The Sri Lanka Golf Ranking Golf Tournament conducted monthly together with Trials for the selection of the Asian Games Golf team concluded on Wednesday at the Victoria Golf Resorts Course, with Vijitha Bandara a home-grown Professional golfer playing in the PGTI holding on to a slender one stroke victory over M. U. Chanaka Perera, the 2021 Sri Lanka National Amateur Champion. Vijitha Bandara’s 4 round gross total of 298, six over par doesn’t give a sound reading compared with the standard of golf expected to win medals at the Asian Games but the field at VGR for the March Ranking tournament was played sans the top Sri Lankan professionals currently playing in the PGTI tour.
Chanaka Perera just one stroke adrift of the winner Vijitha Bandara was 3 strokes clear of 3rd placed M.H. Chalitha Pushpika of the Sri Lanka Navy. The Victoria Golf Resorts course played long as there was continuous rain and soft ground underfoot, making conditions quite difficult to score. In the circumstances Chanaka Perera’s 5 under par 68 in the second round was the outstanding performance of the tournament which put him into the lead and held on to win.
STANDINGS AFTER 4 ROUNDS -TRIALS FOR ASIAN GAMES/ SLGU GOLF RANKING TOURNAMENT
VICTORIA GOLF RORTS GOLF COURSE – 19TH March – 23rd March 2023
