Hyderabad: Ananth Sridhar triumphed in the 0-6 handicap category and will lead the VotaryTech Hyderabad Golf Association team that will participate in the Southern region zonal finals of the Toyota IGU Naional Club Challenge.

Sridhar carded a score of 32 points to emerge as winner while the winners in other categories were Nippy Dhillon (40 points) in 7-10 H’cap category, GV Ramana (38 points) in 11-15 H’cap category, Swranjit Sen (40 points) in 16-20 H’cap category and Vivek Gudenah (37 points) in 21-24 h’cap category.

Anant Sridhar, winner of 0-6 H’cap category, said, “Eagleton is very good and challenging course. I am very excited to represent Hyderabad there and look forward to play my best golf in the upcoming stages of the Toyota National Club Challenge”

The individual winner in each of the five handicap category along with Vikramdev Rao, President of Hyderabad Golf Association, who has been nominated by the club, will represent the club team at South Zone Finals at Eagleton Golf Resort on January 18, 2014.

At the 18 hole Zonal finals, the best five 18 hole total stableford scores of the six players will make the team score and the top two teams from each of four Zonal Finals will qualify for the 3rd stage – the National Finals.

The Zonal qualifiers, Zonal Finals and National Finals will be played in individual Stableford off 3/4thhandicap allowance.

As one of the largest national championships by Indian Golf Union, the inaugural edition of the Toyota IGU National Club Challenge is involving around 5000 golfers from 25 key clubs across the country.