Agui bets lead jungolf interclub at Eagle

MANILA, Philippines - Aguinaldo dominated the first round action by taking the lead in all three divisions at the start of the ICTSI Jungolf Interclub tournament at the Aoki course of the Eagle Ridge Golf and Country Club in Gen. Trias, Cavite.

Aguinaldo teams took the first two positions in Division 1, shared the top spot with Valley in Division 2  and held a 13-point spread in Division 3 of the tourney that attracted 155 junior players all over the country.

Jelbert Gamolo and Bianca Pagdanganan fired 52 points each while Aris Mata added 47 for 151 that gave Aguinaldo 1 a one-point lead over Aguinaldo 2,  the Agui trio of Kristoffer Arevalo (50), Yuka Saso (47) and Wei-Wei Gao (45) matched the 142 total posted by Aidric Chan (51), Carl Corpus (49) and Lester Lagman (42) and the team of Sean Granada (47), Leandro Bagtas (39) and Anton Rosales (27) completed the big day for Aguinaldo with their 113 total far ahead of Navy’s 100. 

The Interclub serving as the second leg of the jungolf summer circuit backed by ICTSI is also supported by Pancake House, Teriyaki Boy, Sizzlin’ Pepper, PAL, Duty Free Philippines, McDonald’s, Golf Depot, Pioneer Insurance, PacSports, Julies Bakeshop, Inquirer Golf and B Hotel.

Two-time world champion Mia Legaspi of Riviera and JP de Claro fired a day-best 53 points apiece to be the individual leaders in girls Class B and boys class in their respective divisions. Andie Unson of ICTSI-TCC (49) paced girls Class A, Gamolo (52) paced boys Class B, Chan and Sam Bruce led the Class C division while Corpus and Riviera’s Bernice Ilas (52) took the frontrunning positions in Class D. 

Sean Granada of Aguinaldo (47) and Arnie Taguines of Navy (40) paced the boys and girls classes of Class E while Kirk dela Torre and Anya Cedo both had 11 points to share the top spot in Class F.