Ong-Ilagan captures Orchard Founders Cup

MANILA, Philippines - Alexander Ong and Raul Ilagan posted a runaway victory in the 15th Orchard Founders Cup Invitational member-guest tournament of the Orchard Golf and Country Club recently, taking the overall crown by eight points.

Ong and Ilagan combined for 87 points at the Palmer course then completed the job with a 52-point effort at the Player course for a 139 aggregate in the event presented by Coca-Cola.

Jay Art Tugade and Monchu Nolasco emerged the new low gross champion after rounds of 57 and 38 for a total of 95 points.

The division titles were won by Chito Servida-Bobby Rosales in Class A, Raymundo del Rosario-Alfredo Pareja in Class B, Rosemarie Quilacio-Medardo Reyes in Class C and Willy Tee Ten-Henson Tan in Class D.

Enrico Reyes and Emerson Santos were the sponsors division winners of the tournament which gave away more than P5 million in prizes made possible by major sponsors PLDT, Philippine Airlines, Banco de Oro VISA/CLG Acquiring, Mizuno, Sta. Lucia Realty, Kulinarya Global Corporation, CATS Motors/Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai Dasmariñas and premium hole sponsors are Air21, Asiana Airlines, Security Bank Corp., Orchard Property Marketing Corporation and The Turf Company.

Servida-Rosales (121) won by two points over Emmanuel Ponce-Rhoneil Cousart, del Rosario-Pareja (130) beat Gualberto Lastrilla-Monsour del Rosario also by two, Quilacio-Medardo Reyes (123) was another two-point winner over Ikuo Nishino-Yuzo Koyama and Tee Ten-Tan finished nine points ahead of Amy Dy-Michelle del Rosario.

Nobody won the 2012 Mercedes-Benz C180 Classic and Hyundai Tucson Theta II GLS 2WD A/T staked as hole-in-one prizes but two participants drove home the same vehicles as the grand raffle winners.