{"id":2094,"date":"2022-04-24T18:52:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T18:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.topic.lk\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2022-04-24T18:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T18:52:04","slug":"anuradhapura-junior-golfers-play-at-eagles-golf-links-china-bay-trincomalee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/2094\/","title":{"rendered":"Anuradhapura Junior Golfers play at Eagles Golf Links China Bay, Trincomalee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adhithya Weerasinghe and Sankanath Hesara wins age group divisions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Sri Lanka Golf – Junior Development Committee in its grass root level training to foster young talent conducted a two-day golf tournament for the junior golfers under training in Anuradhapura over the weekend of 9th<\/sup> and 10 April in China Bay Trincomalee.\u00a0 The tournament was played over 18 holes at the pictures Eagles Golf Links China Bay, Trincomalee, in two age group categories 9 \u2013 14 yrs and 15 \u2013 18 yrs off the ladies\u2019 tees red markers and men\u2019s tees yellow markers respectively. Sri Lanka Golf the governing body of Golf has joined hands with the Sri Lanka Air Force in facilitating training and free access to juniors in Anuradhapura to play both courses on regular basis, further promoting the development of the sport island wide. The youngsters were treated to an entire weekend of golf which included a day of intensive training on rules and mental side of the game followed by 36 holes golf tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was delightful enthusiasm among the juniors all of whom were experiencing playing a links course and tough conditions. The intensive fessional.<\/p>\n\n\n

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training program was conducted by SLG coaching professional Priya Hemantha who was on hand throughout the weekend to help the kids in all aspects of the game.<\/p>\n

Results;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Age Group category 15 \u2013 18 yrs<\/strong>\u00a0( off yellow markers)<\/p>\n

Winner : Sankanath Hesara 85 and\u00a093 (total 178)<\/p>\n

Runner up : Alokshna Weerasinghe 92 and 88 (total 180).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Age Group category 09 \u2013 14 yrs <\/strong>( off red markers)<\/p>\n

Winner ; Adhithya Weerasinghe 84 and 90 (total 174)<\/p>\n

Runner Up ; Janeesh Sasmitha 91 and 90 (total 181).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Longest Drive; <\/strong>Yehen Kethnula<\/p>\n

Nearest to Pin<\/strong>\u00a0;\u00a0 Thanuja Kalhara<\/p>\n

The awards were given away\u00a0by Golf Professional Priya Hemantha and President of the Junior Golf Academy Anuradhalpura Mr. Mannapperuma.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The picture shows Group Winners and representatives of Sri Lanka Air Force and Golf Pro<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adhithya Weerasinghe and Sankanath Hesara wins age group divisions Sri Lanka Golf – Junior Development Committee in its grass root level training to foster young talent conducted a two-day golf tournament for the junior golfers under training in Anuradhapura over the weekend of 9th and 10 April in China Bay Trincomalee.\u00a0 The tournament was played […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-biz_news","8":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}