20 May, 2018
The Royal Colombo Golf Club held its 139th annual general meeting recently and elected past Captain Nimal Piyaratne as its president for the ensuing period while Avancka Herat was elected as the Captain of RCGC and his vice captain will be WAK Fernando.
The other officials elected as office bearers were Navin de Silva, Sanjeewa Wickramanayake, Saneth Gamage, Suren Madanayake and Wasantha de Silva. Established in 1879 in Colombo, the Ridgeway Links are the second oldest Royal Golf Club outside the United Kingdom and home to the Sri Lanka Golf Union, the governing body for golf in the country and continues to maintain close links with the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrew’s Nuwara Eliya