The country’s top golfers enthusiastically turned up in great numbers on Sunday at the Lusignan Golf Course for the annual Courts Open Golf Tournament. The locals have an eye on next weekend’s Guyana Open and used this 18-hole competition as vital warm up. However, it was old-timer, Peyton George who shrugged off ‘golf-rust’ to beat out the competitive field.
Courts Open winners pose with their silverware. From left: Avinash Persaud, Laksmana Ramroop, Peyton George, Rabindranath Persaud, Maurice Solomon, Brij Bissessar and President Oncar Ramroop
The early morning competition proved to be in favour of the veteran George, who exceeded all expectations. According to George “I have not won a tournament since the Guyana Open of 2013, when I won the Best Net in my category. With a 2-year absence from the game my performance dropped, and in fact I have not so far been able to use my Driver with the proficiency I had before, so I ended up playing superbly with my 3-Wood instead of my Driver for this competition. In addition it was just my day. All my play was good.”
At the end of Sunday’s tournament played on the open Medal Play system, winners in the Best Net category were:- 1st – Peyton George (62/25); 2nd – Maurice Solomon (65/25); 3rd – (teenager) Laksmana Ramroop (68/24) (playing from the Ladies Tee-boxes); and 4th – Rabindranath Persaud (70/22). Best Gross (72) was won by Avinash Persaud, and Nearest to The Pin (7’) was won by Brij Bissessar. Other golfers whose net play proved noteworthy included Avinash Persaud (70/2) and Aleem Hussain (70/16) – who tied with R. Persaud for 4th but lost to him on the ‘back-9 countback’; Jaipaul Suknanan (71/8); Patrick Prashad (71/9); Mike Gayadin (71/12); and Patanjalee Persaud (71/17). Another spectacular event of the day was a “Hole-in-One” played superbly by Troy Cadogan on Hole 8.
This tournament was shifted from Saturday to Sunday due to Diwali holiday activities in Guyana.
The golfers will now turn their attention to the Guyana Open international invitational tournament scheduled for this weekend November 4, 5 and 6 also at Lusignan.
