{"id":56578,"date":"2001-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96d54237-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-03-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-09T00:00:00","slug":"96d5424a-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96d5424a-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Satur stands tall in RGA tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Satur captured his February Ace title for the new season and a spot for the club champion shootout in December.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitol Hill resident carded a beautiful 1 over par 73 gross during the Refalawash Golf Association February Ace Tournament at Laolao Bay West Course on Feb. 24, to sneak by Jess Wabol and Kim Seung.<\/p>\n<p>With his booming long drives and razor sharp putting, Satur was able to turn out the lights on Wabol and Kim by coming on strong on the back nine with a magnificent 1 under par 35.<\/p>\n<p>His 5 handicap netted him a respectable 4 under par net 68 to beat Wabol based on a scorecard play-off. Kim place third after beating out Sonny Flores with identical net score 69 on scorecard play-off. Highlights of Satur&#8217;s round were consecutive birdies on hole #4, #5, and hole #10 and 13.<\/p>\n<p>For the closest to the pin contest, Sonny Flores was the winner on hole #3 and Joe &#8220;baby Bear&#8221; Demapan came close to making hole-in-one on #13. All winners received cash prizes for their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The March qualifying tournament is scheduled for March 11 at the Marianas Country Club. Tee time is set for 10am.<\/p>\n<p>Interested participants are encouraged to report early for registration and parings. Space is limited to 16 pax only.<\/p>\n<p>Also RGA will be raffling off 4 slots for the Upcoming Boy Scout of America Tournament schedule for March 31. RGA will pay the tournament fee for the 4 raffle winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Satur captured his February Ace title for the new season and a spot for the club champion shootout in December. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56578","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}