NP Thimmaiah, Vatal Anupama, and Vivek Varma have secured their spots in the highly anticipated 2024 National Finals set to take place in Thailand.
Over a 100 senior corporate golfers teed off in bright sunshine as the 23rd annual edition of the Chola World Corporate Golf Challenge – India held its first regional round at the picturesque Prestige Golfshire in Bangalore. From this regional round, four golfers, the winners and runners-up in two handicap categories, qualified for the national final to be held in Thailand in summer, 2024.
From the national final, eventually two players will be selected to represent corporate India at the World Finals of the World Corporate Golf Challenge, in Spain where they compete with winners of country qualifiers held in over 30 countries for the opportunity to be crowned World Champions.
This round will be followed by Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad to make up the 16 finalists who will travel to Thailand.
The well-known corporates participating included leaders from the likes of Cholamandalam Investment & Finance, Palo Alto Networks, Grant Thornton, Audi, Savills, Harley-Davidson, Accenture, Infosys, Oracle, Salesforce, Tata-Hitachi, Wipro, ITC Foods and many others.
Winners
Category Name H’Cap Points
0-16 Vivek Varma 6 40
Arun Murugappan (Tube Investments of India Ltd., Executive Chairman), Vivek Varma (Winner 0-16) & Mariam Mathew (Sr. VP & Head, Cholamandalam Securities)
17-24 Anupama Vatal 20 39
Arun Murugappan (Tube Investments of India Ltd., Executive Chairman), Anupama Vatal (Winner 17-24) & Mariam Mathew (Sr. VP & Head, Cholamandalam Securities)
Runners-Up
Category Name H’Cap Points
0-16 NP Thimmaiah 8 38
17-24 Subhasish Ghosh 19 33
On Course Contests
Category Name Measurements
AUDI Closest to Pin #2 Arjun Malik 9ft
Arjun Malik (Winner – Closest to Pin), Amit Jain (Dealer Partner Audi) & Moupriya Das (AGM, Marketing AUDI, India)
SAVILLS Closest to Pin #6 Manu Raman 7ft
Anurag Mathur (CEO, Savills India) and Manu Raman (Winner – Closest to Pin)
CHOLA Straightest Drive #11 Nanda Kishore On the line
Arun Murugappan (Tube Investments of India Ltd., Executive Chairman), Nanda Kishore (Winner – Straightest Drive) & Mariam Mathew (Sr. VP & Head, Cholamandalam Securities)
Palo Alto Networks Longest Drive #13 Shyam Rama Krishna 260 yds
Anil Valluri (MD & VP, Palo Alto Networks) and Shyam Rama Krishna (Winner- Longest Drive)
AUDI Most Electrifying Player (Best Gross)
David D’Souza 32 points
Amit Jain (Dealer Partner Audi), David D’Souza (Winner – Electrifying Player) & Moupriya Das (AGM, Marketing AUDI, India)
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