Rookie Mahendra Bhagwandin continued his recent good by winning the Sanjay’s Jewellery Classic golf tournament held last Sunday at the Lusignan Golf Course (LGC).
Second was LGC club President David Mohamad with veteran Kalyan Tiwari third. The top three finishers received for their sterling performances, souvenir golden golf clubs.
The clubs were presented by Sanjay Persaud, owner of Sanjay’s Jewellery, who indicated that he would like to do even better next year.
Mohamad and Mahendra Bhagwandin have certainly been carrying away the top prizes in several tournaments over the last two months while Tiwari has not won a tournament recently but has placed in the top three.
Bhagwandin, who brought second in his category in the Courts Golf tournament in September
and first in the following day’s N&S Mattai tournament, said 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, Harrichand ‘Baby Boy’ Dhanai, who guided me extremely well in my club selection.”
Mohamad, apart from setting a record 62 net for the 19-28 handicap flight in July this year at the Demerara Mutual Life tournament, has either won or been in the top three, several times since then.
He placed second in the Captain’s tournament on September 20, first in the Trophy Stall tourney the following week and first in the United Insurance tourney on October 11.
Persaud in his comments, said that he was proud to see the turnout of golfers in support of the Sanjay’s Classic tournament and 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.
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.
