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Ang Norbu wins Soaltee Golf

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KATHMANDU, May 24: Ang Norbu Sherpa won the second Soatlee Crowne Plaza Annual Golf Tournament held in the Gokarna Forest Resort on Sunday. Playing with 8 handicapped Mt Everest summiteers Ang Norbu Sherpa scored 5 points to win the title. Sherpa also scored an ace (hole in one) in the tournament. [break]



Amateur golfer Tashi Tsiring scored 3 points to win the men´s title. Kalpana Limbu won the women´s title with 1 point. Ganga Bahadur Gurung, playing with 13 handicapped won the senior citizen´s title. Rupak Acharya won the best gross prize. Wangchen Dhodup won the best front nine title while Joseph Nathan secured the back nine title. Niraj Rana won the longest drive prize while Tado Lithangba won the closest to the pin on second shot prize.



A total of 108 golfers took part in the tournament including 11 ladies. German and Mayanmar ambassadors also took part in the event.



The tournament was played on a modified bogey format. Overall winner, men´s winner, women´s winner and senior citizen´s winner got air tickets plus free hotel stay prizes in several locations of Asian countries.


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