Ashish Goel emerges champ at the Allcargo Global Invitational Masters 2011

Company Brief

Mumbai, March 15, 2011

Leaving behind their hectic schedules and boardroom meetings, about 100 top decision makers from the business capital of India - Mumbai showed their golfing skills in the second-edition of Allcargo Invitational Golf Masters at the exotic Oxford Golf & Country Club in Pune. Apart from being the fastest growing game in the country, golf has also become a favorite sport of the CEOs. Allcargo, the leading global logistics company is the latest entrant in the growing list of sponsors, which has helped the game grow both at the amateur and professional level.

Some of the top names participating include Sujan Hajra(Shipping Corporation of India), Dinesh Kumar Lal(Maersk), Kent Lew(WanHai), RS Krishnan (BNP Paribas), J.R.Lee(KMTC) Richard Hew(OOCL), Harish Tawani(Nimbus Sports), & Kunal Dasgupta(Sony) amongst others. Mr. Ashish Goel emerge overall winner finished with 71 points while Edward Eng was close runner-up with 72 points. As many as 96 top corporate heads vied for honours. Allcargo Global Logistics, who was recently awarded as the "Company of the year in Logistics Category" at prestigious Maritime and Logistics Award-2010, played as wonderful hosts and joined a bandwagon of corporate sponsors in India for the first time. Winers in the individual category were Richard Hew, J. S. Gill, Sanjeev Vaz and Avinash.

The one-day corporate extravaganza had been played on a unique format - the Callaway System of handicapping where a player's handicap is based on the performance of the player for 18 holes. Players will compete in two handicap categories (0-18 and 19 & above). Apart from the individual prizes, some interesting spot prizes like longest drive and closest to pin were also held.

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The Oxford Golf and Country Club which has been conferred the "Third-best new golf course in Asia" award in an announcement made by Asian Golf Monthly, is one of the best golf courses in the country and provides a thrilling challenge via its 7020-yard facility which boasts of several white sand bunkers and water bodies.

The event is sponsored & supported by All Cargo Global Logistics Ltd while it is being managed by the leading sports event management company Tiger Sports Marketing. A round of pure bliss on a challenging golf course and followed by some mouth-watering cuisine the golfers could not ask for more.

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