Anura Rohana wins RCGC Altair Open Golf championships

Saturday, August 3, 2019 - 01:00

Winner Anura Rohana (third from left) with first runner-up N Thangaraja (fourth from left) and second runner-up Mithun Perera (third from left). RCGC Vice Captain Navin de Silva, Pradeep Moraes Director Indocean Developers, RCGC Captain Shiran Fernando, M

Sri Lanka’s top 3 professional golfers Anura Rohana, Mithun Perera and N. Thangaraja fought out a hard battle to the end in tough windy conditions with Rohana emerging a comfortable winner beating Thangaraja to second place by four shots in the RCGC Altair Open Golf Championship played at the RCGC yesterday.

Defending champion Mithun Perera finished third.

This was the eighth time that Rohana had won the RCGC Open Championship.

A total of 25 golfers made the cut and Rs. one million was distributed amongst the winners.

The championship sponsored by Altair for the third consecutive year drew a field of 60 golfers from all over the country with M. Dharma from India being the sole overseas entry.

Top Ten Aggregate of best 4 Gross scores from 4 rounds (using first round handicaps)

Division: 1 Anura Rohana 67+73+67+71 278 (Inactive Hcp)

N. Thangaraja 67+70+73+72 282

Mithun Perera 69+71+70+75 285

(Inactive Hcp)

Sisira Kumara 72+69+72+76 289

M. Dharma 74+76+70+72 292

Lalith Kumara 75+76+74+68 293

(Inactive Hcp)

M. U. Chanaka Perera 72+71+71+80 294

B. A. Sanjeewa 74+71+73+78 296

Sachin De Silva 70+80+73+74 297