(Editor’s note — Our apologies for the late posting; we just got the official results!)
Nov. 5, 2010 — Froi Lomotan and Joji Mercado won the Masters and Classics division, respectively, at the last tournament of the year held on Oct. 16 at the Santa Clara Golf and Tennis Club. The twenty-six DLS Greens (and guest golfers) who participated in the tournament enjoyed the peninsula’s mild autumn weather as well as the camaraderie of fellow alumni. They used the gold tees (6,420 yards, 116 slope rating) of the well-maintained municipal golf course of Santa Clara county.
Foursomes were tweaked at the tournament to group the leading DLS Greens Golfer of the Year (GOY) contenders as the last foursome. It provided an interesting sideshow as the Top 2 golfers, Bobby Panlasigue and Manny Noguera, battled it out until the last hole. Both scored impressively: Manny had a gross 81 (net 66) and Bobby had a gross 87 (net 69). At the end, Manny prevailed by garnering the tournament’s third best net score to get 110 GOY points. Bobby figured in a 3-way tie for net 69 and ended up with just 50 GOY points when the tie-breaker went in favor of Tony Colmenares andJim Feyzbakhsh, who then got the 2nd and 3rd place finish for the Classics division. Manny Noguera placed third in the Masters Division behind runner-up Tom Consunji.
Closest to the pin bragging rights went to Rico Medina and Bobby Panlasigue.
The complete net scores:
Masters Division
62 Lomotan, Froi
64 Consunji, Tom
66 Noguera, Manny
71 Riego de Dios, Ron
72 Manalo, Mike
Ramirez, Sonny
Bacarro, Jesse
73 Estella, Poch
74 Hizon, Matt
75 Flores, Jojo
76 Mercado, Arnold
78 Sevilla, Irvin
95 Leoncio, Benjy (gross score due to no handicap)
Classics Division
67 Mercado, Joji
69 Colmenares, Tony
Feyzbakhsh, Jim
Panlasigue. Bobby
70 Magbitang, Jun
Yu, Clement
22 Litton, Andy
73 Romualdez, Nina
74 Medina, Rico
76 Africa, Dino
77 Silva, Alan
80 Gardner, Bill
80 Mayor, Orly
