Golf is a popular sport in the world sporting scene. The game needs excellent skill combined with concentration from the individual player to reach greater heights in this game. Our city’s 28-year-old Sonam Chugh, a product of the JWGC, has done everyone proud with her achievements in playing the game of golf as well as being an official of repute. Sonam recently represented India in the 22nd World Corporate Golf Challenge at the Oitavos Dunes Golf Course in Cascais, Portugal, on July 5 and teamed up with Shashidhar Reddy to win the top honours. Sonam and Shashidhar Reddy saw off 31 other teams to win the 22nd World Corporate Golf Challenge Trophy.
Sonam also is a qualified International Certified Rules official and is the youngest and the first women referee to achieve this feat in the country. She is our ‘Star This week.’ Sonam Chugh is a product of the JWGC, Mysuru. In a World Corporate Tournament that was played in the Stableford format on a par-71 course, Sonam Chugh (handicap 3) scored a total of 66 points over two days (34, 32) while Reddy (handicap 5) collected 62 points (33, 29). The two, representing Ramesh Swiss Watch, posted a total of 128 to claim a seven-point victory.
This was the second time when corporate Indian team won the prestigious World Finals title after Credit Suisse in 2008. There were other teams like Jet Airways (2014), Close-up, HUL (2011) and Swiss Military (2010) who came close and finished 2nd.
Sonam Chugh and Reddy reached the World Finals after edging out 13 corporate teams in the National Finals of the Take Solutions Corporate Golf Challenge held at Glenmarie Golf & Country Club, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in April this year.
All 26 golfers who made it to the National Finals were winners from three regional qualifiers held in Delhi & NCR, Mumbai & Pune and Bengaluru.
Sonam Chugh is a Post Graduate Diploma holder in Marketing Management & a Masters in Science Communication. She is the daughter of V. Prakash and Leena Prakash of Mysuru.
She has also published a book “Networking & Golf – A research paper to validate the question – ‘Is Networking through golf’ A Myth or Reality? And the same has been published by LAP LAMBERT in April 2012 and is available for sale in Amazon. Sonam finished among the top two referees in the Grade ‘A’ level in the Referee Exams held in 2015 and was sent to St. Andrews in Scotland in February 2015, where she completed her certification and became an International Certified Rules Official.
Sonam is the first International certified Rules Official among women in Karnataka and along with city’s Paramjith Singh (Level A-International certified rules official) has achieved this status. City’s Dr. Karumbiah (Level ‘A’) and Drishti Karumbiah (Level ‘B’), all from JWGC, are the other certified Rules Officials, who have qualified as National Rules referees.
Sonam intends to work hard in the days to come and officiate in as many tournaments as she can in the National and International circuit and improve on her knowledge in the game of golf.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / Sunday – July 19th, 2015