Two teams share lead

Two teams share the lead after a wet opening day of The View Invitational 2006 at the Alta Vista Golf and Country Club yesterday.

Sharing the top spot are the teams of Nobuyoshi Motegi and Seiji Watanabe and Lino Dagus and Rio Lao with even-par 72 points apiece.

The tournament, which is the club's annual signature member-guest event, will run until Sunday with the teams set to play two rounds each. Motegi scored 38 while Watanabe had 34 in the Modified Stableford Scoring System. Dagus, for his part, shot 39 and Lao had 33.

The scoring format awards five points for a net double-eagle and an ace, four for an eagle, three for birdie, two for par, and one for bogey.

At solo second is he tandem of Ricky Aznar (36) and Marlon Alfonso (35).

Four teams are tied at 69 points each. These are the duos of Sergio 'Boy' Gonzalez (43) and Edwin Morales (26), Andrew Si (33) and Gerry Uy (36), Antonio Sikimhua (31) and Peter Yang (38), and Toby Florendo (30) and Mark Michael (39).

The duo of Kenneth Dyguani and Antonio Pineda were a point further back with 68 shooting 36 and 32 respectively together with Snyder Su (29) and Florentino Palacio (39).

Four more teams are close behind with 67 each. These are Danilo Ledesma (34) and Mateo Ty (33), Geraldine Ash (33) and Jet Neric (34), Tony Ebol (37) and Tony Wee (30), and father and son Julius (32) and Jovi Neri (35).

Rain poured yesterday morning making the rain gear, the tournament giveaways, very useful.

Several prizes await the lucky player or players, who will score an ace. Prizes include P400 thousand from the club, P100 from CICI General Insurance, a Yamaha motorcycle from Norkis, a residential lot from Sta. Lucia Realty, a class A share from Aznar Bros. Realty, and several roundtrip tickets. There are also a Yamaha golf cart from Cart Plaza, and a Club Car golf cart from Turf Company. The roundtrip tickets at stake for an ace are to the USA from Asiana Airlines, two tickets to Boracay from Sea Air, to Athens, Greece from Gulf Air, to Hong Kong from Cathay Pacific, and to Brunei from Royal Brunei.

A Skygo motorcycle is at stake as eagle prize on all par-4 holes.

The diamond sponsors are Globe Telecom, Taiyo Yuden (Phils.) Inc., WS Sports Inc., Stocks R' Us, and Hyundai.

Bigfoot Global Solutions, Cebu Mitsumi Inc., Lilly Industries, Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp., Carlos A. Gothong Lines/Petron Corp., and Pacsports Phils. are the gold sponsors.

Ruby backers are Wealthbank, Geraldine Ash, Sharp, Agapito Suan/Emir Abutazil, Cebu Bionic Builders Supply Inc., RL Appliance Center/Panasonic, Kaishu Seafood Restaurant, Rene Piano, and Chevron-Caltex Phils.

Pearl sponsors are Jae Hyoung Kim, Keppel Cebu Shipyard, Papa's Restaurant, Max Water Trading, Ginebra San Miguel, Sawdee Spa, Philbev/Hero, Phil. Spring Water Resources, and ESRQ Traders.

Also supporting the tournament are Chinabank, Edwin Abad, Ed Suegay, Jun Dayot, Lino Dagus, Alan Larot, and Caizer Casumpang.

A calcutta will be held tonight at the AVGCC ballroom.