{"id":10975,"date":"2011-11-09T05:32:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=10975"},"modified":"2011-11-09T05:32:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:32:31","slug":"dela-cruz-norita-top-xga-monthly-tourneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/dela-cruz-norita-top-xga-monthly-tourneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Dela Cruz, Norita top XGA monthly tourneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Walter J. Sutherland<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns114094.jpg\" alt=\"X-Clusive Golf Association members Ned Norita, left, and Joey Dela Cruz were recognized as Aces of the Month for the November and October, respectively. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0Joey Dela Cruz and Ned Norita earned Ace of the Month honors after the conclusion of the X-Clusive Golf Association&#8217;s recent October and November events<\/p>\n<p>Norita was crowned the November Ace in last Saturday&#8217;s event held at the Kingfisher Golf Links.<\/p>\n<p>Norita hit the turn a stroke under par (35) and finished the back with a 42 for a 77 gross. His 7-handicap adjusted to a field low 70 net score.<\/p>\n<p>John Reyes posted a 44 on the front to go with a 42 on the back for an 86 gross count, and while his 16-handicap gave him a 70 net tally, he settled for second place. Reyes was out of the running anyways as he won April Ace honors earlier in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Park Yong started out with a 43 on the front nine and finished with a 46 on the backside to scratch an 89 gross card and finished third place with a net 71.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, November&#8217;s closest to the pin winners included Dung Tenorio on hole No. 3, Jerry Ayuyu on hole No. 12, while Tony Benavente Jr. took holes No. 7 and 14.<\/p>\n<p>Back in October, Dela Cruz hit the turn at 2 over par (38) and managed a 41 on the back nine for a gross score of 79. His 12-handicap adjusted out to a 67 net score.<\/p>\n<p>Dela Cruz ended up topping the field, three strokes ahead of Benavente Jr., who grossed an even 80 before the handicap adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald Guerrero took a 42 on the front and finished the back with a 45 for a gross 87 that worked out into a 71 net score, good for third place.<\/p>\n<p>October&#8217;s closest to the pin winners include Yasu Irinaka on hole No. 6, J.J. Atalig on hole No. 12, and Benavente Jr. on holes No. 8 and 15.<\/p>\n<p>Next month XGA will combine the December Ace tourney with the season-ending Ace of Aces tournament. The venue and event date are still pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Walter J. Sutherland Reporter \u00a0Joey Dela Cruz and Ned Norita earned Ace of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975","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=10975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}