Today (17th October) marks the acknowledgment of the
prestigious, signature accumulated sports accident of SriLankan Airlines –the
SriLankan Airlines Golf Classic. The Golf Classic presents three canicule of
agitative golf for all-embracing and bounded players, who angle to bag
admirable prizes including air tickets to destinations about the world. Winners
will be bent through credibility allocated over two circuit in categories
Gents’ and Ladies’ Gross and Nett Stableford Scores; Junior Division; Nearest to
the pin; Longest Drive; Hole in One and Overall Winner of the Tournament.
The clash will alpha at the Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC)
with a convenance session, and will achieve on Friday, 19th October followed by
an awards commemoration & celebration. Many Asian countries accept begin
assisting niches above sun, sea and beach in sports tourism, a abnormality that
rakes in USD 600 billion every year globally. Chairman SriLankan Airlines,
Nishantha Wickramasinghe said, “Many countries in the Far East and South Asia
accept articular the abeyant in Sports Tourism, Golf in accurate as a agency to
allure high-end tourists, and accept fabricated all-inclusive investments to
advance acknowledging facilities. Although, Sri Lanka is still in its
adolescence as a Golfing destination, contest such as the SriLankan Golf
Classic will advice bazaar and position the country in the all-embracing Golf
community.”Moreover, Sri Lanka is accession itself to become the best adopted
day-tripper destination in South Asia.
The country is an amazing analysis of accustomed beauty,
wildlife and ocean life, age-old history, affluent cultural ancestry and baking
Asian cuisine. As the civic carrier, SriLankan has a key role to comedy in
announcement the country for all its colourful diversities and in bringing
tourists, abnormally leisure travellers and anniversary makers to acquaintance
the destination. The airline has sponsored abounding all-embracing antic
events, like golf, surfing and rugby football.“The SriLankan Golf Classic has been
one of our best acknowledged contest in the past, abounding by abounding
all-embracing golfers and we are aflame to relaunch it. We will abide to
advance it added in the advancing years alluring added numbers, with the aim to
accord to the civic ambition of accretion aerial end tourism,” added CEO of
SriLankan Airlines, Kapila Chandrasena.Around 130 Golfers are accommodating
from the airline’s arrangement of countries in Europe, Middle East, the Indian
Subcontinent and the Far East.The accident is backed by a cardinal of top
organisations, with the Principal Sponsor actuality Rolls-Royce. President,
Rolls-Royce South Asia, Kishore Jayaraman said, “Rolls-Royce has a history of
acknowledging SriLankan antic contest and we are captivated to be associated with
this event, decidedly this year, as we bless 50 years of accouterment engines
to ability aircraft operated by SriLankan Airlines and its predecessors Air
Ceylon and Air Lanka . This abiding accord continues to curl today and
Rolls-Royce looks advanced to acknowledging both Sri Lanka and SriLankan
Airlines into the future.”Chief Officer of Dialog Enterprise, Jeremy Huxtable
said “We are admiring to accomplice SriLankan Airlines in this accident which
will see golfers from about the apple and Sri Lanka teeing off and allusive for
honors.
The affiliation of
the cast with the burdensome disciplines and attention of the bold are key
synergies for us and mirror our connected endeavors to accommodate best in chic
to our action customers. We booty this befalling to ambition all parties
complex including the players and organizers all the actual best for the clash
and beyond.”Other accident sponsors include, Lufthansa Technik, Dialog Axiata
PLC, Premadasa Gem & Jewellery Pvt. Ltd, Lanka Sportreizen (LSR) and Gold
FM.RCGC, is an 18-hole golf advance bestowed with the prefix, ‘Royal’ by King
George V in the 1920’s, and is the oldest golf club in Sri Lanka, and the
additional oldest Royal Golf Club alfresco United Kingdom. Players can have a
good timethe abundant landscaping, agreeable atmosphere, a colonial club abode
with an all-encompassing affectation of celebrated golf memorabilia,
restaurant, coffee boutique and bar in the country’s busiest city. Recently,
the airline alien two contest to its golfing calendar. The Touché Golf League
captivated in December 2011, brought in adept golfers from all genitalia of
India and the SriLankan Airlines’ Asia Pacific Chief Masters Championship
captivated in February this year was the country’s aboriginal Professional Golf
Affiliation (PGA) tour. The accident drew 60 chief golfers, including
professionals such as Mike Harwood, above USA PGA Bout cardholder and
Thailand’s Jamnian Chitprasong.
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