Jamaica successfully defended its country and team trophies at the Caribbean Golf Association Four-Ball Championships held recently at Jacaranda Golf Club in Florida.

Jamaica led in the country points on all three days while posting the best team score for a single round and the best team score overall. They won four of the five categories outright and tied for a fifth, while retaining the Ambrose Gouthro Cup.

With a score of 51, Jamaica led while The Bahamas finished second on 32 points. The Cayman Islands were third with 21. Trinidad & Tobago scored 10 to tie with perennial champions Puerto Rico and the Turks & Caicos Islands finished with four.

The top performer for Jamaica was the two-man team of Owen Samuda and Philip Prendergast who posted a three-day total of 208 to win the Ramon Baez Romano Trophy for Men 35 and over for the first time.

Sean Morris and Dr Mark Newnham retained the Francis & Steel-Perkins Trophy for Men 50 and over while the women’s team of Jodi Munn-Barrow and Lisa Gardner scored 234 to retain the Marie Nunes Trophy for Ladies 35 and over.

Michele McCreath and LeAnn Chong copped the Dessie Henry Trophy after posting three-day total of 246. 

The two-man team of Rory Jardine and Wayne Chai Chong tied with Leroy Williamson and Stevie Wallace of the Bahamas for the Higgs & Higgs Trophy.  They posted overall score of 212 with Jamaica scoring 73, 67,72 and Bahamas 72, 72, 68 over the three days respectively.

Munn-Barrow, the Jamaica Golf Association (JGA) president, was pleased with the team’s performance.

“As president of the JGA, I am immensely proud of the performance of the Jamaican team at the Caribbean Golf Association’s Four-Ball Championships.  To come out on top of all five categories is an overwhelming achievement,” she said.

“We were able to send two teams to this tournament in three of the five categories and we were able to win four of five with our Team A which is our national team and then to also have the national team win the overall trophy as well, was spectacular.

“To have come second at Hoerman Cup which was a great achievement in July and then now to win the Four-Ball, I think only shows that golf in Jamaica is on the up and up, and we have to plan, and we have to develop and we hope that 2022 will even be a more successful year for Jamaican golf.”