Thursday, April 19, 2007 Ford National Shootout ‘winners shot at’ By Edgar R. Chiongbian Teetime
THE PAL Intersports is yet to come in August but preparations are underway for the one thousand participants expected to attend. The last time PAL Intersports was in Cebu was in 2001 with 500 participants, and Bunny Pages was president of Los Jefes.
To give us the same quality event and guidance, Bunny was asked and he accepted the overall tournament chairmanship for Jefes host team.
Tomorrow is a very critical and important strategy meeting at Casino Espańol. In the morning will be a coordination meeting with 20 PAL personalities and in the afternoon, a team meeting of all the club presidents of the Intersports. A new team from Ilocos Norte will make its debut this year. There are more new teams expected but they have yet to confirm.
The qualifying round for the Ford National Team Shootout at Cebu Country Club was held last Thursday and very fitting to its name as host of the Coral (Tee) Invitational. Now the question is whether there was a shoot out at the OK Coral? Believe you me or not, there was one! More than half the teams that played in the Shoot Out were shot down! Of course they’re just OK but they’re crying foul and yelling No, it’s NOT OK for the CORAL committeeman who ordered their disqualification.
Seeking redress, a petition is being circulated to anyone willing to listen to their plea for due process. The letter was written with facts laid clear. The problem started with the starter who instructed the teams to tee off at the white tees and wrote that on their scorecards. So the teams from 6 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. went about their merry ways to win a tournament. Wrong! The CCC rules committee later said that the teams should have teed off from the blue tees and those that didn’t were disqualified. At this time, only seven teams were left to play.
Four points were addressed by the petition: 1) the rule should have and could have been interpreted in such a manner that a great majority of the members would not be disenfranchised and alienated. 2) Being a club level tournament, it is the clubs duty to protect its members and ensure it is well represented in the regional and national levels. 3) The committee was clearly remiss in its duty in organizing the tournament so it was improper for them to make the members accountable for its incompetence. 4) The committee’s literal interpretation of the rules in promotional material would lead to absurd consequence.
Wow, what a headache. The sure question is whether CCC is sending the best team to compete with the other clubs or the best of the seven teams.
Winners of UBS tournament: low gross of 71 to Mark Dy and lowest overall net of 62 to Fred Agor. Class A champion Jovi Neri (net 66) Gabriel Yap (net 66) and Jojo Tiongko (net 68). Class B champion Ven Lacustales (net 64), Jay Yuvallos (net 65) and Peter Mancao (net 65). Class C champion Marcelo Tan (net 64), Jet Neric (net 67) and Eking Jereza (net 67).
Class D champion Tony Baltazar (net 67), Florencio Manglapus (net 68) and Cris Libi (net70). Seniors champion Tony Jackson (net 66). Sammy Darza (net 67) and Douglas Luym (net 68). Guest champion Tony Amor, Vic Gocela and Dennis Canoy.
GOLF TIP. Trajectory is controlled in your set up and how you hit the ball. So you can hit high or low, it all depends on you. There are however, golf balls designed to fly high because of their dimple pattern, and using them can help you get extra height on your shots.
Ball position: To add height, position the ball forward in your stance to effectively add loft to the clubface. To keep the ball low, de-loft the clubface by moving the ball back.
Angle of attack: The more backspin you put on the ball, the higher it will fly. To add backspin, make a more vertical swing and hit down on the ball. Conversely, a flatter or more sweeping swing will reduce backspin and make the ball fly lower.
Follow through: When you want to add height, swing your hands to a high finish. For a low trajectory, keep the clubhead down.
