WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!
An inspired SGC team pulled through to a Raptorian-like milestone victory. Do not poke the bear while asleep. A few of our wily veterans woke up in time to display a splendid performance. Let me remind those fellow members who took most of the awards, you may have done the most damage to give SGC its second championship but do not forget those fellow members who were your supporting cast that equally performed amazingly up there just like you though it was a little far fetch that every one could reap all the awards. Just imagine that your supporting cast could only be a stroke or two away from what you won. Others were with you in spirit and wholehearted support. In one last gasp of air out of our mouths, we could voice out that as collectively as a team, we did it. We are the CHAMPIONS. What a nice Canada Day gift.
A celebration dinner or feast is in the offing from SGC. SGC is wondering if we could hold it this week at Kingsforest after our round. Hoping that everyone could be there and let it all out. What do you think?
Final word: One drawback of this tournament was the lack of women participation. Not a single female golfer was in display. SGC commends Talamak and BGAT organizations for what they were doing every time they hosted this event. You’d see women participating – whether they were on the course playing or helping out assisting in their own ways managing and smoothing out to run a huge event like this. The rest of the other organizations involved should learn from this example including SGC, mind you.
SGC and its members also laud the huge effort of this year’s host, SOGA with its president Joe Paule. Special mention to BGAT’s leader, Joe Abanilla and Talamak’s Chito Yorro for assisting in the process of calculation of scores using the new online application. Thank you.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Posting for who won awards at yesterday’s GTA Interleague event to follow. Just waiting for SOGA’s official report.
Here are SGC’s heroes for that climactic day:
Best 3 net scores of every class.
| CLASS | PLAYER | FRONT NET | BACK NET | TOTAL NET | ||
| A | Bautista, Ross | 35 | 31 | 66 | ||
| A | Montilla, Mikee | 33 | 33 | 66 | ||
| A | Bataclan, Fred | 29 | 39 | 68 | ||
| B | Paculaba, Jun | 28 | 35 | 66 | Actual total net of 63 but capped to 66 | |
| B | Sok, Sangva | 37 | 33 | 70 | ||
| B | Gomez, Roy | 30 | 40 | 70 | ||
| C | Navarette, Exe | 35 | 31 | 66 | ||
| C | Plaza, Rey | 37 | 32 | 69 | ||
| C | Kim, Steve | 29 | 41 | 70 | ||
| D | Romero, Louie | 32 | 33 | 66 | Actual total net of 65 but capped to 66 | |
| D | DeVeyra, Mar | 35 | 37 | 72 | ||
| D | Halili, Fred | 34 | 39 | 73 | ||
| TOTAL | 822 |
If my calculations are correct, the point standings below show SGC ran away with it:
| TEAM STANDING | TEAM | POINTS |
| 1 | SIERRA | 822 |
| 2 | BIGAT | 855 |
| 3 | DOUBLE BLUE | 860 |
| 4 | PHILCAN | 863 |
| 4 | SOGA | 863 |
| 6 | TALAMAK | 866 |
GTA Awards as compiled by host SOGA organization:
| CLASS | PLAYER | AWARD |
| A | Ross Bautista | Low net back 31 |
| Closest to the pin par 3 7th | ||
| Fred Bataclan | Low net front 29 | |
| B | Jun Paculaba | Trophy for Best Gross 83 & Best Total Net 63 |
| Low net front 28 | ||
| Total net 63 | ||
| C | Exe Navarette | Trophy for Best Gross 88 & Best Total Net 66 |
| Total net 66 | ||
| Steve Kim | Low net front 29 | |
| D | Louie Romero | Trophy for Best Total Net 65 |
| Total net 65 | ||
| Low net front 31 shared with two others |
From L to R: Ross Bautista, Mike Montilla, Fred Bataclan, Jun Paculaba, Sangva Sok, Roy Gomez, Exe Navarette, Rey Plaza, Steve Kim, Louie Romero, Mar DeVeyra, Fred Halili
Congratulations to these twelve players above and to those who participated on that eventful day.