Opal Cup tourney unfolds at Alabang

MANILA, Philippines - The 17th edition of the Opal Cup golf tournament will be held today and tomorrow at the Alabang Country Club, Ayala Alabang Village. The event begins on a sequential start on the first playing day and with two shotgun starts on the second day.

Marjorie Lopingco, president of the Alabang Ladies Golf Chapter, along with event’s chairperson, Ana Haurie, said that like last year, the event has attracted at least 350 participants. The combined Modified Stableford points of a partnership will be the format of the competition.

Alabang Country Club Board of Directors, led by its president, Dr. Hermogenes Villareal are expected to grace the event which has Suzuki Auto Alabang, Club Car, Yamaha/Kart Plaza, Texas Eagle/Turf Co. and Lacson & Lacson Insurance Brokers as hole-in-one sponsors.

Events sponsors are Globalink Market Strategies, HB Hans Bruman, Health &Beyond, ChinaTrust, Brittany, Portion Fillers, Inc., Asian Visions Group, Golfers Club Shares, Inc. Boy Leonio & Ed Lacson, Danvil Holdings, Inc., Beauxsante Innovations Inc., Champion, Outback Steakhouse, Pilipinas Shell, Red Juice, Ralph’s Wines & Spirits, Air 21, ABW Leaves of Life, Cran-uti, Gargol oral wash, Nyte-e lotion, Metrobank, Standard Chartered Bank, Unilever, Usana Health Sciences, Fit Line, Stradcom, Barangay AAV, Eurotel/Hotel Sogo, Let’s Face It/Going Straight, Coppertone, Sara Lee Phils, RC Cola, PLST-SME, PLDT-Corporate, Travelife, Rudy Project Phils., I Solutions International, Marie France, Pan Oriental Industries Inc. , Chi Spa Shangrila, Sofitel, Bellevue, Besa’s, First Tee, Inc., Pisanti, Fury, 1st & 10th Tee golf energy bars, USA, Alabang Ladies Golf chapter, Jose Luis Haurie, Dr. Boy Villareal, Carlos Palanca III, Gen. Reynaldo Berroya,Gerry Handog, Golf Depot, Melos Restaurant, Krispy Kreme. Tel Trade Communication & Devt. Corp., Dura Care and Bank of Commerce.