Paul Gray & Leo Faure dominate inaugural Legends and Supastars golf

The Jamaica Golf Association’s Legends and Supastars match play golf tournament debuted on Saturday at the Caymanas Golf Club in St. Catherine and came to a very exciting end on Sunday at Constant Spring Golf Club in Kingston, with Paul Gray winning the Legends category while Leo Faure copped the Supastars category.

Saturday’s round robin matches saw Gray winning two rounds of three five-hole match-ups and tying another, for two and a half points out of a possible three. He was then placed in a Legends group of four players to start Sunday’s matches which were all knockouts to the end. He went on to qualify for the round of 16, quarter final, semi final and final. In the final he battled Dr. Carl Bruce who entered his Legends group with a three points, having won all his matches at the round robin stage on the first day. The two men battled five holes in the keenly contested final down to the last shot. Dr. Bruce needed to make par to win but he bogeyed the hole while Gray held his nerve to par the hole for the win.

Gray who let out a loud roar along with some of his supporters at the edge of the green was very happy. “It feels very good and to associate myself with Legends and Legend beer that’s a good thing. This tournament has brought friends together, to be friends together, and I think it’s just a wonderful thing and I look forward to this continuing into the future.”

“I think the format was pretty interesting. The early part of the format gave everybody an opportunity to score and then get you to perfect your game, so it’s like a warm-up phase and then you get into the competitive phase now where you have to actually focus and I think the difference between winning and losing in the competitive phase is just kind of how you maintain your focus. And fortunately I was able to maintain that focus today and emerged the winner of the inaugural tournament so that’s a good thing” said Gray.

Supastars winner Leo Faure had a challenging first day of competition. He won only one of his three matches at the round robin stage. That result ensured that he was placed in a Supastars group to start the knockout competition on the second day. He made steady progress throughout the knockout phases to get to the final against Richard Fraser where he dominated the play to win three of the five holes, to win the Supastars category with two holes to spare.

Faure who is fairly new on the local golf scene said that the format was challenging but he was also happy to win his performance. “The format on the different days I found challenging. Yesterday, it wasn’t that great for me. Didn’t have a good day yesterday but what happened today was it just being knockout, knockout, knockout made it more enjoyable. It means you can concentrate on your opponent, one opponent, and just beat that one opponent. I feel very good for the win.”

Jodi Munn-Barrow, president of the Jamaica Golf Association expressed satisfaction with the new tournament and looks forward to its continuation. “I’m extremely pleased. I mean, first, for Legend Jamaican Lager to come on board. We reached out to them and immediately they said absolutely this was their type of event. And two, it’s a new format and everybody really enjoyed it. We’ve played match play before but not a five-hole knockout type match play and everybody enjoyed it. It was exciting, people were very interested in it, and you could see everyone just wanting to play and play well. So extremely pleased. Really looking forward to having another similar event probably later on in twenty-twenty-six.”

Munn-Barrow tied for third place with Patrick Bowen in the Legends category while Courtney Cephas copped third place in the Supastars category.

Saturday’s first day saw eight teams of four players with varying handicaps over four levels from the lowest to the highest, playing three rounds of five holes each on a round robin basis in the groups. At the end of day one the top two players in the groups were placed in ‘Legends’ group and the other two players were placed in ‘Supastars group resulting in reconstituted eight groups of four.

Sunday’s second day featured only knock out matches. It started with 32 players in eight groups which was reduced to sixteen after their five-hole round four matches. They continued to play knockout five-hole matches until there was a Legends winner and a Supastars winner.

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