Yap Foo, McMaster cop Summer Classic Sporting Clays tourney
Robert Yap Foo and Wendy McMaster outgunned other shooters in the Jamaica Skeet Club’s Summer Classic Sporting Clays tournament.
They came out ahead of approximately 100 shooters at the Woodleigh Shooting Range in Clarendon last week Sunday.
The big field of competitors turned out in classes A, B, C, D and E; Juniors and Sub Juniors in Classes A, B and C; Ladies and Hunters or Beginners, while the 17-station course was set by in-house course-setter Oneil Brown.
The shooters were pleased with the conditions on the day as the venue is usually hot, humid and sometimes windy which can pose numerous challenges during the course of a shoot. On the day it was cloudy and definitely not as windy as is normally the case.
Robert Yap Foo and three other top gunners picked off 92 of the 100 birds on the course. This led to a shoot-off among Yap Foo, Ray McMaster, Bruce DuQuesnay, and nine-time national shotgun champion Ian Banks.
In the first shoot-off, Banks and DuQuesnay bagged two of the six birds, while Yap Foo and McMaster got three each. DuQuesnay and Banks went on to another shoot-off to determine the Class champion, which went to DuQuesnay who shot two from four to Banks’ one from four.
Yap Foo and McMaster were then involved in another three rounds of shoot-offs. At the end of the third tense round, Yap Foo was the one celebrating as the highest overall winner of the inaugural Summer Classic as he prevailed over runner-up McMaster after getting two from four birds after McMaster dropped all four birds.
“I feel very good. It was a very challenging course with a lot of people in the shoot-off and I came out on top. The birds in the shoot-off were really challenging, they set some really tough birds and it showed in the shoot-off,” said Yap Foo.
On the Ladies side, Wendy McMaster shot 82 (her second score in the 80s) to be crowned the Ladies champion as well as the Class D champion.
“I feel really good. Today was a great shoot. It feels really good to win the Ladies section, especially the D Class because I am shooting against some shooters that have been shooting a long time now and to be shooting for the second time in the eighties, it feels really good,” said McMaster.
President of the Jamaica Skeet Club Evan Thwaites said the members “embraced” the championship.
“We decided to create this really nice tournament held it at Woodleigh shooting complex this year and the members have embraced it. This is the first of a continuing series of tournaments,” he noted.
Thwaites commended the members who pitched in to make the event a success. He also congratulated the winners and the three shooters who moved up in class based on them winning their class. They are Roman Tavares-Finson, who was promoted to B Class, David Wong, who was promoted to D Class and Rajhir DaCosta, who moved up to E Class.
Sponsors for the Jamaica Skeet Club’s inaugural Summer Classic include Guardsman, Marksman, Highspeed Customs Brokers, Iron Rock Insurance, Thwaites Finson & Sharp Insurance, Lilian Limited, Robert Reid, Securipro, National Ice, Marco Polo Pasta, MGIB Insurance Brokers, Top Loaf Bake Shops, BD Service Station, Shacman Jamaica Powered by Tank Weld, Infinity Concrete, Radical Farms, Driftwood Gun Club, Pioneer Chocolate Company, The Flower Gallery, Brumalia House, Wisynco Wata, Tru Juice, Khaleel Azan and Shaun Barnes.
