{"id":350710,"date":"2021-08-27T06:02:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=350710"},"modified":"2021-08-27T06:02:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:02:11","slug":"ag-manibusan-is-sga-june-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ag-manibusan-is-sga-june-ace\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Manibusan is SGA June Ace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_350711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350711\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SGA-pix.jpg\" alt=\"SGA AG Manibusan\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" class=\"size-full wp-image-350711\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-350711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Edward Manibusan, seen here in a file photo, won the Saipan Golfers Association June Ace of the Month Tournament last June 27 at the Coral Ocean Resort golf course. (Saipan Tribune)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Attorney General Edward Manibusan advanced to the season-ending Saipan Golfers Association Ace of Aces Tournament after topping the club\u2019s June Ace of the Month Tournament last June 27 at the Coral Ocean Resort golf course.<\/p>\n<p>The highest-ranking law enforcement officer of the islands posted the lowest score of the day after shooting a net 68. Manibusan started out strong by firing an even par 36 in the front nine. He struggled a bit in the back nine, shooting a 5-over par 41. Minus his 9 handicap, he came away with the net 68.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy to be back on the course after weeks in hibernation. The condition of the course was great,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Manibusan actually finished tied with eventual runner-up Rick Kautz as both men finished with an identical score of net 68. However, Manibusan beat Kautz in a scorecard tiebreak to win the June tourney. Kautz recorded his net 68 built around a gross of 80. The 12-handicapper had a 39 in the first nine holes and a 41 in the final nine holes.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran golfer Nick Sablan was third for the June tourney. This, after the former CNMI national golf team member shot a net of 70. The 9-handicapper fired a 40 in the front nine before coming away with a 39 in the back nine.<\/p>\n<p>Manibusan now joins previous SGA\u2019s 2021 Ace of the Month winners Das Krishnan (January), Joe I. Sablan (February), Frances M. Sablan (March), Rick Kautz (April), and Tony Benavente (May).<\/p>\n<p>The next SGA Ace of the Month Tournament for July 2021 is at the Laolao Golf &amp; Resort this coming Sunday, Aug. 29.  Tee time is set at 9:30am with a show time of 9am.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Edward Manibusan advanced to the season-ending Saipan Golfers Association Ace of Aces Tournament&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":350712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350710","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}