For a while last Sunday at Royal Woodbine golf course, there was a threat of intermittent rain for darker clouds were imminent in the horizon. At nineteen degrees Celsius, it was the sporadic sun that came up instead and the rain never came. Not until twenty-one players plus three guests finished their rounds – what a lucky break from mother nature.

Are the golf courses becoming less and less challenging this year or players are significantly getting better? In this equation at this early stage of our summer past time, I’d say perceptibly it is the latter. Three different golf courses SGC had played so far, I never seen low scoring unveiled by players producing a lot of ties with the same low scores as well. The renaissance men, big hitting Ross Bautista and Joey Cruz prevailed in the partially soak laden course landing themselves the best gross score of the day, signing an 81. What an honest to goodness performance by these two men.

 

 

 

 

 

Prize of the day came about to another renaissance man, Bingoy Peña who grounded out a sparkling net of 66 alongside Mike Montilla, SGC’s two-time POY champion year 2007 & 2015. Noticeably after the round, few members distinctly saw an ear to ear wry smile on Bingoy’s face as he was turning in. And it stayed ‘til we left the premises. And on to his sleep because of more to come? There’s a lot of ways to skin a cat, so they say.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nassau event: As promised, more to come for Bingoy P’s efforts last Sunday by staging a winning front, back and total but he was not alone in all categories except the total net score. Jojo Dizon shared the front with him, while two other effervescent seniors – Mar DeVeyra & Seho Oh earned back nine ties with him as well. Good shooting, seniors.

 

 

 

 

 

Accuracy shot contest: Yeah, it was him again Bingoy P. took the honours of shooting the closest on par 3 hole seven while Ed Ilao got the best shot at the longer par 3 hole fifteen.

 

 

 

 

 

A sophomore member, most known for never laying up attitude while playing a long hazardous hole, Jess Velarde took care of firing an eagle on par 5 ninth hole. Way to go.

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to the winners.