SOME 91 parbusters from around Baguio and Benguet took timeout to join the seventh installment of the annual Bishop Carlito Cenzon Cup at Camp John Hay golf course.

The annual golfing tournament aims to gather money for the construction of a church in Bakun, Benguet.

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The golfing event shifts to Baguio Country Club Saturday for the second day of the competition.

The tournament also aims to help calamity survivors, which struck the Cordillera region recently where Baguio, Benguet, and Mt. Province were among the hardest hit.

For the past six years, the Bishop Cup helped build the Our Lady of Lourdes Church and the San Isidro High School.

The sixth staging of the Bishops' Cup last year drew close to 200 participants where the beneficiary was a church in Abatan, Buguias, one of the more populous areas in Benguet.

Bishop Cenzon assumed the leadership of the diocese of Baguio and Benguet in 2002.

A year later, he saw a church was needed in Abatan, Buguias, one of the more populous areas in Benguet which made him come up with the golf tournament to raise funds to finance the construction, which six years after will finally see its completion.

Together with the school is a five storey church building.

And like what the missionaries did 100 years ago, the church was slowly put up, bit by bit, which will also see hundreds of the locals' children enrolled in the school.

Special awards will be most accurate, nearest the pin and most exercised, among others, will be given to participants in the tournament co-sponsored by Baguio Country Club, Camp john hay and Phoenix Publishing House.

A raffle draw will be made in the awards ceremony for the two day 18-hole, par-72 Modified Stableford format golfest.