Santa Lucia Golf Tour: Eagle Ridge shines in Alta Vista

CEBU, Philippines – Home is not always sweet.

Host Alta Vista Golf and Country Club, which used to lord it over in their course during the Santa Lucia Golf Tour, could hardly make a dent on the standings last week-end after the Cebu leg of the tournament, which is open exclusively to members of clubs developed by Santa Lucia Realty Inc.

It was Eagle Ridge that made the most out of the Cebu trip amassing a total of 48 points to seize the overall lead from Rancho Palos Verdes of Davao City with its total of 90 points against the 88 of the lone club from Mindanao.

Alta Vista is still a far third with 70 points. The final leg of the event will be held in Luzon early next month.

In the premiere group 1 of the two-man team event, Cebuano Jufil Sato, a member of AVGCC, but playing for his other club, Royal Tagaytay, bagged the title along with Steve Terazona. The pair fired rounds of 97 and 86 for a two-day total of 183 in the Mo-lave Points System.

First runner-up for group 1 was the tandem of Kang Joon and Lee Moon Ho of Eagle Ridge with 179 (87-92) and third place went to Eduardo Yabut and Mike Poobalan of Beverly Place with 178 (87-91).

The group 2 title went to Raymundo del Rosario and An Youn Hwan of ER with 194 followed by teammates Arnel Agustin and Joselito Maghirang with 190. Third place went to Mario Pradil and Manuel Calimba of RT with 189 points.

In group 3, Carlo Ricardo Magno and Arsenio Paredes of Orchard won the title with 181 points. Second place went to Gabriel Nocum and Mar Matias of Lakewood with 170 while Alta Vista's Alex Garcia and Lino Dagus took third place with 169 points.

In the seniors' class, Mario Lugay and Ryoo Si Kun of ER bagged the title with 192 points. Second place went to Hospicio 'Razy' Razon and Masahisa Kawakami of Alta Vista with 180. Taking third was the tandem of Senen Quiambao and Wilfredo Va-lencia of BP with 168.

In the individual category, Sato also lorded it over class A shooting rounds of 58 and 53 for an aggregate of three-under-par 111 points. Second place for class A went to Mario Pradil of RT with 103 (47-56) followed by An Youn Hwan of ER with 101 (48-53).

Alta Vista's David Park topped class B with 97 points on rounds of 54 and 43. Second place went to Mar Matias of Lakewood with 96 and third to Angelito Pineda of BP with 95.

In the seniors' class, Ryoo Si Kun won the title with 101 points followed by Ka-wakami of Alta Vista with 92 and Mario Lugay of Er with 91. (FREEMAN)