Southwoods unbeatable in Fil-Am divisions
BAGUIO, Philippines — Manila Southwoods closed out the 72nd Fil-Am Men’s Invitational with a huge lead and claimed its ninth straight title in the Fil and Am Championship divisions last Sunday.
The Fil crew made 128 points at the Baguio Country Club as Carl Jano Corpus once again topscored with a one-under-par 60 for 37 points. He got solid support from Jeff Jung 34, Gab Manotoc 27 and Kristoffer Arevalo 26 for a 72-hole total of 541 in the premier division.
Aidric Chan did not play because he had to go back to the US due to a school requirement, according to Southwoods captain Thirdy Escaño.
Forest Hills was runner-up with 473 points after a 116 as Rodel Mangulabnan scored 30, Edison Tabalin and Iñigo Raymundo a pair of 29s and Joshua Buenaventura 28.
Team SPES, a rookie team in the world’s largest amateur tournament, checked in at third (104-465) followed by Januarius Golf (99-445), Time Cargo Logistics (105-429) and X1R-Tipsy Pig-Mizuno (103-422).
The Am side also saw Southwoods (138-517) winning by a huge margin over a youthful squad of Royal Northwoods (128-446). Valley Golf (127-433) and Riviera-Batangas Barakos (114-421) were third and fourth.
Marc Lu and Shinichi Suzuki starred for Southwoods Am with 35 points apiece while Lanz Uy and Leandro Bagtas backstopped with 34s for the Carmona, Cavite-based team.
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