Greenies romp to 14-shot edge

MANILA, Philippines - La Salle Greenhills high school took up the cudgels for its college squad as it posted a 14-point lead over Ateneo after two rounds of the Samsung Interscholastics golf championships at the Canlubang Golf and Country Club north course in Laguna recently.

Miggy Yee and Inigo Raymundo took charge for the Greenies with 56-point efforts in the first and second rounds as LSGH completed a 36-hole aggregate of 313 to stay on track of a second overall crown in 10 years.

As Yee (49) and Raymundo (51) were not as explosive in their other rounds, AR Ramos provided the needed support with his rounds of 51-50. Jan de Claro and Luigi Guerrero failed to count for LSGH in the first two rounds.

The Ateneo college squad, meanwhile, drew big rounds from Edsel Tan (53-48) and Gab Atienze (51-50) but the rest of the Eagles turned in mediocre games.

St. Benilde took third at 291 followed by La Salle Taft at 290 while Lyceum failed to live to pre-tournament hype as it sputtered with a 284 in the tournament backed by Custom Clubmakers, Omnisource International, BCLN Golf, Titleist Cobra, Footjoy, ABW Leaves of Life, CranUTI and Gargol with the special sanction of the Junior Golf Foundation of the Phils. Inquirer Golf and A Round of Golf are media partners.

St. Paul-Pasig’s Maan Legaspi and Marvi Monsalve took the lead in the girls’ college-high school play, brothers Ryan and Ivan Monsalve, Joaquin Romero and Nikolo Gatmaytan powered La Salle Greenhills to a big lead in boys’ grade school while Nikki Bruce and Sam Pagdanganan led Assumption’s bid in the first two rounds of the girls’ grade school competition.

Leading the individual race in the boys’ category are Mico Yee of St. Benilde in college play, Raymundo in high school, Gen Nagai of the Center for International Education and Alex Delfin Trinos of La Salle Canlubang in the special division.