NGC July 2018 Newsletter
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e monthly Gazette June 2018 NOIDA GOLF COURSE WITH COMPLIMENTS FROM STUDIO PASSION • CREATIVITY • COMMUNICATION 91 964345 0135 91 88266 85211 Editorial COMMODORE VK THAKUR VSM RETD EDITOR I am pleased to inform our members that the golfers have continued to throng the Course to preceding three months have indeed been very score birdies and hole- in-one. They are enjoying eventful and exhilarating. A large number of Golf as usual in the green environment – thanks Tournaments were held, both internal Golf to the good irrigation system on the Course. Tournaments and other Tournaments. A report The Club Management would like to convey its on Tournaments is included in subsequent grateful thanks to all Golfers of NGC who have chapter provided in this News Letter. been so supportive - always. Without their kind It has also been an action-packed period for understanding & support Golf would not have the Greens Sub Committee wherein the overall been half as interesting as is now. We now look up gradation of the Course was achieved which forward to their continued support in the future includes higher standards of maintenance. too. Details are included in subsequent material We also invite all our members to participate in provided in this News Letter. E-news. We welcome members to be a reporter All members are aware that we are for E-news. Entries will be considered by team experiencing severe summer months, wherein edit and carried in forthcoming issues. Your the present temperature is hovering around 45 participation will make it an informative and lively degrees C. The weather has been extreme from port that we are all hungering for. I am sure with too humid and too hot. Golfing has remained your continued support; E-news will continue to unaffected by weather extremes. The Course enrich member experience at NGC. play has been as frequent as usual. Diehard EDITORIAL TEAM Shri PS Sharda, Brig Suresh Bali (Retd), Shri Amit Dube and Col Tejindar Singh Members are requested to send in their contributions, articles and write- up at: url to access email idt : http://noidagolfcourse.com/webmail user id : [email protected] From the Desk of Golf Captain & Chairman Greens Sub “ Kn Yr Committee Crse Be ” I am extremely pleased to report that the Greens Sub Committee comprising of self, Col. Ravi Rana, Col. J. M. Arora, Mr. Amit Dubey, Mr. Vikrant Chopra and our special invitees Mr. Praveen Bhasin & Brig. Vijay Manchanda, have provided their valuable time & efforts to bring up the standards of maintenance of the NGC Course. They have taken painstaking efforts to direct the ground staff and ensured that excellent results are achieved in a short time. In the month of March Coring of the Greens was undertaken and it was done in an extremely professional manner, as a result all greens as of now play excellently well and enjoy the high and reputable standards of any good Course. The quality of Greens is highly appreciated by all Golfers, both NGC and the visiting Golfers. The ground staff has indeed done NGC proud. Prior to undertaking coring of the Greens, temporary Greens were prepared and maintained for play in the interim period. Thanks to the Ground Staff in preparing these temporary Greens to standards unheard of in the history of NGC. This was well commented by NGC Members and greatly appreciated. I am also happy to report that a new irrigation system has been put in place. This has been done through a contract with Surge Systems India Private Limited. They have replaced nearly 300 new pop up sprinklers and done up gradation of other irrigation systems. NGC normally had two operational pumps for water supply and invariably one was under maintenance. In the recent months we were successful in commissioning the third pump house. All in all, new pumps and motors have been installed and these are now functioning to the full potential. The Fairways are now fully green and thus Golf is more enjoyable. Furthermore all Fairways have now undergone Coring which is an annual feature. The Fairways will yet become greener and play will become more enjoyable. Similarly, sand in the bunkers has been replaced new Starter’s Hut at Tee No 1 has been with new sand. Out of the 42 bunkers, work on constructed. This Hut is well equipped with a almost all bunkers except 6 or 7, has been P.A. system, A.C. , Computer, Furniture etc . We completed. Likewise the water hazards have are indeed grateful to the Indian Oil Corporation also been cleaned and maintained. for their support and contribution. Special attention on horticulture has also Additionally one big Street Clock having been undertaken. While almost 1000 saplings antique look has been installed at the far end of were planted in the last monsoon period, the Tee No 1, adding to the ambience of the starting Sub Committee has planted another 100 Tee of the Course, this is indeed beautiful and saplings in a very systematic manner to ensure adds beauty to the environment besides helping that when these trees grow up the game of Golf members to keep time checks. would be played without hindrance. Happy Golfing to members from the Greens With great amount of persuasion and Sub Committee . interaction with the Indian Oil Corporation, A TOURNAMENTS HELD AT NGC A large number of Tournaments were conducted which included Club Tournaments as well as those by Indian Golf Union (IGU) and Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI). A little earlier, the ONGC Masters was also held. These included Pro-Am which was really of great interest to was the Golf Captain’s Cup held NGC Members. from 25th to 27th May 2018 , the The two prestigious Tournaments number of participants were close to held in NGC were the President’s Cup 380 and the Tournaments per –se which was in the second week of April was conducted excellently . The 2018, was indeed well conducted and prize distribution was in the evening the number of participants was very followed by sumptuous dinner. The large. The prize distribution was evening was eventful with the live followed by the Dinner and the band to which the member’s danced evening was graced by the presence merrily. The gathering was nearly of Shri Alok Tandon, the President of 500 which included members and the Club. guests. The second prestigious Tournament From the Desk of the Lady Captain, NGC May & June – Two of the hottest months of the year, but despite the blazing blistering sun the ladies section was abuzz with their golfing activities. The May as well as June medal rounds saw a good had also been invited to partake in this momentous number of ladies participating. event. The game was followed by a Hi-Tea and A Golf Clinic was held in May, the single objective of prize distribution. The winner of the tournament the clinic was to improve the golfing skills of the was Dr Vibha Singh and runner up was Raman ladies. The clinic was conducted by former Ahuja. International Golf Professional and national coach A special recognition was awarded to Ms. Sunita for the Asian Games 2018 - Amandeep Johl. The Dutt for her outstanding performance in a previous ladies enthusiastically attended the clinic and tournament wherein the format of “Double Peoria“ vastly benefited from it. could not achieve her a prize in spite of playing 10 World Women’s Golf Day (WWGD) was the next under of her handicap. major event of the season, wherein ladies play Golf On 7th of June our ladies proved their skill by being in different corners of the world on the same day runner up in the DLF interclub championship where and same time. WWGD is a global golf initiative more than 11 Clubs and 100 plus ladies had launched in 2016 to introduce women of all ages to participated. The NGC runner up team consisted of the game and encourage existing female golfers to Dimple Singh Kochhar, Rana Alam and Raman “Tee It Up” in a fun and highly inclusive Ahuja. Sunita Dutt was the second runner up in the environment. This has created an incredible global individual category. community in 2 years and has the support of all major golfing governing bodies and organizations. Kudos to all our CHAMPS!! This year Noida Golf Course ladies committee organized a 9 hole fun tournament (3 Clubs Plus a Happy Golfing!! putter) and In spite of the blazing heat a good number of ladies turned up to participate. Ladies Kiran Chowdhury from other clubs like Air Force and Army Golf Club Captain, NGC Ladies Section NGC Participants with Ms Nandita Rao, Chairperson, IGULS a Golf Bonding at World Women’s Golf Day - 5 June 2018 at NGC DLF Inter Club on 7 June 2018 NGC, Ladies with Mr Amandeep Johl at the Golf Clinic FROM THE DESK OF CHAIRMAN PRACTICE RANGE AND CADDY WELFARE SUB COMMITTEE. It was unfortunate that due to unprecedented severe storm in the month of May 2018 the Practice Range nets were sternly damaged and brought down. The whole protection system collapsed. Thus the Range had to be closed for normal practice to prevent any physical damage to human life and to property. Concerted efforts have been made to award a Contract to qualified specialists in the field of erection of Golf The timings of the Pool and charges are as under: Range Nets. Negotiations with the Monthly and season charges Company named Nets & Spikes is in progress and we are hopeful the Nets will CATEGORY PER/MONTH PER/SEASON be installed in four to five weeks time.