Ravibir Singh Grewal was elected unopposed as the new president of Chandigarh Golf Club (CGC) on Sunday. The new head of the golf club said that he will take over from Monday and his entire focus will be on hosting golf tournaments.
On Sunday, the CGC general house formally ratified the unanimous election of Ravibir Singh Grewal and 11-member governing council for its one-year tenure. The executive members are GS Kochhar, Arvind Bajaj, Karanvir Singh, Amarbir Singh, Rajinder Singh Virk, Jaspreet Singh Batth, Gurpreet Singh Bakshi, Zorawar Singh, Sanjeev Verma, Brigadier Balwinder Singh and Colonel SS Gill.
The annual elections of CGC, due in April last year, couldn’t be held due to Covid-19. Hence, the term of incumbent executive committee led by president Bobby Sandhu got extended till January this year.
This is Grewal’ s second term as the head of the region’s premier golf centre as he had served as the acting president in 2016-17 after the demise of the then incumbent president, IPS Mann. An avid golfer and an alumnus of Doon School, he is the grandson of former Punjab chief minister Justice Gurnam Singh.
CGC was the only club in the country to host two professional prize money tournaments in the 2020 season: ₹40-lakh TATA Steel PGTI Players Championships and ₹1.5-crore Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational Tournament — of the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI).
“Organising big-ticket professional tournaments has always been our priority. We will definitely look forward to achieving the milestone of hosting the Asian tour in Chandigarh,” said Ravibir Singh Grewal. The minimum prize money required for the Asian tour event is $300,000 (₹2.2 crore) and in addition to that, the host has to pitch in another $150,000 ( ₹1.1 crore) for meeting other expenses.
