By Sanjay Pahwa – Chandigarh GolfAssociation organized a Golf Camp cum Competition for members of the Press and Mediastationed in the Tricity on Feb 19, 2012. There was impressive response, as 47Journalist showed up to compete in this annual event at the CGA Golf Range,Sector 6, Chandigarh.
The enthusiast competitors were all praise for thelush green CGA Golf Range and theambience of this golf learning facility created by CGA for golfing community ofthe Tricity.
President CGA Sh. J.S Cheema and General Secretary Sh.CSR Reddy IPS distributed the prizes to the winners. President CGA, Sh. JSCheema while addressing the participants announced that CGA will organize golfclinics for members of the media to learn golf, and Sh. CSR Reddy IPS, GeneralSecretary CGA assured the participants that this activity will be a annualfeature to encourage the media community to learn golf. Following are the winner of the events ofthis competition:-
Nearest to Pin
Winner- BrajMohan Singh (Dainik Bhaskar)- 1’.4”
1st Runner Up- Joyti Kamal (CNN IBN) 5’.3”
2nd Runner up- Sanjeev Kumar (Amar Ujala) 6’
PuttingCompetition
Winner- RahulKumar (The Economics Times and Sunil Narula
(TheTribune) Joint Winner
1st Runner Up- Naveen Garewal (The Tribune)
LongestDrive
Winner- DhanjaySharma- (PTC News) 159 Yds
1st Runner Up- Sourab (7 Sea) 142 yds
2nd Runner up- Mukesh Kumar 141 Yds