Rohan de Silva shines at Golf tourney

The AmCham - FedEx Golf Tournament 2016 was concluded at the Royal Colombo Golf Club(RCGC) recently. The first Tee-off was at the break of dawn at6.00 A..M. and the last Four-ball came back to the Club House at 5.30 P.M. The Course in immaculate condition encouraged high scoring with the overall best score of the day of 44 points, coming from Rohan de Silva, winning a ReturnAir Ticket to any destination in Europe courtesy of Turkish Airlines in addition to the handsome Trophy.

The RCGC Club Champion Amrith De Soysa confirmed his place at the top of the Club Amateurs by returning the best Gross Score of 37 points to be the overall Gross Winner. The Captain of RCGC and long standing AmChamMember Primal Wijeyanayake won the Prize for the best score among theAmCham members, with a well compiled 36 points pushing . Ibrahim Saleem to the Runner-up berth. Katthy Twerenbold won the best score for the Ladies, for the second consecutive year with 39 points edging out Ms. Kumari Herath who scored 38 points.

The consistent Sharon Hall also won the Longest and most accurate drive on the 8th Hole while Geoff Cooke was the Longest and Most Accurate Drive in the men's challenge.

An array of prizes were distributed for many categories and the A Division was won by Mangala Niyarepola. In addition to being crowned the overall winner, . Rohan de Silva also won the B Division with the best score of the tournament of 44 points, with Liu Laifu a keen Golfer winning the C division with a solid 43 points. Jouni Aitamaa and .D. Serasinghe won the Masters and Senior's category with 38 & 34 points respectively.