Delhi. BMW India announced a partnership with
amateur golfing sensation Shiv Kapur to promote and showcase BMW Golf
in India. As the Golf Ambassador for BMW in India, Shiv will actively
promote the BMW Golf Cup International, the world’s largest
international golf series for amateurs, across the country later this
year. As part of the year-long parnership, Shiv Kapur will also be
given a BMW 6 Series sedan.
Speaking on his partnership with BMW India, Shiv Kapur said, "I
am delighted to to be associated with a brand that shares the same
values I do. To me, BMW represents understated luxury and style,
prestige, and exceptional technolgy that ultimately translates into
sheer driving pleasure. As BMW’s Ambassador for Golf, I am looking
forward to promoting the world’s leading amateur golf series, the BMW
Golf Cup International in India.
In 2008, BMW introduced the Première series of the BMW Golf Cup
International in India, an exclusive, invitation-only qualifying
tournament designed for customers, prospects and opinion leaders that
was held across five cities – Chennai, Bangalore, Pune Mumbai and
Delhi. In the World Finals held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the runner
up of the final tournament in the Men’s Category - A, was an Indian
from Mumbai, Rudratej Singh.
Highlighting BMW India’s partnership with Shiv Kapur, Mr. Peter
Kronschnabl, President, BMW India said, “The association with Shiv
marks yet another milestone in BMW’s commitment to promoting sporting
excellence. Golf, like the cars we build, epitomizes the utmost in
human talent and precision. With Shiv coming on board, we have gained
a brand ambassador who has achieved an extraordinary level of success
during his short career as a golfer, and one who is keen to partner
with us in our endeavour to develop sporting talent.”
With Shiv Kapur, one of the youngest entrants into the Indian Golf
hall of fame, BMW India has gained a partner who is able to look back
on a unique series of achievements during his sporting career. He
dominated the Indian amateur circuit, winning 12 major championships
before the age of 19 and was the first Indian ever to win the
Malaysian Amateur Open in 2000. An Asian Games gold medalist in 2002,
Shiv turned professional in 2004 after which he went on to win the
Volvo Masters of Asia tournament in 2005. The same year he was ranked
4th in the Asian Tour Order of Merit and the following year (2006), he
became the youngest Indian ever to qualify for a major championship,
the British Open. In 2008 he was ranked 5th in the Johnny Walker
Classic championship.
Shiv Kapur was born in February 1982 and completed his majored in
Business Management from Purdue University (Indiana) in the United
States. He lives in Delhi and is also a recipient of the Arjuna Award
for his contribution to excellence in sports. His current endorsements
include Hugo Boss, Audemars Piguet, Ping, Titleist and Footjoy.
The Première series of the BMW Golf Cup International in India
The Première series of the BMW Golf Cup International 2008, an
exclusive, invitation-only qualifying tournament designed for
customers, prospects and opinion leaders was held in India across five
cities – Chennai, Bangalore, Pune Mumbai and Delhi. The tournament,
organized by BMW India Dealerships in these cities, took place between
6 September and 25 October, 2008, with the national final occurring on
8 November 2008 in the National Capital Region (Gurgaon) at the DLF
Golf & Country Club. The two National Winners in each of the two
handicap categories, Rahul Sood (Category A for handicaps 0 -12) and
Rudratej Singh (Category B for handicaps 13-28) competed against 104
other amateur golfers to win the India title and with it, the
opportunity to participate in the International world finals in Buenos
Aires, Argentina on 1-6 December, 2008.
BMW Golf Cup International
BMW Golf Cup International, one of the world’s largest amateur golf
tournament series can trace its roots back a quarter of a century to a
British-based initiative that ran on its own for five years before
going international. The tournament started as the BMW Invitation
Tournament in UK. It has now developed into a global series with
1,000 qualifying tournaments involving 100,000 players in up to 50
countries. The best players from each nation qualify for the
highlight, the BMW Golf Cup International World Final.
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