Thongchai pitches in for tsunami relief

Asian Tour number one Thongchai Jaidee helped raise approximately US$40,000 in a charity auction on Wednesday night for tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia.

The Thai star was auctioned off for a round of golf during the Enjoy Jakarta Standard Chartered Indonesia Open Pro-Am cocktail. Amongst other items that were sold to raise funds included memorabilias of Europe's Ryder Cup triumph last year and a putter donated by Thongchai.

Scotsman Colin Montgomerie, one of the star names here this week, donated a three wood which was also snapped up by bidders while the European Tour contributed US$100,000 to the relief fund.

The Asian Tour had earlier raised S$65,000 through a charity Pro-Am in Singapore in January for the Red Cross.

The US$1 million Standard Chartered Indonesia Open is jointly sanctioned by the Asian Tour and European Tour and is being played at the par 70 Cengkareng Golf Club on the outskirts of Jakarta.

Montgomerie and McGinley presented the cheque to Deputy Senior Governor of the Bank of Indonesia, Miranda Gultom. The Bank of Indonesia is co-ordinating aid donations for Indonesia's relief effort, including those from Standard Chartered Bank and will be channelling the funds to the Indonesia Red Cross to further assist the Aid Appeal.

The tsunami tragedy took the lives of left tens of thousands across Asia and left many more homeless following an earthquake that sparked the killer waves on December 26, 2004.

March 24, 2005

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