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Rana inaugurates 9-hole golf course
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Sunday, 9 March 2014
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Pathankot: Provincial President
National Conference Jammu Devender Singh Rana on Sundayinaugurated Spring
Hills Golf Links at Pathankot and described it a much needed facility at the
gateway to Jammu and Kashmir, which is emerging as a premier golfing destination
in India.
Spread over around 50 acres, the nine-hole golf course is
set in serene environs with lush green periphery that gives it a magnificent
and captivating grandeur. Rana said game of golf has emerged as important
ingredient of tourism and it is only befitting for a state like Jammu and
Kashmir and its peripheries to have the courses with world class
infrastructure.
He referred to the golf courses across the Valley and in
Jammu and said these are bound to give impetus to tourism and economic
activities. He said nature lovers from across the world are finding these
courses as added attraction during their vacations in nature's most blessed
valleys and plains. Saying that Kashmir has become a prominent destination for
holding golfing events, he expressed the hope that Jammu and Pathankot too will
find place in the sports tourism map. He said golf has no more remained game of
elite as youngsters in good measure are drawn towards it. "Therefore, it
is only necessary to have such facilities in abundant measure", he added.
Rana complimented the promoter and designer of the course
Mr Sandeep Sikka and Col Bhupinder Singh respectively for their keen interest
in raising the golf course and offering a big facility to the people of
Pathankot. He urged the management of the golf course to take initiative for
holding local, inter state and national level events in the newly raised
course, saying this will expose the budding golfers of the area to talented
golfer of the country. Prominent among those on the occasion included S K Punj,
Chancellor Sai University, Col Balwant, Vinod Saraf, Harish Pathania, Kuldeep
Singh and others. (KNS)
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