{"id":278882,"date":"2018-06-26T06:04:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=278882"},"modified":"2018-06-26T06:04:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:04:12","slug":"familiar-faces-top-marianas-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/familiar-faces-top-marianas-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar faces top Marianas Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_278883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278883\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/marianasJPG.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-278883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, 2018 Marianas Classic awards ceremony host and IT&amp;E\u2019s Hans Mickelson, Freddie Cataluna, Edward Lee, and Ryan Kim pose for a photo after the presentation of prizes and trophies last Saturday at the Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Perennial golf tournament winners lived up to high expectations after emerging as top finishers in the 2018 Marianas Classic held on the east course of the Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Kim, who ruled the Championship Flight of last month\u2019s Governor\u2019s Tournament of Champions, returned to the Kagman facility and tamed the 18-hole course with his 4-under par 68 to take the place first honors in the Low Gross category of the tournament organized by IT&amp;E, IP&amp;E, and Bank of Guam.  Kim won by three strokes against CNMI junior golfer Edward Lee (one-under par 71), while veteran Freddie Cataluna rounded out the Top 3 after shooting a 2-over par 74. Cataluna won in a playoff (hole No. 17) against Jun Hun Park.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, Lee, and Cataluna received trophies and cash prizes during the awards presentation hosted by IT&amp;E\u2019s Hans Mickelson and attended by IT&amp;E chief executive officer James Oehlerking, Bank of Guam\u2019s chief executive officer Joaquin Cook, IP&amp;E managing director Brian Bamba, and other officials of the three companies.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s Low Gross, another familiar face won the top honors with Yuko Togawa beating six other female players. Togawa fired a 6-over par 78 to finish ahead of Yoo Chang Hee (79), Sunny Hyun (82), Jeon Me Ae (83), Yoon Seo Ja (86), Ahn Young He (110), and Jaime Pangelinan (112).<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s Low Net, Frederico Flores placed first after scoring 69.60. He had an 8.4 handicap and registered a gross score of 78. Joining Flores in the podium were Ron Benavente and Alex Tudela, who posted net scores of 70 and 70.40, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 registered for the inaugural tournament and proceeds from last weekend\u2019s competition will be donated to Make A Wish Foundation, Micronesia Islands Nature Alliance, and Autism Society of the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to give something back to the community so we thought about organizing an event and donating its proceeds to non-profit organizations in the CNMI,\u201d Oehlerking said in a brief message during the awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be doing this tournament every year and hopefully make it one of the premier competitions here. We will definitely have a bigger and better tournament next year,\u201d Cook added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perennial golf tournament winners lived up to high expectations after emerging as top finishers in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":278883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,10094,9297,21711],"class_list":["post-278882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi","tag-edward-lee","tag-freddie-cataluna","tag-marianas-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278882","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=278882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}