Highlands Ladies Cup to benefit orphans

MANILA, Philippines - The Highlands Ladies Cup unfolding Oct. 23 will not only be a competition among the country’s top golfing ladies but also a fund-raiser for the Sisters of Mary boys and girls town center and the Pearl Buck Foundation in Silang, Cavite.

The organizing Tagaytay Highlands Ladies Chapter (THLC) has been assisting the Sisters of Mary, where kids are fed and educated to be employed, the last five years by way of allotting part of the proceeds for the center.

As part of its social commitment to help the underprivileged youth fulfill their dreams, the THLC has also included the Pearl S. Buck Foundation Philippines, a feeding and education center, to its list of beneficiaries.

Meanwhile, registration for the event remains open with tickets pegged at P3,500 for Tagaytay Highlands/Midlands members and P4,000 for non-members. For details, contact 0905-3186636. The field will be limited to 150.

CATS Motors, the exclusive distributor of Mercedes-Benz in the country, is the event’s Diamond sponsor while San Miguel Corp., W Tower Fifth Ave., Pacific Online, Security Bank and Philippine Airlines make up the Platinum sponsors.

Felix Ang, president of CATS Motors, Willie Ocier, vice president of Belle Corp., Jorge Mendiola, SM Retail president, Marixi Prieto, Inquirer chair, and Sandy Romualdez, team captain of Tagaytay Highlands ladies team, will hit the ceremonial drives to kick off the event.

Backing the 18-hole tournament as gold sponsors are Shell Philippines and Baron Travel while Bingo Bonanza Corp., ComWorks, Inc. and SM Retail Inc. are the silver sponsors.

Regent Travel and Kaiser Health lead the bronze sponsors that also include Standard Chartered, Rosalie Heo, RCW Construction, Focus Global, Coca-Cola Bottlers, Air Philippine Express, Marie France, Universal Robina Corp., Guess, My Skin, Concrete Masters, Honda Motors Cavite, SM Hotels and Asia Brewery.

Orocan and Outback Restaurant are the other supporters of the event to be fired off by a shotgun start and played under the System 36 scoring format.