{"id":367880,"date":"2022-05-06T06:02:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=367880"},"modified":"2022-05-06T06:02:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T20:02:10","slug":"cataluna-captures-april-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cataluna-captures-april-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Cataluna captures April tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_367861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-367861\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Fil-Taga-pixw.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-367861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freddie Cataluna, seen here in a file, is Fil-Taga Golfers Association\u2019s April Ace of the Month Tournament after shooting the lowest score in the April 23 tourney at the Kingfisher Golf Links in Talafofo. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Freddie Cataluna was hailed Fil-Taga Golfers Association\u2019s April Ace of the Month Tournament held last April 23 at the Kingfisher Golf Links in Talafofo.<\/p>\n<p>The Iloilo, Philippines native scored a net 71 after the 5-handicapper fired a gross score of 76 with identical 38s in the front and back nine.<\/p>\n<p>February ace winner Lito Mendoza came in second with his net 72 following a gross 85 (43-42), while completing the Top 3 was Jess Yumul who wound up with a net 73 built around a gross of 97 (47-50).<\/p>\n<p>Cataluna said his driving and putting were just working for him during the last tournament. The owner of a construction company also said that everyone was fortunate that the weather last April 23 was fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was good weather and the course was OK except for few greens that were not cut and bumpy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cataluna attributed his victory to playing golf everytime he can as he practices at least once a week, but mostly he winds up hitting the greens twice a week.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, he joins January winner Mike Cruz, Mendoza, and March ace Dan Ganacias as early qualifiers for Fil-Taga\u2019s season-ending tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In the par 3 competition, Cataluna got it in hole No. 6, while Jhun Cayetano won in hole No. 12. Mendoza was without peer in hole No. 15.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 10 Fil-Taga members took part in the April tourney and the following are the  rest of the players with their scores in parenthesis: Ruben Avendano (net 75), Bert Suda (net 77), Ed Varias (net 79), Jhun Cayetano (net 80), Ganacias (net 83), and Romy Cayetano (net 74).<\/p>\n<p>Fil-Taga will hold its May Ace of the Month Tournament on May 28 with tee off at 11:30am at the Coral Ocean Point Golf Resort. The green fee is $45.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddie Cataluna was hailed Fil-Taga Golfers Association\u2019s April Ace of the Month Tournament held last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":367860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367880","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\/367880","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=367880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}