AsiaOne – August 2018

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

277. 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.

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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)