By Avenash Ramzan
Another weekend, another golf tournament; this time it’s the Kissoon’s Furniture Store’s Medal Play tournament, set for this Saturday (March 3) at the Lusignan Golf Course, East Coast Demerara.
During a simple ceremony at the company’s Mega Store at Industrial Site, Ruimveldt, on Wednesday morning, Sales Manager Christina Dhaneshar presented the sponsorship cheque to Lusignan Golf Club president Aleem Hossain in the presence of Kissoon’s CEO Hemraj Kissoon and Golf Club executive Guy Griffith.
The confirmation of sponsorship further solidifies a long-standing partnership the furniture company has enjoyed with the country’s lone Golf Club.
“Kissoon’s has been associated with the Golf Club for nearly 50 years (as) member, past president and lover of golf,” Kissoon said.
“As our corporate responsibility, it is for us to make sure that the Club gets better every day, and within the past year we have seen changes with our new president, Mr. Aleem Hussain.”
The Open tournament will be held on Saturday from noon and a large field of golfers is expected to vie for top honours.
Kissoon also highlighted that the Lusignan Golf Club is catering for the changing landscape in Guyana and the influx of persons to the country at this time.
“Most importantly, our country is having a change where those people for golf or like the corporate membership, like oil and gas, the ambassadors, business community, doctors, lawyers they all want to play golf for relaxation. So we want Guyana to be one of the countries that one day people would come down here to play top class golf, and maybe years to come, because of oil, they’ll have their tournament down here,” Kissoon explained.
Hussain, in accepting the sponsorship, expressed gratitude to Kissoon’s Furniture Store for its unwavering support of the sport.
“On Saturday it will be a Medal Play competition and they’re going to be prizes one through four and Kissoon’s is also giving special gift certificates to all the winners so they can come in and pick out any of these find selection of furniture here,” Hussain said.
He added, “It’s going to be a great tournament, it’s the million dollars shoot out for Kissoon’s. It’s the biggest tournament we’re going to have so far this year and Mr. Kissoon has been very gracious in ensuring we get off to a great start for the 2018 season.”
Meanwhile, Hussain added that all the leading local players will be on show this weekend. He also envisaged with the level of competitiveness among players so far this season, the Guyana Open later this year will be hotly contested.
