Team Cola Vina wins Ambrose
Natadola team, Cola Vina took out the Mali Pest Control/KKS Hardware sponsored four-person ambrose at the Denarau Golf and Racquet Club on Saturday. The team led by Pradeep Singh, Suresh Sailax Mani (NZ), Hemant Kumar and Basant Kumar scored 52.9 points.
“It was a great outing for the four; although the weather was too hot
we managed to pull through,” Singh said.
Team Smugglers (Mark Hinton, Janice Hinton, Justin Ryan and Abid Hussain scored 52.3 points to settle for second spot.
In third with 54.85 points was
Lautoka based Team Sunday International made up of (Munesh Prasad, Pranil Prasad, Regi Ram and former Fiji and Nadi football rep Maika Sunia Kasami.
Event coordinator Amitesh Chandra said 24 teams competed in the one day event. The event was postponed the previous weekend due to bad weather.
Singh thanked sponsors KKs Hardware and Mali Pest Control for coming on board once again to financially support the season
opening event.
Chandra added that the ambrose rules were followed like the except on all par 3’s, only two team members must tee off on each hole and select the best shot, once the best tee shot was selected all team members would take the shot to decide on the best ball to play from there onwards.
Also one club length placing was allowed when the selected ball was in the fairway; if the best shot selected was in the rough or bunker then the selected ball must be placed first and all other team members must drop within one club length before playing the shot. Meanwhile, Golf Fiji hosted their trials for the Pacific Games 2023 at the same venue on Sunday.