A seven-member team will travel to The Bahamas next week to represent Saint Lucia at the Caribbean Amateur Golf Championship (CAGC), the premier team and individual amateur golf event in the region, organised by the Caribbean Golf Association. Four men, two women, and a team manager will compete against top players from across the Caribbean at the Royal Blue Golf Course in Nassau.
Saint Lucia, which joined the regional golf association in May, will be without Yadhu Urs. The country’s top golfer will be competing at the Central American and Caribbean Games instead.
The CAGC team includes Nicolas Beaubrun and Harith Khan, two of Saint Lucia’s promising young golfers. Beaubrun has played for the national team since at least 2006, when he won the Boys Under-13 division at the Trinidad Open. He is the 2025 Saint Lucia Open net champion and has also competed at the 2022 Latin America Amateur Championship and the 2023 Eastern Caribbean Golf Association Championship, where he helped Saint Lucia win the team title.
Khan has played for Saint Lucia in both regional and international amateur championships, gaining recognition for his steady performances and improvement in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR). He was also on the national team at the 2023 ECGA and qualified for the 2025 Latin America Amateur Championship after finishing second at the 2024 Saint Lucia National Invitational.
Eugene Edwin has been playing for 40 years and is renowned as a senior gross champion and a multiple-time regional tournament winner. He recently added to his achievements by winning the Senior Gross Champion title at the 2024 ECGA Championship and the senior men’s division at the Saint Lucia Open.
Player-coach Tim Mangal has played for Saint Lucia in regional competitions and has mentored many of the country’s top amateur golfers. As head coach of the national golf programme, he helped lead Team Saint Lucia to the 2025 ECGA Amateur Gross Championship.
Catherine Spooner finished third in the women’s division at the 2025 ECGA. Her biggest win so far came this year at home, when she won the women’s division at the Saint Lucia Open, after placing in the top three last year.
The other female player going to The Bahamas, Marisa Groenewald, was on the 2023 ECGA champion team. She won two titles at the 2025 Saint Lucia Golf Open and has become one of the top local players.
Dwayne King will manage the team. He is the public relations officer of Golf Saint Lucia Inc., an amateur player, and an administrator who has played a key role in growing and promoting golf in Saint Lucia.
At the 2026 CAGC, men will play a course of about 6,827 yards (6,242m), and women will play a course of 6,152 yards (5,625m). The 2025 event took place at Barbados Golf Club and included three days of 18-hole stroke play, totalling 54 holes for both men and women. National teams from Caribbean countries compete for the Hoerman Cup (men) and the George Teale Trophy (women).
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