Season’s first golf meet ends on high note at BGC

Bhubaneswar: The first golf tournament of the season by Bhubaneswar Golf Club (BGC) was concluded here on Sunday with felicitation of winners and runners-up. As many as 123 golfers took part in the 9-hole format in two rounds.

The tournament was jointly organised by BGC, Hotel Golden Anchor and Surya Media Group. Dinalipi newspaper was its media partner. In the closing ceremony, Chairman of Western Odisha Development Council (WODC) Asit Tripathy, who is also the president of BGC, felicitated the winners of the tournament with trophies.

In the veteran category, winner was Trailokya Jena and Dr. KC Behera was runner-up while Mrs Lakhi Swain bagged the trophy in the women’s category. Similarly, in the 17 to 24 handicap category, Captain AK Mahapatra was the winner and Bhupinder Singh was the runner-up. Captain Dalbir Singh was the winner in the 0 to 16 handicap category. Ankit Padhi emerged as overall best gross winner while the runner-up was AC Sutar.

Tripathy said, “Odisha government is taking a lot of initiatives to make sports popular among the youth. He further expressed his thanks to the Government of Odisha for successfully organizing the Hockey World Cup 2018.

Giving insights on golf, Tripathy said, “I am very happy with the efforts of BGC for organising this type of spectacular tournament in the Temple City of Odisha.” He also encouraged the players and motivated them to spread sportive allure throughout Odisha.

Among others, Secretary of BGC Tapan Mohanty, Captain Dalbir Singh, Chairman of Surya Media and Hotel Golden Anchor Amarendra Dash, Managing Director Annapurna Dash, Director Ajay Das and Executive Director Aditya Dash were present in the closing ceremony.