The Sugar Golf Tournament 2012: Friendly but fierce competition on the Teeth of the Dog

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From Wednesday March 28th through to Saturday March 31st, the 27th annual Sugar Golf Tournament was celebrated throughout Casa de Campo, with celebratory dinners and cocktail parties every night complimenting the 4-days of golf played across all of Casa de Campo’s golf courses; the Teeth of the Dog, the Links, the Dye Fore and the La Romana Country Club. And with some serious prize-money up for grabs, the competition on the courses was rather fierce, yet politely friendly of course!   

The Sugar Golf Tournament on the La Romana Country Club course

A simple yet glamorous golfing event to raise funds for the Fundación MIR charity founded by Lian Fanjul de Azqueta, the Sugar Golf Tournament is headed by Alfy Fanjul and consists of 2 days of practice rounds (Wednesday and Thursday), followed by 2 days of tournament rounds (Friday and Saturday) with a different evening celebration taking place at various locations throughout the Casa de Campo resort. This year the celebrations included a welcome cocktail hosted by IBI Nautica at the Victory Club in the Marina Casa de Campo (click here for photos), a dinner at the Fanjul family’s Casa de Campo estate, Casa Grande, an Argentine BBQ hosted by Monica and Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster  (click here for photos) and ended with a dinner-dance and prize giving celebration at the La Romana Country Club (photos coming soon).

Golfing with Pete Dye on the Teeth of the Dog

On Saturday March 31st, the second day of tournament rounds (and when the competition was really beginning to heat up), the gentlemen golfers were found playing on the La Romana Country Club and Teeth of the Dog golf courses – among them golf course designer Pete Dye himself.

The 27th annual Sugar Golf Tournament: Results

At the end of a great day of golf, the final winners, champions and runners up were decided, and here are all the results:

Men’s Championship

Net Division Champions: Massimo Bompan & Onorato Fiorentini – 120 Runners-up: Jerry Seay & Jeff Marcus – 124 3rd Place: Fernando Canto & Gerardo Pascual – 125 Gross Division Champions: Doyle McBride & Chris Mitchell – 139 Daily Low Scores Friday – Teeth of the Dog: Fidel Alonso & Jorge Diaz – 63 Friday – La Romana Country Club: Marco Martinelli & Guido Buratti – 61 Saturday – Teeth of the Dog: Gerry Goldsmith & Morton Cohn – 61 Saturday – La Romana Country Club: Nicolas Russo & Nicolas A. Russo – 58 Ladies Division Net Division Champions: Jennifer Ann Villa & Mary Ledesma – 116 Runners-up: Norma Reubel & Andrea Horwich – 121 3rd Place: Christy Powell & Patricia Newsome – 123 Gross Division Champions: Jennifer E. Villa & Elisa Murai – 137 Runners-up: Sally Crasso & Mauri Croze – 146 Daily Low Score Friday – Dye Fore: Crista Ryan & Maria Jose Oliva – 61 Saturday – Links: Lee Ann Palomo & Jo Ann Titley – 58

Click here for the overview of the entire Sugar Golf Tournament 2012. The following photos were taking during the the 27th annual Sugar Golf Tournament in Casa de Campo on Saturday March 31st 2012:  

The Fundación MIR The Fundación MIR is a non-profit organization which works to provide education to the children of the greater La Romana area, who are most in need. They run 3 schools; the MIR Esperanza (boys vocational school), the Escuela Tecnica Vocacional Fundación MIR (girls vocational school) and the Primaria MIR (infants school). For more information on the Fundación MIR and to make a donation, visit their website: www.mirinternational.org To make a donation contact the MIR office in Casa de Campo (809-523-8270) or in West Palm Beach (561-366-5095). Donations are tax deductible for US Citizens! To find out more and see photos and articles of events organized by the Fundación MIR – click here!