The Tribune

By RENALDO DORSETT

Sports Reporter

rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

There is some ground to make up for the Bahamas Golf Federation’s team at the 60th Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships, but there have also been several individual standout performances.

Through two days at the event, several Bahamian players have been in the hunt, near the top of leaderboards in their respective divisions at the tournament hosted at the Ocean Club Golf Course on Paradise Island.

In the Hoerman Cup for regular players, Devaughn Robinson leads the charge for Team Bahamas.

Robinson shot a -2, 70 yesterday, one of only seven players in the Hoerman Cup field to shoot under par on day two.

A six-time former member of Team Bahamas’ CAJGC and CAGC national teams, Robinson has been the top player of the team and is tied for fifth in the overall field at -1 (143). He shot an opening round 73.

Horace Miller and Richard Gibson are tied at No.31 with total scores of 157. Miller shot +4 over yesterday while Gibson shot +6 over. Both stand at +13, Miller had rounds of 81 and 76 while Gibson shot 79 and 78.

Steven Kemp is tied with a trio of players at No.33 with a total score oh 158. He shot a +6, 78 yesterday to follow up an opening round of 80.

Peter McIntosh shot +10, 82 in round two for a cumulative score of 162 thus far, tied at No.40.

McIntosh, a multiple BGF national amateur champion and equally a repeat member of Hoerman Cup teams, shot an opening round 80.

George Swann, ranked at No.47, shot an 86 yesterday at +14. The veteran golfer has a total of 175 thus far.

In the George Teale Cup for ladies, the Bahamas fielded a team of Inecia Rolle, Sheridan Robinson, Marlique Hield and Taneka Sandiford.

Rolle has been the top performer for the team thus far in 12th place with a score of 162, +18 over.

Rolle, the winner of the BGF’s 2015 President’s Cup, shot 82, +10 yesterday to follow an opening round of 80.

Robinson is tied at No.14 with a score of 166, +22 over. After an opening round of 86, she lowered her score in round two to 80, and was 11th in the 25 member field at +8 on the day.

Hield is tied at No.18 with a total score of 169 after she shot +10 over, 82 yesterday.

Sandiford also shot an identical score of 82, and is in the 20th spot with a total of 170.

A repeat member of the George Teale Cup and a former contender for the 2015 Bahamas’ representative spot in the PureSilk Bahamas LPGA Classic, she shot an opening round of 88.

Rolle follows one spot behind with a score of 166 and +22 over.

Bahamas Golf Federation president Glen Archer said during the week of activities, there will be a special recognition of the late legendary golfer and administrator Fred Higgs. He will be inducted in the next class of the Caribbean Golf Association’s Hall of Fame.

Additionally, Archer said the CGA will pay tribute to Ambrose Gouthro, a former president of the BGF. Ambrose is the current CGA president. For the first time this year, the Ambrose Gouthro Trophy will be presented to the overall team champions in honour of Gouthro.

The federation, according to Archer, will be naming the Bahamas national team later this week. The team will comprise of six men in the Hoerman Cup for regular golfers and three women for the George Teale Cup.

The winners will be determined from a combined score accumulated for the Arthur Ziadie Trophy.

A total of nine countries, including the Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the US Virgin Islands, are expected to participate.