Top firms back P1M Davao pro-am golf

MANILA, Philippines - Kawasaki Motors Phils. Corp., Malayan Insurance and Suzuki head the roster of companies backing the staging of the Davao National Pro-Am Presented by Samsung and Emcor, which fires off Aug. 28 at the Apo Golf and Country Club in Davao City.

The P1 million event promises to be a blockbuster in terms of participation with the top 40 pros based on the Philippine Golf Tour Order of Merit ranking after the ICTSI Orchard Golf Invitational last week leading the maximum field of 120 teams.

To level the playing field, these leading pros will not be allowed to team up with amateurs with index of 5 and below, guaranteeing a wide-open battle for top honors in the three-day tournament.

Leading electronics firm Samsung has linked up with Emcor, a 100 percent Filipino-owned retail business corporation which specializes in appliances, furniture, computers and IT products, motorcycles, and money transfer through its network of 130 specialty chain stores in the Visayas, Mindanao and Palawan areas, to put up the blue-ribbon tournament for the third straight year.

Registration is ongoing with deadline set on Aug. 24. Fee is pegged at P6,000 per team, inclusive of one practice round. For list-up, contact 0933-1612460 or 0915-7603070 and 0917-8121242 or Bluemansion Enterprise and Services Co. at 211-5952 or log on to www.bluemansioncompany.com.

The event’s other chief backers are Cargo Serve, LVL Construction, DASIA, Koppel, Chain Marketing, Percia Construction, Transworld, Goetz Moving, JD Alvarado Architects, Pluvial, Vigor, Condura, VM Security, Adtel and Skygo.

The winning pro will receive P172,000 with his amateur partner to get trophy plus merchandise while the second and third placers will get P116,000 and P68,000, respectively.

Format of play is foursomes or alternate shot with the pros to tee off on odd holes and the amateurs on the even ones in the first round. They will switch off tee-off assignments in the second day and then back to the first day sequence in the final round.