Trinidad and To­ba­go’s top am­a­teur golfers con­tin­ued their bat­tle for na­tion­al se­lec­tion on Thurs­day as day two of the T&T Golf As­so­ci­a­tion (TTGA) na­tion­al team tri­als teed off at the St An­drews Golf Course in Mo­ka.

The sec­ond day of com­pe­ti­tion marked the first round of play at the Mo­ka course, with golfers vy­ing for places on the na­tion­al team set to rep­re­sent T&T at the Caribbean Am­a­teur Golf Cham­pi­onships in the Cay­man Is­lands lat­er this year.

At the con­clu­sion of the tri­als, the top six male fin­ish­ers and top four fe­male fin­ish­ers will se­cure spots on the 10-mem­ber na­tion­al team.

Lead­ing the men’s di­vi­sion af­ter two days is Chris Richards Jr, who con­tin­ued his im­pres­sive form fol­low­ing a stel­lar start to the year both lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly. Richards Jr holds the ad­van­tage head­ing in­to the next round af­ter card­ing a 71 on Thurs­day.

Liam Bry­den sits in sec­ond po­si­tion af­ter shoot­ing a sol­id 69, while Ethan Col­lier and Jere­seem Boodram are third and fourth with scores of 81. Zi­co Cor­reia oc­cu­pies fifth spot with 74, while Wayne Bap­tiste is sixth with 76.

In the women’s di­vi­sion, Vic­to­ria Seenath and Elise Le Bor­de are tied at the top af­ter both golfers re­turned scores of 86. Hai­ley Layne cur­rent­ly sits in third po­si­tion with 96, while Tori De Fre­ites Bap­tiste is fourth with 97.

The tri­als con­tin­ue to­day at the St An­drews Golf Course in Mo­ka, with play sched­uled to be­gin from 9 am. The com­pe­ti­tion will con­clude to­mor­row at the Ch­aguara­mas Golf Course.