Well, well, well. With scorching heat at 34 degrees Celsius, which was a little bit over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, twenty-one players showed up and played Royal Ontario golf course last Sunday. Surprisingly, few players rarely complained about the searing heat as it was not so bad with minor windy presence as we went about our rounds. None of the players I recalled walked the course though as it turned out it was a good idea. Indeed.

Equaling the lowest round of the week, the effervescent Fred Halili sat at 65 net score alongside the hard-hitting Jess Velarde. They shared the honors of taking the day prize. Remarkably enough, this was the very first for both gentlemen. More coming from both members, don’t you think so? This was the sixth time in eleven games that two players tied for the day prize.

Nassau corners: With Jess Velarde having one of Sunday’s top rounds with net score of 65, he seized the total net score as well as grabbing the front nine. It did not turn out a very good day for Jess after all as he lost his expensive yardage range finder he left in the power cart when he made the switch. The back nine belonged to both Sennix Bontigao and JC Montilla.

Closest to the pin went to Jimmy Manguerra on the longest par 3 seventeenth hole.

We are almost hallway to our golf season with fourteen games unaccounted for. So far with eleven games in the books, our POY leader still hanging in there.  JC Montilla leads Jimmy Manguerra by the slimmest of margin of six strokes. Climbing up in third place is Mike Montilla eighteen points behind the leader while Bingoy Peña and Rey Plaza share fourth place followed closely by Jojo Dizon in sixth place a mere stroke behind those two.

In the SPOY division, Bingoy Peña together with Rey Plaza now co-lead with a total net score of 838. Joey Cruz sits in third place ten points behind while Mar DeVeyra comfortably taking fourth. If you only count ten games, Seho OH leads everybody which is a very secured spot so far.

It was a futile request for us to use the club house for a quenching round of cold drinks after the round simply because there was a wedding reception going on. No golfers were allowed to enter the reception area.