PGAP pro-am on at Intramuros

MANILA, Philippines - Veteran tour campaigners Robert Pactolerin and Rodrigo Cuello head close to 40 teams clashing for top honors in the PGAP pro-am golf tournament unfolding today at Club Intramuros.

A total prize fund of P200,000 is up for grabs in the event, one of the club’s premier tournaments, featuring some of the country’s leading pros and amateurs and lady golfers.

Format is a two-man team event with the lowest combined output from the pro’s gross score and the amateur’s net score through Blind Callaway winning the top P20,000 purse.

However, the top 30 pros in the current Order of Merit of the ICTSI Philippine Golf Tour will not be allowed to team up with a current member of the national team, a foreign amateur or a player with a 10 handicap or better, according to the organizing Professional Golfers Association of the Philippines, headed by president Jun Bustamante.

Joining Pactolerin, a former Philippine Open and many-time Masters champion, and Cuello, who won the Hong Kong Open in 1996, in the roster are senior campaigners Juanito Pagunsan, Mario Manubay, the 1986 Phl Open winner, and Caloy Nival.

Club Intramuros chief operating officer Mark Lapid and resident manager Adelfo Mendoza III will join Bustamante in the ceremonial drive kicking off the 18-hole tournament which also offers fabulous prizes for the top amateur finishers.