Wine Cellar & Massy Distribution’s inaugural Classic…
Starting with the early tee-off programme at 10hrs, Pope Emmanuel London took control of the Lusignan Golf Course to offer an overall Best Net score of 63, a mark none following was able to come close enough to in the refreshing Wine Cellar & Massy Distribution’s inaugural Golf Classic on Saturday, June 22, 2019.
The celebration of premium wines, cheeses, and fine dining to complement the championship golf tournament at the LGC – with prizes of premium wines for the winners — proved to be a welcome change to the normal program of championship golf and meals, with trophy prizes.
From left: (Club PRO) Guy Griffith, standing in for Pope Emmanuel London; Ian Gouveia, Lekhnarine Shivraj; Anand Persaud, standing in for Rabindranath Persaud; Maxim Mangra, Marcia Nadir-Sharma, M. Ganpat, Ms Ashley – a staff of Wine Cellar, (Club President) Aleem Hussain, Dr Joaan Deo (representing Captain Chatterpaul Deo and holding gift for Patrick Prashad), Richard Haniff and Aasrodeen Shaw
CEO of Wine Cellar, Marcia Nadir-Sharma, who was on hand early to inform guests and players about the types of wines on offer and how they blend with the cheeses, was delighted at the support received from golfers and guests, and was extremely grateful that Wine Cellar and Massy Distribution had had opportunity to be sponsors of the tournament.
She disclosed that Wine Cellar is committed to the development of sports in Guyana, and said there could very possibly be involvement of the company in future tournaments. Wine Cellar, located at MovieTown, Turkeyen, ECD may be contacted at [email protected], 592-624-8964 or on its facebook page or on Instagram.
Mr Lekhnarine Shivraj, a Director of Massy Distribution and a member of the LGC, was on hand to represent Massy Distribution.
In the low handicap (0-10) category, Club President Aleem Hussain trailed 3 strokes behind champion Richard Haniff, who said “I just meant to enjoy myself in this tournament, and the company of Anand, Shanella and Eureka greatly encouraged me to maintain a good performance, even exceeding my initial expectations!”
Richard offered the Best Gross score of 75 in the tournament. Winners were Richard (66/9) – 1st, and Aleem (69/9) – 2nd. Other notable performances were offered by Patrick Prashad (74/9) and reigning Guyana Open Champion, Avinash Persaud (80/2).
In the middle range (11-19) flight, winners were: Club Secretary Rabindranath ‘Pandit Ravi’ Persaud (67/18) – 1st, and Club Treasurer Aasrodeen Shaw (68/15) – 2nd. As always, because of the large number of golfers in this category, there were quite a few notable performances: Mike Gayadin (71/14); Bridgelall Harry (72/16); Joaan Deo (74/14); Shanella Webster-London (74/15); Mahindranauth Tewari (75/14); Satrohan Tiwari (76/15); Haresh Tewari (76/18); Ian Gouveia (77/15); Lekhnarine Shivraj (77/16); and an amazing improvement from Eureka Giddings, (77/28).
In the high handicap range (20-28), Pope Emmanuel London (63/24) set a fantastic 1st place score which was the tournament’s best net performance for the day; while a much improved Maxim Mangra offered 66/24 to be placed 2nd. Other performances worthy of note in this Flight were Brian Hackett (70/21); and Guillermo Escarraga (77/21).
Specialty prize of Longest Drive was won by Ian Gouveia, while Nearest The Pin (8’) was won by Patrick Prashad.
