Yamaha cart up for ace in Southwoods Seniors

MANILA, Philippines - A Yamaha golf cart, courtesy of Kart Plaza, will be staked as hole-in-one prize in the Manila Southwoods Seniors Invitational Tournament set March 15 and 17 at the Legends and Masters courses of the Manila Southwoods Golf and Country Club in Carmona, Cavite.

All par 3s offer one brand-new Yamaha golf cart for ace and prizes will be shared should there be more than one to score a hole in one in the tournament which is expected to attract 60-70 teams.

Yamaha and Fumaco, Inc. are the event’s presentors with Red Eagle Lending Investors, Inc. (RELI), Camp John Hay Golf Club, Asia Pacific Golf Corp., Warbird Security, CJH Project Management, Inc., Romago Inc., Boracay Sands, Fairways & Bluewater, The Manor Camp John Hay, Anako Phils., AsiaPhil Manufacturing, and MRT as hole sponsors.

Other backers of the event, featuring a senior chapter member and his guest aged 55 years and above, are Fairbright Enterprises, Inc., MJJ Print Phil., Philips, Rudy Project Phils. and Sherwood Hills.

According to the event’s organizing committee, headed by Seniors Chapter president Jose Cedo and vice president Paco Gonzalez, another Yamaha cart will be raffled off during the awards rites.

Competitions will be classified into Groups I, II, III and IV with the event to be played under the Molave scoring system (gross). The teams will be arranged from lowest to highest according to their team combine handicap multiplied by 50 percent.

Korean Park Byoung Hee and partner Bob Apalit topped Group I last year and are tipped to be back this year along with Group II winners Mizuho Uchida and Fujio Fujii and the George Alfonso-Cesar Castro tandem, which reigned in Group III.

Under the Molave system, one point awarded to double-bogey, two points for bogey, three points for par, four for birdie and five for an eagle. An ace is worth six points and a double-eagle seven points.