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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Chiongbian: Last chance to sign up for Aznar Cup
By Edgar R. Chiongbian
Teetime
The third Matias Aznar Cup golf tournament will be held this weekend. A few slots remain open for Saturday but Sunday’s slots are filled up. This is your last chance to join one of the biggest tournaments at Alta Vista Golf and Country Club. There’s a reasonable tournament fee that comes back to you in valued goods. And if you win, that’s more goodies to bring home to mama. Non-Alta members can join in the guest division.
Fellow Rotarians, get your sticks and balls and get ready to rumble! The Southern Leg of the Rotary Golfing Fellowship Foundation (RGFFP) tournament will be held in Bacolod on Aug. 25 and 26. As usual, there will be a big contingent of Rotary Clubs from Luzon trying to humble those from the Visayas and Mindanao.
Rotary Clubs from Cebu hardly join tournaments played outside Cebu, except one—the RC Cebu Port Centre, who boasts of the highest number of golfing members in a club at 40. And they are also very accommodating, so if you want to play and your club is not sending players, they will form a team for you.
The first day will be at Marapara and the second day at the Binitin golf course. The tournament fee is P2,900 inclusive of a practice round, three fellowship dinners, giveaway golf shoes and raffles. Hole-in-one prizes include a Toyota Fortuner, two Vios sedans and two Osim massage chair.
Tournament play features a four player-team plus individual honors by class. Guest division is individual play only. June handicaps and the Molave system of scoring will be used for both team and individual play.
RGFFP started in Cebu in 1987 but was later brought to Manila on the assumption that the larger number of golfing Rotarians in the north would make for better games. The tournament was rotated between Baguio, Canlubang and Mimosa. Six years ago the Southern Leg was introduced and was held in Cebu. This is now being rotated between Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Bacolod and Cebu.
Currently, RGFFP has three distinct events every year. First is the golf tournament at Baguio Country Club and Camp John Hay in January. The second is the Southern Leg in August and the third is the Asian Rotary Golf in November.
The father of all Rotary golf events is the International Golfing Fellowship of Rotarians (IGFR) in Charleston, Texas. Their annual tournaments are played anywhere in the world. The first tournament was in the US in 1963. It was held only once in the Far East, in Japan 15 years ago.
In 2003, RGFFP felt ready to host the IGFR. They tried to do it twice before and failed. So they asked Renato Magadia of RC Makati North to prepare a presentation at Sun City, South Africa and bid for the 2007 event. Magadia must have given a great presentation that the IGFR awarded the hosting of the 2007 games to the Philippines on March 3 to 9 next year.
This will be the biggest international golf tournament to land in the Philippines in a very long time. Of course it’s only for amateurs, but imagine over 350 well respected Rotarians (double with wives) coming from many nations to play golf, spend money and bring back nice stories about our country.
The event is a week-long affair with five golf games for each player. Magadia, who is now the District Gov. Elect of D-3810, said nothing is firm but they’re looking at SouthWoods, Sta. Elena and Orchard and Tagaytay Midlands as venues.
GOLF TIP. You’re a senior player, and the muscles and joints are less flexible but it doesn’t mean you can’t hit a long ball. The idea is to develop a powerful turn by coiling your body as you take the club back to power on your downswing. Just make sure that you are not swaying your weight outside your right foot. When you do that, your balance is sacrificed and it will be very hard to shift back to the proper position on the downswing for a solid contact.
The ideal backswing-turn should position your weight over the inside of your back foot. You will know you have it right because you will feel the pressure on the inside edge of the right shoe at the top of the swing. Practice a few swings with the club going back to get the feel of your weight on the inside of the right shoe. Recreate this sensation on your actual swing and get that extra power to transfer to the ball.
(erc@kyinet.net)
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