On a cold day, with the sun occasionally breaking through cloud cover in the middle of the afternoon and the wind howling, no one was tearing up the place except three people who carded a low net round of high 60s – Julio R. shot 68 with both Jun P. & Manny M. shooting 69. It was a resounding win for Julio as he took the low net front nine and overall scores. Jojo D. again won the back nine just like last week tying Seho O. One thing that did not go unnoticed was a low gross of 76 by Jimmy M. who did it with a slight limp to one of his legs.

Race to POY: Not much change here as the top three people are only separated by three strokes between them. Joey C. is still hanging on to the lead by a thread followed by Sennix B. & Seho O. in second and third place respectively. This battle is so close that someone deserving to win has to show the ability to handle the pressure with two games remaining. Rey P. and Levi M. still have a chance of getting to the winning circle. All they need is focus on a good score and see where the rest of the chips fall.

Closest to the pin: According to Bong M. who runs the closest to the pin contest, it was improbable to hold it due to shotgun start. There was another tournament group that started playing simultaneously with SGC.

Race to month 5: This Sunday is the culmination of Month 5 contest. In our assumption those sixteen players with two rounds of golf played this month, still mathematically are in contention. We all need the right scenarios to plunge correctly for this Sunday’s round. Seemingly enough with smiles on their faces because of the current standing at the top are Manny M. and JC M. with total three week net scores of 208 & 209 respectively. Meanwhile with still a round to go, dangerously sitting close at the doorstep with total two week net scores of 134 are the leaders last week – Joey C. & Sennix B.

Mother Nature as expected did not cooperate at all throughout the tournament giving the twenty-three players that showed up something to complain about. There were sporadic showers, then sunshine, then rain in addition to the gusting wind that contributed to low temps hovering around 13 degrees C. PJ P., a familiar face showed up to play last Sunday. Thanks to Julio for treating the boys a round of beer. Levi M. served his delicious pancit and pork sisig. There was an abundance of food as Seho who likened to feed the whole army week in & week out typically brought his usual bags of chips, peanuts and fresh grapes. We appreciate very much this Samaritan & unselfish display of character, don’t we boys?

Cheers to the winners! At the least some people enjoyed a better day than anyone else. Let’s see who’s got the right frame of mind to win going to next week at Kedron Dells for the first of two rounds of the Grand Finals.

Reminder to those players who last played at Kedron Dells which got cancelled. Please do not forget to bring your cancellation stub/receipt to get credit towards your green fee.

Winning POY five times in the past speaks volumes. Joey C. was often teased by fellow players about his personal golf clubs that he uses up to now. They are so old and torn that they look like pre-historic equipment used in the Stone Age era. This is what he says about it: “I really do not worry what they say about my clubs. Why change if they cannot match my five POY awards with their new tech golf clubs?”. In all seriousness folks, Joey C. has proven last Sunday at Century Pines that this is the case as he carded a low net 64 taking the front nine as well.  Jojo D. with a net of 30 took the back tied with Mar DV. Sometimes a game of golf could be demoralizing at times to people and it happens to everybody. Take for example an aspiring game of JC M. He shot a low net 65 losing a stroke to Joey and got beaten by a stroke as well in the back nine. The good news is JC’s game is coming around with three games to play. Our foursome of Sennix B., Manny M., & Levi M. was so competitive that it inspired all of us to flash respective scores. We were so relaxed and enjoying each company that we felt like we were the only ones playing the course.

Closest to the pin winners: Saed J. took the 5^th hole while Jun P. won the 15^th. Both players winning for the second time now.

POY news: A change of pace and leaders. Joey C. who came on the heels of a stagy low net of 64 took the outright lead. Astonishingly for Seho O. who is struggling of late and had the lead for twenty-one consecutive weeks, drops down two spots to third place. Sennix B. is giving Joey a run for his laurels as he stood firm in second place a stroke behind. Jojo D. and Rey P. maintaining their usual place in the sun placed fourth and fifth respectively. It is so close that it is still anybody’s award to win. Do not lose hope folks just as yet. The way to look at it is, with three games to go if your best total of nine games is close to the leaders, you still have a shot at it. You also need a lot of help from the leaders of course for them not to card good scores. Let’s see what happens.

Race to final month: The leaderboard is so crowded that almost everybody got a shot at this thing.  If you have a single game officially registered, you have still a chance of winning with two games to go. Who leads it? Sennix B. & Joey C. sit atop with total net of 134 followed by three players with 137 – Levi M., JC M., and another player.

Twenty-five players who showed up to try their mettle last Sunday could not complain about the perfect weather on top of a very reasonable green fee. We were treated by the winners to a round of beer by the winners at the clubhouse. Afterwards upon an invitation by Joey C., we headed to a Vietnamese restaurant for a stomach warming bowl of soup. The players who showed up at the restaurant thanked Joey C. for footing the bill.

Again congratulations to all winners. See ya all next Sunday. It is a shotgun start at 1:00 PM at Maples of Ballantrae.

“If any of the attending players failed to complete their round due to weather related reason (course closure) during one or both of the scheduled Grand Final (GF) rounds, we will use the last 2 completed scheduled rounds to determine the GF winners.”

Example 1:  1st day GF not completed and 2nd day GF completed.  Use the 2nd GF round and the completed round prior to the 1st GF round.

Example 2:  1st and 2nd day scheduled GF’s not completed.  Use the last 2 rounds completed prior to the GF scheduled dates.

Note: Example of rounds mentioned above are based on rounds officially played before GF.

Well, well, well. Some Sunday this was. Congratulations to Sennix B. for carding a brilliant net of 63 last Sunday at Glen Cedars. He displayed an all-around game of golf most especially his short game according to JC M. who was in the same foursome with Sennix. He also took the low net back nine with Levi M. grabbing the front nine.

Closest to the pin contest winners: Manny C. ‘The Marksman’ took the third hole winning his second week in a row. Jimmy M. used his wedge to get very close to hole sixteenth.

POY news: Down the stretch and headed for home, it’s getting tight at the top folks with barely four games to go. Sennix M. with his low net 63 last Sunday, catapulted him to second place from fourth place. Mere three strokes separates him from Seho O. who is still holding on to the lead. For a short stretch of time, Seho’s idle machine is not firing at top speed thus opening doors for players with huge opportunity to catch up. Do not count out Joey C. and Jojo D. who sit third and fourth places respectively. Rey P. propelled himself to solo fifth place after a net of hard earned 70. Not so far away tied for seventh place are Nap P. and Jimmy M. eight strokes behind fifth place.  Anything can happen for the next four weeks with more stakes in the offing. This is where practice, practice and more practice would come about together with the mental toughness to garner the POY award. What a race this has become this year.

Idyllic weather greeted the twenty-four players who showed up. It did get a little nippy late afternoon. There were boisterous players all around the golf course. We suspect that this was a company event of some sort. They were so unruly that it was almost impossible to tee off peacefully not to mention the turtle pace of play. It took us three hours and a half to complete eleven holes.  Complaining to the Marshalls at hand did not do any good at all. The good side of this story was the winners let us forget the whole thing by treating us to drinks, fries and chicken wings after the round. Thanks also to Seho who brought grapes, cantaloupe, & sweet corn. Bingoy P. as usual was seen giving away candies and nuts. Nice to see Lina M. playing with us again.

We’ll see ya all this Sunday at Century Pines.

Let us call this week ‘WEEK of the FREDs’. This past week or so must be the week for the ‘young onced’ or should we say ‘oldies but goodies’. We are proudly talking about the two Freds – De los Reyes & Halili winning big time at Kingsforest. Streaking Fred H. won the SuperSeries 4 tied with Bingoy P. both carding net score of 69. Third & fourth places spread out amongst three players – Nap P., Jimmy M., & another player. Fred DLR who very seldom takes out the mullah from his own pocket to bet, must have sensed something good before the start of the round. He decided to chip in and won the lowest overall net score of 67. Jun P. attested that Fred’s short game was in a very good form. Fortunately for Fred H. & Bingoy P., Fred DLR did not join the SuperSeries contest for it could have been a sweep. He walked the course as he always did on any course. Manny M. commandingly took care of the back nine with a sizzling net score of 32. Paul H. who was in the same group was quoted saying, “Manny could have had much lower score if not for very few mistakes“.

POY news: Looks like Seho O. is poised to project as the leader to the end. Jojo D. is still in touch of the lead as well as Joey C. & Sennix B. Few players rally to find their spots in the top five with five games to go. Bouncing back is Jimmy M. onto seventh place a mere stroke behind fifth place.

Closest to the pin winners: Jun P. shot admirably on 7th hole. Nap P. never got challenged on the 14th. Glad to see both start their winning tracks again.

Perfect weather for a round of golf leaning a little bit to the chilly side for the twenty-four players who showed up divided to seven flights. The starter person at KF acknowledged that this was SGC’s last day of playing this course as he started shaking our hands saying “See you next year”. He is a chatty and a warm person indeed.

We had a hearty get together at the club house cafeteria after the round as most of the winners treated us with soft drinks, beer, fries and the famous KF chicken wings. Joey C. who had to leave early to take care of personal business, left an amiable job of handling the golf scores after the round to others. Much appreciation to Jimmy M`s handling of the score sheet for the day. Thanks to Bong M. who took care of supervising the ordering of food. He happened to shell out his own money (you ought to know he was not one of the winners folks). Nice of Manny M. to keep beer flowing when all jugs were all emptied and consumed. He already contributed prior to the cause.

We miss playing with one of our members, Ray M. SGC wishes he could get over his difficulties with the help of the Almighty.

Officially we have only three weeks of summer left. Sad to say that we only have five games remaining. Likely the good times will be going soon and time to be moving on separate ways again.

See ya all next week at Glen Cedars.