31 Jan : The 2010 SJOBA Golf Tournament was held at the Chandigarh Golf Club on 31st January, Sunday. 50 participants competed for the fantastic trophies that the organisers gave out to the winners in various categories. The event was open to all the Old Boys of St. John’s, their spouses and boys currently studying in the school. The overall gross was won by Tarundeep Chadha who scored 80 closely followed by Mansimran Singh at 82. In the 0-8 handicap nett category Abhijit Chadha scored 32 points to win while Jayant Chowdhuri came runners-up at 31 points. The 9-15 handicap nett category saw Ankush Garg take the honours with 40 points leaving Vishal Soni at the runners-up position with 37 points. In the 16-24 handicap nett category Jaiveer Singh Sandhu took pole position by scoring 42 points whereas Varun Chadha finished second in the same category with 37 points.
Tarundeep Chadha won the Longest Drive trophy while in the nearest to the pin contest it was Abhijeet Chandha who won. There was a special putting competition conducted for the kids in which Arjun Chibber got the first prize, Gurfateh Singh Doabia came second and Ananmay Aggarwal finished third. Pawan Khaitan, President of Sjoba gave a special word of thanks to the organisers Vaibhav Mehan and Ajay Gujral and said that this tournament would not have been possible without their hard work and contributions.
Nippy Ghai, Hony. Secretary of Chandigarh Golf Club gave away the prizes to the winners at the prize distribution ceremony which was followed by lunch.