On June 5, the Ukrainian Golf Federation held the third stage of the Women’s Open Ladies Golf Tour, which included the first Ladies Professional Golf Tournament.
In golf, women of different generations come together through common ideas, interests and values. All ladies strive to be healthy, want to play golf and unite to build a strong and friendly community of Ukrainian golfers.
At the opening of the tournament, the participants were greeted by Olena Rudik, Director of the Open Ladies Golf Tour and Vice-president of the Federation.
“Today, two tournaments take place on the Kozyn field at once: among women amateurs and among women professionals. This is the first such event for Ukrainian golf. We try to show that golf is not only leisure, it is not only a sport, but for many women, it can become a part of their lives, become their profession. They can take part in the development and promotion of golf, children’s training and in other areas.
Currently, Ukraine is a leader among European countries in terms of the pace of development of women’s golf and the percentage of women in this sport. Because when so many beautiful women unite, all goals are easily achieved!” – says Olena Rudik.
The President of the Ukrainian Golf Federation Vitaliy Khomutynnik congratulated the participants of the competition at the award ceremony.
Among the women-PRO, who are members of the PGAU and coaches of the Federation, the struggle for the championship was intense. According to the results of the game round, Anna Avdieieva won, Anna Grytsenko took second place, and Marina Romanik took third place.
The regular Open Ladies Golf Tour took place, everyone enjoyed it, and the leaders of the competition won the sports awards and prizes.
According to the results of the tournament, competition A was won by Kateryna Tsvihun, competition B was won by Alina Popereshniuk.
Best Gross: Maria Fedorowycz.
In the special nominations provided by the Porsche car brand won:
Longest Drive: Olena Movchan and Alina Popereshniuk;
Closest to the pin: Maryna Diachenko, Daria Skorubska.
The Ukrainian Golf Federation is grateful to all partners for their support: Porsche car brand, Kozyn golf club, Gril Do Brasil restaurant, ZAPASHNA brand, The label store, Olimpia Ros, Premier Palace Wellness Center, sweet partner MONACO, and permanent partner CosmosGolf Ukraine.
The next stage of the competition will take place on July 24 in Edem Golf Club, Lviv.
Egypt, according to forecasts, in 2021 will be visited by about 8 million foreign tourists, of which about 1.5 million are Ukrainians, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt Ayman Ahmed Mokhtar Elgammal told Interfax-Ukraine in an exclusive interview.
“Basically, Ukrainians choose Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada, beach hotels, from where they go for a maximum one-day educational trip – to see the pyramids and the main attractions of Cairo,” he said.
According to the ambassador, other tourist products are actively offered to Ukrainians.
“We offer to visit a variety of historical attractions, four-day cruises on the Nile from Luxor to Aswan, new areas for water sports, windsurfing. In addition, in the west of the desert there are unique mineral waters and salt lakes, useful for recovery. This year, Ukrainians began to convert attention to such attractions,” the diplomat said.
Elgammal also noted the growing demand for a longer stay of Ukrainians in Egypt. “Egypt is an excellent offer for Ukrainian employees working ‘remotely’: the weather is good all year round, it is close and easy to get to. And we stimulate such tourists: we provide a 20% discount on accommodation for a long period of time, 20 days or more,” he said.
The ambassador named some of the partnership programs to attract new Ukrainian tourists. “We have already launched joint campaigns with tour operators, which run until October 2021. We also have a flight incentive program for airlines, which includes visa facilitation, 50% discount on landing fees, accommodation, and 20% discount on ground handling fees. In addition, we have reduced fuel prices by $0.15 per gallon until the end of 2021,” said Elgammal.
Egypt has moved from the importers of natural gas to the category of producers due to the discovery of deposits on the Mediterranean shelf, therefore one of the promising areas of cooperation is the export of gas to Ukraine through barter deals for grain and other products, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt Ayman Ahmed Mokhtar Elgammal has said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine. He said this will improve the trade balance – there will be no need to attract foreign currency into the transaction, and will also allow to align the import/export balance, to correct the existing bias towards Ukraine.
At the same time, Ukrainian companies are encouraged to invest in renewable energy in Egypt. However, there are no specific agreements yet, the ambassador added.
At the same time, the official stressed that the Egyptian side is interested in investing in Ukraine.
The main interest of Egyptian companies in projects of agricultural production and animal husbandry, but projects in the energy sector are not yet discussed, he said.
The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine under the leadership of ex-minister Vladyslav Krykliy has failed to implement a program of state support for Ukrainian airlines that carried out evacuation flights during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
“We prepared the logic of compensation and relevant initiatives, submitted it to the Cabinet of Ministers. Then the Ministry of Finance refused with the classic explanation – there is no money. But they promised to return as soon as possible … But this is not even direct funding, but a loyalty program for airport and air navigation services … But even so we were not allowed to realize this,” Krykliy said in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
He also noted that the issue of compensation to air carriers for 2020 is “not about reforms, but about justice.”
According to Krykliy, absolutely all countries in Europe help their air carriers, but this item was not included in the priorities of the Ukrainian government.
As reported, earlier the Ministry of Infrastructure planned to provide targeted assistance to state airports to create discount programs for airlines that participated in the evacuation of Ukrainian citizens during the first wave of the pandemic lockdown.
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of June 8
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 08/06/21
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
