{"id":101370,"date":"2006-06-07T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a7dda0c7-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2006-06-07T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T07:19:00","slug":"a7dda0d7-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a7dda0d7-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"RP Independence Day tourney on June 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fil-Taga Golfers Association will holds its 108th Philippine Independence Day Golf Tournament on June 18 at the Coral Ocean Point Golf Resort.<\/p>\n<p>Like previous years, the tournament will have two categories\u2014a member and a guest division.<\/p>\n<p>Champions for each category will receive $300 cash and a handsome trophy, runner-up gets $200 and also a trophy, while third-place winners take home $100 and a trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the cash prizes for the top winners, Fil-Taga also is giving lucky golfers the opportunity to earn more in three $10,000 hole-in-one prizes sponsored by Home Depot.<\/p>\n<p>Fil-Taga will also award prizes to the closest to the pin and will raffle off many more prizes during its banquet set after the tournament at the COP poolside<\/p>\n<p>The 108th Philippine Independence Day Golf Tournament will have an 11:30am tee time and a 9am show time. Entry fee is $100 and will entitle participants to free greens and the aforementioned dinner banquet.<\/p>\n<p>Entry forms can be picked up and submitted at Unit 4, Saipan Plaza Building in Gualo Rai. For more information, call Rene Domanais at 233-9473.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Sen. Pete Reyes won the members division after besting 28 other Fil-Taga duffers with his net score of 66, while youngster Leina Kim put everyone to shame in the guests division, as the then 13-year-old wunderkind fired a net score of 61.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1993, Fil-Taga hosts monthly tournaments, which operate under a computer-controlled handicap system that creates parity among players in the A and B Flights. Regular tournaments are scheduled once a month, normally every third Sunday. Green fees are in the $35 to $40 price range for most tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fil-Taga Golfers Association will holds its 108th Philippine Independence Day Golf Tournament on June 18 at the Coral Ocean Point Golf Resort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}