Eureka & Roy 1st in exciting May Day Better Ball golf tournament Joaan & Aleem also aiming for 1st in Barbados

May 05, 2019 Sports

Rookie Eureka Giddings reached top spot with partner Roy Cummings in an exciting Better Ball tournament run off by the Lusigna

The winners pose with Club President. From left: President Aleem Hussain, Roland Buell, Maxim Mangra, Roy Cummings, Eureka Giddings, and golfers Solomon Bannister and supporters of the day’s tournament.

n Golf Club on Wednesday May 1.
As golfers determined to take the Labour Day holiday for workers in a relaxing way, many of them turned up throughout the day at the LGC. At 8:40am those competing in the 9-Hole Better Ball tournament eagerly teed off. (The Better Ball format is a variation in Golf where two persons play as a team. Each player is given an opportunity to play a ball at each legitimate time of play, and the ball which was played better is accepted as the ball of play, the worse played ball being ignored.)
In the May 1st tournament, Teams were formed by grouping low handicap golfers (much better players) with high handicap golfers (learners or regular or older players). In addition, the handicap of the team was determined by first taking half of the high handicapper’s rating because of 9 holes of play (which is half of the course of 18 holes) and then dividing it again by 2 so as to consider it shared between the two players. A team with two players of individual handicaps 10 and 28 for instance, would now be given a team handicap of 7. Prizes were awarded for 1st to 3rd places in the net performances.
At the end of play, winners were: Eureka Giddings & Roy Cummings (net 28/hcap 7) – 1st; Maxim

Aleem Hussain and Joaan Deo at a previous tournament. (3rd and 4th from left )

Mangra & Roland Buell (29/12) – 2nd; and E. Bispat & David Harry (31/6) – 3rd. Very close competition came from a tie at 4th place between teams Rigo Serventi & Aleem Hussain and Maurice Solomon & Mike Mangal, both returning a 32/5 performance.
In another golfing event, outside of Guyana, the annual Sir Garry Sobers Festival of Golf International Tournament is being held over this weekend, Friday May 3rd to Sunday May 5th. This 54-hole Stroke Play (for Championship Flight players) and Stableford (for 1st to 5th Flights) competition, is open to amateurs and professionals from all around the world. This particular event is unique in that it is annually played over several days on several of the island’s leading golf courses. This year, the tournament hosted by Denis ‘Denny’ Foster, is being played over 3 days at 3 clubs – Sandy Lane and Royal Westmoreland in St James, and at the Barbados Golf Club, Durants, Christ Church.
LGC President Aleem Hussain, playing in the Seniors Championship Flight (age 50 – 59, and handicap 0 – 11) with a gross 90 has placed 9th out of 16 after the first day’s play. Meanwhile, Dr Joaan Deo playing in the Ladies Championship Flight (handicap 0 – 14) with a gross 98 has placed 7th out of 9 at end of the first day’s play. Aleem is the LGC’s Club Champion and has won several individual tournaments at the LGC over the past year. Joaan is a former Guyana International Open Ladies champion and the current (2018) Suriname International Open Ladies Champion.

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