Toyota Altis up for grabs for an ace in 9th Corn Tee

A Toyota Altis is among several prizes at stake for a hole-in-one in the 9th Corn Tee of Club Filipino Incorporada de Cebu which tees off today in Pulangyuta, Danao City.

The Altis, courtesy of Toyota Cebu City Inc. is up for an ace on holes No. 8 and 17 in the layout designed by Cebuano golf maestro Peter Chiongbian.

A Privacy car from Norkis Automotive Resource, a Cebu-Dubai-Cebu ticket from Qatar Airways, and a Cebu-Hong Kong-Cebu ticket from Philippine Airlines are also at stake for an ace on all par-3 holes of the layout carved on a valley.

The tournament will be a three-man team event with each squad composed of a club member and two guests.

Around 110 teams are seeing action in the tournament with the first half of the field to play today said Ricarte Santos, chairman of the tournament.

The Modified Stableford Scoring System will be used for the 36-hole event that runs until Sunday with San Miguel Corporation as Platinum Sponsor.

Casino Filipino is the Diamond Sponsor while Cebu Mitsumi, Duros Development Corp., Newtrends International Corp., and Profood International Corp. are the Gold Sponsors.

Other key members of the tournament committee are Jose Mari Miranda and chairman of the ways and means committee, Raymund Calderon and Clark Gothong as co-chairmen of the handicap committee, and Lorenzo Padilla as chairman of the pairings and registration committee.

This event has been made possible with the all out support of Renato V. Osmeña, the president of the club.

Skygo International Corp. is putting a motorcycle as an eagle prize.

The hole sponsors are Bank of Commerce, Bogo-Medellin Sugar Planters Asso. Inc., Carlos A. Gothong Lines, Cebu Landmasters Inc., Dainan Trading Co. Ltd. (Yotai Refractories), Daitoh Precisions Inc., Design Ventures (Cebu) Inc., Fast Cargo Logistics, Corp., and Gothong Southern.

Additional hole sponsors are Hewlett-Packard Phils. Inc., Marco Polo Plaza, National Federation of Sugarcane Planters, Philippine Associated Smelting & Refining Corp., Ricor Mills Corp., Total Information Management (TIM), and Y&C Marketing.

The patrons are Bohol Beach Club, Cebu Daito Corp., Cebu tristar Corp., Chirorin Mura Japanese Restaurant, Concord Hotel, Ichiriki Chaya Inc., Imcon World Corp., Insuphil Industrial Corp., Jumbolon Marketing, and Kaishu Seafood Japanese Restaurant.

Lite Shipping Corp., Mac II Auto Sales/Joscar Auto Center, MYP Enterprises, Nonki Japanese Restaurant, Philam Life, Philippine Iino Corp., Ting Guan Trading Corp., Tonton TTM Training Center, and Yumeya-Kihei Japanese Restaurant complete the list of patrons.