Parambi, Reddy to lead India challenge

This year over 200 participants will compete at Lykia Links Course, Gloria New Golf Course and Gloria Old Golf Course

The Indian challenge at the World Amateur Golfers Championship at Belek in Turkey will be carried by Karnataka Golf Association’s Repheel Parambi and V.S. Thyagarajan, Chennai’s Shiv Naren Srinivasan and Shrenik Kumar and Hyderabad’s Sridhar Reddy. The tournament will be played in a stableford format over three different courses and five different handicap categories.

The golfers qualified on the basis of their performance at the Toyota Karnataka Golf Festival — India’s official qualifier for the WAGC earlier this year in Bengaluru.

This is the seventh time India will be represented at the WAGC. In 2014, David D’Souza won the 0-5 handicap category in South Africa while in 2009 Sumit Rathor prevailed in the 11-15 event in Spain and in 2010 (Thailand), Utpal Desai won the 0-6 category.

This year over 200 participants from 40 countries will compete at Turkey’s finest golf courses — Lykia Links Course, Gloria New Golf Course and Gloria Old Golf Course. The WAGC was founded in 1995 by Swedish ice hockey legend Sven Tumba. Annika Soren-stam, one of the most successful female golfers ever serves as honorary chairman of the advisory board.