WINNING rookie Mahendra Bhagwandin, president of Lusignan Golf Club David Mohamad and veteran Kalyan Tiwari continued their sterling play to receive the souvenir golden golf clubs for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Best Net performance at the Sanjay’s Jewellery Classic tournament held last Sunday at the Lusignan Golf Course. 

The clubs were presented by Managing Director of Sanjay’s Jewellery Sanjay Persaud, who indicated that he would like to do even better next year.
While KalyanTiwari has not placed first recently, he has placed in the first three, but Mohamad and Bhagwandin have certainly been carrying away the top prizes in several tournaments over the last two months.
A spell of bad play in mid-September had discouraged Bhagwandin, who brought second in his category in the COURTS tournament last month, before going onto to cop the top spot in the N&S Mattai-sponsored tournament the following day.
However, he shared that two significant things impacted his excellent performance on Sunday, “Firstly, I was coached by veteran player Avinash Persaud who encouraged and helped me to improve my drive, as my strong point was my chip and putt, while my drive was really inadequate for great play and secondly, I had one of the most experienced caddies for my play, Harrichand ‘Baby Boy’ Dhanai, who guided me extremely well in my club selection.”
Mohamad, apart from setting a record 62 net for the 19-28 handicap flight, earlier this year in the Demerara Mutual Life tournament, has either won or been in the top three, several times since then, placing second in the Captain’s tournament, while copping both the Trophy Stall and United Insurance tournaments thereafter.
Persaud in his congratulatory comments, remarked, “I am proud to see the good turnout of golfers on Sunday to support the Sanjay’s Classic tournament,” even as he pledged to sponsor the construction of an external stairway for the extension of the Golf Club building.
This second Sanjay’s-sponsored tournament for the year saw some 32 golfers, many of them hopefuls for the Guyana Open, scheduled for next fortnight, competing in keen fashion, using the tournament as practice for that big weekend which is being sponsored by telecommunications service provider Digicel and will be launched tomorrow morning.