Ben Mar­tin was the toast of the 2025 T&T Golf Open at the St An­drews Course in Mo­ka, Mar­aval af­ter he won the Pro­fes­sion­al Di­vi­sion for a third time.

Mar­tin first won the ti­tle in 2021, scored 71 on the fourth and fi­nal day, Sun­day (March , to end on 284. He held off an­oth­er T&T golfer Chris Richards Sr by four strokes (290).

Mar­tin, who last won the ti­tle in 2022, took the lead on the first day, Thurs­day, hit­ting 74 with Richards Sr and Ja­maican Justin Bor­rowes tied for sec­ond on 75.

Richards Sr took the lead af­ter two rounds hit­ting 69, three un­der par. Mar­tin re­turned to the top af­ter day three with an im­pres­sive 68 (four un­der par) and held on, on the fi­nal day to take the crown.

Ja­maican Wes­ley Brown copped third place with 302 ahead of his coun­try­men Bor­rowes (303), Al­ford Robin­son (316) and Orville Christie (317). Amer­i­can Nick Jones (318), an­oth­er Ja­maican Se­bert Walk­er Jr (319), USA’s Zachary Ramey (327) and Hunter Sum­my (332) fol­lowed be­hind along with T&T’s An­tho­ny Gill (336) and Nick Burk of the USA (339).

Chris Richards Jr won the Cham­pi­onship ho­n­ours (289) with three un­der par (69) ahead of Amer­i­can Niki­ta Gubenko (300) and Puer­to Ri­co’s Amalio Ve­ga (305).

Ethan Col­lier up­staged his old­er ri­vals to se­cure the First Fli­ight with 321. The 14-year-old Col­lier pulled away from the first and sec­ond-day leader Di­nesh Jack­ree (326).

An­oth­er 14-year-old Ben Laugh­lin was third (330). Col­lier is the son of the late Re­bec­ca Col­lier, a for­mer na­tion­al ju­nior golfer.

West In­dies crick­et cap­tain Dar­ren Sam­my had a strong show­ing on the last day to fin­ish fourth (344).

Nand­lal Ram­lakhan dom­i­nat­ed the Sec­ond Flight (353 to fin­ish ahead of Ja­maican Owen McPher­son 359 and Kisson Gannes (360).

Clint Al­fred (307) ral­lied to win the Se­niors Di­vi­sion ahead of Neil Lutch­mans­ingh (311) and Zeke Per­ci­val (323) of St Kitts and Nevis. Lutchamans­ingh was in front go­ing in­to the fourth day.

Some 200 golfers from 16 coun­tries par­tic­i­pat­ed in the 117th edi­tion of the T&T Golf Open. The tour­na­ment is the longest-run­ning com­pe­ti­tion in the Amer­i­c­as re­gion.

Af­ter no cham­pi­onships in 2023 and 2024, this year’s edi­tion was held in both Trinidad and To­ba­go for the first time.

Ladies al­so made their de­but with Ja­maican Jo­di Munn-Bor­row cop­ping the in­au­gur­al women’s crown.

The ladies played at the Plan­ta­tions Golf Course at the Mag­dale­na Beach and Golf Re­sort in Low­lands, To­ba­go from March 14-16.

Pro­fes­sion­al

1 Ben Mar­tin (TTO) 284 (74, 71, 68, 71)

2 Chris Richards Sr (TTO) 290 (75, 69, 73, 73)

3 Wes­ley Brown (Ja­maica) 302 (78, 77, 71, 76)

4 Justin Bur­rowes (Ja­maica) 303 (75, 81, 75, 72)

5 Al­ford Robin­son (Ja­maica) 316 (82, 81, 78, 75)

6 Orville Christe (Ja­maica) 317 (77, 81, 79, 80)

7 Nick Jones (USA) 318 (87, 77, 73, 81)

8 Se­bert Walk­er Jr (Ja­maica) 319 (83, 78, 78, 80)

9 Zachary Ramey (USA) 327 (80, 82, 77, 88)

10 Hunter Sum­my (USA) 332 (85, 79, 85, 83)

11 An­tho­ny Gill (TTO) 336 (81, 86, 87, 82)

12 Rick Burk (USA) 339 (81, 83, 83, 92)

Cham­pi­onships

1 Chris Richards Jr (TTO) 289 (73, 75, 82, 69)

2 Niki­ta Gubenko (USA) 300 (71, 73, 81, 75)

3 Amalio Ve­ga (Puer­to Ri­co) 305 (75, 76, 77, 77)

First Flight

1 Ethan Col­lier (TTO) 321(77, 71, 81, 82)

2 Di­nesh Jack­ree (TTO) 326 (75, 77, 87, 87)

3 Ben Laugh­lin (TTO) 328 (84, 82, 83, 81)

4 Dar­ren Sam­my (St. Lu­cia) 344 (96, 80, 85, 83)

5 Court­ney Ed­wards (TTO) 344 (88, 86, 86, 84)

Sec­ond Flight

1 Nand­lal Ram­lakhan (TTO) 353 (86, 88, 86, 93)

2 Owen McPher­son (Ja­maica) 359 (95, 96, 95, 83)

3 Kisson Gannes (TTO) 360 (94, 96, 84, 86)

Se­niors

1 Clint Al­fred (TTO) 307 (77, 81, 75, 74)

2 Neil Lutch­mans­ingh (TTO) 311 (75, 78, 78, 80)

3 Zeke Per­ci­val (St Kitts Nevis) 323 (80, 81, 84, 78)