SPENCER
RISING YOUNG golfer Damion Spencer will spearhead the Jamaica men's Hoerman Cup team at the 2005 Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships (CAGC) which tee off in St. Kitts in August.
The team was officially named by the Jamaica Golf Association (JGA) yesterday following the recent National Trials held at the Caymanas and SuperClubs Runaway Bay golf courses. The Trials, originally slated for 72 holes - 36 at each course, were shortened to 54 holes due to inclement weather.
Joining Spencer, who made the team's qualifying mark, on the five-man Hoerman Cup squad is fellow qualifier Michael Scott and selectees Radcliff Knibbs, Fabian Campbell and Mark Newnham.
Cup mainstay Owen Samuda, who like Spencer and Scott qualified for the team, withdrew himself from selection due to a "conflict of dates" with the CAGC. Rory Jardine and Sean Morris have been named as reserves.
Philip Prendergast and Michael Gleichman, Jamaica's 2004 representatives in the Ramon Baez Figueroa mid-Amateur section - for players 35 and over - will again represent the island in that section. Prendergast qualified from the trials and second-placed Gleich-man, who missed the mark by eight strokes, was selected. Carl Bruce will be the reserve.
AUTOMATIC INCLUSION
Jodi Barrow, Maggie Lyn and Lisandra Brown, the top three finishers from the trials, were selected to the women's George Teale Trophy team, while Dennis Atkinson and Herman McDonald will represent the island on the Higgs and Higgs Supersenior team.
Atkinson's scores from trials gave him automatic inclusion, while McDonald, who finished second, was selected. A reserve has not yet been named for the ladies team and Maurice Foster will be the reserve for the Superseniors.
Fred Sutherland and Lincoln Williams were named as the seniors who will compete on the Francis and Steele Perkins team. The pair were well off the qualifying mark and their participation at the CAGC is conditional on them practising together and playing 54 holes of golf over three days to gauge their level of play to see if it is up to the standard of the CAGC.
Bruce Lyn and Carl Lawson are the reserves for the section.
