J’can golfer blooms at Desert Dunes Classic
JAMAICAN golfer Johnny Bloomfield shot 12 under par to finish eighth in the Canadian Professional Tour’s season-ending Desert Dunes Classic held last week in Desert Hot Springs, California.
In very windy conditions, Bloomfield, who was under par on all four days of the event, shot a final round 68, the second best score of the day, to make a steady move up the leader board.
Also tied at 12 under par was the tour’s 2010 record-setting Order of Merit winner, American Aaron Goldberg.
Bloomfield’s performance guarantees him full status for the 2011 season on the Canadian Tour, the best tour in North America behind the Nationwide and PGA Tours.
The entire 2010 season was broadcast to millions of viewers via the Golf Channel and that will be the case in 2011. At the Canadian Tour Riviera Nayarit Classic, held in Mexico earlier in the season, Bloomfield’s sixth place finish merited him substantial air time on the Golf Channel and he received the same while competing in this year’s PGA Puerto Rico Open.
Bloomfield, the three time consecutive winner of the island’s premier professional golfing event of the year, the Jamaica Open, will be returning to Jamaica shortly in an attempt to win the event for the fourth consecutive time.