Top amateurs ready to light up Gannon Dunkerley 8th NCR Cup

New Delhi, February 25, 2013: India-born Thai golfer Samarth Dwivedi, Gagan Verma and Satwik Jain along with 60 top amateurs of the country and 15 foreign participants will lead a stellar cast at Gannon Dunkerley 8th NCR Cup from February 26 to March 1at the Delhi Golf Club. Among the foreigners, the field will see seven players from Pakistan, two from Ireland, two from Germany, two from Sri Lanka and two from Nepal at the Par-72 golf course from Tuesday.

DGC’s Arshad Ali and Gagan Verma will carry the local challenge while Geoff Rey Lenehan and John Greene from Ireland, Christof Korth and Klaus Michael Borbe from Germany, Dinesh Prajapati and Ashish Pariyar from Nepal, Vijitha Bandara and Sisira Kumara from Sri Lanka, Abbas Ali Khan, Sohaib S. Bokhari, Faisel Ali Malik, Sardar Murad, Amir Mahmood, Col. Muhammad Shafi and Col. Asif Mehdi from Pakistan will also try not just enjoy the serve settings of DGC but also conquer the greens.

While the tournament will be played in stroke play format, players will be playing as an individual as well as teams from different golf courses, states and organizations. The team winner will be decided after two days when the cut will be applied and the field will be reduced to 45 players who will vie for the title on Thursday and Friday. The winner and runner up of the NCR Cup will be sent to play in one of the National Amateur Championships of European region.

 Hardip Singh Kingra, General Secretary, Delhi Golf Society, said, “Amateurs Golf is the nursery of professional golf in any country and the quality of pro players is directly proportional to quality and quantity of young talent. With this in mind, Delhi Golf Society is making definite efforts to promote and broad base the amateur golf in India and NCR."

As a part of welfare activity, a health checkup camp for the caddies will be held during the NCR CUP tournament in collaboration with BLK Hospital, New Delhi. A team of five doctors will do the health checkup. Prize distribution function will be held at the Delhi Golf Club on 1st march 2013.

Photo caption: On the extreme left: Jasjeet Singh (defending champion, team championship of NCR Cup 2012), HS Kingra (general secretary, Delhi Golf Society), Prakash Bhandari (president, Delhi Golf Society), IVS Juneja (President, Delhi Golf Club) and Sohaib S. Bokhari (A participant from Pakistan) Extreme right