MANILA, Philippines - Ireneo Arbues and Moses Lin took the clubhouse lead in Class A with a 126 in the 4x4 Invitational member-guest tournament at the Eagle Ridge Golf and Country Club in Gen. Trias, Cavite recently.
Arbues (42) and Lin (40) made 82 points in the aggregate format at the Faldo course then made 44 in scramble at the Aoki layout. They moved ahead by one over Ramil Villanueva and Arnel Paras, who pooled a 125.
Arbues and Lin will play the Dye and Norman courses for their last two rounds in the event sponsored by San Miguel-Purefoods, WG, Toyota Calamba Laguna, Sta. Lucia, ICTSI and LK Golf and Inquirer Golf.
Severino Oliva and Danilo Mercado (44-44) share the top spot in Class B with Cyril Salamanque and Gerry Sales with 88 apiece while Uriel Halum and Ricardo Celino paced Class C with a 125 (84-43).
In Class D, Rolly Dizon and David Virgilio turned in a 168 (84-84) to seize control with Cesar Dones and Perpetuo Faytaren and Rizaldo Rozas and Elmer Geconcillo putting in identical 165s (81-84) in the event backed by Texas Eagle, Aviva, and GPS Tracker.
The other 4x4 leaders are Catherine Borja and Abigael Lapid (132) in the ladies group and Erwin Beltran and Jose Cristi (166) in the member-guest category.
“It will be an exciting wind-up as only few points separate the leaders in each division,” said Eagle Ridge general manager Raymond Bunquin.