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Oct 24, 2014 Sports
Winning rookie Mahendra Bhagwandin, Club President David Mohamad and veteran Kalyan Tiwari continued their sterling play to receive the souvenir golden golf clubs for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Best Net performance at the Sanjay’s Jewelry Classic tournament held last Sunday at the Lusignan Golf Course.
The clubs were presented by Mr Sanjay Persaud, owner of Sanjay’s Jewelry, who indicated that he would like to do even better next year.
While Kalyan Tiwari has not placed first recently, he has placed in the first three, but President Mohamad and Mahendra Bhagwandin have certainly been carrying away the top prize in several tournaments over the last 2 months.
A spell of bad play in mid-September had discouraged Bhagwandin, who brought 2nd in his category in the COURTS tournament of Saturday 6th September. He then went on to place 1st in the following day’s N&S Mattai tournament. However, he shared that two significant things impacted his excellent performance on Sunday. “Firstly, I was coached by veteran player Avinash Persaud. He encouraged and helped me to improve my drive, as my strong point was my chip and putt, but my drive was really inadequate for great play. Secondly, I had one of the most experienced caddies for my play, Mr Harrichand ‘Baby Boy’ Dhanai, who guided me extremely well in my club selection.”
President Mohamad, apart from setting a record 62 net for the 19-28 h/cap flight, on 26 July this year in the Demerara Mutual Life tournament, has either won or been in the top three, several times since then. He placed 2nd in the Captain’s tournament of 20 September, 1st in the Trophy Stall tourney of 27 September as well as 1st in the United Insurance tourney of 11th October. He has been doing well consistently.
Mr Sanjay Persaud remarked, “I am proud to see the good turnout of golfers on Sunday to support Sanjay’s Classic tournament.” Mr Persaud pledged to sponsor the construction of an external stairway for the extension of the Golf Club building. (Panko Steel Fabrication Company has been identified to undertake the works.)
This second Sanjay’s sponsored tournament for the year saw some 32 golfers, many of them hopefuls for the Guyana Open scheduled for next fortnight, competing in keen fashion, using the tournament as practice for that big weekend.
Following after Saturday’s outstanding play, Sunday’s flight-format medal play system results were as follows: 0-9 h/cap flight – 1st Rishi Sukhram 8/68, 2nd Deosarran Sookram 6/69; 10-18 h/cap flight – 1st Kevin Budram 15/69, 2nd Fazil Haniff 12/71; 19-28 h/cap flight – 1st Mahendra Bhagwandin 28/63, 2nd David Mohamad 20/65; Ladies flight – 1st Christine Sukhram 13/79. Most Honest Golfer prize went to Brian Hackett 24/81, while Nearest to The Pin was Kalyan Tiwari. Tiwari 22/66 also received one of the souvenir golden clubs, because his net was the third best in the tournament.
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