Thursday, June 19, 2008 Chiongbian: Y101 Corporate Cup golf By Edgar R. Chiongbian Teetime
THE Y101 Corporate Cup golf tournament tees off today and tomorrow at Cebu Country Club. This is the second edition of a very successfully big tournament that was launched last year. Loads of prizes are at stake for the participants, which include a Ford car as the hole-in-one prize.
The tournament is 36 holes of competition and played in two days. Why101? Yes that’s Y101 for sure!
Every week this month, we had a golf tournament that will spill until the first week of July with the View Invitational, which is the signature golf tournament of Alta Vista.
Better sign up right away for the View to get your preferred time slots, as they will be going out real fast. Before that, on Tuesday next week, the Cebu Chamber of
Commerce will have their annual BIG (business in golf) tournament at the Cebu Country Club.
What more can we say about the 18-hole playoff of the US Open Championship at Torrey Pines, in La Jolla, San Diego. It was considered the best ever playoff in the 108-year history of the US Open. There was so much drama and excitement that were completely unexpected. I watched it from midnight till 5:30am and I didn’t even feel tired or sleepy. I sure paid for it the next day as I couldn’t function correctly after losing sleep for four nights.
Tiger Woods should have gone to the Bionic hardware store of Boni Sia, and he wouldn’t have to worry about his knee hurting and win the tournament outright. As the script was written, the 18-hole playoff was a story of the 18th hole, where Rocco pars in the final round with a one stroke lead then Tiger comes and birdies the 18th hole to tie and force a playoff.
Never mind the drama that went on for 17 holes of the playoff. It went the same route on the 18th hole where Rocco was again one up with a par and Tiger birdies again to go to sudden death. And just like the first hole of the playoff, Tiger pars the hole and Rocco bogeys it. So it was the same as on the first hole of the sudden death, where
Tiger pars and Rocco bogeys. Déjà vu. So there you are, a real life true story that looks like it was made in Hollywood. As Yul Brunner said in the King and I, “ So it has been said, so it shall be written!”
Last weekends Presidents Cup at Cebu Country Club was a huge success with everyone savoring a good score on the first day with the two-ball best ball format. Division I had the lowest team score of 54 or 18-under and a high of net 60. Division II had the closest spread of only four strokes (net 61- 64) among 28 teams. And the highest spread in Division III.
Congratulations to the Presidents Cup winners and to the overall champions Jacinto Limyutian and Eddie Yap, who had the lowest score of 59 on the second day scramble and a net 62 on the first day. Division I champions were Clifford Celdran and Sammy Uytengsu. The first runner up team went to Rolly Tan and Andrew Si, while the second runner up was Willy Lim and Arturo Go.
Division II champions were Douglas Luym and Andrew Co with their net 63 and 64 performance. The runners up were Jojo Ong and Kim Kwang Seok and Bruce Chiongbian and Boy Escano.
Division II champions were Jojo Tiongko and Patrick Cymmon Go with a net 64 & 67. Settling for runners up honors were Orly Israel and Ramon Escario, and Max Tan and Bruno Gonzalez.
The champion in the guest division was Dennis Canoy with Enrico Solon taking second place. Trophies for getting the lowest first day score went to Cesar Chan and Steve Lava, while Edwin Medalle and Gene Matiga took the second day’s lowest score.
GOLF TIP. If you are mostly hitting your shots fat or hitting the ground before the ball, a little change in perspective can help you get rid of the fats.
Change your focus to the front edge of the ball instead of the back of the ball.
Shifting your focus forward or to the front of the ball will push your center of gravity toward the target and allow your club to reach its low point at the ball instead of behind the ball. This sight adjustment is 1.68 inches forward, the diameter of the golf ball but actually only less than half an inch on the ground.
