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“Golf is Magical” is what the junior
champions roared as the two-day
tournament ‘Jyoti Randhawa Junior
Golf Championship’ concluded with the
legendary golfer Mr. Jyoti Randhawa at the
prestigious Classic Golf and Country Club.
The Championship is a promise to promote
talent and a long term association with the
Ultimate Golf Junior Tour to create future
Olympians for the country.
Mr. Jyoti Randhawa, Mr. SSP Chawrasia
and the Ultimate Foundation will sponsor
four kids to compete in the World
Championship.
The winners will get to compete with some
of the best junior golfers in the world at the
U.S Kids World/ Teen World championship
at Pinehurst, North Carolina, U.S.A. This
tournament attracts over 2800 of the best
junior golfers from over 70 countries across
the globe.
According to Mr. Jyoti Randhawa, “I
Giving it back to the game
think the future of golf is the juniors and
these tournaments are a great platform to
encourage the juniors. When I used to play,
I was the only junior golfer in my club
but now you can see hundreds of juniors
in various golf courses. And I think we
have enough doctors and engineers in the
country, it’s time we have some sportsmen
now and build some world class golfers.”
Final day of the
tournament concluded
with
the
prize
distribution which had
the presence of Mr. B.
Hariharan, Managing
Director of Classic
Golf and Country
Club, Mr. Keshav Kumar, General Manager
of Classic Golf and Country Club and Mr.
Jyoti Randhawa.
WINNER BOYS:
Devvrat .S. Rajawat (7 yrs), Kartik Singh
(8 years), Anshul Mishra (9 Years), Naveen
Rathi (10 Years), Gurnavjeet .S. Bhatia (11
Years), Jujhar Singh (12 Years), Jai Bahl (13
Years), Siddharth Kaul (14 Years), Saurav
Rathi (15-18 years)
WINNER GIRLS:
Shelin Raj (7 & Below), Pall Singala
(8 years), Prarthana Khanna (9 Years),
Lakshita Prakhya (10 Years), Jayati Karia
(13 Years), Jahnavi Prakhya (14 Years),
Himadri Singh (15-18 years).
IGU North-Zone Feeder tour - 5th Event at RBGC, Nainital
T
he ¿ fth event of IGU Sub-Junior/
Junior Feeder tour was held at
RBGC Nainital from the 29 to
the 31 of May 2018 with 81 players
participating. For the ¿ rst time an IGU
event was organized in Nainital, for
promoting golf among juniors and to
provide the required tournament exposure
for emerging players.
Participants from places like Chandigarh,
Gurgaon, New Delhi, Noida, Dehradun
and Jallandhar were seen. His Excellency
the Governor of Uttarakhand H’ble Dr.
KK Paul, appreciated the efforts of The
Indian Golf Union in holding its maiden
tournament at RBGC Nainital. He added
“I congratulate Indian Golf Union for
their admirable efforts in boosting gol¿ ng
activities in the country and look forward
to continued cooperation with the RBGC
in the future too”.
The tournament was a great success as
highlighted by Col Sah in his thanks
giving speech during the prize distribution
ceremony. He expressed his con¿ dence
in the efforts of IGU in promoting Junior
Golf in the country and was of the opinion
that India might very soon be producing
high quality international golfers with
players getting competitive edge from a
very young age.
Category A-
Boys: 1st: Yash Chaudhary, 2nd: Anish
Nangia, 3rd: Anuj Kumar Dubey
Category B-
Boys: 1st: Purnayush Mangal, 2nd:
Himanshu Nagar, 3rd: Divyansh Dubey
Girl: 1st Harbin K. Jawanda, 2nd Khushi
Dawar, 3rd- Avni
Singh
Category C-
Boys: 1st: Daanish
Chauhan, 2nd: Harshit
Khatri. L, 3rd: Vihaan
Anand Reddy and
Ayush Pannu
Category D-
Boys: 1st: Vihaan Malhotra, 2nd:
Suryaansh Gulati, 3rd: Kanav Chauhan
Girls - 1st: Lavanya Gupta, 2nd: Nora
Beniwal, 3rd: Niyati Dhillon
Category E-
Boys: Jay Handa, 2nd: Rannvijay S.
Gill, 3rd: Arjunveer Shishir
Girls: 1st: Mahika Garg, 2nd: Keerat K.
Hans
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