Team Trinidad and To­ba­go fin­ished sec­ond in the Caribbean Golf As­so­ci­a­tion’s 4-Ball Cham­pi­onship, which start­ed last Fri­day and end­ed on Sun­day at the To­ba­go Plan­ta­tions Golf and Coun­try Club Mag­dale­na Grand Beach and Golf Re­sort, Low­lands, To­ba­go.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Ja­maica se­cured its fifth con­sec­u­tive ti­tle, lift­ing the pres­ti­gious Am­brose Gouthro Cup with an im­pres­sive 73 points, leav­ing the host coun­try, Trinidad and To­ba­go, in sec­ond place with 56 points. Bermu­da fin­ished third with 38 points, fol­lowed by the Ba­hamas (34), Bar­ba­dos (23), and the Cay­man Is­lands (9).

Ja­maica, field­ing the largest squad of twen­ty golfers, dom­i­nat­ed in four of the six tro­phy cat­e­gories and earned sec­ond place in an­oth­er. The team’s male golfers se­cured three ti­tles and a fifth-place fin­ish, while the women won one ti­tle and placed sec­ond in the oth­er.

The vet­er­an team of Dr. Mark Newn­ham and Owen Samu­da took home the Fran­cis Steele & Perkins Cup for se­nior men, fin­ish­ing at sev­en-un­der-par 209 across three rounds. They nar­row­ly de­feat­ed Bermu­da, who post­ed a one-un­der-par 215.

In the Hig­gs & Hig­gs Tro­phy cat­e­go­ry, Rad­cliff Knibbs and Kei­th Stein’s stel­lar play se­cured a vic­to­ry with a re­mark­able 11-un­der-par 205. Ja­maica’s B team of Me­try Sea­ga and Mike Gliech­man fol­lowed close­ly, tak­ing sec­ond place with a four-un­der-par 212.

Dor­rel Allen and Car­lyle Hud­son earned the Ashraph Ali Tro­phy for Mas­ters, ty­ing with the Ba­hamas at a com­bined score of 220.

The mid-am­a­teur duo of An­dre Dhan­paul and Del­roy John­son placed fifth for the Ra­mon Baez Ro­mano Tro­phy, as Bermu­da won the cat­e­go­ry with a nine-un­der-par 207.

In the women’s di­vi­sion, Michelle Mc­Creath and Mag­gie Lyn claimed the Dessie Hen­ry Tro­phy with a score of 252, out­pac­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 264. Trinidad and To­ba­go, how­ev­er, best­ed Ja­maica in the Maria Nunes Tro­phy with a nar­row two-stroke lead over Ja­maican play­ers Jo­di Munn-Bar­row and Lisa Gard­ner.

The Ja­maicans field­ed 20 play­ers dur­ing their suc­cess­ful ti­tle de­fence, while Trinidad and To­ba­go was rep­re­sent­ed by a 14-mem­ber team. 

The com­pe­ti­tion fea­tured 64 golfers from across the Caribbean, in­clud­ing par­tic­i­pants from Trinidad and To­ba­go (14 play­ers), Bar­ba­dos (10), the Ba­hamas (8), Bermu­da (6), Cay­man Is­lands (2), Puer­to Ri­co (2), and St. Lu­cia (2).

Trinidad and To­ba­go teams for CGA Four-Ball Cham­pi­onships

Men 70 and Over - Pran Ra­jen­dranath and Mau­rice Mathu­ra

Men 60 and Over - Richard Ca­ma­cho and An­gard Son­ni­lal

Men 50 and Over - Rus­sell Lat­apy and Wayne Bap­tiste

Men 35 and Over - Clint Al­fred and Desrond Am­brose

Ladies 45 years and Old­er - Vi­o­let Roopc­hand and In­grid See­ber­an

Ladies 25 years and Over - Vic­to­ria Seenath and Tori Bap­tiste

(CMC)