Over 70 to tee for Victoria Golf

S. M. Jiffrey ABDEEN Kandy Sports Corr.

Over seventy golfers have entered the Second Mark Bostock Memorial trophy golf championship organised by the Victoria Golf and Country Resort which will be worked off next Saturday (May 2) at the beautiful Victoria golf course at Rajawella with the first tee off at 7 a.m.

Entries are still open and more entries are expected to pour in from both Sri Lanka and abroad during the week. Entries and other details could be seen at the website www.golfsrilanka.com.

Earl's Regency Hotel is giving a special discount to all golfers for this championship.

The main contest will be the Mark Bostock Memorial trophy which will be awarded to the Best Nett Score which will be a combined one. This means that this trophy could be won by either a lady or a gentleman golfer. Many other awards too would be presented.

Christ Holloway is the defending champion of the Mark Bostock Trophy with an excellent net stableford score of 42. Ravi Mediwake finished runner-up with net 36. This due will be back in the fairways next Saturday to settle the old score.

Sujeewa Lankatillake one of the best golfers to come out of Victoria won the Ken Balendra Trophy with a gross score of 29 and Sanjeewa Wickremanayake from the Royal Colombo Golf Club finished runner up with 28 points

Victoria Golf and Country Resort decided to conduct this golf in memory of its late founder Mark Bostock.

The course is one of the most challenging in the world and last year under the guidance of British golf professional Mike Varney who was the then Resident General Manager at Victoria, several upgradings were carried out. A new practice green was redesigned and turfed with Tiff Eagle, a new variety of Bermuda grass.

The 13th green was expanded to provide a greater and fair challenge to the golfers. The 18th Championship tee was re-difined providing a different strategy of play altogether.