Escarraga is best overall golfer at Banks DIH Classic

In picture, from left: Julie Stevenson, Satrohan Tiwari, Club President Aleem Hussain, Patrick Prashad, Patanjalee Persaud, Maxim Mangra, Banks PRO Troy Peters, Jonathan Mentore, Mauro Remiro, Guillermo Escarraga and a Citizen’s Bank representative.

Ahead of the upcoming Guyana Open, the country’s best golfers took to the Lusignan Golf Course last weekend where Patanjalee `Pur’ Persaud won the Citizen’s Bank Cancer Awareness title Saturday while  Guillermo Escarraga dominated the field Sunday in the Banks DIH Classic.

Persaud won the overall net title with a tournament low of 64 in the ‘B’ Flight 10-18 handicap.

He was trailed by a three-man tie for second place among Aasrodeen Shaw (70/13), William Walker (70/11) and Satrohan Tiwari (70/16) who edged out Shaw and Walker in the tie-break.