Fiesta Cup

The much-awaited 1st Lapu-Lapu Fiesta Cup Golf Tournament will tee off tomorrow at the Mactan island Golf Club.

This tournament offers a format that makes it different from the usual events that we have as the first day will be a best-ball scramble and the second day will be alternate stroke.

As of yesterday, I was told that close to 200 players have signed up for the tournament, but I’m sure there would be many last-minute entries that would try to beat the deadline to take part in the tournament.

The reason why the organizers are holding the event on Friday and Saturday is that the Filipinos would rather stay home this Sunday morning to watch the fight between Filipino ring hero Manny Pacquiao against Miguel Cotto.

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November will be a busy time for the golf community in Cebu with tournaments also set next weekend and the last weekend of the month.

Next weekend’s event will be held at the Cebu Country Club while Alta Vista had to move its monthly medal to the last weekend to give way to the tournaments in other clubs.

There are also many more tournaments scheduled in December, but one thing that makes next month’s events special is that there will be charity events to benefit the less fortunate.

Alta Vista’s Christmas Fun Golf will be giving all proceeds of the mulligan to charity and that is easily over P100,000 going to a good cause.

I am also expecting a call anytime soon from our friends organizing the annual Charity Fun Golf Tournament about the schedule for this year’s event.

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Sports events are one way of helping the needy. I read in the report about the Asian pacific Poker Tour Season II that there is also an event where half of the proceeds will be given to the victims of the recent typhoons that hit the country.

This is not the first time that I have heard of people organizing sports events giving to charity and I hope this encourages more to do the same.

Even the activities for the sesquicentennial (150 years) of Ateneo have set aside a portion of the proceeds to charity.

By the way, alumni of Ateneo and other Jesuit schools have a tournament tomorrow at Cebu Country Club. This will be followed by the Blue Night later in the day where the awarding ceremony would also be held.

Just to make it clear, I never went to a Jesuit school although my kids go to one. But even if I play for La Salle in the annual tournament against Ateneo, they’re all our friends and the One La Salle Cebu Alumni Association, which also did a pretty good job in gathering relief goods for the typhoon victims, is supportive of our brothers.

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MILESTONES: Happy birthday to Louella Mendoza-Yu, who turns a year older today.

Tomorrow’s greetings go to Francis Benedict Cutiongco, Buena Paz ‘Bonbon’ Montero, DSWD’s Jaybee Binghay-Carillo, my Tao brother Leon Flores III, Maki Garcia-Evans, lawyer Nilo ‘Olin’ Seno, and my fellow dads team goalie Stanley Villacin.

More power to all of you! -  THE FREEMAN