Gujarat Kensville Challenge Tees Off Today

Gujarat Kensville Challenge Tees Off Today

YOUR BSP MLA jailed Intolerance Shootings trigger SECOND for raping minor increasing in Pak surge in gun sales FRONT UP chief minister The Qu’ran Sales of handguns in PAGE Mayawati sent one of repeatedly advises Arizona jumped 60% her party MLAs to jail Muslims to suppress to 263 on January 10 on Wednesday in a sentiments of compared with the rape case revenge and anger same date a year ago AHMEDABAD ` p7 ` p10 ` p9 Thursday January 13 2011 GREENS COME ALIVE Gujarat Kensville Challenge tees off today 64 foreign and 54 Indian golfers to fight it out in first These violinists European Challenge Tour in India regaled the Bachchan: I’ll take audience at Moulin Parikh AHMEDABAD and a lot of thinking will be required Kensville on while executing shots. Wednesday When the Kensville Golf and Country Tadini said that the margin of victo- up golf after retiring! Club was given finishing touches in 2007, ry will be narrow. “This course is simi- no one expected it to host an interna- lar to other Challenge Tours but more tional event in the near future. Howev- difficult than other ones. The uphill is Media persons make a beeline for er,three years down the line, the stage is slow and it will test the players. One will set, the greens are in fine shape and the have to calculate the bounce. I feel it is Bollywood’s superstar club house has come alive to host the going to be a competitive tournament,” first ever European Challenge Tour said the Italian. Moulin Parikh AHMEDABAD scenes elsewhere. event in India. Meanwhile, the Indian challenge suf- When asked, the big man felt The Gujarat Kensville Challenge 2011 fered a jolt after Jeev Milkha Singh There was a loud buzz when the the game of golf needs time to begins on Thursday with 118 golfers pulled out from the event on Wednesday. news that Amitabh Bachchan, master and added in a lighter readying to tee off for the However,there will be plen- the showman of the millenni- note that he would take it up 200,000 event. This will also GREENS COME ty to look forward to as a um, would be arriving at the only after retiring from his ac- be the first European Tour ALIVE field of 54 Indians will also Kensville Golf and Country tive acting career. Challenge event of the year be in the fray. All eyes will Club on Wednesday to official- “Golf requires lot of pa- and though the golfers are a bit rusty, now be on Gaganjeet Bhullar, the top ly inaugurate the Kensville Eu- tience and needs to be played in they will be trying to start the season on ranked Indian of the year. Others to ropean Golf Challenge 2010. a peaceful atmosphere. I will a winning note. watch out for include No.1 in the Order As expected, there was a take it up after retiring,” he Leading the field will be Italian of Merit, Ashok Kumar and young chal- THREE-TIER GOLF COURSE TO COME UP IN CITY CAMPILLO TRIUMPHS mad scramble to get close to the joked. The brand ambassador Alessandro Tadini, the top seed for the lenger Rashid Khan who will play his While many rue the overall lack of sports Spaniard Jorge Campillo warmed up for the Bollywood superstar. Young of Gujarat state tourism had event. With the previous season ending second event as a professional after bag- infrastructure in the country, Ahmedabad will soon main event of the inaugural Gujarat and old alike made a dash at the words of praise for the young quite a while back, Tadini made a trip to ging the silver medal at the Guangzhou have its fourth golfing facility. A comprehensive three- Kensville Challenge in great style by leading first sight of Big B on the entrepreneurs of the state and Portugal to prepare for the India event. Asian Games last year. tier golfing range and academy will come up near SG his team to victory at the Pro-Am held at the greens. A loud cheer followed owners of Kensville. “I practiced in Portugal with my The event, which will be played for at Highway and will be open to the public. The pay-and- Kensville Golf and Country Club here on when he teed off. “Gujarat has always been coach for 10 days. This event is quite ear- least the next three years, sees the Chal- play format will mean that people of the city will be Wednesday. To warm up for the main Later at the press conference known for its entrepreneurs ly in the season and I needed a bit of lenge Tour fall in line with the Euro- able to take up golf lessons without burning a big hole tournament, 24 professionals took part in some unusual scenes were wit- and the good thing is that these practice,” he said ahead of Wednesday’s pean Tour, which had first staged an in their pockets. This will be India’s only second such the Pro-Am, playing as a team with three nessed. Press photographers, youngsters have not forgotten Pro-Am event. Many golfers who took event in 2008 in New Delhi. facility with the other being in Delhi. “The golf amateurs. The idea of the event is to give an journalists and videographers their culture. They have made part in the Prom-Am event were of the The winner here will walk away with academy will be functional within a month. We want to opportunity to amateurs to learn the tricks jostled with each other to get as the state proud even outside In- opinion that the 7250-yard par-72 course a cheque of 32,000 while the runner-up nurture young talent in the state and make the game of the trade from professionals whereas the close to Bachchan for photo- dia.” He expressed interest in is long and difficult. Jeev Milkha Singh, will be richer by 22,000. Both Kensville popular,” said Sameer Sinha, managing director, pros get a feel of the course before the graphs and ‘additional’ inter- purchasing a plot at the course who has co-designed the course, also felt and the Gujarat government are spon- Kensville Golf and Country Club. main course. views. It is unlikely that here, like Sachin Tendulkar that the placements need to be perfect soring the tournament. Amitabh would have seen such and Jeev Milkha Singh. Union telecom Emotional homecoming minister Kapil Sibal may face Cong, NCP avert flare-up privilege motion of a different kind for Jeev for lowering the credibility of a over Rahul remark Moulin Parikh AHMEDABAD iad of his fans. constitutional body Praful Patel downplays earlier shrill reaction of party leaders His run of trouble began when he Need to give my body a rest, star injured his shoulder playing in Dubai after ‘coalition compulsions’ comment golfer blogs after pulling out of tour- early last year. After a two-month nament It was going to be an emo- break he returned to the course but Sibal in dock for CAG flak Anil Sharma & Shubhangi “This story originated from tional homecoming of sorts for Jeev the rotator cuff pain in his left shoul- Khapre NEW DELHI. MUMBAI Lucknow where the Congress Milkha Singh, playing at his signa- der never went. Anil Anand NEW DELHI DEFENCE CHIEFS FACE PAC general secretary had an inter- ture golf course at the Kensville Golf Jeev continued playing with it and A day after Congress general action with college students. and Country Club. he was further bogged Union telecom minister Kapil Sibal For the first time in the parliamentary secretary Rahul Gandhi held During the course of his dis- The country’s leading down by back problems. could be in for trouble for slamming history of India, the chiefs of the three coalition compulsions as re- cussion, he did not refer to the golfer was thrilled to take He pulled out of the Ca- the findings of the comptroller and armed forces appeared before the public sponsible for the galloping in- NCP or Pawar or blame any part in the first ever Eu- sio Open event held in auditor general (CAG) on the allot- accounts committee (PAC) on Wednesday. flation, the NCP, the apparent party for the rising prices,” he ropean Challenge tour in November in Japan due ment of 2G spectrum. A week after he The committee had called them in target of the statement, re- said. He maintained that the en- the country that will com- to a lower hip injury. Af- termed the CAG’s loss figure of Rs1.76 connection with alleged irregularities in sponded in different voices. A tire controversy had emerged mence at the picturesque ter not hitting a ball for lakh crore as “erroneous and sensa- the canteen stores supplies. PAC potential flare-up, however, without any basis. course here tomorrow. over a month, he re- tional”, Sibal is likely to face action chairman MM Joshi has not ruled out the seems to have been averted. NCP leader Praful Patel and On Tuesday evening he turned to action in the for “lowering the credibility” of a con- possibility of another meeting. A section of the NCP had in- other Congress leaders moved was accorded a tradition- Royal Trophy, Thailand stitutional body. terpreted Rahul’s statement as into damage control soon. In a al Indian welcome and the after confirming his par- The public accounts committee improper and against propriety.They an attack on party chief and more than 60 democracies in hurriedly convened meeting in game’s followers were ea- ticipation just a day be- (PAC), headed by senior BJP leader have authorised me to take appropri- agriculture minister Sharad the world, including Italy,have Mumbai, Patel said, “The par- gerly waiting to see him fore the event began.

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