Jamaica has as soon as once more asserted its dominance in Caribbean golf, clinching the Ambrose Gouthro Trophy for the fifth consecutive yr on the Caribbean Golf Affiliation’s 4-Ball Championship.
The match, hosted this yr at Trinidad and Tobago’s Plantain Golf and Country Club, noticed Jamaica emerge victorious with a commanding 73 factors, nicely forward of runner-up Trinidad and Tobago, which scored 56 factors. This newest triumph continues Jamaica’s profitable streak, which started in 2020 after they first captured the coveted cup.
Jamaica fielded the biggest workforce within the match, with 20 golfers, surpassing the host nation’s 16. Competing throughout six classes, Jamaica claimed victory in 4, took second place in one other, and completed fifth within the remaining class, solidifying their standing over different groups from Bermuda, Bahamas, Barbados, and the Cayman Islands. Among the many males’s groups, Jamaica achieved three first-place finishes and one fifth place, whereas the ladies’s groups claimed one high end and a detailed second.
Spectacular efficiency
Within the senior males’s competitors for the Francis Steele & Perkins Cup, Dr. Mark Newnham and Owen Samuda delivered a powerful efficiency, ending at seven below par over three rounds, outperforming Bermuda’s one below par. Radcliff Knibbs and Keith Stein additionally impressed, taking residence the Higgs & Higgs Trophy with a shocking 11 below par rating, highlighted by two four-under-par rounds. Jamaica’s B workforce, consisting of Metry Seaga and Mike Glieckman, adopted with a four-under-par end, securing second place.
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The Masters class noticed Jamaica’s Dorrel Allen and Victor Hudson sharing the Ashraph Ali Trophy with the Bahamas, each groups ending with a mixed rating of 220. Nevertheless, the mid-amateur males’s Ramon Baez Romano Trophy went to Bermuda, with Jamaica putting fifth after a troublesome competitors.
The ladies’s workforce additionally introduced residence a trophy: the duo of Michelle McCreath and Maggie Lyn secured the Dessie Henry Trophy within the 45 and over class, ending 12 strokes forward of Trinidad and Tobago. Within the girls 25 and over class for the Maria Nunes Trophy, Jamaica’s Jodi Munn-Barrow and Lisa Gardner took second place, simply two strokes behind Trinidad and Tobago.
Reflecting on the workforce’s efficiency, Jamaica Golf Affiliation President Jodi Munn-Barrow expressed her satisfaction in Jamaica’s continued success. “The workforce went on the market and performed arduous regardless of powerful, windy circumstances. We caught to our recreation plan, and I’m extremely happy with every member. It’s a implausible feeling to maintain the Ambrose Gouthro Trophy in Jamaica for a fifth straight yr,” Munn-Barrow shared.
