{"id":383749,"date":"2023-01-20T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=383749"},"modified":"2023-01-20T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T20:00:26","slug":"avendano-tops-opening-round-of-ace-of-aces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/avendano-tops-opening-round-of-ace-of-aces\/","title":{"rendered":"Avendano tops opening round of Ace of Aces"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_383722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-383722\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Fil-Taga-pix-Avendanowb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Fil-Taga-pix-Avendanowb-225x300.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-383722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avendano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ruben Avendano topped the first round of the season-ending 2022 Fil-Taga Ace of Aces Tournament held last Saturday, Jan. 14, at the Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old Pacific Home Appliances staff shot a net score of 69 in the opening round. The 19-handicapper carded a gross score of 88 after going 43 in the first nine holes and 45 in the last nine.<\/p>\n<p>Avendano said it was a rainy day at the golf course last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weather was very windy and it drizzled 50% of the time, but hole No. 11 was the worst as we had to stop due to the heavy rain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that aside from that the course conditions were OK and it also helped that Lady Lucky played a part in him leading the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe I was just lucky as all my joints were working.\u00a0 There are times when my knee or back just don\u2019t want to cooperate anymore,\u201d he said half-jokingly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tied at second are Das Krishnan and Will Maui after both golfers finished with identical net scores of 77. Both 11-handicappers also mirrored each other in gross score with 88s with the former going 43-45 with the latter recording a 41-47 in the front and back nines, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth to fifth was also a tie between Henry Bautista and Ed Varias. The two fired twin 78s after compiling gross scores of 94 and 96, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the field, with their net scores in parenthesis, are as follows: Mike Cruz (net 79); Dan Ganacias (net 79); Freddie Cataluna (net 81), Ronnie Santos (net 81), Romy Cayetano (net 88), and Jess Yumul (net 99).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Monthly winners Hak Chon Bae, Lito Mendoza, and William Retardo were off-island and weren\u2019t able to take part in the first round of the 2022 Fil-Taga Ace of Aces Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The second round of the season-ending tournament will be held tomorrow, Jan. 21, at the Kingfisher Golf Links in Talafofo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruben Avendano topped the first round of the season-ending 2022 Fil-Taga Ace of Aces Tournament&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":383721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383749","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\/383749","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=383749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}