Super tourney charts exciting course for golf
The merger of the Caribbean Classic and the Mid-Amateur, Senior and Super-Senior Division golf tournaments will be a new hole-in-one Caribbean Classic Championships to be played April 20-24.
The new event will be played at four venues – the Cinnamon Hill, Tryall, Half Moon and White Witch golf courses and will be contested by nine countries.
Host Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, The Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos, US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
The 2016 staging of the event will see golfers in the “Championships Competition” playing for the following trophies: Ramon Baez Romano trophy; The Francis and Steele Perkins Cup; The Higgs and Higgs Trophy; Dessie Henry Trophy and the Maria Nunes trophy.
While those in the “Classic Competition” will vie for the George Noon Cup; Robert Grell Trophy; Jodi Munn Barrow Trophy and the Dessie Henry Trophy.
Each event has separate rules and conditions of competition, but all share the standards and protocols mandated by the Caribbean Golf Association.
Peter Chin, president of the Jamaica Golf Association (JGA), said he was extremely proud that Jamaica was hosting the new double event.
“We are determined to make this a most memorable occasion at four of the finest gold courses in the Caribbean. It’s time we make golfers want to come to Jamaica,” said Chin.
Carlene Edwards, Jamaica National Building Society’s promotions and events manager, said she hopes the event becomes the premier golfing tournament in the Caribbean.
“We are particularly excited about the opportunities that these events will provide both locally and internationally for Jamaica,” said Edwards.
Meanwhile, Mark Lawrie, director Latin America of the Royal and Ancient (R&A) Golf Club in Scotland – one of the oldest in the world – was on hand and gave his blessings.
“Jamaica has wonderful athletes so there is no reason why you cant produce wonderful golfers,” said Lawrie.
Lawrie mentioned making the sport that is deemed elite more accessible, thus allowing more youngsters the opportunity of getting involved.
spoke about widening the sport that is deemed elite and allowing more youngsters the opportunity of getting involved.
– Howard Walker
