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| Sunday, 11 August 2002 |
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AmCham Golf offers sport with business by Pelham Juriansz AmCham Sri Lanka (The American Chamber of Commerce in Sri Lanka), which has been organising very successful charity functions and golf Tournaments for its members each year, has now come forward with an innovative idea to have a golf Tournament "with a difference", combining business with pleasure. "A number of business deals are done on the Golf Course and as such it is good to combine the two and have an interesting time" said Susantha Pinto, the Chairman of AmCham's Golf Committee. "True to our mission to be the dynamic forum to provide and promote trade and investment between Sri Lanka and American companies, we have devised this business-cum-pleasure event to let our colleagues from the Asia-Pacific region come and see our country, play golf and talk business" stated Mark McKenna, the recently re-elected President of AmCHAM. Appropriately named as a "Golf and Business Tour" the aim of this Tournament which will be held in two segments, in Colombo and Kandy, is to bring golf playing business people from its 22 associate chambers in the Asia-Pacific region to Sri Lanka and see and experience the beauty of our country. AmCham unveiled its golfing mascot for the event, named "Eagie Birdie" by its creators Bates /141, the advertising and sports marketing agency that is a member of AmCham. The Tournament(Tour) is planned for November 1-6, with the main Tournament being staged at the Royal Colombo Golf Club(RCGC), and the extended play up in picturesque Kandy at the Victoria Golf Course in Digana. It is the fourth occasion that AmCham, founded in 1992, has been involved in a golf Tournament of this nature the previous beneficiaries of AmCham's past charity drives being the Young Entrepreneurs of Sri Lanka, the Jaipur Limb Program and the Castle Street Maternity hospital. The Tournament will be conducted according to the individual Stableford system and each golfer may play one round of golf each in Kandy and Colombo during the designated days from November 1 to 5. The overall AmCham 2002 Championship will be the aggregate of the Kandy and Colombo events. Each participant must have a valid handicap from his/her club to be eligible for winning the main prizes in the three Events. However, the maximum handicap for eligibility for the main prizes in the events will be 24 for men and 36 for women. In addition to the Golf, trips will be organised for the 200 odd visitors expected from abroad. These will be to Sigiriya, tea Factory and Estates, Tour of the Temple of the Tooth, Randenigala nature Reserve, day trip to Galle, Tour of Dutch Museum and Temples, Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage etc. About 100 local competitors are expected to participate in this open golf Tournament. |
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