First Gentleman hosts invitational golf tournament

MANILA, Philippines - First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo, chairman of the Heart Foundation of the Philippines (HFP) national fund campaign, has announced the holding of the foundation’s annual golf tournament dubbed “Gentleman’s Cup: Heart and Golf 2009” on Oct. 30 at the Splendido Taal Golf in Tagaytay.

The tournament is intended to raise funds to support the foundation’s medical-surgical missions performed by volunteer heart-specialists from the Philippine Heart Center and other civic-oriented hospitals in the National Capital Region.

“These heart specialists take time out from their busy schedules to go to the provinces and perform open-heart surgery to indigent heart patients who cannot afford this very expensive heart treatment,”Arroyo said.