Sanga asked for Nuwara Eliya Golf Course for 20 yrs to bring in 1mn golfers: SB

Former MP S.B.Dissanayake said former cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara has asked for the Nuwara Eliya Golf Course for 20 years to bring in one million golfers across the world to Sri Lanka annually.

Speaking at a news briefing yesterday, the MP said Nuwara Eliya Golf Course is the biggest golf course in the country with 300 acres.

“Once I was given Nuwara Eliya as an electorate, Sangakkara met me and proposed a project. In the proposal, Sangakkara requests to give him the Golf Course for about 20 years and that he will bring in one million golf players to Sri Lanka per year. He logically says 1 million can be brought in. I also understood that this is possible. If we can bring in at least 200,000 to 300,000 golfers, we can generate foreign revenue,” he said.