Fil-Oz wins 9th PAL Sydney golf championship
Over-all Individual Champion Daki Falcon of Fil-Oz with Ric de Vera +click to enlarge
Fil-Oz Social golf club won the 9th PAL Sydney Interclub Golf Championships with a count back against the very strong team of Sydney Jokers during the 9th series played at Richmond Golf Club last October 26, with both clubs scoring 74 points each.
Fil-Oz win is its seventh since this prestigious and unique tournament among five Filipino Australian social clubs started in 2000.
One hundred twenty golfers competed representing their respective clubs. The tournament is under the auspices of the Sydney Inter-Club Golf Organising Committee (SICGOC) chaired by Ric de Vera of Fil-Oz Social golf club.
Adding colour to the tournament is this year’s requirements where participants had to don uniforms supplied by their clubs.
The event is stroke play and no handicap was used except for the net medal tournament in conjunction winners.
All participants were ranked according to their handicaps and were required to contribute points to their team by beating each other on the same rank.
Rank winner gets 5 points, followed by 4 points for runner up and 3 points, etc. down the line, up to the worse score getting only 1 point. Default golfer gets no point. The individual points were then tallied and made up the criteria for the winning club.
Fil-Oz Social Golf Club +click to enlarge
Club Open category winner was Fil-Oz with total 62 points, with the Jokers winning the Club Senior category for their 17 total points haul.
Over-all Individual champion was Daki Falcon of Fil-Oz for scoring one over and the best for the day. This was followed by Nick Ferrer (three over) also of Fil-Oz as runner up. Individual Open category winner was Felix Hipa of ParE, whilst Individual Senior category was Ben Aquino of Hampaslupa, both winning by count back.
Rank winners together with their clubs and gross scores were as follows:
Open Category
Rank # 1, Jason Cruz of FairGolf, 79
Rank # 2, Tino Malubag of ParE Golf, 83
Rank # 3, Nick Ang of Jokers, 81
Rank # 4, Bernie Balagtas of Fil-Oz, 80
Rank # 5, Fred Bacucang of Fil-Oz, 82
Rank # 6, Art Bandian of Fil-Oz, 86
Rank # 7, Willie Trinidad of Jokers, 90
Rank # 8, Romy Tablizo, Fairgolf, 88
Rank # 9, Ben Monteclaro of Fairgolf, 86
Rank # 10, Ross Sandoval of Jokers, 87
Rank # 11, William Tutaki of Pare, 87
Rank # 12, Leo Estacio of Hampaslupa, 89
Rank # 13, Manny Benitez of Fairgolf, 91
Rank # 14, Nick Coronel of Jokers, 88
Rank # 15, Michael Lee of Hampaslupa, 89
Rank # 16, Peter Anderson of Fil-Oz, 86
Senior Category
Rank # 1, Joe Elizondo of Fil-Oz, 89; Rank # 2, Mickey Cabillo of Jokers, 94; Rank # 3, Bertu Viola of Jokers, 92; Rank # 4, Manny dela Cruz, 93
Junior category winner was Jeremy Licuanan of Hampaslupa with his 93 strokes whilst Lady category winner was Nona Jose of Jokers with her 90 strokes.
Feature winners on all holes were: Hole no 1- Lucie Vano, 2- Willie Trinidad, 3- Ross Sandoval, 4- Nick Ang, 5- Michael Lee, 6- Nick Ferrer, 7- Jun Angeles, 8- David Jones, 9- Erwin dela Cruz, 10 – Dakila Falcon, 11- Buddy Zabat, 12- Wil Badiola, 13- Pong Mendoza, 14- Jason Cruz, 15- Bert Garcia, 16- Tony Day, 17- Philip Punla and 18- Bernie Balagtas. These golfers received $20 each for their great efforts.
Individual Net Medal winners (in conjunction) who received trophies for their best net scores were Ian Middlemiss (Hampaslupa) followed by Glenn Tahimic (Fil-Oz) for Open category. For Senior category Bert Garcia (Hampaslupa) followed by Nep Palomo (Fil_Oz). Whilst Junior category was Christopher Oei of Jokers and Lady category was Marilou Casmenco of Hampaslupa.
Major raffle winner was Remy Maniago (ticket #0404) for the return airfare to Manila courtesy of Philippine Airlines and three nights hotel accommodation courtesy of Travelaccess. The second prize winner was Flora Stepayo (ticket # 1375) for the golf bag courtesy of Richmond Golf Club. The seller of the major prize was Manny Maniago who received $250 courtesy of SICGOC.
Principal sponsor with naming rights is Philippine Airlines who donated two economy class return airfare to Manila for the event.
Organiser Sydney InterClub Golf Organising Committee (SICGOC) is headed by Ric de Vera as Chairman. Other officers are Ralph Posadas as Treasurer, Arnie Santos as Secretary and Nonoy Meteoro as Internal Auditor. Andy Porral of ParE golf is member of the board.
SICGOC is a major player in the Filipino-Australian golfing community. Over the last few years, it has organised annual tournaments where various social golf clubs can meet and compete against each other as well as their top individual members competing among them.
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