CHAMPIONS FOR A CAUSE - DELHI
"Champions for a Cause", an 18 Hole Covid Relief Exhibition Golf Match with Kapil Dev & Gaganjeet Bhullar taking on Murali Kartik & Shubhankar Sharma at the historic Delhi Golf Club on July 11th, 2020. The FIRST Sports Community in India to come together to raise funds during this unprecedented time and the FIRST Live Sporting Event in India post the Lockdown. Champions for a cause a unique Charity Golf Event that will make a difference in the lives of children and communities by providing meals to families and children through this pandemic.
DONOR:
Thanks to our lead donor, Mr. Dilip Thomas, an Industrialist and Golf enthusiast from Chennai. Dilip has taken the lead in supporting this event just as he has supported over 50 professional golfers in their early careers and has devoted his time over four decades to promote Indian Golf at home and abroad as an Administrator. Dilip has also been actively involved with the following:
- 1. Council Member of the IGU since 1988. At Present Chairman of the International Committee.
- 2. First Indian on the Board of the International Gol Federation for the Olympics of Brazil from 2010-2016.
- 3. Board Member of the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation- 1998-2002
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- i. Secretary General – 2002 – 2014
- ii. Vice Chairman – 2014 – 2016
- iii. Member of the R&A from 1999
CHARITY PARTNER
Founded in 1999 by Matthew Spacie, one of the largest poverty alleviation programmes in India. Magic Bus has been putting sports at the forefront of learning & development of children for more than 20 years. This year, Magic Bus has provided 1.8 crore meals to 57,000 families and impacted the lives of 375,000 youngsters across 22 states. https://www.magicbus.org/
Kapil Dev
Kapil Nikhanj Dev, the former cricketer and captain of the Indian cricket team is one of the legends of the sport. He is till now the greatest fast bowling all rounder India has ever produced.
Famously known as the Haryana Hurricane, he was a right arm fast bowler and a right handed batsman. He will always be remembered for his deadly out swingers, aggressive batting and for leading the Indian team to a World Cup victory in 1983.
Murali Kartik
Murali Kartik, born 11 September 1976) is an Indian former cricketer who sporadically represented the national team from 2000 to 2007. He was a specialist slow left arm orthodox bowler known for his loopy trajectory and ability to spin and bounce, but has found international selection blocked during his prime years by the presence of Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh. He is also a left-handed batsman, and although he has had some success with the bat at first-class level with 19 half-centuries, he has not been able to repeat this at international level.
Gaganjeet Singh Bhullar
Gaganjeet Singh Bhullar (born 27 April 1988) is an Indian professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He was awarded Arjuna Award in 2013.
Bhullar was born to Sikh parents in Kapurthala, India. He was India's number one amateur in 2004 and 2006 and was part of the Indian team that won the silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games. He finished in a tie for seventh in the individual competition. Bhullar turned professional in 2006.
Bhullar started his professional career on the Professional Golf Tour of India where he has yet to miss a cut. He played in seven events in the 2006-07 season and never finished lower than T-18. He also recorded three top ten finishes, including two runners-up.
Shubhankar Sharma
Shubhankar Sharma (born 21 July 1996) is a professional golfer from India. In December 2017, he recorded his first tour win in the Joburg Open and followed this with a second win at the Maybank Championship in February 2018. He studied at Bal Bhavan School, Bhopal.
Turning professional in 2013, Sharma played on the Asian Development Tour in 2014. He also finished fourth in the Panasonic Open India, a 2014 Asian Tour event.
Sharma started 2017 finishing fourth in the Bashundhara Bangladesh Open and in the top-10 in the Maybank Championship, an event co-sanctioned with the European Tour. After these two events in February it was not until November that he showed a return to form with a top-10 finish in the UBS Hong Kong Open, another event co-sanctioned with the European Tour.
ABOUT DELHI GOLF CLUB
The Delhi Golf Club is the oldest in the New Delhi area, a municipal course in the early 1930s became a corporate entity on 24th February 1950. The course is a genuine monument brimming with reminders of bygone times predating the Moghul Empire. The two golf courses which occupy some 220 acres. The main 18-hole course – Lodhi – is a par 72 and additionally there’s a 9-hole “B” course – sometimes known at the Peacock course. The club is a delightful meeting place for many of Delhi’s sporting citizens and diplomats."
Delhi Golf Club (founded in 1951 and designed by General J.H. Wilkinson) was the inaugural venue for the Indian Open in 1964. Fittingly, Peter Thomson, who was the driving force behind the tournament, won the event. Thomson believed in the potential for golf in India and promoted an international competition that has since become an integral part of the Asian Tour calendar. The DGC became the first club to host a European Tour event amongst many other Asian Tour events.
Gary Player Design upgraded all the greens on the Lodhi course during a renovation project that began in March 2019. “It is a parkland-style golf course with minimal topography but does have dense vegetation that borders every hole. The green sizes were increased to add more pinnable areas and strategy to the putting surfaces and redesigned all the fairway bunkers, installed a new irrigation system and provided added contouring to some of the fairways. Additional drainage, new cart path routing and tree trimming were also included in the redesign project.
The Champions for a Cause will be the first high end event to be held at the Delhi Golf Course post the renovation. For further information please click https://www.delhigolfclub.org/
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Kapil Dev | Champions For a Cause | Charity Golf Match | July 11, 2020
Murali Kartik | Champions For a Cause | Charity Golf Match | July 11, 2020
Gaganjeet Bhullar | Champions For a Cause | Charity Golf Match | July 11, 2020
Shubhankar Sharma | Champions For a Cause | Charity Golf Match | July 11, 2020
Jayaram Easwaran | Champions For a Cause | Charity Golf Match | July 11, 2020
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If for any reason such as government lockdown policy, law and order issues or other movement restrictions, the “Champions for a Cause” event cannot be staged on the scheduled date, then all efforts will be made to stage the event in the manner planned or as similarly as possible on the next possible date. If however, the restrictive situation persists, and the event cannot take place in a reasonable period of time, then the event may not be staged at all. However, Magic Bus will continue with its relief work as committed and hence no donations will be refunded.