{"id":397271,"date":"2023-08-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=397271"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Ned-Norita-is-RGA-August-Ace-of-the-Month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Ned-Norita-is-RGA-August-Ace-of-the-Month\/","title":{"rendered":"Ned Norita is RGA August Ace of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ned Norita swung his way to ace status in the Refaluwasch Golf Association August Ace of the Month Tournament at the Lao Lao Bay Golf and Resort east course last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Norita was in first place with a total net score of 139. He shot a gross score of 74 in round one, and 75 in round two. With a handicap of five, the net score was 69 and 70.<\/p>\n<p>Three players\u2014Carl Hocog, Sherlyn Jones, and Joe Sasamoto Jr.\u2014were tied for second place with a net score of 149 in two rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Norita said the day out on the greens was \u201ca tough and windy day\u201d and that his putter \u201cwas not being friendly,\u201d but he stayed patient and tried to do his best.<\/p>\n<p>In the optional plays, Hocog led the Closest to the Pin on hole No.4; Joe \u201cKamikaze\u201d Camacho took holes No. 6 and 15; and Sasamoto Jr. topped hole No. 11.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skins\u201414 total:<\/li>\n<li>Sasamoto Jr. &#8211; 4<\/li>\n<li>Camacho &#8211; 3<\/li>\n<li>Norita &#8211; 3<\/li>\n<li>Zhi Yun Li &#8211; 2<\/li>\n<li>Louie Tilipao &#8211; 1<\/li>\n<li>Manny Mangerero &#8211; 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RGA\u2019s January ace was Marco Peter; February was Zhimin Jin; March was Sixtus Aquino; April ace was Darion Jones; May ace was Tars Olopai; June ace was Zhi Yun Li; and July ace was Carl Hocog.<\/p>\n<p>RGA is one of the few other golf associations in the CNMI under the Commonwealth Federation of Golf Associations.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/4d648931efc48b8229fe61e4124fd07a.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Refaluwasch Golf Association&#8217;s Ned Norita is RGA&#8217;s August Ace of the Month.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/>\n<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ned Norita swung his way to ace status in the Refaluwasch Golf Association August Ace&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397271","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}