The TAKE Solutions World Corporate Golf Challenge – India,  Western Zone qualifier kicked off on Saturday-Sunday, February 28th & 1st March at Aamby Valley Golf Resort with 40 corporate four member teams competing for four spots at the Semi Final to be held on Fbriday, 6th March at the Aamby Valley Golf Resort, these four semi finalist teams will be joined by 2 other teams who have won themselves a direct entering into the semi final by winning other events organized by Rishi Narain Golf Management during August – December 2008 in Mumbai.

The Spica Elastic team represented by Manish Jaitha, Manisha Jaitha, Murad Palamkote and Farookh Mody took top honours as the team total of the best three scores was 106 points. They narrowly edged out Credit Suisse - 1 comprising off Puneet Matta, Shivas Nath, Nohar Nath and Rishi Bali who scored 104 points.

The TAKE Solutions World Corporate Golf Challenge is the official qualifying tournament for the World Championship of Corporate Golf, now in its 13th year which bring together corporate teams from 30 different countries who win their national qualifying tournaments.

In India there are three qualifiers, South (23 - 25th Jan, Eagleton Golf Resort, Bangalore), North (6 - 8th Feb, Jaypee Greens Golf Resort) and West (28 Feb - 1st Mar, Aamby Valley, Lonovala). The top two teams from each regional meet in a National Final at Aamby Valley on March 7th  and the World Final is to be played at La Manga, Spain June 29th - 3rd July 2009.

Among the participating teams were Parle Products led by Vijay Chauhan - CMD, Goldman Sachs led by Vijay Karnani - MD, BNP Paribas led by Gautam Bhandari - MD, DBS Bank led by Sanjiv Bhasin - GM & CEO, BPCL led by A.K. Bansal - Executive Director, Camlin India led by Dilip Dandekar - CMD, Credit Suisse led by Puneet Matta - Country Head, ABC Bearings led by Pradip Patel - MD, AAVA led by Behram Mehta - President, Citibank led by Anuratna Chadha - MD, Spica led by Mainsh Jaitha - MD, Bajaj Electricals led by R. Ramakrishnan - Executive Director, Siemens Public Comm led by Pramod Bhambani - Executive VP, Oxford Golf & country club led by Anil Seolekar - MD, Gera Developments led by Kumar Gera - MD, Kotak Mahindra Bank led by Vikram Sud - Group COO, UTI led by Jaideep Bhattacharya - CMO, TCS Ltd led by Saibal Roy Choudhury and Fortune Hotels, Air India, TAKE Solutions, Toyota, NDTV and many more.

Also seen in action were Ajay Anand (Chairman, Faze Three Ltd.),Mr. Srinivasan HR. (Vice Chairman, TAKE Solutions), Prabal Banerji (CFO, Hinduja Group), Nainesh Jaisingh (MD, Standard Chartered Bank Pvt. Ltd.), Pankaj Kalra (MD, Credit Suisse), Narendra Ambwani (MD, Johnson & Johnson), K. Balakrishnan (MD&CEO, Lazard India PVt. Ltd.), Ajith Sundaresh (MD, JP Morgan Services) and other prominent corporate personalities.

This multi city corporate event is the only corporate golfing event in the country which gives Indian corporate teams a unique opportunity to represent their country in the annual World Golf Championship of corporate teams. In 2008, the Indian Team from Credit Suisse became the first and only Indian team to emerge victorious at the World Finals held at the famed La Manga Club in Spain, putting India on the Corporate golf map. The corporate are not far behind than the Indian Professional golfer in making it big overseas.

WINNER:- SPICA ELASTIC PVT. LTD.
TEAM Murad Palamkote (39), Manish Jaitha (37), Farookh Mody (30) Manisha Jaitha (21)

1ST RUNNER UP:- CREDIT SUISSE - 1
Shivas Nath (36), Nohar Nath (36), Rishi Bali (30), Puneet Matta (30). They tied with Air India Team and won on the fourth players score.

2nd RUNNER UP:- AIR INDIA
Rudratej Singh (38), Jitu Shah (33), Rani Maheshwari (33), Rahul Dandekar (28)

3rd RUNNER UP:- RGDA
Rahul Diwan (33) Ashish Aggarwal (31), Riaz Batliwala (32) Yohan Peddar (29)

BEST NETT & GROSS - DAY #1
Shivas Nath (31 points) - Gross Rudratej Singh (38 points) - Nett

BEST NETT & GROSS - DAY #2
Manish Jaitha (35 points) - Gross Murad Palamkote (39 points) - Nett