The South Asian Golf Association celebrated its 10 year anniversary by crowning its SAGA Tour Champions and the SAGA Open winners at its annual dinner gala hosted Oct. 11 at the Green Acres Country Club golf course here. The day began with the SAGA Open round followed by a putting contest for spouses and kids, and ended with cocktails, magic show, dinner, award ceremonies, and music and dancing.
The SAGA Open winners included winners Shyam Jagirdar, Amar Reddy, Romil Bhagat and Rajesh Saggi, and Avinash Rawoot for low gross and Ankit Patel for low net; The “Straightest Drive” award went to Vinit Mokal; while Uday Kunte and Ankur Amin won the closest to the pin contests and Paresh Desai was the putting contest winner. Neiha Kapoor, Symran Khurana, Rohan Shah, won the ladies, girls and boys putting contest respectively. Junior golfers who participated in the golf camp, co-hosted with “The First Tee” and Royce Brook Golf Academy, were also recognized at the gala.
The SAGA Tour champions in all three divisions were determined after severely contested season. In flight I, Rajesh Arora defeated a strong field of tough and accomplished competitors by finishing first; Shyam Jagirdar finished second and Vamshi Vaddiraja finished there. In Division II, Pavi Malhotra finished first, followed by Vinay Bahuguna and Richard Bhojani in the flight II. Nishith Shah was winner in flight III along with Ankit Patel who came in second and Ashish Kapoor who came in third. Nishith Shah also claimed “Anish Joshi Memorial Trophy” which is awarded to one of the flight winners who has most number of stable ford points during the SAGA Open round.Trophies and awards were handed out by sponsors including United Healthcare, NJ Group Services, Optima Global Solutions, Next Horizon Advisors and Mercedes Benz of Princeton. Dr. Anil Joshi and Mrs. Anju Joshi donated the tournament prizes included a week-long vacation for the “Anish Joshi Memorial Trophy” winner and cash prizes for the SAGA Tour winners and junior golfers.
SAGA was formed by Mahesh Yadav in 2005 and supported by board members Vinay Bahuguna, Paresh Desai, Uday Patel, Sanjay Seth and Pir Mohammed (honorary board member).
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