{"id":231770,"date":"2016-07-08T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=231770"},"modified":"2016-07-08T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T20:00:24","slug":"nick-sablan-dominates-sga-may-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nick-sablan-dominates-sga-may-ace\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Sablan dominates SGA May Ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_231784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231784\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/sgapix-300x225.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-231784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants in SGA\u2019s May Ace of the Month pose for a photo before heading out to the course at the Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort last month. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nick Sablan was on target during the Saipan Golfers Association\u2019s May Ace of the Month held last month at the Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort.<\/p>\n<p>On top of clinching the May Ace of the Month title, Sablan also won three closest to the pin contests and had one longest drive. <\/p>\n<p>The 5-handicapper shot a 36 and 39 on the front and back nines for a gross 75 and net 70. He won the May Ace award by three strokes, as runner-up Steve Balakrishna came up with a net 73. Balakrishna, which owned an 8 handicap. had a gross 81, built around his 43 on the front nine and 38 on the back. CNMI Attorney General Ed Manibusan, who also had a 5 handicap, finished third with his net 74  and gross 79 (40 and 39).<\/p>\n<p>In the closest to the pin competitions in par-3 holes, Sablan won on No. 4, 6, and 15, while Manibusan foiled the former\u2019s bid for a sweep, prevailing on hole No. 11. Sablan also had the longest drive on No. 18, while Rick Kautz duplicated the feat on No. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, SGA will have its June Ace of the Month this Sunday at the Kingfisher Golf Links. Show time is at 8:30am, while tee off is an hour later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Sablan was on target during the Saipan Golfers Association\u2019s May Ace of the Month&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[396,12403,4596,4597],"class_list":["post-231770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-june-ace","tag-rick-kautz","tag-saipan-golfers-association","tag-sga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231770","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}