What is the best way to interest the public in the game of golf?
The answer: Get them engaged in a putting competition.
Personal experience tells me that a putting competition fans your golfing interest and surely makes you take up the game.
That was what happened to me when a close friend engaged me with two other buddies in a putting game at a local club.
The Tanah Merah Country Club’s “Putt-Putt” competition is a sure way to interest the newbies.
And when you have a seven-year-old among the 29 participants, you certainly “start ‘em young.”
The club hosted its third in the popular series on Feb 25 at the Garden Course‘s Main Putting Green.
The beautiful course set-up coupled with the perfect weather left a smile on everyone’s face.
Elijah Tan achieved a hole-in-one, similar to the previous putt-putt event. He did it on hole 8, considered to be one of the toughest holes in the event.
It is a two-tiered dog-leg right hole that was about 50 feet long, sloping severely downwards with a huge left-to-right break. Alvin Lim won the Adult Division with a score of 29, one better than James Tan.
In the Junior Division, Lee Seunghan and Kim Chanjoo shared first place with a 28 score.
Tied for second were three players: Ayan Uppal-Doegar, Vihaan Reddy and Elijah Tan.
The top finishers received attractive prizes.