Twenty-one players showed up at last Sunday’s Kingsforest round of golf. A thirty-three-degree Celsius temperature greeted the players with rising humidity around the Hamilton peninsula all afternoon long. It was a “Blind Partner” contest day with free hamburger dinner with drink of your choice courtesy of SGC after the round. It was surprising to learn that results after the round were not favourable to low scoring binge as no one signed a scorecard with net score in the 60s. SGC had not played Kingsforest for a while this season up to now and still this golf course reminded everyone how difficult this tree lined holes could be.

This mandatory entry to Bind Partner contest was a combination of two players tallying their total net scores. Top three partnerships with lowest net scores would win the prize. Aside from this contest there was the option of joining the Nassau corners contest as well. Scoring low could award yourself winning both contests provided you were lucky enough to pick the right partner from the draw for the Blind Partner contest. Well, someone did it.

Here are the partnership winners:

                1. Bert Cerrudo (70) & Bong Munson (74) with 144 total net   points

                2. Exe Navarette (75) & Dave Nelson (75) with 150 total net points

                3^.  Exe Navarette (75) & (76) Jun Paculaba with 151 total net points

You might be wondering how Exe Navarette’s name appeared twice above. Since there was an odd number of players (21 participants), Exe had the honor of picking a partner twice when he picked the designated lucky number from the draw. It so happened that he luckily picked those two players good enough to bag second & third place.  

Nassau corners: Bert Cerrudo who was also the day prize winner won the total net score and shared the front nine with often weekly winner Mar DeVeyra. A single rose member among thorns was the back nine winner, Lina Mayo.

 

 

 

 

 

Closest to the pin contest: Bong Munson with a sharp iron shot at the par 3 4^th hole fired the winner while Jess Velarde got the best of previous shot by Joey Cruz at the par 3 14^th hole.

 

 

 

 

 

Major Awards Update:

MIP (Most Improved Player): Not much change here. JC Montilla still leads by same huge margin as last week over Bingoy Peña. Seho Oh who just registered his fifteenth game to qualify, comes from nowhere and makes a huge leap by dislodging Mike Montilla from third place. Jimmy Manguerra down a knot in fifth place.

SPOY (Senior Player of the Year): Top two places did not change at all with Mar DeVeyra still in first place holds eleven strokes better than Seho Oh from three strokes last week. Exe Navarette grabs third place a stroke behind Seho. Rey Plaza shares fourth place with Joey Cruz.

POY (Player of the Year): This seems to be a very tight race for two players vying for the top honor. Jimmy Manguerra lost a stroke from four strokes to three strokes over JC Montilla. But guess who is making a noise jumping from fifth place to third place? Mar DeVeyra; although he is behind JC by whopping twenty-six strokes, with nine more games to go, who knows. A stroke behind Mar is the idle Jojo Dizon in fourth place. Relegated to fifth from fourth place a week ago is Mike Montilla three behind Jojo.