Brijender Singh (newly elected IGU President) giving away runners-up prize to Mohd Wasil at the 121st All India Amateur Championship played at BPGC last week
The controversial IGU elections were held in New Delhi on December 24 and resulted in a complete change of the existing board, made up mostly of serving and retired Army officers and their spouses, and an entire new board led by Brijender Singh from Bombay Presidency GC, Maharashtra now takes over.
The outvoting of Army Officers is seen as a just result considering the courses on Defence land do not hold any national level tournaments, conduct open junior training programs or open their doors to civilian golfers. Yet members of the Armed Forces were controlling the fate of the Indian Golf Union and thereby of the development of the game in this country.
One of the first major tasks on IGU’s hands is conducting the upcoming US$2 million Hero Indian Open, a European Tour sanctioned event, scheduled for February and expected to be held at DLF Golf Club, Gurgaon where the last few few editions were held prior to cancellation for the past three years due to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic.
IGU Governing Council 2022-24
President: Brijender Singh (Maharashtra)
Vice-President: Farzan Heerjee (Jharkhand)
Secretary-General: Harish Shetty (Karnataka)
Treasurer: Sanjeev Rattan (Uttar Pradesh)
Executive Council Members: S.K. Sharma (Chandigarh), Simarjeet Singh (Uttar Pradesh), M. Jayant Tagore (Telangana), Navita Mansingh (Haryana), Shashank B. Sandu (Maharashtra), Shyam Sundar (Rajasthan), Gaurav Bajaj (Meghalaya), Nagesh Singh (Assam) and Sundeep Verma (Haryana).