Best of golf on course this week

• The 132nd Sri Lanka Amateur Golf Championship and Sri Lanka Ladies Amateur Open Golf Championship will tee off at the Royal Colombo Golf Club

The 132nd Sri Lanka Amateur Golf Championship and Sri Lanka Ladies Amateur Open Golf Championship will tee off at the Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) from 5 to 10 September.

Over contingent of golfers will take part in the championship including foreign players. Indian and Pakistan players have confirmed their participation. Many lady golfers will participate in the Ladies Open Championship to be run concurrently.

Sri Lanka Amateur Golf Championship was initiated in 1891 and is the second oldest amateur golf championship in the world, after the British Amateur Golf Championship.

The first ever Amateur Golf Championship of Ceylon was played in Nuwara Eliya in March 1891 and J.W. Govan of the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club (NEGC) was the champion. 

Legendary Pin Fernando has won the title on a record eleven occasions while K. Nandasena Perera burst on the scene in 1983 and captured the renamed Sri Lanka Amateur Golf Championship consecutively for three years in 1988, 89, and 90 and the All-India Amateur Golf Championship twice and of course the Silver Medal at the Beijing Asian Games in 1990. N. Thangaraja is the last Sri Lankan who has won the title since 2013.

“This year too, the Championship is going to be a nail-biting tournament with top golfers vying for the Trophy. Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe will grace the occasion as Chief Guest and will give away the major awards on 10 September,” Sri Lanka Golf President Michael Perera Magala said.