WRLDSPAN
Players Wining Both The U.S. Girls’ Junior &
The U.S. Women’s Open Championships
GENERAL AZIZ AHMED DESIGNATED NEW ARMY CHIEF OF BANGLADESH
ARIYA JUTANUGARN
WINS US WOMEN’S OPEN
L
ieutenant General Aziz Ahmed
has been recently appointed as
the new Bangladesh Army Chief
for tenure of three years. His term
will officially start on 26th June 2018.
Lieutenant General Ahmed is currently
serving as the Quartermaster General
of the Bangladesh Army.
The son of Wadud Ahmed, a former
Bangladesh Air Force official raised
in Chandpur, Ahmed passed his
SSC exams from Mohammadpur
Government High School and went
to Notre Dame College to receive a
Diploma in Textile Technology in 1980.
He is a graduate of Defense Services
Command and Staff College, Mirpur.
Ahmed possesses extreme diligence
and poise and has had an exceptional
career that rightfully led him to his
current designation.
In his career as a military man,
he’s served in Chittagong Hill Tracts
GSO-3 (Operations) and as a Brigade
major for the infantry brigade, a
Grade-2 official of the Army Training
Directorate and a Grade-1 staff officer
of the Army Directorate of Pay and
Allowance.
Ahmed has also had diverse
experiences as a commander in the
army and has commanded one Artillery
Regiment, one BDR (Bangladesh Rifles)
Battalion, two Artillery Brigades
including an Independent Air Defense
Artillery Brigade.
A
riya Jutanugarn wins
The United States
Women’s Open Golf
Championship, which is
one of the thirteen national
championships conducted by
United States Golf Association
(USGA) and is the oldest of five
other major championships
of the Ladies Professional
Golf Association (LPGA). The
Championship came into being
72 years ago in 1946. The
Tournament is usually held in
early July and is the third major
of the LPGA season. The winner
of the event bags a large sum
of money which is considered
the highest purse in women’s
golf. In 2017, the amount was
$5 Million.
Ariya is the first player
from Thailand to win the
championship. Her win came
after she parred the fourth
extra hole after earlier finishing
regulation at 11-under-par
- She suffered a back nine
collapse before beating her
South Korean opponent, Kim
Hyo-joo in the playoff at the U.S
women’s open.
Through this win, she has
joined Annika Sorenstam,
Karrie Webb, Se Ri Pak and
Inbee Park as the only players
to win both the US women’s
Open and the British Open,
which she won in 2016. Some
considered the tournament to
be the most difficult day of her
career, but she walked away
bagging the trophy and the cash
prize worth $900,000.
Since 2018, the U.S Women’s
Open is being held prior to
the Men’s tournament in order
to provide optimum playing
conditions to the world’s best
players across the various and
finest golf courses that the U.S
has to offer.
JUNE-JULY 2018 | ASIA ONE | 15
Amy Alcott
(1980 Open: 1973 Junior)
JoAnne Gunderson
Carner
(1971, 1976 Open: 1956 Junior)
Ariya Jutanugarn
(2018 Open: 2011 Junior)
Inbee Park
(2008, 2013 Open: 2002 Junior)
Hollis Stacy
(1977, 1978, 1984 Open: 1969,
1970, 1971 Junior)
Mickey Wright
(1958, 1959, 1961, 1964 Open:
1952 Junior)