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