Babu Sherpa won the seventh Turkish Airlines World Golf Cup at Gokarna Forest Resort on 11 May and could represent Kathmandu in Antalya, Turkey, in November. Sherpa (middle in the photo below) gained the event on the depend back device after being tied at 42 factors with Ola Tenzing, ten handicaps. Sherpa scored 23 at the back nine compared to 18 of Tenzing. In the 15 handicaps, Tenzing scored 18 points at the returned nine to finish runner-up in the tournament out of 102 novice gamers from golf equipment throughout Nepal.
The Kathmandu occasion changed into the 19th of 103 tournaments in this 12 ‘ month’s game, sponsored via Turkish Airlines in seventy-six nations around the arena. Winners from everywhere will play in the Grand Finals and the Turkish Airlines Open seasoned-am, where former winners have teed it up like Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.
Ang Tshering Sherpa. The men received the Nearest Pin opposition by girls through Mithun Rai and Rekha Ghimire. Tashi Tsering gained the lowest gross score with a rating of -2. Tashi Tshering gained the pleasant gross award and a unique trophy kept inside the overdue reminiscence. Tashi scored 38 gross points for the win in the gross category.
“We warmly thank all of our visitors who made the Turkish Airlines World Golf Cup here in Kathmandu a massive fulfillment,” stated Abdullah Tuncer Kecici, General Manager for Turkish Airlines Nepal (at right in the photo above). “The match places Kathmandu on the international golfing map and suggests that Nepal isn’t just about mountains.” All Turkish Airlines World Golf Cup finalists will fly to Turkey inside the luxurious Turkish Airlines’ Business Class. Events with the Turkish Airlines Open and TAWGC have made Turkish Airlines’ help important to Antalya, which has been identified as a top-rate destination for golfers with first-rate facilities.
British PGA Professional and Director of Golf Andrew McNabola, based in Istanbul, says: “Gokarna is a global-magnificent court docket, challenging due to its long and narrow fairways but superb due to the forest and natural world.” This year, the Golf Cup event in Gokarna decided on guest participation clubs from all over Nepal, including the Nepal Army Golf Club, Pokhara, and Dharan.
“We desired to deal with this like a Nepal qualifier and attempted to be inclusive by way of gamers by the way out Nepal, as well as to encompass extra women,” stated Deepak Acharya of Gokarna Forest Resort and one of the organizers. Pemba N Sherpa completed a 2d runner-up on the remember back with forty-one points. Rajat Rana and Lt. Gen. KNS Thapa scored forty-one factors; on the count returned, Pemba and Rajat had 19 every on the returned 9, but Gen Thapa scored 17 on the final six holes scored Pemba scored 14 towards 13 of Rajat to relaxed 1/3 region.
Mithun Rai changed into the closest to the pin amongst men; his tee shoamongd two toes and five toes one inch from the pin, and Rekha Ghimire got the closest to the pin among women after hitting a shot about ten toes at the tenth hollow. Added Kecici of Turkish Airlines: “The Turkish Airlines Golf Cup is turned into not only a global golf match with an event in Kathmandu but a shout-out to the world that Nepal is a golfing vacation spot.
