Cheema and Kulvinder to play World Corporate Golf Challenge
Press Trust of India Kuala Lumpur Capt Kanwaljit Cheema and Kulvinder Singh representing Delhi team Jet Airways emerged champions at the 9th annual TAKE Solutions World Corporate Golf Challenge National Final held at the Kota Permai Golf and Country Club here.
Both Cheema and Singh will now be participating as a team from India at the 20th edition of the World Championship of Corporate Golf at Sotogrande, Spain this July.
In a keenly-fought final round, 28 golfers representing 14 corporate teams, all winners from four regional qualifiers held in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata competed for the right to become India's entry to the 20th edition of the World Finals against teams from around 25 different countries.
The Delhi based team Jet Airways led by Cheema (34 points, h'cap 8) and Kulvinder (30 points, h'cap 9) emerged on top of the leader board with 64 Nett points edging out Mumbai team Rahul Gautam Divan & Associates, consisting of Divan (31 points, h'cap 8) and Akshay Kilachand (32 points, h'cap 6) by just one point.
Cheema also emerged triumphant in the individual best gross score category with 28 gross points. Ashish Goel of GE Power & Water from Delhi won the 'Player of the Tournament' contest on the facebook page of Halogolf.Com, online partner of TAKE Solutions World Corporate Golf Challenge.
Teams who were seen in action are - Array Med, Tianhe Chemicals, Meritir India, Nvidia Graphics, Hindoostan Mills, Abc Bearings Ltd., Rahul Gautam Divan & Associates, RA India, Emami, BFSC, GE Power & Water, Nestle, Adidas India and Jet Airways.