Full field for Donald Steel golf tourney

by S.M. Jiffrey ABDEEN - Kandy Sports Corr

GOLF: Over 80 both foreign and local golfers have entered the 12th Annual Donald Steel Golf Championship organised by the Victoria Golf and Country Resort which will be worked off with all pomp and pageantry at the beautiful Victoria golf course at Rajawella next Saturday - February 13th with the first tee off at 7 a.m.

With eight days to go for this prestigious championship, the total number of entries is expected to exceed the century with lot more foreign golfers to come from the European countries.

This championship is called the Donald Steel Golf Championship but three other major championship for men and women will be worked off alongside.

The name of the championship is derived from the world famous golf architect Donald Steel who is also a famous golf journalist who designed the Victoria golf course on a 500 acre coconut plantation which was once a Dutch farm.

According to many international personalities who have played at this course are of view that it has a blend of all the ingredients to make it a model and challenging course. It is lined up with coconut palms, Mara trees, there are the birds and small but harmless wild life, out cropping of rocks, hillocks, the plains and the major section of the course is surrounded by the waters of the Victoria reservoir. Nowhere in the world is a golf course which has a blend of all features.

Donald Steel Trophy is the major trophy on offer and is in the name of the golfer and architect who designed and will be awarded for the gentleman golfer who registers the Best Gross score over the single round.

Some of the lady participants will be that five times winner of the Pam Fernando Trophy Suwen Selvaratnam, Niloo Jayatillake, Roshni Sangani, Sonia Boyle, Jyoti Haynes, Indira Tibblin, Pauline Morley, Dess Penn, Maleena Awn, Linda Harris, Tina Hannsson, Lillian Perera and many others.