Southwoods Invit'l golf gets going

MANILA, Philippines - The Manila Southwoods invitational fires off today with a huge field slugging it out for top honors in the club’s premier member-guest team championship at the Legends and Masters courses in Carmona, Cavite.

The shotgun start tee-off is set at 7:30 a.m. at the Legends and 8 a.m. at the hazard-laden Masters layout with the 36-hole Modified Stableford (Aggregate) competition spread over four days.

A brand-new Mitsubishi ASX GLX 2.0G 2WD MT, courtesy of Mitsubishi Motors Phils. Corp./Diamond Motors Corp., an Alaska cruise from Royal Caribbean/Baron Travel Corp., and a 2HP split type aircon unit from Mit-Air Sales Center will be up for grabs as hole-in-one prizes in the tournament sponsored by Warbird Securities, Resorts World and Promise Land Trading.

The hole-in-one sponsors are also the presentors of the event supported by Asia Brewery, Asia Pacific Golf Corp., BDO, Boehringer Ingelheim (Phil.I, Inc., Café de Lipa, Camp John Hay Golf Club, Castillo Laman Tan Pantaleon and San Jose Law Offices, Club Leisure Management Corp. and Duty Free Phils.

Titles to be disputed in the event, backed by Red Eagle Lending Inc., Regent Travel Corp., Remeng Food Services, Rudy Project, Sherwood Golf Club, The Manor Camp John Hay Baguio, Turf Co/Texas Eagle, Unilab (Revicon Max) and Wilson, are Division I (0-10), Division II (11-16), Division III (17-22), Division IV (23-27) and the Sponsors/Guest Division.

Other prizes for aces are golf cars from Texas Eagle courtesy of Turf Company/Texas Eagle and Club Car from Pacsports Phils., Inc.-Club Car division with Federal Maintenance and Management, Inc., Foodenizer, Inc., Forest Hills Golf Club, G&W Clubshares, Golden Oats, Golforce, Inc., International Heavy Equipment Corp., Makati Shangri-La Hotel, Manila Southwoods Manor, MRT Dev’t. Co., One Pharma Co., Inc., Pacsports (Clubcar), Poblador Bautista & Reyes Law Offices and RCNA as the other hole sponsors.