Two golds and a bronze in golf and another gold by the sailors, added to the seven collected by the gymnasts, capped a superb day for Bermuda on the penultimate day of the Island Games.

Late yesterday evening Jarryd Dillas sunk a putt on the third hole of sudden-death play-off to win the men's golf championship, raising his arms in triumph only minutes after team-mate Daniel Augustus had clinched the bronze with another play-off victory at the same hole.

Those succeses along with the performances of Damian Palanyandi and Camiko Smith meant they would also collect team gold.

As they were celebrating, so were the sailors who also lifted the team title on the waters of Eastern Harbour and came agonisingly close to winning individual medals.

"It feels good," said Dillas, who has long been one of the Island's best amateurs. "I think this team has a great camarederie and a good future.

"For me personally, this is very pleasing. I wanted to win badly. It's a long time since I won something like this."

Dillas had tied for first after the final round of the men's individiual with the Isle of Man's David Jones, both at four-under-par. Dillas carded 70 at the Castle Course of the Alands GC while Jones posted 69.

They parred the first two play-off holes before Dillas enjoyed a slice of luck on the third, a par-five, where his drive veered into the trees but bounced back into the fairway from where he launched his second shot onto the green and two-putted for birdie. Jones found the fairway but his approach sailed over the green and out of bounds, effectively dashing his hopes.

Augustus had finished at one-under following a last round 70 but was caught by Paul Lowey, also from the Isle of Man, who returned a 67.

They too couldn't be separated in the first two holes of a play-off but recent Amateur Strokeplay champion Augustus nailed a putt at the third to snatch the bronze.

Damian Palanyandi ended on a high with a 69 to finish 6th on plus five. He'd carded an even better 68 on Wednesday only to follow with a 81 which ruined his medal hopes.

Camiko Smith finished 14th in the 77-strong field with a last round 74.

In the women's competition, Ebonie Burgess finished up with a 77 to place fifth overall, Tariqah Walikraam eighth (72), Katyna Rabain 15th (77) and Katrin Burnie 23rd (84).

Despite Brett Wright declaring he'd never "sail here again" because of the "unfair conditions", he and his Laser team-mates did easily enough to lift the team gold.

Malcolm Smith just missed an individual medal in the Laser Standard Rig class, placing fourth overall with a sixth and a fourth yesterday.

Wright was sixth following a 12th and third yesterday.

In the Laser Radial Rig class, Rockal Evans enjoyed his best outings of the week, placing second and third on the final day to finish fourth overall while Sara Lane Pantovic Adderley, the highest placed woman in the field, was fifth, collecting a ninth and a fifth yesterday.

Boardailor Alex Jones placed fifth overall after a ninth and 14th yesterday, earlier in the week having held down the bronze medal position.

Bermuda's women's team will play for the bronze medal today.

But it could quite easily have been for gold after a thrilling semi-final last night when they went down 2-3 to Faroe Islands before a jam-packed crowd at the Baltichallen gymnasium.

Some of the players left the court in tears, knowing that their chance of lifting the championship had slipped from their grasp in a contest that could have gone either way, and ultimately in their favour had it not been for two dubious calls by the umpire at a crucial time at the end of the third set which threw the momentum back in Faroes' favour.

The Faroes will now meet Saaremaa, who beat Menorca in the other semi-final, for gold while Bermuda take on the Spaniards to decide who takes home the bronze.

Faroes looked liked they were about to steamroll their way to victory early in last night's clash but were soon to find out this would be no walkover. Trailing 4-10, Bermuda quickly regained their composure and at one stage led 24-23 only to go down 26-24 after a nerve-jangling final few points.

An equally rivetting second set saw Bermuda prevail 25-23, and leading 23-20 in the third they looked on course to take a 2-1 advantage only to be denied two points which went in their opponents' favour by what looked to be two poor umpiring decisions. They lost that set 26-24, took the fourth 25-17 but after a slow start in the deciding fifth they were pipped 15-12.

Adding to their misery was a painful leg injury suffered by Beth Rae who had to be carried off court.

Coach Gary Leblanc said afterwards: "It was a very emotional match, it would have been our first trip to the gold medal round, and we wanted it badly. It was looking good, so yes, it was a tough loss.

"I have to say we were very disappointed with some of the officiating. There were some crucial calls. The teams were evenly matched, and that's when the quality of the refereeing is so important. A bad call can hurt and is this case it did.

"But we shouldn't have been there in the first place, but we were. They are a tough team.

"We can regroup for tomorrow, refocus and look at what happened tonight and hopefully we can get the bronze."