{"id":56804,"date":"2001-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/96dc1000-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2001-03-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-03-22T00:00:00","slug":"96dc1011-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/96dc1011-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man from Talofofo tops RGA March tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Splitting the fairways with his drives, a delicate soft touch around the greens and a putting we haven&#8217;t seen in decades puts veteran Serafin Pablo atop the Refalawasch Golf Association March qualifying tournament.<\/p>\n<p>With his assortment of shot making and aggressive putting, Pablo put the final touches last Sunday (3-11-01) to win the qualifying tournament with a strong 78 gross. A senior golfer with a handicap 9 netted him a beauty net 69 to topple Sonny Flores who came in second with a net 70.<\/p>\n<p>New member Frank Sablan came in third after firing an 88 gross with 16 handicap to finish at net 72 to beat Jess Wabol based on score card play-off. Muscle man Tars Olopai and February Ace Tony Satur finished in 5th and 6th place respectively.<\/p>\n<p>For the accuracy department, Sonny Flores placed the closest on hole #3 while Tony Satur knocked it close on the tough par 3 #15. All top finishers were presented with money prizes for the days&#8217; efforts.<\/p>\n<p>As announced earlier, RGA raffled off 4 slots for the upcoming Golf Tournament. Beneficiaries of this event were the Boy Scouts of America.<\/p>\n<p>The lucky winners were Attorney Joey Arriola, Ben Norita, Joe Limes, and Jess Wabol. There was a total of 25 participants and RGA. would like to thank each and every one of you for your continued support.<\/p>\n<p>The March Ace of the Month Tournament is scheduled for March 25, 2001 at Coral Ocean Point Golf Resort. Tee time is set for 6:30 a.m. and space is good for 16 players only.<\/p>\n<p>Interested individuals are encouraged to report in at 6:10 a.m. for registration and pairing. Please call Jess Wabol for more details at 234-6167(w) or 235-1794 (h).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Splitting the fairways with his drives, a delicate soft touch around the greens and a putting we haven&#8217;t seen in decades puts veteran Serafin Pablo atop the Refalawasch Golf Association March qualifying tournament. <\/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-56804","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\/56804","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=56804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}