Kevon Felmine

Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al of San Fer­nan­do held its an­nu­al Char­i­ty Golf Tour­na­ment on April 3 at the Petrotrin Point-a-Pierre golf course. Sev­en­ty-six play­ers from south turned out for a day of fun on the 18-hole greens. The tour­na­ment fea­tured 19 teams.The day be­gan with a hearty break­fast pre­pared by the Kiss Bak­ing Com­pa­ny, to en­sure that the men were to­tal­ly en­er­gised for the packed day.The games be­gan at 10 am and was close­ly con­test­ed. Dur­ing the prize-giv­ing cer­e­mo­ny af­ter the show, Sorop­ti­mist took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to take pledges from the play­ers.The prizes were spon­sored by var­i­ous com­pa­nies from San Fer­nan­do and en­vi­rons.

There was a three-way tie of three un­der par with a stroke in­dex of one to nine. The win­ners were then de­ter­mined by a count back of the most dif­fi­cult holes. In the end, the duo of Noel Kalicha­ran and Har­ry Sookdeo walked away with the first prize of West­ing­house air-con­di­tion units spon­sored by Cli­mate Con­trol Ltd.Sher­az Dabiedeen and Naz­im Bab­wah fin­ished in sec­ond spot, and took home the prize of two Sharp 21-inch flat-screen tele­vi­sions. The third-place prize of stain­less steel mi­crowave ovens went to Richard Brook­er and Suren­da Hanooman.Sorop­ti­mist In­ter­na­tion­al's pres­i­dent elect, Hazel Has­sanali, said every year the or­gan­i­sa­tion sent in­vi­ta­tions to var­i­ous com­pa­nies around south to par­tic­i­pate in the char­i­ty events.

"It was good this year, we had over 40 spon­sors," she said."Most of the play­ers come year af­ter year be­cause they en­joy them­selves while giv­ing to char­i­ty," said Has­sanali.The pro­ceeds from this year's tour­na­ment will go to­wards the Shangri La Home for the El­der­ly. The home, which has been in ex­is­tence for 40 years, is in dire need of re­build­ing.There were al­so gift cards on sale, the pro­ceeds from which will go to­wards the or­gan­i­sa­tion's Wa­ter Project, which is in its fourth year.The ob­jec­tives of the project are pur­chas­ing a re­frig­er­a­tor for Shangri La, as well as wa­ter tanks for fam­i­lies in the south."We give tanks to de­serv­ing fam­i­lies, said Sorop­ti­mist sec­re­tary, Aruna Har­baran, adding that five fam­i­lies had al­ready ben­e­fit­ed from it.