Oliva-Tan rules Orchard Founders

Seve Oliva and Antonio Tan Jr. made one big push in the final round to claim a one-point overall victory in the Orchard Founders Cup Invitational, the member-guest tournament of The Orchard Golf and Country Club in Dasmariñas, Cavite.

Oliva and Tan pooled together a superb 22-under-par 94 points in the combined aggregate format at the Palmer course after starting out with an 11-under 47 points in best-ball play at the Player course for a 36-hole total of 141 points.

That was good enough for a one-point win over early leaders Munding del Rosario and Alfredo Pareja who managed just 52 at the Player layout and ended up settling for the Class B crown after soaring ahead with an 88 in the first round.

The spotlight also fell on King Stehmeier and John Papa who took the low gross plum with an even-par 108 points and the other division winners Nestor Sevilla-Yuchiro Nakanishi (Class A), Rodolfo Zapanta-Charlie Tan (Class C), Miguel de Asis-John David Laurel (Class D) and Rene Lim-Jaime Fernandez (sponsors division).

Of the 800 players, Willy Roldan went home with the biggest prize. A guest of Las Piñas Vice Mayor Henry Medina, Roldan was the solo winner of a BMW 116i AT worth almost P2 million for a hole-in-one at Player 11 on Friday. Rafael Ilagan bagged the major raffle prize – a business class round trip ticket for two to the West Coast packaged with a Caribbean cruise put up by Philippine Airlines and Royal Caribbean International.

Two others, Charandramogan Anamirtham and We-Yuan Hung, won a BMW 318i and BMW 166i, respectively, as major prizes of the Founders grand raffle.

Performance Motors Cebu/BMW, Ford Alabang/Cavite, Coca-Cola Bottlers Phils., Davies Technical Solutions, Mizuno and Philippine Airlines were the major sponsors of the event. Banco De Oro, Globe Telecom, Pagcor, The Turf Company, Security Bank and Sta. Lucia Realty, Pagcor, Philippine Ports Authority were premium sponsors.

Hole sponsors were Royal Caribbean International/Baron Travel, Pacsports Phils., Inc., C-Lium Fibre, Arch. Nelson M. Montealegre, Asian Hospital, Beneficial PHB Life, Bitmap Enterprises, Chinatrust Commercial Bank Corp., Commerciantes Internacionales Inc., EM Research Philippines, Inc., Emeritus Security and Maintenance System, EZ-GO, First Tee, Gainers Marketing Corporation, GG&A Club Shares, Harbor Star Shipping Services Inc., International Heavy Equipment Corporation, Information Professional, Inc. (IPI), Joseph Server and Associates, Nishino Leather Industry Inc., OSIM Phils. Inc., Pamplona

Realty, Perry’s Group, Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation, Promise Land Trading, Rams House of Wine Inc., Rajers General Services, Record Safe Keeping, Roam Builders General Contractor, SAP Build Enterprise, SLB Trading and Pump Specialists, The Great Depot and Vice Mayor Henry Medina.