Excelsior Sports Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 21: Advisor to Governor Khurshid Ahmad Ganai today urged the national and international golf players to act as the ambassadors of Kashmir back home to promote it as a peaceful and an incredible destination to visit.
Ganai was speaking during award distribution ceremony to the winners of 7th J&K Golf Association Tournament at Royal Springs Golf Course.
While congratulating the winners, Ganai said J&K is producing some of the best golf players in the country and the tradition of golf has been kept alive by the golfers who play in various courses of the state and organize tournaments on regular basis.
Ganai said the JK tourism Department is soon organizing a Fame Carnival at SKICC where guests from outside the state will be taken to different places with an aim to present a real picture of Kashmir that it is peaceful and waiting for the tourist to come.
“The players like Shiv Kapoor have international fame and their presence in our courses will definitely promote J&K as golfing destination. We are expecting good number of golfers to visit J&K for more such tournaments in the future,” he said.
Earlier Ganai who was the chief guest at the prize distribution ceremony at RSGC gave away the awards to the winners.
Team Chinar captained by Mushtaq Ahmad Burza emerged winners of the 7th JK Golf Association Tournament here at Royal Springs Golf Course.
At Royal Springs Golf Course, the awards for the Straight Drive went to Rizwan Dar, Longest Drive went to Dr Shafkat Nazir, nearest to the Pin went to Arshad Qadri, and Bull’s Eye went to Ashiq Wani.
The first leg of the tournament was held at Pahalgam Golf Course on Saturday which was inaugurated by Member Parliament and National Conference (NC) chief Farooq Abdullah. Over 80 golfers participated on the first day at Pahalgam. Internationally acclaimed golfer Shiv Kapoor was major attraction of the tournament.
J&K Bank Chairman Parvez Ahmad, former JK Bank Chairman M Y Khan, Justice (Rtd) Muzaffar Jan, Director Tourism Kashmir Tasaduq Jeelani, MD Cum CEO J&K Golf Development and Management Authority Ghalib Mohiuddin Shah and President J&K Golf Association Mushtaq Burza, Deputy Directors Tourism Department Masrat Hashim, Reyaz A Shah, Sarfaraz Mohammad were also present at the award ceremony.
The tournament was jointly organised by Department of Tourism Kashmir and J&K Golf Association.
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