Golf Festival from today

Bangalore’s ace golfers S Chikkarangappa and Khalin Joshi, who turned professional at the beginning of this year, is expected to hog the limelight as special invitees when they tee off in the 5th edition of Toyota Karnataka Golf Festival here on Thursday.

The festival at the Karnataka Golf Association will also see top amateurs like Syed Saqib Ahmed and Anisha Padukone in the field of around 450 golfers from Bangalore, Pune, Mysore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Delhi.

Cricketing legends a GR Viswanath and Erapalli Prasanna alongside former hockey international star Ashish Ballal and tennis star Rohan Bopanna will take a swing during the four-day tournament. The event will be played in the Stableford format.