FORMER JAMAICA Golf Association (JGA) president Ossie Lee and his son Matthew, playing off a combined 7.25 handicap, clinched the first Scramble for Junior Golf title when they outplayed a field of more than 100 players in the fundraiser at the Constant Spring Golf Club on Sunday.
Pairs competed in the Scramble format off a 1/4 of the players combined handicaps.
The teams were divided into three categories: Family (husbands and wives and related adults), Relative/Child (adult and related child) and Friends of Junior Golfers (any two golfers).
The Lees' bogey free five-under par gross round of 65 included birdies on holes one, three, nine, 14 and 16 for a nett score of 57.75.
They easily captured the Relative/Child section over Mark Blakeley and Vittoria Marley who finished with 60.25. Bruce and Tiffany Terrier finished third with 62.25.
Dave and Matthew Lyn emerged winners of the Family section with 61 nett, followed by Ro-yen and Robert Chin with a nett 64.
The Friends of Junior Golfers section, which was by far the largest with 41 teams, saw Leiza Blakeley and Fred Sutherland walk away with the top prize with a nett score of 59.75 just ahead of Mike Gleichman and Sebastian Ogden with 60. Third place went to the team of Tommy Smith and Steve Evans on 61, followed by the team of Mark Allen and Stephen Cross, also with 61 nett.
The longest drive competitions went to Sutherland and Blakeley while Ogden won the putting competition.
Adrian Bradford and Alia Asher were the Boy and Girl winners in the drive, chip, pitch and putt 13 and over section, while Lawrence Bailey and Marley won the 12 and Under category.
Funds raised by the Scramble will go towards sending a team to next month's
Caribbean Amateur Junior Golf Championships in the Bahamas.
Major Contributors to the event were Training Camp, SuperClubs Runaway Bay and Ironshore Golf Clubs, Breezes Resort, Starfish Trelawny Beach Resort, Half Moon Golf Tennis & Beach Resort, Couples Ocho Rios, Cinnamon Hill Golf Club, Caymanas Golf Club, Sandals Golf & Country Club, White River Valley, Dolphin Cove and the golf professional at Caymanas Golf and Country Club, Jason Lopez.
