Victoria Club C'ship on Nov. 13 at Rajawella

by S.M. Jiffrey ABDEEN- - Kandy Sports Corr.

GOLF: Victoria Golf and Country Resort will conduct its annual Club Championship 2010 at the beautiful Victoria golf course at Rajawella off Kandy on Saturday, November 13, with the first tee off at 7.30 a.m. This will be a 18-hole Stableford golf championship played over one round with separate competitions for gentlemen and ladies. Over fifty golfers are expected to tee off.

In the competition for men, the defending champion is Alain Gyi who will be there to defend his title.

The others who will be in the fray are Englishman Ian Tait, and Sujeewa Lankatillaka both in fine fettle these days.

Then there will be also Sirath Kasthuriratne, Sam Gunaratne, Chamil Wickremasinghe, Ravi Mediwake, Tony Witham, Errol Johnston, Sunil Jayakoddy, Richard Witham, Rolf Tibblin, Richard Hameed, Suren Wass, S. Hannson, Desmond Haines just to name a few.

In the competition for ladies Roshini Sangani will defend the title which she won last year. But she will receive tough opposition from her sister Niloo Jayatillake, Sonia Boyle, Indira Tibblin and Manori Jayakoddy. If the versatile Suwen Selvaratnam and Usha de Silva play then there will be tense struggle for supremacy as both are top class golfers and have excelled at Victoria. Then others who will have a tilt at the championship title are Jyoti Haynas, Tina Hannsson, Pauline Morley, Lillian Perera, Chathuri Engman and many others.