An encouraging third place finish by SGC at this year’s GTA Interleague tournament last Saturday at Station Creek North golf course participated by six golf associations gave our members a pleasing morale lift when it comes to competing in such a huge event. First, we commend BGAT organization for hosting this year – a wonderful job indeed. Congratulations to TALAMAK organization for winning this year’s GTA championship trophy, a back to back effort. To all of us though, this was a matter of joining a goal towards getting together, seeing familiar faces, and playing just for fun of it. It was announced earlier that this golf venue could only take 156 players but only 154 players showed up. It was sad to say that those two players were from SGC. To tell you the truth, two of the clubs had high number of members willing to participate but because of the player limitation, a lot of the members sacrificially withdrew including a couple of their respective presidents. Nice. Somebody suggested that if next year’s high attendance is anticipated, another venue is a possibility to accommodate the number. A bigger headache to run for the host, don’t you think so?

Anyway, at twenty-two degrees Celsius the weather did not cooperate. No sun at all with the annoying intermittent showers feeling a bit chilly. It was gloomy throughout the day and was getting dark with two holes to play. Luckily, the competition went on. A select few excelled during the tournament guided by solid hopes of winning hard-earned prizes. SGC is so proud of these members shown below to helped SGC’s third placing and got rewarded by their performance. Here are the results:

TEAM:

1) Talamak – 819 (Champion)
2) PhilCan – 840
3) Sierra – 848
4) SOGA – 852
5) BGAT – 858
6) DBGC – 875

INDIVIDUAL:

Gross: Class A – Greg Santiago (74)
Class B – Mike Montilla (80) SGC
Class C – Val Agorilla (84)
Class D – Herbert Uy (93)
Net : Class A – Mike Meneses (65)
Class B – Arvin SalvaCruz (64)
Class C – Herbert Respall (59)
Class D – Ross Gonzales (65)

NASSAU CORNERS:

Class A: F9 – Rene Nacin (29) = $60.00 and Romie Lat (29) = $60.00
B9 – Ed Ilao (34) = ($120.00) SGC
18 – Mike Meneses (65) = $75.00 and Romie Lat (65) = $75.00

Class B: F9 – Mike Montilla (30) =$60.00 SGC and Bobby Chung (30) = $60.00
B9 – JC Montilla (30) = $120.00 SGC
18 – Arvin SalvaCruz (64) = $150.00

Class C: F9 – Herbert Respall (26) = $120.00
B9 – Herbert Respall (33) = $60.00 and Arun Thomas (33) = $60.00
18 – Herbert Respall (59) = $150.00

Class D: F9 – Ross Gonzales (28) = $60.00 and Tony Aguirre (28) = $60.00
B9 – Uriel Avancenia (32) = $ 60.00 and Ramon Gorospe (32) = $60.00
18 – Ross Gonzales (65) = $150.00

NOTES:

1) no show players were given 10 strokes per hole.
2) the 9-6-3 tie breaking rule was applied
3) Lina Mayo being the 4th best “C” player of Sierra, was assigned to be the 3rd player for their “D” class.

Here is the full list of SGC members who contributed to our third place finish:

SIERRA
A – Ed  Ilao – Sierra	71
A – Joey  Cruz – Sierra	75
A – Ross Bautista – Sierra	75
Class total	221
B – Mikee Montilla – Sierra	66
B – Manny Marquez – Sierra	66
B – JC  Montilla – Sierra	67
Class total	199
C – Sennix  Bontigao – Sierra	68
C – Sam Kim – Sierra	70
C – Exe Navarette – Sierra	71
Class total	209
D – Louie Romero – Sierra	71
C – Lina Mayo – Sierra	72
D – Mar de Vera – Sierra	76
Class total	219
TOTAL	848

At thirty-three degrees Celsius with the sun burning radiantly, it was not as hot as the weather people predicted. As a matter of fact, they put the greater Toronto area under extreme heat warning. At Glen Cedars golf course last Sunday, it was no bother to twenty-six players who enjoyed the weather having the climactic expectations vying to win the shortened Super Series 2 contest.

Bert Cerrudo won the day prize with net score of 64. He also won the Nassau front nine corner as well as the total net score. This was a sign he said seeing an inspiring light at the end of the tunnel. He also mentioned about Tiger Woods contributing to helping him with his short game. If you believe that, he has Golden Gate bridge to sell you.

Other Nassau corner winners: Bong Munson who had to birdie the 18th par 5 hole signed a whopping back nine net score of 31 to share with Julio Rodriguez who has got a habit of streaky wins when he got it going. Julio not to be outdone, fired a convincing eagle at the same hole.

 

 

 

 

 

This member with a lowest gross of the day, leads both Month 2 and POY contests. Thanks a lot to his consistent play, Jimmy Manguerra again showed he was nothing but a top dog with his gross score of spectacular two over 74. Did I say he fired the lowest gross scores seven times out of nine times he played? Any challenges guys?

Super Series 2 winners: Bert Cerrudo grabbed the first prize as SGC’s never give up, always frequently getting it close on par 3s, Mar DeVeyra seized second place with Jimmy Manguerra with both scoring net closing 69. Julio Rodriguez sat comfortably in fourth place.

Closest to the pin contest: Our high-strung treasurer Bingoy Peña no doubt got it close on hole 5. Whatever happened to our triple major title winner last year Joey Cruz as of late? This was the first time we heard of him by winning hole 16th. Giving us a break, wasn’t he?

 

 

 

 

 

Update in the SPOY contest: After nine rounds of completion, one of our nicest seniors, Seho Oh looks like a trending speeding off leader with an in your face attitude. Why? You would feel the same way if you lead by massive seventeen points over his closest rival. Too early to tell but let’s try to lull him to sleep for a while to catch up with him. Everybody knows how…..wink………wink.

Let us not forget that only four players who scored net scores in the 60s three of them were already mentioned above. The other was Mike Montilla who turned in a net score of second best 68.

ANNOUNCEMENT: BIGAT, the host for this GTA Interleague just announces that Station Creek management no longer intends to draw a 12-inch radius circle around every hole. Instead, players measure 12 inches (Station Creek provides a measuring stick for every group) from the hole and if the ball lies within the measurement, the ball is considered putted out. They claim that this idea was successfully imposed often at this venue with no hitch at all. You need to submit two score cards – one for GTA and the other to SGC with all scores & both score cards signed by all players in your respected group. SGC then verifies your individual score against the one submitted to GTA.

Those members playing in the GTA Interleague event, SGC suggests wearing dark colored long pants or shorts. Since this GTA event is a sanctioned SGC event, your score will count towards SGC’s scoring tabulation. This is the conclusion of Month 2 contest. Wish you good luck members.

At twenty-one degrees Celsius, not a whisper of grumbling about the weather this time around at Lionhead’s Masters golf course last Sunday. We would hope to see mother nature treating us this good at least until late Fall. Nothing wrong with a wishful thinking, is there? Nice to see twenty-eight players battle it out for position with looming Month 2 contest in the horizon. Consistency is the name of the game folks.

For a sport that’s always been perceived as dominated by men, sport needs women. It gives calm and changes the culture of the whole sport in most sensible ways, no matter how you look at it. SGC gladly welcomes back our lone female member, Lina Mayo. After a long, long hiatus Lina who values as one of the mainstays of this organization, plays not surprisingly exceptionally well but enjoys doing it.

Being weekend warriors, no one was sure who would score the lowest score most specially with a not so easy course like the Masters as indicated by high scores submitted by the players. Ron Wilson carded a lone net score in the sixties closing with a 68 to seal an emphatic three-shot victory over Manny Marquez to win the day prize.

Nassau corners: Who else but an almost sweep by Ron Wilson to seize the back nine and total net score. Manny Marquez on the heels of a Nassau sweep last week was still able to grind out a good front nine win. The pieces are coming together for Manny and it figures that this maybe his breakout season.

Who has got the most accurate shots? This crafty veteran, Mar DeVeyra who would surprise us more often than not, shot it close on the par 3 eight hole. Jimmy Manguerra in all likelihood got the better of us by shooting the closest at the long hazardous eleventh hole.

ANNOUNCEMENT: BIGAT, the host for this GTA Interleague just announces an increase of $5 to the entry fee to make it a total of $125. This is due to the choice of dinner menu with Station Creek according to them. This better be good.

Super Series is this week at Glen Cedars.

SGC would like to thank and appreciate this member’s recruiting efforts. At the start of the season, Ed Ilao persuaded three people to join SGC’s summer past time and impulsively added another one of late. Ed proudly claims that because of his well-liked personality and swayed ability, almost half of current members were his recruits. A wild remote guess is that Ed sidelines as an employment recruiter for one of the job agencies in town. Don’t you think so?

SGC welcomes our newest member, Nayem Baig. Hang in there big fella.

We would like to encourage new members who are not too familiar with golf rules to try to learn and acquaint themselves with the subject by helping themselves to at least read and understand golf basic rules. Reading materials are widely available on golf online sites. But surely enough, it is no surprise to anyone that any SGC member would be glad to enlighten you most of these rules accordingly as we go about enjoying our season. There is never a  doubt of applying these worthy rules not to make it a pleasurable sport for you and me.

At twenty-one degrees Celsius with temps leaning more on the cooler side, the sun came and went abruptly. There was a bit of irritable intermittent rain showers that took over last Sunday at Station Creek golf course during the round. The showers did not last long though. Surprisingly, most of the twenty-six players that showed up plus two guests obviously tried to prelude a round of golf for the upcoming GTA event in three weeks.

It was not that easy playing golf that Sunday because of the wet environment that happened late in the day. It was no concern to one senior member who shot even par at the front nine. Ross Bautista carved out a net score of net 64 to win the day prize. Ross was the only one of three players that broke net of seventy. The other two were Jimmy Manguerra and Manny Marquez.

If so happened that there were handicap prohibitions, this guy would take us to the cleaners every week. Jimmy Manguerra signing his scorecard with a 75, bagged the best gross of the day.

Nassau corner winners: Talking about Manny Marquez, he racked up two birdies and seven pars on his way to a sweeping win, winning all corners – front nine, back nine and total net of 65. Two weeks ago, Manny winning almost a similar feat at Royal Ontario golf course by seizing the front nine and total net together with the day’s prize.

Closest to the pin contest: An aspiring new member, Louie Romero fired a well deserving shot on the 5^th hole while Ross Bautista added to his winning ways with an accurate shot at the 12^th hole.

Quote of the day: A senior member who found new gratifying life playing golf from the forward tees said, “I could outdrive anybody without hitting it yet from the red tees.”………..Fred Halili. More power to you, Fred.

Due to the advanced scheduling to commit to future events and coordinating the adversity of getting third party involvement, SGC commends the cooperation of members to make last week’s Station Creek event and this coming GTA Interleague tournament a success. Without your support, nothing is possible.