
Richard Gunewardena crept behind with nett 67 beating another brilliant
youngster Avinesh Nareshkuma with a better back nine.
Nimal
excels
Premier Pacific Nimal Perera, also known as ‘Pinnacle Perera’,
was in topping form once again when he picked up a 4 under par nett
67 to win the Singer ‘B’ Classic. Strong off the tee
and quite confident on the greens, he finished in a blaze of glory
when he birdied the 18th. He celebrated incessantly. L.P.V. Jayaweera,
a south paw, was moving pretty good when he faltered with a careless
shot which cost him, the win.
Swastika Nihal
Nihal Ranasinghe, the dewdrop crack of dawn golfer, cruised to a
well calculated splendid victory in Division ‘C, beating a
lively contender Ajit Dissanayake by one stroke. It was Nihal’s
first victory in competitive golf and that caused the young man
to push for celebrating and volunteering to give shot by shot commentaries
of his achievement. A glutton for celebrating, Ranasinghe started
the evening at ‘After All’, his pal’s residence
and after a skinfull, agreed to give a visiting dignitary Ian Chappell,
the celebrated former cricket captain of Australia, a lift to the
Cinnamon Grand. Moving recklessly in his Benz 350, the man was stopped
by a posse of cops. Kalyani pleaded but no notice was taken until
Chappell stepped in to be recognised by the senior cop, who not
only got Chappell’s autograph but also waved Ranasinghe to
move on with a warning.
Old
folks
Joe Perera and ‘Amapola’ K.B.Ambanpola, struggled for
supremacy when Joe got ahead with a stroke of luck to leave Ambanpola
behind.
Masters
Pinnacle Nimal Perera captured this event with nett 67, beating
L.P.V. Jayaweera on 69. Both happily celebrated.
Bala
excels
P.R. Balaratnarajah performed splendidly in an exacting event. He
shot the best score on the 4 par 3 holes to be cheered loudly at
the Awards Ceremony. Beaming a smile of great pride and satisfaction,
Bala cracked a few Carlsbergs with joy before he carried the great
news home to his ever loving Beatrice.
Miscellaneous
In the ‘A’ Division, Nirmal Hettiaratchy struck absolute
disaster with gross 96 and had Tissa Jayasinghe for company, who
was as bad. Haris Serasinghe, crippled with jet-lag, messed around
superbly to collect a rough century and laughs all the way to the
clubhouse and mix at the 19th. Keith Martenstyn, Suranjan de Silva
and Jit Wanigasekera made pretty packets of confetti.
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