Rafael and Michael Santana win the "Fin de Zafra" golf tournament

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Congratulations to Rafael and Michael Santana – winners of the “Fin de Zafra” golf tournament played last Sunday the 7th of July on Casa de Campo’s Links golf course. The “Fin de Zafra” golf tournament is celebrated every year to celebrate the successful close of Central Romana’s sugar production season and is sponsored by Central Romana and organized by the Cajuiles Golf Club, directed by Francisco Micheli, former president of the La Romana Baseball team “Los Toros”, who is also Central Romana’s Vice-President of Public Relations.

This year the tournament’s 60 players included Ramon A. Menendez, Executive Vice President of the Central Romana Corporation and Alfonso Paniagua, Vice President Administrator Costasur Dominicana, who were playing with Ramon A. Brenes (the grandson of Ramon A. Menendez) and J.J. Arteaga. Amongst the other players were executives of the Central Romana Corporation – the largest private employer in the Dominican Republic and also the the largest producer and exporter of sugar in the country – many who had been working for the company for more than 20 years. Playing in a “best ball” format, the tournament teed off at 8:30am on the Links and despite a few brief showers of light rain, was a great success. Following the tournament, a prize-giving lunch was celebrated at the Club Caza y Pesca in La Romana, where Casa de Campo golf professional Raul Cendoya gave a short speech of thanks having announced he would be leaving Casa de Campo at the end of the month, after working for the golf department for the last 2 years.

Congratulations to the winners:

1st place: Rafael and Michael Santana, score – 57 2nd place: Ramón Campechano and Federico Felix, score- 57 3rd place: Eusebio Núñez Malena and Victor Abreu, score – 58

Prize-winner Michael Santana, is no stranger to winning golf tournaments, but on this occasion taking home the trophy with his dad was a special moment:

“I honestly owe that one to my dad, he played fantastic all day and even we were surprised at our score when we finished, because we didn’t feel that we had done so well. Of course winning any tournament is special, but doing so with dad as my partner is even more special and something that I will remember for the rest of my life.”
— Michael Santana
Michael is a former student of the Abraham Lincoln School, who is now studying Aviation Management at the Florida Institute of Technology, his mum, Sharon Santana is a French teacher at the Abraham Lincoln, while his father Rafael Santana is Vice President of furfural at the Central Romana Corporation.