{"id":404966,"date":"2024-01-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404966"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Lorraine-Babauta-wins-January-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Lorraine-Babauta-wins-January-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorraine Babauta wins January tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lorraine Babauta won the CNMI Women\u2019s Golf Association monthly tournament last Jan. 13 at the Kingfisher Golf Links in Talafofo.<\/p>\n<p>The government retiree shot a gross score of 90 following a 40 in the front nine and a 50 in the back nine for a January tournament-best net 78.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the start of the new year. I basically just had the mindset to go out play and enjoy the day,\u201d said Babauta.<\/p>\n<p>The San Vicente resident said the weather was ideal for playing golf last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tip my hat off to the Kingfisher crew. The course was nicely kept and had fun playing. I dedicate the win to CWGA ladies, they make playing fun,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Janet Torres finished second in the January tilt with a net score that actually tied Babauta\u2019s 78 (90, 46-44), but lost via scorecard tiebreak. Third place went to Jang Eun Ae with her net score of 79 (95, 45-50).<\/p>\n<p>A total of eight CWGA members played in the January tournament and they are the following with their net score in parenthesis: Yuko Togawa (80), Sae Hee Kim (80), Dol Yamagishi (82), Chang Eun Ae (83), and Flor Jones (90).<\/p>\n<p>The club continues to look for new members as the new season continues. For those interested in becoming a member of CWGA or for more information, contact CWGA president Yuko Togawa at 287-9856, vice president Lorraine Babauta at 287-0621, or treasurer Lou Kim at 783-7317.<\/p>\n<p> <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\/c417e0622bbf8482983d180bcb71d665.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Lorraine Babauta, second from left, won the CNMI Women\u2019s Golf Association monthly tournament held last Jan. 13 at the Kingfisher Golf Links in Talafofo.=<\/p>\n<p>-CWGA<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <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\/fceb55744cc5a83df99d5edc737f21ee.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>CNMI Women\u2019s Golf Association January tourney winner Lorraine Babauta.<\/p>\n<p>-CWGA<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorraine Babauta won the CNMI Women\u2019s Golf Association monthly tournament last Jan. 13 at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404966","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=404966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}