The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration with its corporate sponsor, Digicel launched the 2017 season with the traditional Bounty Farm Ltd Handicap Squash Tournament on Wednesday at the at the Georgetown Club Inc.
The action begins today in two categories with the better skilled players participating in the Open Category and the lesser skilled and younger players will participate in Category A. This year more than sixty six players have signed up to participate.
Defending champion in the Open category, Jason-Ray Khalil is away at school so Nyron Joseph starts with the most difficult handicap of -22. Some of the other players in this category and their handicaps are Regan Pollard -14, Deje Dias -2, Joseph Mekdeci +4, Taylor Fernandes +4, Dennis Dias +10, Alex Cheeks +3, Daniel Islam +3, Adam Alves +7, David Fernandes +10 and Michael Atherley +10, Javid Rahaman +5 and Medhi Ramdhani +7.
In Category A defending champion Samuel Ince-Carvahal starts with a -8 handicap while other top ranked players are Mohyryan Baksh, Abosaide Cadogan, Kirsten Gomes, Madison Fernandes, Aliyah Persaud, Paige Fernandes, Demetrius De Abreu and Gianni Carpenter.
All matches are best of three and action starts each evening at 18:00h; the finals of all the categories are set for February 19 starting at 11:00h.