WITH their love for the game and their spirits undaunted by the recent arson that destroyed valuable club equipment, golfers turned out with high enthusiasm last Saturday for the club-sponsored Rest of the World versus Lusignan Golf Club tournament.

At the end of the day’s play, the Rest of the World emerged champions defeating Lusignan Golf Club 12 points to eight, with three prizes being awarded in the day’s play, namely Team prize, the Best Net Pair prize and the Most Honest Pair prize.
The competition was played in a ‘pairs format’ – the simple average of handicaps and scores of pairs of members of each team were calculated and the pair with the Best Net awarded the appropriate prize, while the Team prize was determined by the sum of the net points awarded each pair in the team.
In the end, the Best Net pair was Kishan Bacchus (handicap 16) and Kalyan Tiwari (handicap 20) whose average handicap of 18 and average gross of 76 resulted in the best net of 58 with the Most Honest Pair being Hilbert Shields (handicap 18) and Mohanlall ‘Santo’ Dinanauth (handicap 4) whose average handicap of 11 and average gross of 75 resulted in a net 64.
LGC captain Chatterpaul Deo expressed his pleasure at the turnout, the keenness of the competition and the high morale with which golfers participated.
He was also grateful for the efforts grounds supervisor Mike Gayadin and foreman Avinash Persaud expended to ensure that the greens were in fine condition despite the loss of the valuable equipment that would normally be used to provide easy preparation of the greens.