ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderGood Friday holds a special place in the hearts of the founders of the Caribbean Golf Society (CGS), because three years ago on Good Friday saw the very first inaugural event for the CGS. This event is now a permanent fixture in the CGS calendar and will always serve as a reminder of our humble beginning, so no matter how successful or how much we grow and develop as a society this event will remind us of those fond memories. The CGS committee also announced that this event would become a more established event and may become the ninth \u2018Major\u2019 on the CGS Order of Merit Calendar. Although this is great news they also announced that venue for this event will change on a yearly basis so keep your eyes and ears open for further news.<\/p>\n
Well Friday April 10th, 2009, was a very wet morning, but by the time the first four balls arrived at the first tee the rain had relented and for seventeen holes we enjoyed rain free golf and some occasional sunshine. There was plenty good golf but some woeful examples also. Now considering we played a Bogey comp based on \u2018three quarter\u2019 handicaps, it was a great opportunity for the lower handicap players to do well. It is amazing to see some of the guys use their drivers off the tee, either technology is getting better or some of those high handicappers are putting in a lot of hard work behind the scenes I\u2019m sure the latter is the case, they say \u2018Practice makes Perfect\u2019 so keep it going you \u2018Bandits\u2019 – I mean \u2018high handicappers\u2019, you\u2019re hard work will pay off in the end. On this occasion there were no \u2018nearest the pin\u2019 or \u2018Longest drive\u2019 prizes on offer, so only the best three scores secured a prize.<\/p>\n
There were some notable absentees from this event because of holidays and work commitments, which gave an opportunity to other CGS members to register a win at this event. On the course it was a ding – dong battle between players in all the groups, with some players producing some great \u2018regulation\u2019 golf and recording the odd one or two \u2018birdies\u2019 which in this format only results in a (+) score \u2013 sorry, save those birdies for the majors.<\/p>\n
Earl Junior our chairman returned to the CGS season with a bang – yeah that\u2019s the sound coming from that huge Cobra driver he uses so well booming those long drives down the fairway and from all accounts CGS vice-captain Dean Leith wasn\u2019t too far behind EJ with some long drives of his own.<\/p>\n
Lloyd \u2018bugsy\u2019 Thomas was very consistence all the way around the golf course and produced two quality nines of (-1) and (-2) from a guy playing off 24 (18 \u2018shots\u2019 with three quarters handicap). Dean Leith also another one of those from the \u2018Banditos High Handicapos\u2019 posse, came in with two superb nines and even played the back nine to even par (0) playing off 17 on the day, other than his usual 22 handicap, looks like the axe is looming on that handicap Mr Leith, keep playing well. However Dean wasn\u2019t the winner on the day that accolade came from someone whom can only be described as the \u2018silent assassin\u2019, a golfer whom just gets on with, he isn\u2019t built like Dean, Junior or Roan some of the long drive hitters in the CGS but a man who can launch a long ball with the best of the them when he needs to and that\u2019s Ian Higgins aka \u2018Higgy\u2019. This man has got game, believe it, he also produced two superb nines, halving the front nine (0) and playing the back nine to (-1) which also could have been (0) if he hadn\u2019t missed a two foot putt on the last, yes he missed a two foot putt and how, I here you ask did he miss that two foot putt, well I tell you, it was like this; The man was posing for photographs, posing, yes man posing, as you can see in the picture which caused Higgy to miss that putt for a halved round of golf. Ian, congratulations that was some excellent golf playing off 8 handicap on the day, keep it going.<\/p>\n
All I can say is the guys are truly pumped up for the 2nd Major at Perton Park Golf Club<\/p>\n