Kaneff’s evil euphoria did it again to SGC. How come did you ask? SGC booked at least six rounds of golf to four Kaneff courses for this year. As a matter of fact, the bookings were made earlier this year way back in January as it opened its booking office then. Kaneff management had a history of changing booked sched often getting us off guard every time SGC were about to play one of these venues. Well, it happened again Sunday. Management frustratingly moved an hour back our tee off time and let our thirty-one players join another turtle pace playing group to a shotgun start at last Sunday’s tournament at Royal Ontario golf course. Not only that mind you, we had a tournament at this very same venue on May 12th that was cancelled due to inclement weather, so they issued us rain checks to compensate for that unfortunate situation. Guessed what, when the members tried to use those rain checks they were told that those rain checks could not be honored in a tournament………….from the same tournament that was cancelled? Perplexing and very unbecoming. The only thing that was happening good that day was the twenty-three-degree Celsius weather. We are going to say goodbye to all Kaneff golf courses next year. It is sacramentally unbelievable the way they maltreated us. Kaneff, we hope you are reading this.
Moving on. How about this, two renaissance senior members who got it together capped off their rounds with Nassau corners front-nine net 32 and total net 68 scores. The unflappable “I’m still here guys” Sennix Bontigao and master tactician Exe Navarette both shared that identical net scores to win those two Nassau corners and the day prize as well. This was a second day prize crown for Exe Navarette making him the seventh multiple winner for the year. Sennix Bontigao on the other hand, gave a performance of his life on a challenging golf course capturing his first win of the year.
Other Nassau corner winners: This was the first time ever to happen as five players with a coincidental net of 36 shared the back nine win: Sennix Bontigao, Mar DeVeyra, Exe Navarette, Seho Oh, & Julio Rodriguez. Wasn’t that remarkable how it played out? Whether you like it or not, both Sennix & Exe swept all Nassau corners.
From L to R: Sennix Bontigao, Mar DeVeyra, Exe Navarette, Seho Oh, Julio Rodriguez
Accuracy shot department: The smooth swinging Dave Nelson got it closest than anybody else on the par 3 eight hole while Jimmy Manguerra couldn’t be satisfied without winning anything going home captured the eleventh hole.
From L to R: Dave Nelson, Jimmy Manguerra
After last Sunday’s nineteenth round, here are the top five favorite candidates to win next Sunday’s Grand Finals:
Sennix Bontigao (68)
Exe Navarette (68)
Dave Nelson (70)
Ray Macapagal (72)
Seho Oh (72).
For complete results please refer to Round 16 to 20.
Major contest updates: We have a new leader in the POY contest. Dave Nelson climbed up the leaderboard upon reaching fifteen games and now leads last week’s leader Joey Cruz by two meager strokes. Seho Oh now co-leads Joey Cruz in the SPOY contest. In the MIP race, a new leader also showed up. Jun Paculaba entering his fifteenth game of the season to qualify, leads Exe Navarette by 0.0016 points while last week’s leader Joey Cruz fell back to sixth. Now I could see how flaky this game of golf was after only a week Joey lost all the lead except SPOY in which he co-leads. Manny Chea still holds a three-shot advantage heading into the final round of the Month 4 race next week over Steve Kim.
From L to R: Dave Nelson, Joey Cruz, Seho Oh, Jun Paculaba, Manny Chea
Food for thought: One member of ours let his promising daughter more than once to play with us this year. It is a breath of fresh air scene to watch as father and daughter who are both soft spoken demonstrating they can also play golf. Hopefully, SGC can entice more women golfers to our league and the entire GTA Interleague event for a start. It needs a lot of labor of thoughtful interest among members and real commitment to support the idea. SGC sees no gender restriction if an individual has a passion for the game of golf at all. At any rate regarding a co-ed related golf sport, we welcome SGC’s lone female member, Lina Mayo who just came back for her first game after a shoulder injury. Nice to see her playing again then she’s off again for a 14-day vacay. Enjoy.
Congratulations to the winners. Wish you good luck to Month 4, Grand Finals, & Super Series 4 contests next week.