Morris, Munn-Barrow capture Constant Spring Golf Classic titles

Sean Morris and Jodi Munn-Barrow captured the top titles at the recent Constant Spring Golf Classic on the back of excellent first-round scores that virtually shielded them from any comebacks.

Munn-Barrow sent down one of her best rounds at Constant Spring Golf Club when she scored five under par 65 on the narrow golf course that is always a challenge even for the best golfers in the sport. She returned on day two to post another good score of seven over par 77 for a combined score of just two over par 142 to take the Ladies title.

Munn-Barrow was very satisfied with the result in the tournament, especially her first-day score.

“Saturday’s round of 65 was somewhat unexpected. Yes, I was just coming off of a fairly decent game in Trinidad but really didn’t expect to play that well and was very happy with the overall score for the weekend and also happy with the tournament and our last qualifier for the year. We look forward to our event over Easter, which will be the first qualifier for the new calendar year.”

Morris, who was coming back to competitive golf after a year-long lay-off, was very pleased with his first-day score as well.

“It’s good to be back in the winner’s circle. I took a little sabbatical for the last almost a year now because I had some personal issues. The first day’s score was a lot better than the second day’s score, obviously.”

His day-two scorecard showed eight bogeys, a double bogey, a triple bogey and a four over on hole number 17 while posting just two birdies, for 15 over par 85 in the round.

“Had two big numbers on two holes and just pushed my score way up into figures that I’m not accustomed to but anyways, a win is a win, and it challenged the whole field. Obviously, all the scores were jumping up over the first day’s score,” said Morris.

He went on to describe the playing and brutal weather conditions that affected all the golfers during the second round.

“The second day was quite challenging because we had a lot of wind that blew today, and it blew in all different directions so club selection was a little bit of an issue. The greens and the golf course were running pretty quickly and puttable. They were a little hard, so reception from iron shots played into these greens were a little challenging. But all in all, the golf course played okay. We had preferred lies for closely mowed areas, which gave us an option to move the ball in the fairway and in closely mowed areas. I got two unfortunate breaks today, some uncut areas on the golf course, which was playable, and just ended up in some bad numbers.”

Dave Cameron claimed second place with scores of 82 and 81 for a combined 23 over par 163 while Vikram Dhiman was third after posing 26 over par 166 for the two days.

The Men & Men Senior 7-12 category went to Dr Carl Bruce, whose combined score of 30 over par 170 was 11 shots ahead of Cedric Blair’s 181 in second place. Paul Gray’s 46 over par 186 was good enough for third place.

First place in the final playing category, the Men Super Senior 0-12, was shared by Carlyle Hudson and Mile Gleichman, who scored 169 each over the two-day tournament. William Mahfood (172) copped third place.