Eagle Ridge big bash up Saturday

From the break of dawn until late in the night this coming Saturday, members and guests attending the grand Inaugural Weekend of the Eagle Ridge Golf and Country Club in Gen. Trias, Cavite will be kept busy with numerous sports activities topped off by a Apo Hiking Society concert and a fireworks display.

The main sports event is the Fore x Four member-guest which will put into special focus the enormity of the complex as Eagle Ridge’s four courses — Aoki, Dye, Faldo, and Norman — host four simultaneous tournaments, each having its own sponsors aand formats.

It will be a one-of-a-kind, four-in-one tourney to celebrate the completion of the 72-hole promise of one of Asia’s biggest golf clubs.

Eagle Ridge is a multi-billion joint venture of Alsons Land Corp. and Sta. Lucia Realty, transforming a 700-hectare prime property into the new sports center in the Cavite area.

Reason for this is the completion of the spanking main family clubhouse where most of the Inaugural Weekend action off the golf course will be staged.

There will be special clinics as well as competitions in the 14-lane bowling alley, the badminton and tennis courts, the billiards hall and the resort type swimming pool. The basketball court is being set aside as a dining area. Children will be treated to a poolside show and film showings at the club theater.

Petron heads the sponsors for the Inaugural Weekend. Golf sponsors are Callaway/Electrobus, Mizuno/Master Sports and Titlest and Cobra/Dynamic Sports. Head Penn is supporting the tennis event while Winex and Tronex are backing the badminton and bowling activities.

Winfred Gob, head of the steering committee preparing the big bash, said the Inaugural Weekend is designed to be a Family Day.

"We want Eagle to be a second home where each family member can have a choice of playing in all our facilities, working out at the gym, having a massage or splash at the pool and even watch a movie," said Gob.