{"id":23999,"date":"2012-07-14T07:32:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T07:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=23999"},"modified":"2012-07-14T07:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T07:32:13","slug":"norita-tops-sga-june-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/norita-tops-sga-june-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Norita tops SGA June tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ned Norita won the Saipan Golfers Association’s June Ace of the Month Tournament at Coral Ocean Point Golf Resort last June 24.<\/div>\n

Norita drained a field-high five birdies in his round and finished with a field-low gross score of 72 and won last month’s ace honors with a net score of 68, despite coming up on the shorter end of score card run-off with Das Krishnan who also carded a net 68.<\/p>\n

The tournament was formatted with hole No. 8 designated as the run-off hole, which was coincidentally a \u201cstroke-hole\u201d for Das, via handicap.<\/p>\n

Since both golfers recorded bogeys on hole No. 8, Das was supposed to win against the field of 26 golfers who turned out for the event.<\/p>\n

However, since Das already won the ace honors last May, Norita was issued the June plum along with the second prize purse.<\/p>\n

Norita, who also won the longest drive honors on holes No. 6 and 8, thus joins January ace Tony Deleon Guerrero, who finished June’s event in third place with a 71 net score; February ace Juan L. Babauta; and April’s Art Deleon Guerrero for the season-ending Ace of Ace Tournament.<\/p>\n

Other notables from June’s round included Ed Manibusan sinking a pair of birdies and seizing the closest to the pin honors on holes No. 3 and 12, Jimmy Wang, who nabbed a couple of birdies and took closest to the pin spoils in hole No. 7, and Steve Balakrishna, who pocketed a birdie and won closest to the pin in hole No. 14.<\/p>\n

Fourth placer Jess Castro (72) and Adam Hardwicke also came away with a birdie apiece.<\/p>\n

SGA’s July Ace event is scheduled for July 22 at the Marianas Country Club. Show time is set for 9am with a 10:30am tee off.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact Larry Guerrero at 287-1052.<\/p>\n

By Walter J. Sutherland
\nReporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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