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VOL. 27, NO. 39, June 13 , 2008 (Jestha 31 2065 B.S.)
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Going Golf
Shamim Khan wins the Surya Nepal Masters 2008
By A CORRESPONDENT
Surya Nepal Masters has brought many good regional players in Nepal helping enhance the quality of golf tournament.
This time Shamim Khan played extraordinary game pushing all his competitors far behind. This lead helped him win the trophy in final without any competition from his rivals.
As Khan showed great performance, the final day was just like a completion of formality. His leading scores were difficult to follow for his competitors from Sri Lanka and India.
Khan completed with yet another sub-round of 3-fewer than 69 for a tournament tally of 23 under par 265 and 11 shot victory to earn Rs. 324,000.
But, for other players, who wanted to secure the second position, the game was tough and competitive. Pushing his Indian competitor Vijaya Kumar out, Sri Lankan Anura Rohana secured the second position.
Rohana completed his course with best card of 6 under 66 to finish second at 276. His rival and competitor Vijaya Kumar came third at 278. This was a very tough and competitive game.
Held in Le Meridien Gokarna Forest Golf, Spa, Sujjan Singh secured fourth position at 280 while Harinder Gupta with a final round of 72 finished fifth. Gurbaaz Mann finished sixth at 283.
Although Nepalese players were unable to secure any top position, Deepak Neupane with brilliant round of 4-fewer than 68 emerged as the best Nepali pro tying for the seventh place along with Vinod Kumar and Sanjaya Kumar at 284. Amardip Malik and Nepali player Shiva Ram Shrestha were tied for the 10 th place at 286.
In the international amateur event, Bangladesh outnumbered other competitors wining the tournament by a margin of 26 strokes. Shekawat Hussein and Shahi aggregated 579 for Bangladesh.
The team of Tashi Ghale and Deepak Acharya who played a very good game, helped Nepal A to finish second. Indian team finished third. Since last one decade, Surya Nepal Pvt. Ltd has been holding the international golf tournament inviting many prominent international players from the region contributing to uplift the quality of golf tournament here.
The tournament, which was held from June 2 to 8, also helped encourage Nepalese players to develop their skills and quality.
"I cannot explain my happiness in words," said Khan after wining the tournament.
Indian ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood distributed the prizes to the winner of the tournament. Indian ambassador Sood and Managing Director of Surya Nepal Pvt. Ltd Sanjiv Keshava gave away the Surya Nepal Masters 2008 trophy to Shamim Khan.
