… This year’s tournament set to be biggest

ALL THIS WEEK the Lusignan Golf Club was the hub of activity as every day scores of players converged on the ground to fine-tune their preparations for the third annual Digicel Guyana Open Tournament, scheduled for today and tomorrow at the Lusignan Golf Club, with today’s tee-off time being 07:00hrs.The Guyana Open Golf Tournament is an invitation to players on the international scene, and golfers from Europe, North America, the Caribbean and South America will be involved, doing battle for the prestigious Digicel ‘Red Jacket’.
Recently, Guyana fielded golfers in the Suriname and Barbados Open respectively where they performed creditably and it is with this in mind that LGC president David Mohamad is excited with expectation of this weekend’s event.
“I expect some records to be broken as the competitive spirit of the players in practice is so strong you can almost touch it! Sometimes, in the practice sessions this week, more golfers are on the field than even at some regular tournaments! The deep concentration that describes golfers play can only augur well for the Open,” said Mohammed.
Club captain Chatterpaul ‘Chen’ Deo added his bit by saying, “I anticipate that some of the great performances we saw over the last two months or so will not compare with the high quality of play likely to come forth this weekend. It will be a very exciting tournament. I think this will be one of the biggest tournaments the Club has ever had.”
The Guyana contenders for the different flights, who placed in the top three positions over the last month would be 0-9 Flight – Rishi Sukhram and Sunil Loutan (3 times), Avinash Persaud and Deosarran Sookram (2 times), Imran Khan and Vijay Deo (1 time).
In the 10-18 Flight – Kevin Budhram (2 times) and Bridgelall Harry, Sam Harry, Kishan Bacchus, capt ‘Chen’ Deo, Roy Cummings, Bholawram Deo and Mo-Shaffie (1 time).
In the 19-28 Flight – David Mohamad (3 times) Dr Philbert London, Mahendra Bhagwandin, Patanjalee Persaud, (2 times) and Balgobin Ragnauth, Parmanand Persaud, and Kalyan Tiwari (1 time) and in the Ladies Flight – Christine Sukhram (3 times), Shanella Webster and Joaan Deo (2 times).
The groundsmen have done splendidly in preparing the ground before this week so that in all the practice sessions there would be little interruption as the golfers get ready to rumble for the biggest prize in local history and the right to be called Digicel Guyana Open Golf Classic champion.