Vinod Weerasinghe emerged Boys’ Gold Division champion while Taniya Minel Balasuriya bagged the Girls’ combined Gold and Silver Division title as the Sri Lanka Junior Golf Championship 2017 concluded on a grand note at the Royal Colombo Golf Club yesterday. The prestigious annual junior golf event is sponsored by the Prima Sunrise Bread for the 10th consecutive year.
Vinod’s six over par 77 was enough to secure him the elite Boys’ Gold Division title by nine strokes from Armand Flamer Caldera. In a field of 13 Gold Division juniors, Darren Hall finished 3rd, a further 14 strokes behind the runner-up.
The Girls’ category combined Gold and Silver Division saw a keen tussle to the very end between Taniya Minel Balasuriya and Kayla Perera. Locked together as joint leaders, both Taniya and Kayla were off to a great start in the final round birdieing the 1st hole! Kayla dropped a shot at the 2nd to give Taniya the lead, which Taniya maintained extending the lead to 2 strokes at the 9th hole. Taniya’s birdie on the 10th to Kayla’s double bogey established a 5-stroke lead.
Kayla showed tremendous resolve to fight back with a birdie on the 11th and par on the 12th to pull back 2 strokes. Taniya fired back with birdies on the 13th and 14th to lead by five strokes again. Kayla pulled back a stroke on the 15th when Taniya made a bogey and then finished with much grit making pars on 16th, 17th and birdieing the 18th hole, whilst Taniya made a double bogey on the 17th and just about held on to win by 2 strokes.
S. Duwarshan of Nuwara Eliya Golf Club, another promising 14-year-old won the Boys’ Silver Division comfortably by 15 strokes from Levon Niyarepola who improved in each round to return a 9 over par 80 in the final round.
Shanal Binushka won the Bronze Division by a wide margin of 22 strokes having led all the way in the 3 rounds, 42-hole tournament for the age group category 10 – 11+.
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