Plans afoot to establish a golf range over 2.5 acres of land in Panchkula to hone budding talent
Nearly 100 amateur golfers, including at least 6 women golfers, will vie for honours in three handicap categories in the 7th edition of the golf tournament to be organised by the Amateur Golfers Society (AGS) on the Panchkula Golf Club course on December 16.
Sharing details with the media at the club on Friday, AGS Founding Trustee Suresh K. Gupta, Patron SS Prasad, and golf instructor and Director (Events) at AGS Tavleen Batra said the handicap categories in which competitions will be held are 0-9 handicap, 9-16 handicap and above-16 handicap.
The competing amateur golfers will tee-off at 7:30 a.m. on December 22.
The tournament is supported by Alpine Towers.
This will be the second of the three such AGS tournaments being held in quick succession. The 6th edition was held on December 1 and the next, which will be the 8th edition, will be held on Feb 9 next year at the same venue.
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Suresh Gupta and SS Prasad shared that the golf tournaments organised by AGS are central to its efforts at nurturing golfing talent in the Chandigarh capital region. To boost the golfers’ morale, the winners and runners-up in each handicap category, as well as the women’s category separately, will be presented awards. Overall winners in both the men’s and women’s categories will also be declared.
Suresh Gupta also revealed AGS’ ambition to establish Panchkula as a premier golfing destination, for which it has plans to establish an Amateur Golf Range over 2.5 acres of land along a motorable road in Panchkula. A tentative site has also been identified and process is underway for acquiring it in the coming months, he added.
The proposed state-of-the-art Amateur Golf Range with residential facilities, and equipped with cutting edge training infrastructure, will not only attract golfers from the Chandigarh tricity area, but will become a hub for golf tourism, he added.
Adding to this, Tavleen Batra said AGS’ aim is to train 500-odd budding golfers in a year under a 21-day fast track programme at the Amateur Golf Range.
Prasad said, apart from the Amateur Golf Range in Panchkula, AGS has chalked out an ambitious plan to create golf ranges across all districts of Haryana to hone golfing talent.
