Time To Tee Off

HIGHLY ANTICIPATED 14TH ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT COMING UP SOON. Like in the last several years,
the Sports Committee plans to continue with the motto of spreading goodwill and fellowship through sports.

What started off as a challenge on the greens of the US Club in south Bombay on January 12th, 2008, has flourished and blossomed into a full-blown tree which is now known as the Annual Golf Tournament of the Rotary Club of Bombay.
It attracts all the talents in the Club and has also led to quiet inquiries about participation from non-members.

Though the first event had attracted a modest 17 players, by the time the sixth edition was played in January 2013,
their number had doubled to 32, of varying age groups from 10-70. This event has become one of the flagship events in our Rotary calendar and participants and members of the club look forward to this tournament every year. We are pleased to inform you that this will be the fourteenth year, since the tournament started in 2008.

And all thanks to Rtn. Moy Biswas, the de facto chief of all sporting activities of the Rotary Club of Bombay who has gone to great lengths to make the event such a resounding success. Working quietly behind the scenes, the family, the office staff of Moy and fellow committee members have played a significant role in the growth of this tournament.

In the year 2010, the Biswas family instituted a golf trophy specially designed by Moy Biswas and made in Singapore, which is a rotating trophy awarded to the winner of this annual tournament. The trophy has been fondly rechristened by our rotary club as the Rotary Club of Bombay Mrudula Biswas Golf Trophy in the honour and loving memory of Moy’s wife Mrudula, who was one of the most charming and vibrant women to have graced our Rotary club. We can still feel her warmth and love around us.

The preparatory work started 12 months in advance on the fourteenth edition of this contest, which is scheduled to be held on the greens of the Willingdon Sports Club on Saturday, January 14th, 2023. President Vineet Bhatnagar
will begin this tournament by a ceremonial tee off at 8.55 am. The post-tournament prize distribution ceremony including a fellowship attracts even more members, most of them being non-golfers, and outnumbering the participants and including several past and future Presidents.

This year the award ceremony and fellowship are being sponsored by the Biswas family. It will be held at the popular ‘Cabbage Patch’ of Willingdon Sports Club from 1.30 pm onwards when President Vineet Bhatnagar and other past Presidents will present awards to the winners and special mementoes to all participants. Your family members are welcome to join the ceremony especially for the fellowship.

Who wins the tournament in 2023 remains to be seen, but already there is a buzz about the event and avid golfers are looking forward to the morning of Saturday, January 14th, 2023. Those interested in taking part in the tournament are requested to get in touch with Moy Biswas, (Mobile no 9820051887 and Email id moybiswas@gmail.com).