Murali Natrajan, MD, DCB Bank (centre, without cap) with his team and guests pose at the 1st tee.
The 13th annual fundraising tournament for the Indian Cancer Society, Delhi chapter, “Drive Against Cancer” saw a full house of 108 golfers tee-off on Oct. 6th at Delhi Golf Club.
The tournament was played as a two member team format with individual prizes as well and the winning team won the big prize of an all expense paid invitation to Phuket to participate alongside 400 golfers from 30 countries in the World Golfers’ Amateur Championship – Invitational section – a once in a lifetime experience.
The event featured two standout moments: a remarkable hole-in-one on the challenging 150-yard par 3 7th hole, achieved by the 75-year-old VK Jaiswal, and an impressive round of gross 73 by Jaydeep Chitlangia from RCGC, who had traveled to Delhi to participate in the event.
The tournament evolved this year with a jump of nearly 35% from last year’s collections and also saw the introduction of three new features – first was the grand prize offered by the World Amateur Golfers’ , the 2nd was the “Donate and Win” feature where golfers could buy Mulligans to improve their scores. Also introduced was live scoring on mobile phones where players could see a live leaderboard at all times and the results could be announced immediately upon conclusion of the game.
Golfers could donate Rs 40,000 to enter a team of two in the tournament or register individually for RS 20,000 and Businesses could sponsor one hole in the tournament for Rs one lac donation which entitled them to branding and one fourball.
A raffle with around 20 valuable prizes contributed by various businesses further helped top up the Indian Cancer Society’s fund-raising drive.
Results –
TEAM for THE WORLD AMATEUR GOLFERS INVITATIONAL, PHUKET
Category Name Points
Winning Team KK Sindhu & Akshay Awasthy 85
From L-R – Winning Team member KK Sindhu, Rashmi Moudgil (Indigo Airlines), Jyotsna Govil (Chairperson, Indian Cancer Society), Tanu Jagota (Indigo Airlines), Col BC Sharma (Data Patterns) and Akshay Awasthy
2nd Team Aditya Tripathi & Jaideep Chitlangia 82
2nd team – Jaydeep Chitlangia on left and Aditya Tripathi on the right
3rd Team Ankur Prakash & Deepak Gupta 76
3rd team – Ankur Prakash (Left) & Deepak Gupta on the right with trophy
INDIVIDUAL
Category Name Points
Best Individual Gaure Monga 37
Runner-Up Deepak Gupta 37
DEFENCE CATEGORY
Category Name Points
Winner Col. Rajnish Akhori 37
Col. Rajnish Akhori (centre) with Ajay Ahluwalia and Gaurav Mehta (Head PR, Marketing and CSR) of DCB Bank
Runner-Up Col. SD Mehta 31
ON COURSE CONTESTS
Category Name Distance
Closest to Pin #5 Capt. Sanjay Kumar 2ft. 3inches
Longest Drive #9 R. Adm. Janak Bebli 300 yards
Straightest Drive #14 R. Adm. C Kamalakkannan On the line