MANILA, Philippines - Over 200 players from several high school batches will display their shotmaking skills in the 2012 Ateneo Challenge Cup on Sept. 21 at the Orchard Golf and Country Club in Dasmariñas, Cavite.
For this year, San Miguel Corporation will support the event presented by the Ateneo Alumni Association (AAA), Ateneo Golf Foundation (AGF) and Ateneo High School Batch ’87 that gathers Ateneo alumni to a day of rekindling ties and fostering camaraderie through the gentleman’s game of golf.
“As we mark another staging of the Ateneo Challenge Cup, we are very honored to have San Miguel Corporation on board as tournament sponsor. This tournament has come a long way since 1995 and continues to draw golf-loving Ateneans every year,“AGF president Iggy Clavecilla (HS ’65) said about the tournament that also highlights, among others, the well-established rivalry between high school batches ’61 and ’68.
The Challenge Cup will feature anew the Ateneo Scramble format in which two-man teams will hit tee-off alternately, follow the rules of scramble after the drives and alternately putt on the greens.
Ateneo HS batches to include the related grade school and college classes can field a minimum of three two-man teams each in the tournament that will utilize both the Palmer and Player courses for the shotgun and sequential tee-off both set at 8 a.m. up to 9:30 a.m.
A Callaway full set and Hyundai Elantra are up for grabs as hole-in-one prizes.
Deadline for entries is on Sept. 17 at 5 p.m. For more details, contact Mary Ann Suetos of the Ateneo Golf Foundation at 433-0782, 09273907287 or email maryann_suetos@yahoo.com.