Sports
Roneil Walcott
The pair of Rabindara Narine and Rodney Phillip topped a 48-team field when the 24th edition of the Scotiabank Charity Golf Tournament was held at the St Andrews Golf Club in Moka, Maraval, on May 9.
With an overall score of 44 – 25 on the front nine and 19 on the back nine – the pair narrowly edged out the team of Amjad Ali and Robin Lewis, who scored 43. The first- and second-placed finishers registered for the tournament as Scotiabank clients. Sponsored by 2001 Carpet House, the pair of Ravi Denoarine and Shrinivas Mohip finished third with 42 points.
The winners received two trophies, two day passes for The Country Club at Sandy Lane, Barbados, two return flights to Barbados, a one-night stay at Hilton Barbados, to go along with Scotiabank-branded pair of gold champagne flutes and two golf umbrellas.
The Kaisoca Productions Ltd-sponsored team of Sheriff Babwah and Pooran Singh finished fourth and also tallied 42 points, with the Charlett and Gatcliffe Ltd pair of Jason Collier and Robert Conyers rounding off the top five by also amassing 42 points.
The team of Stefan Ramkissoon and Nicholas Wood-Salomon, who tasted overall victory last year, were nearest the pin on hole 11. Brent and Jonathan Augustus were the best-dressed team as they brought colour to the greens with their dash of pink.
Of course, being a charitable event, the golfers weren’t the only winners on the day, as Scotiabank made a $100,000 digital donation to Just Because Foundation.
Just Because Foundation directors Chevaughn and Noel Joseph were on hand to witness the donation. The foundation was started on August 2, 2007, after the couple lost their five-year-old son Jabez Joseph to alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. a rare form of childhood cancer. Just Because is a non-profit paediatric cancer-support organisation.
