e monthly Gazette October 2017 NOIDA GOLF COURSE WITH COMPLIMENTS FROM STUDIO PASSION • CREATIVITY • COMMUNICATION 91 964345 0135 91 88266 85211 Editorial COMMODORE VK THAKUR VSM RETD EDITOR Indian Golf circuits descended on NGC come Members at NGC, never the ones to be left behind, September, making it an exhilarating start to golfing proudly showcase the ‘Swachh’ NGC course. Kudos to season at NGC, spilling over into October. NGC hosted members for putting in personal efforts to ensure that golf tournaments with aplomb. IGU, PGTI and one Club trash, if any, spotted on the course gets quickly Tournament were hosted at NGC this month. deposited in the Trash Cans. Caddies deserve a special Icing on the cake was a scintillating performance mention for a silent though instrumental part in by Amardeep Malik, a young pro, who took home sustaining clean environment efforts of the course. Our PGTI’s ONGC Masters with an amazing 12 under 248 sincere thanks and compliments to all golfers for their on Saturday 7th October 2017 . Teaming up in the four valuable efforts and contribution in enabling keeping ball with Amardeep, yours truly witnessed some the Course clean. amazing golfing strategy and skill on display. Mark my When early mornings nip in the air is back, words, this amazing young pro has arrived and will be a numbing of earlobes and nose tips can’t be far behind. force to reckon in pro circuits in near future. It gives me The Diwali Cup 2017 is up for grabs again. Practice pleasure to share that a player of his skill and promise range is on wait list jam. To be played over three days acknowledging NGC as the most challenging of on 13th, 14th and 15th October the Cup promises to courses that he had played. provide thorough enjoyment and mark the beginning of Thanks to members’ support to keep the course the celebrations for Diwali festival. The prize clean and lively, the maintenance and last but not the distribution will be conjoined with the Club ‘Diwali Nite’ least, the Greens Committee, NGC has come to on 18th October. occupy a pride of place in the country both for quality NGC has reached a status of state of the art golf of playing infrastructure and cleanliness. course and with the active and continued support of October offers a spurt in activity both in golfing members we are sure to carry it forward in a state and mission cleanliness. Both these in any case are sustained excellence. I am sure we will all continue to synonymous, both are ‘Godliness’ in own respective support the effort. ways. ‘Rastriya Swachhta Diwas’ celebrations I personally, with members of team edit and on coincided with the Birth anniversary of Mahatma behalf of Management Committee, wish all NGC Gandhi on 2nd October 2017, showcasing the members and their families and the entire Staff and achievements of an inspiring and motivational national their families a very Happy Diwali & a prosperous New endeavour. Year. EDITORIAL TEAM Shri PS Sharda, Brig Suresh Bali (Retd) Shri Amit Dube and Col Tejindar Singh Members can now directly send their contributions in shape of articles (about 400 words), mini’s (50 words) are requested to send in their contributions, articles and write-up at: url to access email id: http://noidagolfcourse.com/webmail user id : [email protected] THE NEW PRESIDENT OF NOIDA GOLF COURSE SHRI ALOK TANDON, IAS Shri Alok Tandon has taken over as the new President of our Noida Golf Course. A UP cadre IAS officer of 1986 batch, Shri Alok Tandon , has been appointed as the new Chairman of Noida Authority and in this capacity he assumes the president ship of the Noida Golf Club. Shri Alok Tandon is B-Tech from IIT Kanpur, Gold Medalist and did his AIMA (Management) as an outstanding student. Later, he pursued his Post Graduation from Princeton University in Public Policy and PhD in Economics. Recently, he was Additional Secretary in the Govt. of UP and has also served in Govt. of India in various capacities and in key departments. He served in the Centre as Joint Secretary, Financial Services and Joint Secretary in the Department of Disinvestment (Ministry of Finance). He has also served as Director of Personnel & Public Grievances (Department of Personnel and training) . He was also the Chairman, Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam. In the State of UP he served as Deputy MD in Pickup and was CDO Aligarh As District Magistrate of Allahabad, he was responsible for the setting up of a temporary township on the dry bed of river Ganges in a record time of 4 months to accommodate over one million devotes. Shri Tandon has also served as District Magistrate Varanasi and several other Districts of UP. Shri Tandon is trained IAS in Infrastructure Development , Finance , IT & E-governance and currently he is holding the charge of CEO & Chairman of NOIDA and MD of Noida Metro Rail Corporation. Noida Golf Club welcomes Shri Alok Tandon as the President of the Club & looks forward to his continued direction and guidance to bring about a positive change in up gradation in the quality of services that NGC offers to its members. We, on our part reassure him of our dedication in realizing his vision. VK Thakur, Commodore VSM (Retd) Editor Gfingly - Your s sincerely Opined Winston Churchill -- All the wars are lost and then, is that view of ourselves we like to dream of-- won in the playfields of Harrow and Eton. as having the perfect classic swing sending the Most of us who are in sports would be in agreement singing ball tearing through the air to land a hole with Churchill , familiar with the triumph of camaraderie -in-one, much to the amazement and applause and in the games courses, courts and in teams over that 'I-wish-I-had-done-that' emotions of the onlookers. palpable formality off the courses or games arenas Our worst maybe the outcome of a thumped shot and which underscores any collaboration or followed by an apologetic 'you know I had a late night agreement. and an inadequate sleep' with a sheepish grin. On a different plane, our best may also be the attainment The strength of soft power may not be tangible but of a good report card in toleration of the commands attention and importance. The opinion of idiosyncrasies of a fellow golfer and the worst maybe Robert Nye that the ability of a country ( read persons ) to allow that to ruin our own peace and game. That , to persuade others to do what they want without force certainly, is also a life's lesson. or coercion guides a valuable role in the ability to carry influence and increasingly become key to strategic A dichotomy that emerges in this sport is the associations; shared understandings and partnerships perpetually dissatisfied golfer who, after a frustrating get forged between historically unconnected parties round, forever feels he could have done better and and individuals with divergent political and social the day was bad but dutifully turns up on a next day systems. Interestingly also, it is the differences in to put himself to the test again and is fresh in the personalities or differing views that interest and attract hope to better himself. Interestingly, the test is and present alternative ways to tackle a situation or self-imposed. He is aware the war is not with the problem. Sameness or uniformity may offer a certain opponent or the weather or the ground or the stability of belongingness in a herd but the differences ball.....it is with the proverbial opponents 'I, myself present challenges and alternatives and progress. This and me' in all their privacy, fought on the private could be true for life situations or even for improving ground of his own mind, with known opponents who one's game of golf. may be voluntarily unforgiving. The more unforgiving, the better the chances of betterment-- a As a golfer I certainly consider golfing a tremendous self-correcting exercise. That in itself should qualify soft power and our NGC as a tremendous venue to golfing as a reformative experience and friendlier exercise our best and the worst - both of which may be societies, militating against the opinion of certain exhilarating or educative as the case may be. Our best, vote-catching politicians wishing to convert golf-courses prostitute. Wanting to start off a relationship on a into gaushalas. Is it too Utopian to think we could have clean footing he wants to admit his weaknesses to social systems based on the same self-reformative her, " You must know I am a compulsive golfer" She /corrective principles for a more responsible, humane appreciates his frankness and in turn also admits, society. The growing popularity of the game is an "You must also know I am a hooker". He retorts encouraging justification of the point of view argued. dismissively, 'Oh, that's not a problem. We can work around and settle that". Call THAT one track thinking Moreover, does golf give us a sneak peek into the !! functioning of the human mind and provide for some humour at the expense of human nature? Sample this as What better than to be able to laugh at the fallacies an example when a golfer inquires of his mate, “Who is that of human nature and find comrades in fellow ...gentleman in the bunker and the scoundrel on the humans and not make those cause for dissent or green?" Ha Ha. So much for feelings of charitable bitterness? The course is a melting pot of diverse Sportsman's spirit pitted against our actual thoughts.