THE MONTHLY GAZETTE August 2017 Noida Golf Course With Compliments from SmallWorld Digital Services EDITORIAL Well begun is half more achievers in this sport in our midst. done. E-news will We promise to find them and report in our stay! It gives me forthcoming issues. Our special kudos to immense pleasure Shri Gangesh Khaitan for winning the senior to share that the category. Shri Gagan Verma was the winner July 2017 issue of in the mid category and Shri Simarjit Singh the E-News Letter was the Runner Up in the mid category. launched as en- Shri Vijay Kumar Bhadana achieved the third visaged, on July 6 place in the senior category. These are all succeeded in kin- Commodore VK Thakur, admirable members of our club who have VSM (Retd) Editor dling interest among made NGC ever so proud. Our heartiest members. Members congratulations to them once again and we have responded and taken interest. The wish them continued success in future. launch kindled memories of yore. In its dig- Lastly, I invite all our members to participate ital format the focus is on making it an in- in E-news. We welcome members to be a teractive port. Envisaged as a lively port for reporter for E-news. Entries will be consid- members’ interaction I am sure in coming ered by team edit and carried in forthcom- months this will form a part of our daily net. ing issues. Your participation will make it an We will strive to make it more conveniently informative and lively port that we are all accessible on net. hungering for. I am sure with your continued Monsoon is all over us. The weather support and the vision of our Board Pres- has been extreme from pleasant and cool to ident, E-news will continue to enrich mem- humid and hot. Golfing has remained unaf- ber experience at NGC. fected by weather extremes. The Course play has been as frequent as usual. Diehard Members are requested to send in their con- golfers have continued to throng the Course tributions, articles and write- up at: to score birdies and hole- in-one. Brig PN Malhotra (Retd) scored his fifth Hole-in- one url to access email id: on 18 July 2017 during his membership in http://noidagolfcourse.com/webmail NGC. Wonder if that’s not already a record of sorts. user id : I am glad to share about the sporting [email protected] achievers among our member fraternity. Our members excelled and made laudable achievement at the All India Amateur Golf Championship 2017 played in July at Banga- lore. This is a national level event by IGU. It is also a basis for selection of the national Editorial Team: team. Some members earned a place in Shri PS Sharda, Brig Suresh Bali (Retd) Indian Team. I am sure there must be many Shri Amit Dube and Col Tejindar Singh 2 Senior Amateur Golf Championship of India 2017 This national level tournament was introduced in 1971 and being played once in a year for the national title amongst senior golfers in the age of 55 + The event is organised and run by Indian Golf Union the controlling body of golf in India. This event apart from deciding on the National some unforeseen reasons and Vijay Kumar Bha- Champion also is the base for selection of the dana another member of our club and two times team for International tournaments, like Asia Pa- national senior champion has been selected to cific Golf Championship held in different coun- replace him. tries by rotation. In the past 5 years this APGC has been held in Australia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Along with this senior Championship Mid Am- China and Philippines. This year this tournament ateur Golf Championship was also held in the is being played in Australia. age group of 35+ to 54. This was won by Ga- gan Verma with excellent rounds of 77, 73, 73 This year the tournament was also to select the and 70. He was the only player to have played Indian team in the age group of 50 + to play under par round in the entire tournament. He against South Africa at Johannesburg in August. beat Simmarjit Singh our member by 4 strokes. Both Gagan and Simmarjit are members of our Golfers from all over the country participated in club. Other members of the team selected for this event. We had players from Rajasthan, Delhi, the South Africa team are H S Kang and Sanjay Haryana, Manipur, Deh radun, Karnataka, Uttar Lakra for the age group of 35+. Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, and Qatar. The tournament was won by Gangesh Khaitan a member of our club, who played very well with scores of 77, 76 and 81to beat Rishi Narayan by 8 strokes with scores of 81,84 and 77 The event was played over 3 rounds at Prestige Golfshire in Bangaluru in the last week of June. There were a total of 43 participants with 4 ex National Cham- pions and 4 ex Nation senior Champions. For the team to South Africa Gangesh Khaitan finished ahead of David De’souza by 2 strokes and the other members selected to play in South Africa in the age group of 50 + were Rishi Narayan and Anil Jule. Unfortunately Gangesh in the last moment withdrew from the team due to 3 Hole It's History One of our NGC Members, Shri P.K. Soni Mem. No. 2415 had the occasion to in One play golf at the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in Scotland, more than a decade ago.He was a esteemed guest of his friend. It is universal, every golfer craves to Mr Soni created history by achieving Two achieve a Hole-in-One in golf. The achieve- Holes-in-One in a single round of 18 Holes. ment is the truly rarest of the rare. No matter What an achievement ! A life time dream! how hard one tries, it happens only through And please note the magnanimity and some good luck and may be its a good acci- gracefulness of the St Andrews Golf Club. dent. They gave Mr Soni the Life Membership of the Club. Members who have achieved a Hole- in-One in NGC in the last six months are list- What an outstanding distinction and ed below: Our heartiest congratulations to honour to possess. each one of them and we wish them many Our heartiest congratulations to Mr more Soni, though belated !!! (a) 11 Jan 2017 Brig AK Bhatia (Retd) Mem. No. 1999 Hole No 3 (b) 31 Mar 2017 Shri Roshan Sahay Mem No. 5470 Hole No 5 (c) 20 May 2017 Brig VK Manchanda (Retd) Mem .No. 3639 Hole No 5 (d) 30 May 2017 Mrs Rashmi Singh Mem No. 2326 Hole No 16 (e) 24 Jun 2017 Col Surjit Singh (Retd) Mem. No. 0714 Hole No 5 (f) 18 Jul 2017 Brig Malhotra (Retd) Mem No. 1988 Hole No 5 4 Reciprocal Golf Arrangements. NGC is proud to announce that it has (c) Chandigarh Chandigarh Golf Club Reciprocal golf arrangements with some of (d) New Delhi Air Force Sports Complex the best Golf Clubs in India. Conversely, they (Golf Club) have such arrangements with NGC because (e) Delhi Cant. Army Golf Course they find NGC is amongst the best Golf (f) Hindan Air Force Sports Complex Courses in the country. Needless to add that (Golf Club) members of other Clubs who visit and play (g) Panchkula Panchkula Golf Club a round on our Course are full of praises for (h) Jaipur Rambagh Golf Club the Greens, fairways, the layout etc of our (i) Kolkata Tollygunge Club Ltd Course. We do have members of outstation (j) Lucknow Lucknow Golf Club Clubs visiting NGC occasionally, but those (k) Mumbai Bombay Presidency Golf from the NCR Clubs are on an average 2-3 Club every day (Weekdays)Llist of Golf Clubs with (l) Ooty Ootacamund Gymkhana who we have reciprocal arrangement are as Club. under: (m) Pune Poona Golf Club (n) Shillong The Shillong Club Ltd (a) Bangalore Karnataka Golf (o) Vadodara EME School Golf Club. Association (b) Belgaum Belgaum Golf Association Please note: In some Clubs certain terms and conditions apply. Details available with Secretary NGC. Those of our members desirous to utilizing golf reciprocal arrangement with other Clubs are requested to contact the Secretary / General Manager NGC, and obtain a Card / Letter which will enable them to meet the purpose. 5 The Back Bone of the Course. Starters We have a band of able and responsi- ble Starters. Each one of them has acquitted their duties efficiently and effectively. All the Kishan Pal, Shiv Dutt, Kaushik & Sandeep er starting order as per bookings and assign appropriate tees. He is to supply players with score cards, pencils and rules of play Starter is to ensure proper opening and Jairam & Mukesh closing hours of the Course. He provides all information regarding the Course, play time four above mentioned Starters have been in and acts as the centre for all information on service in NGC for over two decades They Local Rules etc. It is his duty ensure the dress have been found to be polite and courte- regulations of the players, check Green Fee ous, yet firm in the performance of their vouchers of guests and also the discipline of responsibilities. the Caddies on Course. As we all know, the Starter is respon- We are proud to note that all NGC sible for efficient management of arranging Starters have never been found wanting in Tee Off of all golfers as per Local Rules in any of their responsibilities.