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162: GOLF AT OLYMPICS

 

Pic Courtesy:  Financial Times

Golf featured in the Summer Olympic Games in 1900 at Paris and 1904 at St. Louis.

 

Thereafter it was it was reinstated in 2016 Summer Olympics.

 

Qualification for the Olympics is based primarily upon the Official World Golf Ranking (men) and Women’s World Golf Rankings.

 

Total of 60 players compete for the medal.

 

Top 15 of each gender automatically qualify (with a limit of four per country), and then the highest ranked players from countries that had not yet already qualified (Max two players) are added.

 

Stroke play is used at the Games, with athletes playing four rounds of 18 holes (72 Holes) over four days.

USA is the leader in the medal tally of so far conducted tournaments with 12 medals followed by Great Britain with 3 medals.

TOKYO OLYMPICS

Pic Courtesy: Wikipedia

Olympic Golf venue

 

Kasumigaseki Country Club in the verdant Musashino Hills.

 

Japan has nearly 2000 golf courses.

 

Kasumigaseki is the venue for Tokyo 2020 Men’s & Women’s golf competitions.

 

It is one of the oldest and most prestigious historic courses.

 

It was founded in 1929, and has hosted many events world, Asian and Japanese tournaments.

 

It is a 7466 yard par-71 course.

 

 

Results (Men Tournament)

 

Gold Medal: The Men’s Olympic golf event gold was won by American Xander Schauffele. He won by one stroke with an 18 under par performance.

 

Silver medal: Won by Rory Sabbatini playing for Slovakia. He performed 17 under par.

 

 Bronze: Won by Pan Cheng-tsung of Chinese Taipei finishing 15 under power. Pan technically finished T3 with six other golfers but beat them all on the fourth playoff hole for the bronze medal.

 

Other T3 Players:

Hideki Matsuyama (JPN)
Collin Morikawa (USA)
Mito Pereira (CHI)
Sebastian Munoz (COL)
Rory McIlroy (IRL)
Paul Casey (GBR)

 

Indian Representation

 

The Indian men’s team was represented by 34-year-old Anirban Lahiri and 30-year-old Udayan Mane. Lahiri finished tied-42nd with score of 5-under par and Mane finished 56th with 3-over par.

Pic Courtesy: Wikipedia

The Women’s team of India is being represented by, Aditi Ashok age 23 and Diksha Dagar, age 20. Their competition is from 04 to 07 August.

Best of luck to the Indian Women’s team.

In your opinion how will the women’s team perform?

 

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152: My Tryst with HT-2 Aircraft: The Day God Flew With Me

 My previous story titled “The day I flew my dad’s Car” started with the sentence “It was the year of the lord……..” Well this one is also form the same year of the lord. It seems that 1979 was a very eventful year. It was eventful indeed, as this was the year when I started flying (or rather started learning how to fly), this was the year I earned my Wings and also got commissioned in the Indian Air Force. These events changed my life, making the next forty years most enjoyable ones.

 

 

This story is about my tryst with the HT-2 aircraft (I always lovingly called it Dalda Tin aircraft). Well that was the first impression one got on seeing it. But looks can be deceptive and in this case it was true. HT – 2 (Hindustan Trainer – 2) was one lean mean flying machine. This machine had deflated the ego of many an ace pilots by rubbing their nose into the dirt or by giving them a swinging  time (literally). HT-2 was a very simple machine with mechanical controls but a complex one to control. The machine seemed to have a mind of its own and reminded one of bronc riding rodeo. It is said that if one can drive on Indian roads, he or she can drive anywhere in the world. Similar thing can be said about HT-2, if you can fly the HT-2, you can fly any aircraft in the world.

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148: Interview on PLAAF and Defence Matters

Interview with Lt Gen Gurmit Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM (Retired) was essentially on defence issues, mainly related to China. The interview was published on 01 Jul 21, coincidently,  on the day of 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.

Besides china other issues were discussed

(For selective viewing please click on the links below)

  1. 00:00 – 09:30: PLAAF, background, modernisation, capability building, restructuring, “no contact warfare” philosophy and grey zone warfare etc.
  2. 09:30 – 14:30: Chinese indigenous ac industry, claimed capability, SWOT analysis and drone industry etc.
  3. 14:30 – 20:30: IAF capability enhancement with induction of Rafale, chinook and apache aircraft, balance between quantity and quality, Atmanirbharta  etc.
  4. 20:30 – 24:25 : Aspects related to Quality of manpower, tactics and training.
  5. 24:25 – 29:50 : Pakistan Air Force and Pak-China collusivity.
  6. 29:50 – 35:30 : Doklam, balakot, Galwan, jointness, Role of IAF in Galwan etc.
  7. 35:30 – 40:15 : Defence forces – serving with passion and benefits.
  8. 40:15 – 46:45 : Views on jointness and theatrisation.
  9. 46:45 – 52:00 : Puzzle and Sudoku solving.

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