On a cold day, with the sun occasionally breaking through cloud cover in the middle of the afternoon and the wind howling, no one was tearing up the place except three people who carded a low net round of high 60s – Julio R. shot 68 with both Jun P. & Manny M. shooting 69. It was a resounding win for Julio as he took the low net front nine and overall scores. Jojo D. again won the back nine just like last week tying Seho O. One thing that did not go unnoticed was a low gross of 76 by Jimmy M. who did it with a slight limp to one of his legs.

Race to POY: Not much change here as the top three people are only separated by three strokes between them. Joey C. is still hanging on to the lead by a thread followed by Sennix B. & Seho O. in second and third place respectively. This battle is so close that someone deserving to win has to show the ability to handle the pressure with two games remaining. Rey P. and Levi M. still have a chance of getting to the winning circle. All they need is focus on a good score and see where the rest of the chips fall.

Closest to the pin: According to Bong M. who runs the closest to the pin contest, it was improbable to hold it due to shotgun start. There was another tournament group that started playing simultaneously with SGC.

Race to month 5: This Sunday is the culmination of Month 5 contest. In our assumption those sixteen players with two rounds of golf played this month, still mathematically are in contention. We all need the right scenarios to plunge correctly for this Sunday’s round. Seemingly enough with smiles on their faces because of the current standing at the top are Manny M. and JC M. with total three week net scores of 208 & 209 respectively. Meanwhile with still a round to go, dangerously sitting close at the doorstep with total two week net scores of 134 are the leaders last week – Joey C. & Sennix B.

Mother Nature as expected did not cooperate at all throughout the tournament giving the twenty-three players that showed up something to complain about. There were sporadic showers, then sunshine, then rain in addition to the gusting wind that contributed to low temps hovering around 13 degrees C. PJ P., a familiar face showed up to play last Sunday. Thanks to Julio for treating the boys a round of beer. Levi M. served his delicious pancit and pork sisig. There was an abundance of food as Seho who likened to feed the whole army week in & week out typically brought his usual bags of chips, peanuts and fresh grapes. We appreciate very much this Samaritan & unselfish display of character, don’t we boys?

Cheers to the winners! At the least some people enjoyed a better day than anyone else. Let’s see who’s got the right frame of mind to win going to next week at Kedron Dells for the first of two rounds of the Grand Finals.

Reminder to those players who last played at Kedron Dells which got cancelled. Please do not forget to bring your cancellation stub/receipt to get credit towards your green fee.

Winning POY five times in the past speaks volumes. Joey C. was often teased by fellow players about his personal golf clubs that he uses up to now. They are so old and torn that they look like pre-historic equipment used in the Stone Age era. This is what he says about it: “I really do not worry what they say about my clubs. Why change if they cannot match my five POY awards with their new tech golf clubs?”. In all seriousness folks, Joey C. has proven last Sunday at Century Pines that this is the case as he carded a low net 64 taking the front nine as well.  Jojo D. with a net of 30 took the back tied with Mar DV. Sometimes a game of golf could be demoralizing at times to people and it happens to everybody. Take for example an aspiring game of JC M. He shot a low net 65 losing a stroke to Joey and got beaten by a stroke as well in the back nine. The good news is JC’s game is coming around with three games to play. Our foursome of Sennix B., Manny M., & Levi M. was so competitive that it inspired all of us to flash respective scores. We were so relaxed and enjoying each company that we felt like we were the only ones playing the course.

Closest to the pin winners: Saed J. took the 5^th hole while Jun P. won the 15^th. Both players winning for the second time now.

POY news: A change of pace and leaders. Joey C. who came on the heels of a stagy low net of 64 took the outright lead. Astonishingly for Seho O. who is struggling of late and had the lead for twenty-one consecutive weeks, drops down two spots to third place. Sennix B. is giving Joey a run for his laurels as he stood firm in second place a stroke behind. Jojo D. and Rey P. maintaining their usual place in the sun placed fourth and fifth respectively. It is so close that it is still anybody’s award to win. Do not lose hope folks just as yet. The way to look at it is, with three games to go if your best total of nine games is close to the leaders, you still have a shot at it. You also need a lot of help from the leaders of course for them not to card good scores. Let’s see what happens.

Race to final month: The leaderboard is so crowded that almost everybody got a shot at this thing.  If you have a single game officially registered, you have still a chance of winning with two games to go. Who leads it? Sennix B. & Joey C. sit atop with total net of 134 followed by three players with 137 – Levi M., JC M., and another player.

Twenty-five players who showed up to try their mettle last Sunday could not complain about the perfect weather on top of a very reasonable green fee. We were treated by the winners to a round of beer by the winners at the clubhouse. Afterwards upon an invitation by Joey C., we headed to a Vietnamese restaurant for a stomach warming bowl of soup. The players who showed up at the restaurant thanked Joey C. for footing the bill.

Again congratulations to all winners. See ya all next Sunday. It is a shotgun start at 1:00 PM at Maples of Ballantrae.

“If any of the attending players failed to complete their round due to weather related reason (course closure) during one or both of the scheduled Grand Final (GF) rounds, we will use the last 2 completed scheduled rounds to determine the GF winners.”

Example 1:  1st day GF not completed and 2nd day GF completed.  Use the 2nd GF round and the completed round prior to the 1st GF round.

Example 2:  1st and 2nd day scheduled GF’s not completed.  Use the last 2 rounds completed prior to the GF scheduled dates.

Note: Example of rounds mentioned above are based on rounds officially played before GF.

Well, well, well. Some Sunday this was. Congratulations to Sennix B. for carding a brilliant net of 63 last Sunday at Glen Cedars. He displayed an all-around game of golf most especially his short game according to JC M. who was in the same foursome with Sennix. He also took the low net back nine with Levi M. grabbing the front nine.

Closest to the pin contest winners: Manny C. ‘The Marksman’ took the third hole winning his second week in a row. Jimmy M. used his wedge to get very close to hole sixteenth.

POY news: Down the stretch and headed for home, it’s getting tight at the top folks with barely four games to go. Sennix M. with his low net 63 last Sunday, catapulted him to second place from fourth place. Mere three strokes separates him from Seho O. who is still holding on to the lead. For a short stretch of time, Seho’s idle machine is not firing at top speed thus opening doors for players with huge opportunity to catch up. Do not count out Joey C. and Jojo D. who sit third and fourth places respectively. Rey P. propelled himself to solo fifth place after a net of hard earned 70. Not so far away tied for seventh place are Nap P. and Jimmy M. eight strokes behind fifth place.  Anything can happen for the next four weeks with more stakes in the offing. This is where practice, practice and more practice would come about together with the mental toughness to garner the POY award. What a race this has become this year.

Idyllic weather greeted the twenty-four players who showed up. It did get a little nippy late afternoon. There were boisterous players all around the golf course. We suspect that this was a company event of some sort. They were so unruly that it was almost impossible to tee off peacefully not to mention the turtle pace of play. It took us three hours and a half to complete eleven holes.  Complaining to the Marshalls at hand did not do any good at all. The good side of this story was the winners let us forget the whole thing by treating us to drinks, fries and chicken wings after the round. Thanks also to Seho who brought grapes, cantaloupe, & sweet corn. Bingoy P. as usual was seen giving away candies and nuts. Nice to see Lina M. playing with us again.

We’ll see ya all this Sunday at Century Pines.

Let us call this week ‘WEEK of the FREDs’. This past week or so must be the week for the ‘young onced’ or should we say ‘oldies but goodies’. We are proudly talking about the two Freds – De los Reyes & Halili winning big time at Kingsforest. Streaking Fred H. won the SuperSeries 4 tied with Bingoy P. both carding net score of 69. Third & fourth places spread out amongst three players – Nap P., Jimmy M., & another player. Fred DLR who very seldom takes out the mullah from his own pocket to bet, must have sensed something good before the start of the round. He decided to chip in and won the lowest overall net score of 67. Jun P. attested that Fred’s short game was in a very good form. Fortunately for Fred H. & Bingoy P., Fred DLR did not join the SuperSeries contest for it could have been a sweep. He walked the course as he always did on any course. Manny M. commandingly took care of the back nine with a sizzling net score of 32. Paul H. who was in the same group was quoted saying, “Manny could have had much lower score if not for very few mistakes“.

POY news: Looks like Seho O. is poised to project as the leader to the end. Jojo D. is still in touch of the lead as well as Joey C. & Sennix B. Few players rally to find their spots in the top five with five games to go. Bouncing back is Jimmy M. onto seventh place a mere stroke behind fifth place.

Closest to the pin winners: Jun P. shot admirably on 7th hole. Nap P. never got challenged on the 14th. Glad to see both start their winning tracks again.

Perfect weather for a round of golf leaning a little bit to the chilly side for the twenty-four players who showed up divided to seven flights. The starter person at KF acknowledged that this was SGC’s last day of playing this course as he started shaking our hands saying “See you next year”. He is a chatty and a warm person indeed.

We had a hearty get together at the club house cafeteria after the round as most of the winners treated us with soft drinks, beer, fries and the famous KF chicken wings. Joey C. who had to leave early to take care of personal business, left an amiable job of handling the golf scores after the round to others. Much appreciation to Jimmy M`s handling of the score sheet for the day. Thanks to Bong M. who took care of supervising the ordering of food. He happened to shell out his own money (you ought to know he was not one of the winners folks). Nice of Manny M. to keep beer flowing when all jugs were all emptied and consumed. He already contributed prior to the cause.

We miss playing with one of our members, Ray M. SGC wishes he could get over his difficulties with the help of the Almighty.

Officially we have only three weeks of summer left. Sad to say that we only have five games remaining. Likely the good times will be going soon and time to be moving on separate ways again.

See ya all next week at Glen Cedars.

Hats off to Royal Woodbine winners last Sunday. Julio R. led the way with a dazzling net of 61. Much kudos to Fred H. for hanging on to win the Month 4 contest with an inspiring total best net 3 of 4 scores of 208 followed by Jimmy M. with a 210. Saed J. who came out of nowhere placed third with 214. Not much change regarding the race to POY as the leaders almost stayed the same where they are. Rey P. flashing a promising climb to fifth place. Saed and Levi M. could be well joining the fray with the leaders if they continue their good play to the end.

Closest to the pin winners: Joey C. on the 10^th and Manny C. got the 14^th.

Royal Woodbine’s management surprised us with a bombshell yesterday by moving some of the blue tee boxes way back. Most of them were much closed to gold tee boxes. Was it because there was an Italian league ahead of us? Wasn’t this on the contrary to speed up the game just because it was a tournament? Anyway despite of all these, Don D. left us in astonishment as he drove the ninth par 5 hole in the middle of the fairway closed to 150 yard marker. He and Mar DV.  amazingly secured a safe way drive on the 12 hole par 5 as well.  Seb DM. showed us flashes of worthy long club hits but a little hard pressed on his short game in our opinion. He’s such a low key person that nothing seems to bother him as he plods along. Don’t we wish we could all duplicate his demeanor at the least on the golf course?

With six games to go, hopefully more players are going to show up. SuperSeries next week at KF.

Long stuck in not playing until late May of this year, Jimmy M. won his first round of golf last Sunday finishing with a remarkable1-under 71 to beat Manny C. by six strokes. He also contends as best bet for monthly honors with total two-week net score of 136 replacing Fred H. for top position as we are headed to the final week of the month at Royal Woodbine. Jojo D. tails Fred H. by a stroke for third place seven strokes behind first place.

There is some movement in the POY race. Sennix B. zooming in to third place trading places with Joey C. They way to look at it, aspirant players with good nine net scores still have a chance to jockey for top position with seven games to go. Seho O. still leads the entire pack.

It was an ideal weather for a round of golf yesterday with cloudy periods hovering above. We welcome Stafford Moore for showing up and stayed a little while for a chit chat with the boys after the round.

With summer season winding down, hope to see more players next week at RW.

Congratulations to the winners of last Sunday’s round at Westview. Levi M.  carded an impressive low net of 65. Sennix B. took care of seizing the front nine. SGC welcomes a pleasant surprise about who leads the race to month four after just two games. It’s none other than the incomparable Mr. Fred H. who incurred a combined total net score of 142 with two games left.  Whatever happened to the young guns? Searing Bingoy P.  followed with two net game totals of 145. Four other people closely tied for third with 146 – Jojo D., Jimmy M., Seho O., & Nap P. There is still a chance for players to catch up as well as those who got a game in from the past two weeks.  Anything can happen, folks!

Winners of closest to the pin contest: Julio R. & Bingoy P.

Race to POY is becoming an interesting race after all. Not much change here as Seho O. still leads with Jojo D. & Joey C. switching chairs again for second and third positions respectively. You have to admire the consistent play of Seho O. Even Exe N. was overheard saying, “It’s hard to beat Seho with his steady and all-around play”.  With eight games to go, players to reckon with are those who came up with low net scores in nine games – Sennix B., Levi M., Rey P., Ed I., and Nap P. to mention a few.

It was an ideal weather with a threat of rain that never really turned up.  Competition was high as ever. Excitement was all over before and after the round as usual together with frustrations, defeats, and successes but there is always the next time.

SGC would like to appreciate the tireless effort of Don D. and Bingoy P. of chasing everybody around for the collection of ‘funds’ week in & week out. Believe it folks; they are like bartenders who hear everything from players every time they do their volunteering chores. Not to mention Jimmy M’s handling the headaches of supervising the weekly attendance.  Hey Bong M., SGC values your effort in running the closest to the pin contest for making the round more competitive.

See ya all next week!

Congratulations to the winners of last Sunday’s round at KF. Who said there is no fun in a ‘blind partner’ game? Someone shot net 69 but watched someone else took home the first prize. It was a close contest and three tied for first place with partnership of combined net score of 142 – Lina M./Fred H., Nap P./Seho O., and Jimmy M. /Jojo D. Jojo won the low net back nine as well. Mike M. made a sterling eagle on the short par 4 third hole.

It was an ideal weather neither so hot nor cold when the first foursome teed off until a burst of showers and sporadic flashes of lightning stopped play approaching the ninth hole. The nature of the course changed drastically as well as player’s perspective playing a round.  Players could be heard standing over a shot murmuring a sigh of frustrations. Weather forecast got it right this time as they predicted showers in the afternoon. Luckily for us, rain died away slowly and play resumed. It was somewhere in the back nine that the sun shone as players started to get rid of their rain gears. Few white tee boxes were moved forward as management claimed that there was a tournament ahead of us and did not bother moving them back. This was pure delight to players who are not considered as power hitters.

Players stayed after the round for a get together dinner compliments of SGC.