Aasrodeen Shaw, treasurer of the Lusignan Golf Club, for the second week in succession emerged the winner of a tournament with a net score of 65.
The LGC executive carted off the Brass Aluminium & Cast Iron Foundry’s (BACIF) Inaugural Golf Tournament trophy.
BACIF General Manager, Peter Pompey, along with Commercial & Design Superintendent, Yolanda Geddes-Kendall; machine shop superintendent, Kwesi Craig; and Technical Assistant to the GM, Adrian Barkoye, were on the course to happily take a few golf strokes as their personal initiation into the great game.
BACIF of Lots 9-14 West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, is the premier manufacturer of high quality and precision engineered ferrous and non-ferrous castings in Guyana for over fifty years
Mr. Pompey, in congratulating the winners and participants of the day’s tournament, thanked the golf club for the opportunity to contribute to its development and pledged to continue to offer support.
The competition was fierce, so that after 2nd place there was a tussle between 3 golfers for 3rd place, followed by another tussle between 2 golfers that would have been for 7th place.
The 3rd place winner was determined from a count of the ‘back nine’ scores.
At the end of the day, the winners were as follows: Lakeram Ramsundar – Nearest to the Pin; (current and 3 times Guyana Open Champion) Avinash Persaud – Best Gross and Longest Drive; (former Guyana Open Champion) Mike Mangal (71/8) – 3rd Best Net; Patrick Prashad (68/9) – 2nd Best Net; and Aasrodeen Shaw (65/16) – Best Net. The next close ten Net performances were done by (president) Aleem Hussain (71/12 – 4th place); Richard Haniff (71/12 – 5th place); Avinash Persaud (72/2); (2 times former Guyana Open Champion) Mohanlall Dinanauth (72/6); Gavin Todd (73/18); (former Guyana Open Ladies Champion) Shanella London (74/16); Clifford Reis (74/23); Kassim Khan (76/9); Lakeram Ramsundar (77/11); and Guillermo Escaraga (77/24).