The team of Sean Morris and John Dunbar emerged winners of the 15th Couples Resorts Annual Charity Golf tournament after they topped a record field of 98 contestants at the Sandals Golf and Country Club on Sunday.

The amateur tournament was graced with bright sunny conditions throughout the day at the picturesque venue which is one of the most popular courses in Jamaica.

The event raised $1.9 million and was played in a scramble format which saw the handicaps of both team members being combined. This accounted for a gross and a net score.

The gross is the score before it is adjusted by a handicap, while the handicap is dependent on how much one scores above or below the course’s par of 72 on a regular basis.

Morris and Dunbar followed up on their previous win in the LIME Cup when they ended with the top gross score of 65. The pair of Gifford Wilmot and Clive Chambers, who had a combined score of 66, took the runners-up spot.

Meanwhile, the team of Mary Kay Munsterteiger and Gerrard Fontaine finished with the top-net score of 62, followed by the pair of Chris Cruz and Angel Gomez, who accumulated a score of 62.5.

Dennis Atkinson and Oshane Haye finished third with a score of 63.5, so too Opeton Marshall and Dudley Wilson, who were fourth. Clifton Johnson and Yardires Fonseca completed the top-five with a score of 64.

Dunbar was pleased with the high level of competition provided by the other golfers.

“It (the competitiveness) was very high. I mean we knew that some of the best golfers from all over the island would be here, so Sean and I were not vying for the net. We came up with the gross because we are giving strokes to the field; we came out knowing it would be tough, but we came out to win the gross and we did,” he told journalists.

Meanwhile, Morris explained that the scramble format assisted them in elevating their games.

“It (the format) may or may not be a more pressurised game depending on how you choose which one of the partners play which shot first. John Dunbar is a very accomplished player and he feels comfortable in setting the pace in terms of putting a shot out there safely,” he noted.

“So if he hits off the tee back into the freeway, it would give me more confidence to probably go for more distance. So we kind of bring the golf course to its knees in that regard. On the other hand, if you have a partner who is always hitting the balls in the wrong places, then the pressure is going to be transferred to the second player,” Morris continued.

“I don’t think John and I, at the level we play, have that problem. So it is almost like we are having our own little competitive game within our thing, and it drives us in producing the good quality result that enabled us to win the gross trophy here tonight,” he added.