FVR graces Iloilo golf invitational tournament Nov. 16-19
The annual club invitational tournament of the Iloilo Golf and Country Club, Inc. known as The Bamboo Tee Invitational, in the "Oldest Existing Golf Course" of Sta. Barbara will unreal for four days from November 16 to 19, 2007. Crack golfers from nearby Negros, Boracay, and far-away Cebu, Davao and manila will come to join the members of Iloilo Golf in this annual 36-Hole, member-guest golf tournament format. With the Former President Fidel Valdez Ramos as a visiting guest, the opening of this year's annual tournament gains enormous prestige for the Golf Club that will Celebrate the Centenary of the Oldest Existing Golf Course in the Philippines next year in 2007.
Iloilo Golf President Frankie Locsin, also a National Golf Association Director, welcomes the visit of former President Ramos and expects the Chair Emeritus of the Federation of Golf Clubs and the "Patron of Asian Golf", (a title given FVR by the Asian Golf Tour) to play to Iloilo's pride, the one-and-only Heritage Golf Course of Sta. Barbara.
"It is not certain if FVR has already played the Oldest Golf Course in the Philippines. But I'm sure with the true golfer instinct in him, President Ramos will find it irresistible not to play Sta. Barbara when he is right here in Iloilo during the bamboo Tee! Every true Pinoy golfer must be able to play and make a pilgrimage in his golfing lifetime, to what in today is equivalent of Scotland's Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrew's the holy land of Golf!", says Frankie with a wink!
Firebrand Iloilo golf Tournament Director, the ‘mover', Mr. Henry Go, expects to top a record number of about 150 teams to participate this year! What with Ford, Iloilo offering all the four par-3 holes, with golf car for the 1st player to score a hole-in-one! Another hole-in-one prize is a motorcycle offered by Norkis Distributors, Iloilo. Philippine Airlines, another Sta. Barbara Centenary major sponsor will be offering numerous round trip tickets to manila and nearby Asian destinations of Hong Kong, Shanghai and Saigon! Many other delectable raffle prizes will be available to all participants!
The traditional welcome cocktail party will be on the 17th (Friday), while awarding will be at the Luncheon Ceremonies on Sunday, Nov. 19, all at the Iloilo Golf Clubhouse. This should afford Iloilo Golf's sister teams from Negros to ferry back home later in the day! So, come and have your names listed now!