A brand new car and a cruise package will be up for grabs for hole-in-one feats as the Southwoods Invitational fires off Wednesday with 200 teams from a full-packed roster of 400 clashing for top honors at the Legends and Masters courses in Carmona, Cavite.
Mitsubishi Motors/Alpine Motors is putting up a 2022 Mirage G4 GLS CVT A/T Sedan as prize for an ace on Nos. 16 of Legends and No. 5 of Masters while Royal Caribbean/Baron Travel is staking a four-night Southeast Asian cruise for two, inclusive of two economy class tickets (Manila-Singapore-Manila) for a hole-in-one on Legends’ No. 7 and Masters’ No. 3.
Sojitz Fuso Phils. Corp., meanwhile, is offering P100,000 for an ace on No. 3 of Legends and Masters. If no player scores a hole-in-one, all three prizes will be raffled off.
Other hole-in-one sponsors are The Turf Company (Club Car Tempo 2-seater electric on No. 13 of Masters), Kart Plaza Manufacturing Corp. (Yamaha Golf Cart on Legends No. 3 and Masters No. 17), Gran Sportivo (Gran Sportivo Golf Cart on No. 12 of Legends) and Auto Nation Group, Inc. (Mercedes-Benz A-Class on No. 13 of Masters).
The four-day event, the Manila Southwoods’ annual member-guest bash with The Turf Company as title sponsor, marks the return of club tournaments in one of the country’s most prestigious golf courses after a two-year hiatus due to pandemic.
Backing the event are Platinum sponsors Mitsubishi Motors Phil. Corp./Alpine Motors Corp., Royal Caribbean/Baron Travel, Agrexplore Corp., Abomar Equipment Sales Corp., Sojitz Fuso Phil. Corp., Kilo International Marketing Corp. and HBW Enterprises while The Manor & The Forest Lodge at Camp John Hay and Leads Agricultural Products Corp. head the Gold backers list and Le Chef, Inc., Metro Rail Transit Dev’t. Corp., PGA Clubshares and PNOEZ are the Silver sponsors.
Making up the Bronze sponsors roster are Alpha Quality, Ayala Land Premier, BDO, Camp John Hay Golf Club, Castillo-Laman-Tan-Pantaleon-San Jose Law Offices, Club Leisure Management Corp., Escala Tagaytay Hotel, Federal Maintenance & Management, Inc., Forest Hills Golf & Country Club, G&W Clubshares, GG&A Clubshares, Hernandez Engineering Works, Hydro-Tech Irrigation, Manila Southwoods Manor, Mastech, Inc., Mit-Air, Inc., Smart Probe, Srixon, Puma and Warbird Security & Agency.
Theody Pascual and Garry Sales bagged the overall gross championship while Dante Maldia and Wilfredo Maldia took the net team honors when the tournament was last played in 2020.
The sequential tee times set off at 6:36 a.m. at the Legends and Masters with 100 teams to play a round each of the Jack Nicklaus-designed championship courses. Format is Net Stableford Points with the best ball to be played at the Masters and the aggregate at the Legends.
The awards rites and major raffle program will be held via zoom at 5 p.m. on March 19. Tournament winners and sponsors will be invited to attend a photo op and lunch at 10:30 a.m. on March 26.