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Why this early hour, early hour, ji? Ashok Goyel, a former winner of the tournament, tees off. He delivered the quote of the tournament (See report). In thesecond picture is Ashok Advani saying ‘Fore!’ (Third photo) Avid golfer Moy Biswas, whose family has instituted the Rotary Club of Bombay Golf Trophy,peers into the distance after teeing off. Finally,President Paul George, who hopes to participate in next year’s event, tees off this year’s tournamentGOLF TOURNAMENT TO RThe annual golf tournament for the Sports Chairman who wanted toRotary Club of Bombay Rolling hurry back to oversee the arrangementsHalf a beer between four persons is not fair. From right, Mr. Mohit Jain,Dr. Anand Shah, Naresh Kumar Jain and Shyyamniwas SomaniTrophy donated by the Biswas Familyappears to have acquired a distinctlyglobal look. When the fifthedition was held on Saturday, January21, at least five participants werenot local boys. Only one of them,Bernd Schneider, is a member of theClub, but the others came from distantlands to enjoy a delightfulmorning’s game on the greens of theWillingdon Sports Club.President Paul George, who welcomedthe players as well as the nonplayers(who almost matched theplayers in numbers) at the award ceremony,revealed that other RotaryClubs, sports clubs and organisations,including a few located elsewhere inthe world, had approached SportsChairman Moy Biswas and requestedthat the Club tournament beexpanded to include them, too.But Moy and the Club had politelyturned down the requests anddecided to retain the unique characterof the tournament. Moreover, withfor the fellowship and presen-tation programme that was to follow.Finally, just after 1 pm all the foursomescompleted their games andtrickled back to the “Cabbage Patch”for the fellowship and Moy got busywith their cards to tot up their scoresand to identify the winner. Every participantwas offered a memento withhis/her name etched on it.When Moy requested Paul to revealthe names of the winners, therunner-up turned out to be DineshLalAnd the winner, for the secondtime in a row, was none other thanthe evergreen Dev Thukral. Loudapplause greeted the announcementand all those present congratulatedthe champion as thePresident presented him with therolling trophy.Bernd surprised everyone by presentingthree cards offering dinner forfour persons at various restaurantsin the new hotel, Sofitel, which wouldAwaiting the announcements. Both players and non-players attended thethe Fellowship Committee also involved,it had now become a two-in-said the Sports and Fellowship Com-open shortly in the BKC area. Paulpresentation ceremony in the ‘Cabbage Patch’ at the Willingdon Sports Clubone affair – a sporting encounter followedmittees had decided to retain one ofAnother group awaits the results. As members are aware, the FellowshipCommittee has been associated with the Sports Committee for this eventby a fellowship get-together,making it a quintessential Rotaryprogramme. Those present on theoccasion applauded the decision.To turn to the game, while the firsttee-off took place as scheduled at 8.16am, the last foursome was off an hourlater. All 32 players were then on thegreens, skilfully navigating their waythrough the 18 holes. Interestingly,the first group to return to the hutwas the one that was the last to teeoff.It consisted of Ashok Minawala,Mr. Gautam Agarwal, Mr. AdityaShah and Moy Biswas and completedonly eight holes in deference to thethe cards for another occasion. Theother two cards were given after adraw of lots. The lucky winners wereMadhup Vaghani and Mr. Kush Shah.Moy also thanked Naresh Jain,his son Mohit, as also MadhupVaghani, for sponsoring the presentationarticles.The tournament ended with Paul“looking into the future” and predictingthat he could “see” his nameamong the contestants at next year’stournament.The participants in the tournamentplayed in the following foursomes:Pradeep Chinai, Dr. AnandShah, PP Ajay Kanoria and Mr. UdayJanuary 31 to February 6, 2012 THE GATEWAY, The Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Bombay Page 4
And this is the winner! President Paul and Chairman Moy flank winnerDev Thukral after presenting him with the rolling trophy – he has won forthe second time in a rowESIST ‘GLOBALISATION’Better luck, next time. Moy and Paul with Dinesh Lal who was declaredthe runner-up at the end of the fifth annual golf tournament, held onJanuary 21Bhansali; Bernd Schneider, SureshGoklaney, Bimal Mehta and DilipDalal; Sushil Jalan, Mr. Hemant Vyas,Mr. Mohit Jain and Darious Irani;Mr. Abhiram Sheth, Mr. Kush Shah,Madhup Vaghani and Mr. Rishi Dalal.Mr. Andrew O’Brien, Mr. BrianKenny, Dev Thukral and Ashok Advani;PP Arvind Jolly, Ashok Goyel,Dinesh Lal and Mr. Hira Sehgal; Mr.A. Vaidheesh, Kastur Sheth; RotaryannBrinda Shah and RotaryannPadma Lal; Ashok Minawala, Mr.Gautam Agarwal, Mr. Aditya Shahand Moy Biswas.While Mr. Andrew O’Brien is theChief of Operations at Harvard BusinessSchool, Mr. Brian Kenny is theChief Marketing and CommunicationsOfficer at Harvard BusinessSchool. Mr. Hemant Vyas is visitingfrom Houston, Texas, and Mr. HiraSehgal from London.Several non-players made it a pointto reach Willingdon Sports Club intime for the fellowship and the awardpresentation programme. They includedseven Past Presidents, viz.,Dr. Rahim Muljiani, Rajnikant Reshamwala,Arun Sanghi, Kalpana Mun-shi, Harry Singh Arora, Dr. RumiJehangir and Ashish Vaid.PPs Arvind Jolly and Ajay Kanoriawere also present in their capacity asplayers.Other members who attended werePresident-Elect Nowroze Vazifdar(he proposed the vote of thanks),President-Nominee Nirav Shah, Hon.Joint Secretary Sitaram Shah, SportsCommittee Vice-Chair Anand Dalal,Ramesh Narayan, Abhinav and NidhiAggarwal, Arvind and Rachna Agarwal,Madhusudan Daga, SandeepDasgupta, Ritu Desai, Naresh KumarJain, Ashok and Vatsala Jatia, Kishorand Mrinalini Kher, Fali Mehta,Hoshang Nazir, Manojj Patodia,Mehul Sampat and ShyyamniwasSomani.Moy’s spouse Mrudula and theirtwo sons were also present, playingthe role of hosts.Before dispersing, Paul andMoy conferred the award for“Quote of the Tournament” onAshok Goyel who, on seeing histee-off time, complained: “Youhave given me a tee-off at 8.48 am– it’s the middle of the night!”A special dinner for four. Bernd Schneider and President Paul George flankMadhup Vaghani who will enjoy dinner with his family at the new SofitelThe global angle to the golf tournament. Mr. Andrew O’Brien, Chief ofOperations of Harvard Business School, with President PaulThe ‘first family of golf’? Moy and Mrudula Biswas are flanked by Nowroze And this is Brian. Mr. Brian Kenny, Chief Marketing and CommunicationsVazifdar and Paul, and also by their sons (extreme left and extreme right)Officer, also of Harvard Business School, with PaulJanuary 31 to February 6, 2012 THE GATEWAY, The Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Bombay Page 5
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