2015 GTAA Interleague Tournament at Bethesda Grange Golf Course – over and done with. Players came and went – 137 of them last Sunday. First of all in behalf of SGC (Sierra Golf Club) members, a heartfelt congratulations to SOGA for winning the solid team championship. Extra appreciation to PHILCAN for hosting this year’s event. We all knew how hard it was to organize a participated sporting event like this one most especially without the cooperation of Mother Nature. SGC would like to thank PHILCAN President Junn Siao as well as his members for a job well done.

PROS & CONS at yesterday’s event: PROS – PHILCAN’s determination to continue to get going with this event that was plagued with rain all day. It was really pouring out there even before the shotgun start went underway but the downpour slowed down a bit throughout the round.  Mostly thought that this bad weather might cause a cancellation of this event and a re-schedule was in the offing but most of these probabilities were considered improbable. CONS – a number of different club members who did not bother lingering around until the ceremony was over. A slap in the face to a hosting club. Every participating player knew that this kind of event which happened only once a year was an all-day affair……or more. So please, spare us the excuses. Gone were the days of mutual respect and sportsmanship, you’d think?

SGC’s worthwhile effort to compete at last Sunday’s event was a tad fruitful after all. SGC was proud to thank majority of the members who showed up and supported this event. Golf as we all knew was not easy to compete as a team. So we looked at this on a different light – as an individual sport like as always. SGC bragged about the performance of two members who according to Junn Siao was the “best of the best” during the award ceremony as   he referred to the best gross score by a player. Jimmy Manguerra who posted an impressive gross round score of 77 romped away as the best player in the field. Guess who secured the second best gross? Our very own Rene Querubin who carded gross score of 80. Yes folks, these two SGC members provided the best one-two punch for the day’s event.

Other SGC individual winners: Rene Q. – Nassau overall net (67) score of class A;  Paolo B. – Nassau net (30) back corner of class A; Eddie I. – longest drive.

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Congratulations to all winners. ‘Til then, see you next year.