CHANDIGARH: Twenty year old Amandeep Johl of Chandigarh has been selected to an Indian Golf Union team to represent India at the 29th Pakistan Amateur Golf Championship and International Team Match ‘The two events will be played concurrently at the Rawalpindi Golf Club.
The other Indians in the team, besides Amandeep, are Ganesh Khaitan (non playing captain and manager) Uttam Singh Mundy, Gaurav Ghei and Daniel Chopra
It will be Amandeep’s first international event in 1989. Last year he had represented India in the World Amateur Golf Team Championships at Stockholm the British Amateur Golf Championship at Porthcawl (South Wales) the French International Championship at Chantilly and the 10th Asian Junior Golf Championship at Manila in the Philippine.
Besides carrying the Indian colors abroad, the sixth semester Punjab Engineering College lad had a brilliant run of success ‘on the 1988 home circuit as well, He won the amateur events in the second Chandigarh Open Golf Championship and the West India Wills Open Golf Championship at Bombay. He was runner-up at the DCM Open Golf Championship at Delhi,
Earlier, in 1987, he was champion in the Bangalore Golf Club Open and the Northern India Amateur Golf Championship second in the Bombay Presidency Golf Club Open and East India Wills Open and third in the Indian Open Golf Championship.
With a string of such illustrious titles behind him one can expect Amandeep pose a stiff challenge to the Pakistani players
Article extracted from this publication >> April 7, 1989
