Scotiabank Charity golf tourney set for Saturday

The stakes will be high and several charities will have much to smile about when Scotiabank stages its Annual Charity Golf tournament on Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Club.

The cream of the country’s golfers will be in action in the one-day tournament which has at stake several attractive prizes and the winners will determine the charity of their choice to receive the cash donation.

The winner will receive $150,000 with the second place finisher securing $100,000 while third place will capture $75,000.

The charities earmarked for donations are St. Ann’s Orphanage, Joshua House, Step by Step Foundation, Red Cross, Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre and Cheshire home.

Jorge Medina, Managing Director of MACORP won last year’s tournament and donated his purse to Cheshire Home.

Scotiabank one of the corporate members of the Lusignan Golf Club will also be fielding a team which will include banking executive Brian Hackett.

Medina is expected to be back in contention as well as the inform Mohanlall  “Santo” Dinnanauth, last weekend’s winner Kalyan Tiwari,  Jerome Khan, Kishan Bacchus, Alfred Mentore, Mark Lashley, Troy Cadogan, Chatterpaul Deo, Roy Cummings, Colin Ming, Patrick Prashad, David Harry, William Walker,  Haresh Tewari, Maurice Solomon, David Mohamed, Munaff Arjune, Muntaz Haniff, Fazil Deo, Christine Sukhram, Kassim Khan, Imran Khan, Mike Guyadin,  John Tracey, Gavin Todd, Carlos Adams, Dr. Ramsingh, Robert Hanoman, Clifford Reis and Albert Semple.

Scotiabank Country Manager Amanda St. Aubyn is expected to be on hand to present the cheques and other prizes to the outstanding players.

Marketing Manager Jennifer Cipriani and other senior managers will also be on hand to witness the tournament.

Tee off is at 12:30 hours.