Over 150 in the fray

Johnnie Walker Golf Classic begins today

The Johnnie Walker International Club championships gets underway at the Royal Colombo Golf Club(RCGU) at the Ridgeways at Borella today.

This year's tournament will be a one day 18 hole event held in three handicap categories( 0-9, 10-16 and17-24).

The format of this tournament will be against Stableford competition off full handicap. The player with the highest points scord in each handicap category will be declared the winner in their respective category.

The winnners of last year's tournament were M. Jezmi Mansoor (0-9) and Jawahar-lal Jamnadas Ambani(10-16) and Lalinda Dharmarathne (17-24).

The Johnnie Walker International Club championships which began in 1991 has been hosted in the Asian region since then, its the largest amateur golf tournament in the region.

One of the prime objectives of the tournament is to strengthen the level of competition for Amateur and Professional Golfers in order to raise the standards of the sport throughout the region.

The event is the second event in a series of Johnnie Walker golf events being held in the region, the first been held at the Royal Nepal Golf Club in Kathmandu on September 26.

The Sri Lanka event willl be followed by events in Bhutan, October 17 and 18 and in India in December 5 and 6.

A record number of entries have been received for this tournament.

Natasha, Eranga to lead swim team

Sri Lanka led by Natasha Kodituwakku (girls) and Eranga Fernando (boys) will leave for China tomorrow to participate at the inaugural International Schools Federation World Gymnaside Swimming Championships which will be held from October 12 to 19.

Kodituwakku and Fernando will be amongst the 11 girls and 12 boys participating in this championship.

The others are:

Girls - A.Wijesundare,Harini Jayasekera, P.A.Abeywardena, O.Ranasinghe, R.Money, C.Haputhanthri, N.Senanayake, R.Fernando, N.Fernando, R.Commarasu.

Boys - Jayamal Wijeratne, T.P.Muthumala, C.Perera, S.de. Silva,S.Silva,R.Fernando, D.Ratnasekera,T. Abeywardena, S. Abeywardena, S. Perera,M.Weerasekera.

Rover pinpoints…

Kangaroo cad

The Sports Instructor Chum from Down Under Rover, referred to recently regarding his sexploits with local ladies visiting the gym of a star class hotel in the city centre, is now playing around with the kakhied gentry or so it seems.

With the help of his fair-skinned boss(They stick together don't they against we yakkos), the cops at Slave Island have been told to go slow on the complaint of threats made by a native.

The complainant is made the accused, the accused has became the complainant. The whole thing is a jara-maray over a jara-Vadey committed by this Kangaroo cad

Ping-pong battle

A ping-pong battle for supremacy at the annual general meeting of an affiliate of the Table Tennis Association turned out to be a bitter fight for survival. The post of the President saw two candidates get an equal number of votes which prompted one section to decide who gets to be the president on the toss of a coin.

This has never happened at any annual general meeting and the other section protested vehemently as one person of a certain faction was told to go and apply for a visa to go abroad at the time of voting.

Rover scores

Rover highlighted that a veteran female athlete was deprived of participation at a meet to be held this month in Japan by a self interested official. But the minister has stressed that she should go to the meet, since he had noticed her training very hard at the ministry grounds.

Boot licker

A boot licker has started his rounds again. He has stated that there are only two reporters who are writing about a subject which is being read by him. The reason for doing so apparently is because he is praised for unwanted comments by them.

Numbered days?

A certain cricket coach's days are slowly but surely coming to an end but he was heard saying to follow a certain big mouth presenter's comments which seems to benefit this sport unlike certain newspapers.

Swollen heads

Who is this leading cricketer, when he was invited by one, who too has earned a name in the said sport, was embarrassed at a recent felicitation ceremony.

The former had invited the present cricketer to go and meet an old stalwart: The present day cricketer had pointblankly refused. Money it seems has changed his attitude!

No Nidhasa

Two announcers, one English and one Sinhala had been driven from pillar to post whilst trying to collect their payments for services at the Nidhasa Trophy cricket matches at the R. Premadasa International Stadium by a leading advertising agency.

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