{"id":257343,"date":"2017-08-01T06:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T20:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=257343"},"modified":"2017-08-01T06:02:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T20:02:15","slug":"guerrero-yamagishi-win-mga-combined-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guerrero-yamagishi-win-mga-combined-ace\/","title":{"rendered":"Guerrero, Yamagishi win MGA combined ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_257359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257359\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MGA-30-July-2017-300x176.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marianas Golf Association officers and members pose for a group photo before the start of the combined Ace of the Month tournament on Sunday at the east course of Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort. (Contributed Photo)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gerald Guerrero and Calvin Yamagishi ruled the Marianas Golf Association combined May-June Aces of the Month, held last Sunday at Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort\u2019s east course.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero and Yamagishi ended up tied with two others for the top ranking, but had a 1-2 finish after the count-back. The former clinched the May Ace by half a stroke over the latter, which earned the June monthly award.<\/p>\n<p>MGA held a two-for-one May-June combined monthly ace for July after missing a number of months due to a number of local tournaments\u2014Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands, Northern Marianas College Foundation, and Tournament of Champions\u2014held earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>David Largent and J.J. Atalig were the other two golfers who tied Guerrero and Yamagishi, but ended up third and fourth, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Yamagishi led the closest to the pin winners in No. 6, while Peter Tenorio duplicated his feat in No. 11. Largent conquered No. 15.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 13 MGA members played in perfect weather conditions in the morning and then braved the afternoon showers for the one-day tournament.<\/p>\n<p>MGA will again hold a combined Monthly Ace for July and August on Sunday, Aug. 13, at 10am at Kingfisher Golflinks in Talofofo.<\/p>\n<p>Atalig was the April Ace with James Benavente and Guerrero placing second and third. Jessica Sonoda is the March Ace with Atalig and Harry Nakamura at 2-3, while Joe \u201cKamikaze\u201d Camacho, Marco Peter, and Largent were the Top 3 for February with the former earning the Monthly title.<\/p>\n<p>Atalig (president), Largent (vice president), Gerilyn Dela Cruz (secretary), Benavente (treasurer), Yamagishi (tournament director), and Jay Muna (handicap coordinator) are the MGA officers for this year.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit MGA\u2019s Facebook page www.facebook.com\/MarianasGolfAssociation or email MarianasGolf670@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Guerrero and Calvin Yamagishi ruled the Marianas Golf Association combined May-June Aces of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":257359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11192,8790,8594,1775],"class_list":["post-257343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-gerilyn-dela-cruz","tag-jay-muna","tag-jessica-sonoda","tag-mga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257343","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}