Don Petil taps a new partner in JR Salahug, hoping to make it two-in-row against a souped-up field in the National Doubles Amateur Golf Championship slated Dec. 27-29 at the Camp Aguinaldo Golf Club in QC.
Fourteen squads lead the early roster of teams vying in the eighth staging of the annual event also held to keep the country’s leading and rising players in shape during the holidays as they hone up for the Philippine Amateur Golf Championship early January.
Petil and then teammate Paolo Wong pounced on Gab Manotoc and Lester Lagman’s shaky start and roared to a five-stroke triumph in last year’s staging of the event which features the four-ball (best ball), aggregate and foursomes (alternate shot) formats.
Sean Ramos, winner of two individual tournaments this year, hopes to cap an impressive season with a doubles victory as he teams up with Gabby Macalaguim while Josh Jorge, Leandro Bagtas and Masaichi Otake link up with Jet Hernandez, Francis Lanuza and Rald Sarmiento, respectively, in the season-ending event of the National Golf Association of the Philippines which also serves as part of the PLDT Group National Amateur Golf Tour.
Listup is ongoing with deadline set on Dec. 26 at 12 noon. For registration and other details, call NGAP at telefax (02) 706-5926 or Camp Aguinaldo Golf Club at (02) 913-2750 or email ngap2009handicap@yahoo.com or visit www.ngaponline.net or www.facebook.com/ngap.circle. Entry fee is P2,500 (locals) and P3,500 (foreigners).
Other early entries in the event sponsored by the MVP Sports Foundation, are the tandems of Santino Laurel-Kristine Torralba, Tomi Arejola-Nicole Abelar, David Guangko-Annika Guangko, Ivan Monsalve-Aldo Barro, Jeff Jung-Paqo Barro, Arnie Taguines-Samantha Dizon, Diana Araneta-Sam Martirez and Demy Saclot-Perry Bucay.
Format is four-ball in the first day then play shifts to aggregate in the next day with the final round to feature the two-ball foursomes.
Aside from Group I for members of national team and for players with handicap index of 4.0 or less, also on tap are the Group 2 (4.1 and above) and Group III (players 30-years-old-and-above regardless of handicap).
