Exciting finish in UTE Engineering Pin Fernando Golf Grand Prix 2018

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Sisira Kumara

Sisira Kumara barely holds on to win the first edition of the UTE Engineering Pin Fernando Golf Grand Prix for 2018.

The game of golf is not over until it’s over as proved by J.M.D. Indika who produced a scintillating round of 5 under par 68 in near perfect conditions at the beautiful Victoria Golf and Country Resort in Kandy. He started perfectly with 2 birdies in the first 2 holes followed by 4 more birdies over the next 9 holes to be 6 under par without any blemishes upto that point. His only bogey for the round cost him the chance to tie for first place with Sisira Kumara who had a bad day with a 5 over par 78, but was good enough to hold on by one stroke to win the first edition in 2018 of the UTE Engineering Pin Fernando Golf Grand Prix.

Chanaka Perera who was showing a lot of promise by improving his score each day over the last 3 days, failed to maintain the momentum and ended the final day with a 3 over par to slip into third position while Amarapadma also had a bad finale to be pushed to the 4th spot.

Final Top 10

 Leader Board DAY 01 DAY 02 DAY 03 DAY 04 TOTAL
1 Sisira Kumara 71 73 75 78 297
2 J. M. D. Indika 72 77 81 68 298
3 M. U. Chanaka Perera 79 73 72 76 300
4 M. Amarapathma 79 71 73 79 302
T5 R. Sureshan 80 78 81 79 318
T5 G. M. Pradeep Kumara 76 85 76 81 318
7 A.Dhanaranjan 79 80 77 83 319
8 U. A. Ranasinghe 80 77 82 85 324
9 G. Selva Kumar 83 79 82 83 327
T10 Rosana Prasad 83 82 86 78 329
T10 J. K. Januka Dilshan 83 84 80 82 329