SriLankan Airlines Golf Classic set to roll

SriLankan Airlines’ signature sporting event, the SriLankan Airlines Golf Classic, will be held from Oct. 17, at one of South Asia’s oldest golf courses, the Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC).
The event has traditionally attracted amateur golfers from all parts of the world where the tournament has turned out to be an unforgettable sporting holiday for the entire family.
The 18-hole golf course in the heart of the city, is nevertheless, quietly tucked away with a sprawling colonial club house with its old world charm, a delight to all golfers and their families.
The tournament opens with a practice day on Oct. 17 and ends Oct. 19 with a gala evening for all golfers and their families where prizes and trophies will be awarded to winners.
“The SriLankan Airlines Golf Classic is an ideal opportunity for golfers to combine their passion for the sport with an amazing holiday in a tropical paradise,” Ruwan Wijekoon, area manager for Riyadh, told Arab News yesterday.
Besides the challenge of playing one of the oldest courses in Asia, golfers who buy the attractive golfing holiday package can enjoy the vast diversity Sri Lanka has to offer during their brief stay in the island, Wijekoon said.
A golfing holiday package will include hotel accommodation (BB) in a four- or five-star hotel in Colombo, plus the opportunity to experience the thrills of the golden beaches and marine life of the Indian Ocean, the hill country which produces the famous Ceylon tea, wild elephants, leopard and bird life in the country’s abundant parks, world heritage sites and ruins of ancient kingdoms temples and shrines, the splendour gushing rivers and cascading waterfalls and the authentic, spicy, Sri Lankan cuisine, including all varieties of fresh fish from the Ocean. Traveling within the country takes an hour or less with the SriLankan Airlines’ air taxi which takes off and land only on water.