The Northern Region qualifier of Toyota IGU National Club Challenge that teed off at the Jaypee Greens Golf Club here today saw highly competitive golf being played.
Arjun Sharma, a regular at IGU amateur circuit, won in the 0-6 H'cap category hitting five birdies in the day.
Around 120 golfers with handicaps of 24 and below participated in the qualifier to represent their club on a National level.
While Arjun Sharma with 37 points won in the 0-6 H'cap category, the winners in other categories were Hardeep Sethi (37 points) in 7-10 H'cap category, Nadeem Khan(35 points) in 11-15 H'cap category, Prithvi Bijlani (32 points) in 16-20 H'cap category and P R Batra (35 points) in 21-24 H'cap category.
"This is a great initiative by the IGU. It gives us an opportunity to represent my home club in a National level competition. Being a regular at the IGU amateur circuit, I have played all over as individual but this gives me a chance to prove my talent in a team event and come out as a top club team of India," said Arjun.
The individual winner in each of the five handicap categories is automatically selected to represent the club team, while the 6th team member and captain is nominated by the club.
The teams thus selected will go to the 2nd stage, where the North Zone Finals will take place at Noida Golf Club on November 29.
At the 18 hole Zonal finals, the best five 18 hole total stableford scores of the six players will make the team score and the top two teams from each of four Zonal Finals will qualify for the 3rd stage -- the National Finals.
The Zonal qualifiers, Zonal Finals and National Finals will be played in individual Stableford off 3/4th handicap allowance.
As one of the largest national championships by Indian Golf Union, the inaugural edition of the Toyota IGU National Club Challenge is involving around 5000 golfers from 25 key clubs across the country.
