{"id":216671,"date":"2015-12-15T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=216671"},"modified":"2015-12-15T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T20:00:57","slug":"mendoza-grabs-last-fil-taga-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mendoza-grabs-last-fil-taga-ace\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendoza grabs last Fil-Taga Ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_216689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216689\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fil-Taga-pix.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fil-Taga-pix-169x300.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lito Mendoza will be part of the Fil-Taga\u2019s yearend tournament, which will be announced at a later date. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lito Mendoza topped the year&#8217;s final Fil-Taga Ace of the Month Tournament, winning the December title after Sunday\u2019s tournament at the Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza fired 40 and 39 at the front and back to finish with a 79 gross and with a 15 handicap gave him a net score of 64 for a three-shot win over Raffy Piamonte.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza now joins 16 other Fil-Taga Ace of the Month winners that will vie for the yearend title. Fil-Taga has yet to announce details of the yearend tournament\u2014date, time, and venue.<\/p>\n<p>Vic Roman and Randy Tudela (A and B, January); Jhun Ortiz and Raffy Piamonte (A and B, February); Ernie Lopez (March); Paul Bea (April); and Larry Pascual and Dandito Breboneria (A and B, May) are some of the FilTaga Ace of the Month winners.<\/p>\n<p>William Retardo (June); Freddie Cataluna and Ruben Avendano (A and B, July); Greg Castro (August); Nestor Siruelo (September), Rene Batallones (October), and Eric Mandell and Norman Tenorio (A and B, November) also earned berths to the FilTaga Ace of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Piamonte finished with a 67 net after shooting a 47 and 48 for the 95 gross and with a 28 handicap earned him that final score.<\/p>\n<p>Hak Chon Bae and Tony Cabrera had 69 each to end up tied for third to fourth places, while former associate judge Juan Lizama was fifth with a 73.<\/p>\n<p>Gil Faller (74), Batallones (75), Adony Matutino and Bea (77 apiece), and Pascual (78) complete the Top 10 finishers.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Cruz (79), Avendano (81), Retardo and Cataluna (82 apiece), and Mandell and Lopez (83 apiece) are the other Fil-Taga members who joined Sunday\u2019s tee-off.<\/p>\n<p>Cataluna was the closest to the pin winner in one of the four par-3 holes doing it in hole No. 4. Faller, Bae, and Cataluna equaled the feat in No. 6, 11, and 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lito Mendoza topped the year&#8217;s final Fil-Taga Ace of the Month Tournament, winning the December&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8699,8259,5466,5467],"class_list":["post-216671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-gil-faller","tag-lito-mendoza","tag-raffy-piamonte","tag-tony-cabrera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216671","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=216671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}