{"id":10979,"date":"2011-08-10T09:37:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10979"},"modified":"2011-08-10T09:38:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:38:28","slug":"winners-announced-in-royal-bank-caribbean-amateur-golf-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/winners-announced-in-royal-bank-caribbean-amateur-golf-championships","title":{"rendered":"Winners Announced In Royal Bank Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of the Trinidad and Tobago Ladies Team accept the RBC Royal Bank 55th Caribbean Amateur Golf Championship George Teale Memorial Trophy for the Ladies Amateur Competition from Suresh Sookoo, Chief Executive Officer, Caribbean Banking, RBC. Teams from nine Caribbean countries participated in the Caribbean\u2019s premier golf tournament which took place in Trinidad & Tobago from August 1-6, 2011. (Photo: Business Wire)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad–Host nation Trinidad and Tobago walked away overall tournament winner, proudly hoisting the Arthur Zaidie trophy in the just-concluded first-ever RBC Royal Bank-sponsored Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships (CAGC 2011).<\/p>\n

This was the first title sponsorship undertaken by the Caribbean Banking operations of RBC since the launch of its new RBC Royal Bank brand in June. RBC Royal Bank was the tournament\u2019s only sponsor in the financial services category.<\/p>\n

From August 1-6th, Trinidad and Tobago hosted teams from the Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the OECS, Puerto Rico and Turks & Caicos, as the Caribbean\u2019s top amateur golfers pursued victory in the following categories:<\/p>\n

1. Men Over 50 Competition (Francis & Steele-Perkins Trophy)<\/p>\n

2. Men Over 60 Competition (Higgs & Higgs Trophy)<\/p>\n

3. Men Over 35 Competition (Ramon Baez Trophy)<\/p>\n

4. Ladies\u2019 Open Competition (George Teale Memorial Trophy)<\/p>\n

5. Men\u2019s Open Competition (Hoerman Cup)<\/p>\n

6. Overall Team Competition (Arthur Zaidie Trophy)<\/p>\n

The Puerto Rican national team captured the Higgs and Higgs Trophy, while denying defending champion Barbados from retaining the coveted Hoerman Cup in the Men\u2019s Open Competition. The Arthur Zaidie trophy for Overall Team Competition went to Trinidad and Tobago, which also earned the Ramon Baez Trophy, the Francis & Steele-Perkins Trophy and the George Teale Memorial Trophy. Running second was Puerto Rico, followed by Dominican Republic in third place.<\/p>\n

The final day\u2019s play was injected with additional flavour as players teed off for RBC\u2019s \u201cBirdies for Charity\u201d initiative: by the end of the day, TT$75,000 was raised for the RBC\/RBTT Caribbean Children\u2019s Cancer Fund and RBC contributed additional funds towards each team\u2019s designated charity in their home country, also based on the number of birdies made.<\/p>\n

RBC Royal Bank operates in the majority of countries that participated in CAGC 2011. Aside from this sponsorship being in alignment with RBC\u2019s overall commitment to golf, \u201cit was an ideal visibility opportunity for RBC Royal Bank, as we strive to raise awareness of our new brand across the Caribbean,\u201d said Mr. Suresh Sookoo, CEO, Caribbean Banking, RBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy supporting Caribbean player development from the ground level all the way up to the PGA and LPGA Tours, as well as providing funding for training and high-performance opportunities for the future Caribbean stars, we are committed to making a positive impact in the communities where we live and work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

About RBC in the Caribbean<\/p>\n

With more than 100 years of heritage serving the region, RBC operates under the banner of RBC and RBTT with a presence in 19 countries, 125 combined branches and close to 7,000 employees serving more than 1.6 million clients. As one of the Caribbean\u2019s leading diversified financial services companies, RBC provides personal and commercial banking, wealth management, corporate and investment banking, insurance and trust and asset management services to a wide range of clients, including individuals, small businesses, general commercial entities, regional and multi-national corporations and governments. For more information, please visit rbc.com\/caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trinidad and Tobago walked away overall tournament winner in the first-ever RBC Royal Bank-sponsored Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships (CAGC 2011).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[83,100,50,59,131],"class_list":["post-10979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-banks","tag-caribbean-2","tag-golf","tag-islands","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}