Avinash Persaud finishes among the leaders

Mar 09, 2010 Sports

Avinash Persaud (centre) along with champion Marc Hoffman (left) and Trinidad

The 2010 ANSA McAl 103rd Trinidad & Tobago Open Amateur Golf Championships concluded on Sunday last at the St. Andrews Golf Club in Moka Maraval, with a sudden death play-off to decide the Championship winner.
Guyana’s Avinash Persaud, sponsored by Universal Sports of Guyana, who came into the 4th and final day, six shots behind the leaders, shot the best score of the final day with a gross 76, but this was not enough to overtake the leaders, as he ended behind winners Canadian Marc Hoffman and Adrian Norford of St Kitts.
At one stage he was one shot off the lead and was putting on the 16th hole for birdie to tie the leaders. Nevertheless, he finished with a par on the hole. At the 17th, he was again putting for birdie, but came up short by about 2 inches. At the 18th and final hole of the tournament he was also putting for birdie but boogied the hole with a three putt.
Newcomer to the Open, Marc Hoffman of Canada, triumphed over Adrian Norford of St. Kitts after two (2) holes of sudden death. The lead changed hands several times in the last round of regular play with Trinidadian Deryck Gonsalves holding on to a one-stroke lead after leaving the 17th green, but he let the Championship slip away with a double bogey on 18. It was an exciting finish to a well attended tournament with one hundred and fifty-nine (159) entries from seven (7) countries including twenty-one (21) from Barbados.
There were two (2) other sudden death play-offs to decide the winners in the Second Flight and Super Seniors category. Shaheed Koondiah from Brechin Castle beat Glen Shah on the first hole of sudden death in the Second Flight and veteran, Edward “Teddy” Grell, bettered Roger Beale of Barbados to take the Super Seniors title.
The Seniors division was won by Michael Commissiong who came back strongly to overtake Carlos Beckles, the overnight leader.
St. Kitts, represented by Adrian Norford and Zeke Percival, won the President’s Cup going away in style, never having relinquished the lead. Trinidad and Tobago were second for the second year in a row and never challenged the leader.

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