The Jamaica Golf Association’s Legends and Supastars play golf tournament debuted last Saturday at Caymanas Golf Club in St Catherine and came to a very exciting end on Sunday at Constant Spring Golf Club in St Andrew.

Paul Gray won the Legends category, while Leo Faure copped the top Supastars honours.

Saturday’s round-robin matches saw Gray winning two rounds of three five-hole match-ups and tying another, for two and a half points out of a possible three.

He was then placed in a Legends group of four players to start Sunday’s matches which were all knock-outs to the end. Gray went on to qualify for the round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.

In the final he battled Dr Carl Bruce, who entered his Legends group with three points, having won all of his matches at the round-robin stage on the first day. The two men battled five holes in the keenly-contested final down to the last shot.

Bruce needed to make par to win but he bogeyed the hole, while Gray held his nerve to par the hole for the victory.

Gray, who let out a loud roar along with some of his supporters at the edge of the green, was very happy.

“It feels very good and to associate myself with Legends and Legend beer that’s a good thing. This tournament has brought friends together, to be friends together, and I think it’s just a wonderful thing and I look forward to this continuing into the future.”

“I think the format was pretty interesting. The early part of the format gave everybody an opportunity to score and then get you to perfect your game. So, it’s like a warm-up phase and then you get into the competitive phase now where you have to actually focus, and I think the difference between winning and losing in the competitive phase is just kind of how you maintain your focus. And fortunately I was able to maintain that focus,” said Gray.

Supastars winner Leo Faure had a challenging first day of competition, winning only one of his three matches at the round-robin stage. That result ensured that he was placed in a Supastars group to start the knock-out competition on day two. Faure made steady progress throughout the knockout phases to get to the final against Richard Fraser. Faure dominated to win three of the five holes, to claim the Supastars category with two holes to spare.

Faure, who is fairly new on the local golf scene, said it was a fulfilling victory.

“The format on the different days I found challenging. [Saturday], it wasn’t that great for me. [I] didn’t have a good day [on Saturday] but what happened [Sunday] was it just being knockout, knockout, knockout [which] made it more enjoyable. It means you can concentrate on your opponent, one opponent, and just beat that one opponent. I feel very good for the win,” Faure explained.

Jodi Munn-Barrow, president of the Jamaica Golf Association, expressed her satisfaction with the tournament. “I’m extremely pleased. I mean, first, for Legend Jamaican Lager to come on board [as sponsor]. We reached out to them and immediately they said ‘absolutely’, this was their type of event. And two, it’s a new format and everybody really enjoyed it. We’ve played match play before but not a five-hole knockout type match play and everybody enjoyed it. It was exciting, people were very interested in it, and you could see everyone just wanting to play and play well. [I am] really looking forward to having another similar event probably later on in 2026.”

Munn-Barrow tied for third place with Patrick Bowen in the Legends category, while Courtney Cephas copped third place in the Supastars.