Lotto Company sponsors today’s golf tourney

Mar 10, 2009 Sports

From left; Gavin Todd, Mike Mangal, Chief Executive Officer of General Equipment Renger Van Dyke, Colin Ming (winner) and Christine Sukhram after the presentation of prizes.

The Guyana Lottery Company will sponsor today’s Medal Play tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club starting at 12:00 hours. Representatives of the Lotto Company will be on hand to assist in the presentation of prizes at the completion of the tournament.

The tournament, as did last weekend’s event, served a warm up for several local golfers who will travel to neighbouring Suriname later this week for the RBTT Suriname Open Golf championships in Paramaribo.
Approximately 10 players are expected to travel to the neighbouring republic for the tournament which takes place on Saturday and Sunday.
Among the players confirmed for the trip are Ian Gouveia, Jerome Khan, Patrick Prashad, Mike Guyadin, Ronald Bulkan, Christine Sukhram, while the other players likely to attend include 2008 Guyana Open champion Imran Khan and Anders Voight.

Meanwhile, Colin Ming emerged winner of last Saturday’s General Equipment Medal Play Golf tournament which was played off at the Lusignan Golf Course.
Ming playing off a 10 handicap recorded a Gross 76 to finish with a Net 66 on his way to victory against a field of 26 golfers who participated in the tournament under excellent conditions at Lusignan course.
He also recorded the best Gross score of 76.
National ladies champion Christine Sukhram (handicap 8) finish second with a Net score of 69 from a Gross 77.  Mike Mangal (handicap 7) was third with a Net 71 from a Gross score of 78.  Gavin Todd was Nearest to the Pin.
Renger Van Dyke, Chief Executive Officer of General Equipment was on hand to present the prizes to the top performers and highlighted his company’s involvement in golf locally.