BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Caribbean’s leading amateur golfers will tee-up alongside the best in the Latin American region in the 2016 Latin America Amateur Golf Championship (LAAC) in the Dominican Republic.
The major championship, the biggest stage for amateur golfers in the region, started yesterday at the “Teeth-of-The-Dog” course at Casa de Campo.
The tournament, where the winner will be invited to play in this year’s Masters, runs from January 14-17 and 108 players from 27 countries are taking part.
Most of the big names in Caribbean Hoerman Cup competition are included and among them are Jamaicans Jonathan Newnham and Ian Facey; Trevor Levine (USVI); James Johnson and Scott Stollmeyer (Barbados); Talin Rajendranath, Sachin Kumar, Liam Bryden and Matthew Marquez (Trinidad and Tobago); and Puerto Ricans Robert Calvesbert, Erick Juan Morales and Jeronimo Esteve.
Also competing are Elijah Delancy and Devaughn Robinson of the Bahamas and Cliff Alcide and Ben Gillmor of St. Lucia.
The DR, as host country, has been awarded six slots in the LAAC championship. Their players are Juan José Guerra, Chad McCann, George Riley, Rhadamés Peña, Hiram Silfa and Francisco Muñoz.
