Madura Amarasinghe-Chanaka Perera (Revognah Leisure) overall Winners

Madura Amarasinghe and Chanaka Perera of Revognah Leisure, won the Shakespeare Shield Golf Tournament 2017 played at the Royal Colombo Golf Course (RCGC) Colombo, last Sunday.

Amarasinghe and Perera overcame Brandix pair Harsha Abeywickrama and Suhayb Sangani, who had to be content as overall Runners-up for yet another year. The overall completed their feat with 37 points against the Runners-up on 34, with a B/B 9.

Finishing at 3rd were Shafraz Zuhar and A. Iddamalgoda of HSBC with 34 points, while experienced pair H.K. Chang and Niloo Jayathilake representing Softlogic Holdings, finished 4th with 33. Softlogic Holdings had a strong representation as Dihan D. Dedigama and Dr Janaka Gallangoda, one half of last year's winners, were 5th with 32 points.

Sumal and Shamal Perera of Access Group had 31 points overall to come 6th, while Arjun Fernando and Thimal Perera of DFCC Bank were 7th with the same amount of points.

Four pairs with 29 points each were placed 8th to 11th respectively. They were Milinda Ratnayake and Navin de Silva of SriLankan Airlines, Druvi Sirisena and Somanath Fernando of John Keells Holdings, Gerard Fernando and Andy Anderson of Senok Air Cargo and Gerard Amerasinghe and D. Amerasinghe of Amaraa Hotel.

The annual Shakespeare Shield Golf Championship 2017, sponsored by Carson Cumberbatch, was played for the 106th time, as the oldest corporate competition registered on the RCGC Board.

The Shakespeare Shield is an annual Board event, being the only tournament open to members and teams of registered Companies, the Diplomatic community, Govt depts., Armed forces, the Police and Service organisations.

The format of the tournament is structured to make it a 1-day Stableford event, thereby making it more exciting and narrowing the team’s margin for error. Five categories were included in the tournament -Maximum Birdies, Best Gross Score (BGS) on Par 5 Holes, BGS on Front 9, BGS on Back 9 and BGS on 6 hidden Holes.