What a break. I meant what a break really, offered by mother nature after miserable three consecutive weeks of lousy weather afflicting rounds of playing golf in as many Sundays. Weather transforming to a comfortable temperature surroundings something like eighteen degrees Celsius last Sunday around Hamilton peninsula at Kingsforest golf course. Eighteen players who showed up were blessed with almost perfect weather with the sun mostly up for the whole afternoon as we played with the wind as a no factor at all. Hopefully this was a good indication of good things to come, weather wise.

Back to golf results. Parity in golf as opposed to individual dominance, might not be everyone’s favorite, but it could be certainly entertaining and most specially if you were a participant. A swift turnaround in fortunes of any player early on could give confidence and set how competition would be in such a more confrontational manner. At a point where it’s about quality, not quantity Jimmy Manguerra fired a brilliant four over par 76 gross score, roared to a gross eight-shot triumph over his closest competitor in Round 6. Jimmy slammed the door closed on his way to sweeping aside any competition winning the Nassau total score as well as the back nine & the day’s prize. Two players worth mentioning – Ed Ilao who won the Nassau front nine, and Joey Cruz coasted to firing gross scores in the high 80s.

Closest to the pin contest: After Sunday previous, another precise swing paid off for Julio Rodriguez at the seventh par 3 hole while Exe Navarette displaying a memoir precise golf swing of old, got it so close to the pin on hole fourteenth.

ANNOUNCEMENT: A new declaration of golf rules concerning pace of play and choice of playing from the forward (red) tees for male players as voted on by majority of members are added to supplement SGC Local Rules 2017. Prez Joey Cruz hereby declares:

1. If one or more players in a group playing in a sanctioned SGC’s round of golf deliberately delay the game during a round, all players in the group will be penalized 2 strokes. The other players in the group not causing the deliberate delay must warn the player(s) of his/her action immediately before moving on. If the so said player(s) will continue delaying the game after the warning, then that/those player(s) will be disqualified. A non-action from the other players in the very same group to warn player(s) who is/are causing the deliberate delay, all the players in the group face disqualification.

2. Any male member 75 years of age or older, or approaching 75 years of age in a year may opt to tee off from the red tees in his very first game in any given year. (See ruling regarding Established Tee Box Selection) Same age ruling applies to a new member provided he has already an established handicap index. (Established handicap index from his former club or the normal SGC handicapping process. Both depending on SGC approval) Since most golf courses do not offer course & slope rating for men teeing off from the red tees, it has been decided that the net score adjustment assessed to a player teeing off from the white tees will be used plus an additional stroke. Example: If net adjustment from the white tees is 2, the net adjustment from the red tees will be: 2 + 1 = 3. This will take effect immediately for those players who have not yet played their first game of the year at next Sunday’s game at Glen Cedars, June 4, 2017. These two amended rulings will stay within SGC Local Rules for the coming years until SGC decides to obliterate them.