Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships won by Cayman Golfer
Caymanian golfer, Samantha Widmer, placed first in the women’s individual stroke play category at the 54th Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships held at the Royal Westmoreland Golf Club in Barbados, one of the island’s most prestigious golf courses, from June 30 to July 3 2010. The tournament began in 1957 and then included just two countries. Throughout the years it has evolved into the largest annual golf event in the region.
This year, ten teams competed: Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands and US Virgin Islands.
The OECS in turn represents many of the small island nations of the eastern Caribbean, including St Lucia, St Kitts & Nevis, Grenada, and Antigua & Barbuda.)
Ms Widmer’s scores were 71, 75, 74, 71 which was three-over par for the tournament and she was recognised as the top female golfer in the Caribbean for 2010. She competed at the Division 1 College Golf level for Elon University between 2004 & 2008, and placed third at last year’s Island Games in Aland, Finland.
Read more at CaymanNetNews.com.
Our congratulations to Ms. Widmer.