The open tryout for the CNMI men\u2019s national golf team that will compete in the 2015 Pacific Games is set on Jan. 24 at the Coral Ocean Golf Resort.<\/p>\n
The Refaluwasch Golf Association is spearheading the tryout through the efforts of Northern Marianas Sports Association executive director Tony Rogolifoi. Check in time is at 10m and shotgun start is 11am.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s interest in forming a national golf team to compete in the Pacific Games. We want to form a 4-member men\u2019s team since Jan. 16 is the deadline for entry by numbers for sports federations competing in the Pacific Games,\u201d said Rogolifoi.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to inform NMSA that we\u2019re sending a team. That\u2019s why RGA, which represents the golfers in the Northern Marianas Sports Association, is leading the way to get things organized.\u201d<\/p>\n
Members of RGA and the Marinas Golf Association attended yesterday\u2019s meeting and they discussed the preparations for the one-day tryout, which will follow a gross play format for 18 rounds.<\/p>\n
A $100 fee will be collected, which includes the green fees. The remaining amount after the green fees are deducted will be the startup fund for the golf team \u2018s trip to Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n
RGA member Ed Peters is inviting all golfers to tryout and show their support to the CNMI national men\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an open tryout and regardless of the players association everyone must work and play hard for them to get on the team. We just need the best four players that will represent the CNMI in the Pacific Games,\u201d said Peters in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n
Peters showed interest in coaching the team and Rogolifoi has requested that the long-time CNMI golfer submit his credentials.<\/p>\n
Traditionally, there are two alternate members, but they won\u2019t be joining the trip to Port Moresby and instead will stay on Saipan. The alternates will only go to replace a team member in case of injury or other unforeseen circumstances.<\/p>\n
A total of 12 medals will be at stake in the four-day golf tournament, including the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles, and men\u2019s and women\u2019s team events.<\/p>\n
The 2015 Pacific Games is set from July 4 to 18 in Papua New Guinea with the Royal Port Moresby Golf Club in the National Capital District in Port Moresby hosting the event.<\/p>\n
New Caledonia dominated the golf competition when it hosted the 2011 edition of the Pacific Games in Noumea, sweeping all four gold medals\u2014men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles, and team events. The host added two silver and one bronze medals to its collection. (Jon Perez)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The open tryout for the CNMI men\u2019s national golf team that will compete in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,1162,196,1258],"class_list":["post-189084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi","tag-nmsa","tag-papua-new-guinea","tag-tony-rogolifoi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189084","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}