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Steel trophy stays with Ebert
Handicapper Martin Ebert an extract of a high class Burgher family now resident in U.K. is a renowned Golf Course Architect. He with Donald Steel designed and supervised the construction of the Victoria Golf Club in Digana, Kandy which today is an absolute beauty comparable with the best in our part of the world.

Donald Steel Contest
Amrit de Soysa @ 1, Martin Ebert @ 4 and Alain Gyi @ 6 moved into a titanic struggle for supremacy vieing for the Plum win. All three played good golf with Ebert calm, unruffled and methodical carving 2 good rounds to embrace the handsome trophy from visiting celebrity Mike Thornton former undisputed champion of Ceylon, captain and then President of the Royal Colombo Golf Club and Ceylon Golf Union. Thornton was Chairman of Aitken Spence Ltd. in the old days and an extremely popular personality.

In the Ebert Pot event Alex Perera quite a senior got just past Sahil Malhotra a delightfully promising young star who shot 2 praiseworthy rounds. The Pam Fernando Cup was won by former star Suren Selvaratnam who beat Niloo Jayatilleke by 3 points. Pam was there in all her glory to distribute her award. In the contest for the Victoria Bowl Niloo Fernando Jayatilleke was outsanding cracking a formidable score to beat Suren Selvaratnam convincingly, Niloo celebrated incessantly after she won the longest drive contest. Alain Gyi was impressive with a hefty drive to win the men's event for the furthest drive. "Duchess" Abeyratne a star golfer and champion of yesteryear struck a beaut Hole-in-One on the 4th. Her 4th in competitive golf she raised loud applause at awards time and thereafter laughed through celebrations with nips of Carlsberg and a harvest of well wishers.

Awards
The ceremony was loaded with fun and laughter. Tony Whitham conducting the ceremony was as usual stylish and classy and he richly deserved the resounding clapping he received for his outstanding skills and dedication to high standards of performance. "Martin Ebert speechified well" a wag was heard to say. He rushed through memory lane to relate to us hilarious incidents through and fun filled life style of Mark Bostock. He excelled in speechcraft and was amply appreciated with incessant applause.

The Victoria Golf Club had a galaxy of pleasure seeking visitors grouped as NABOBS Golfing Society led by Ian Lander, his charming wife and gorgeous daughter. 20 of them mostly from the land of Scotch & Golf, they messed around and generally had a king size ball mixing freely with all around them. They will take back happy memories and there is positive promise they will be back with us soon.

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