TCC Razon Pro-Am

My Tita (Aunt) Bernie recapped it best in her e-mail to the family along with photos.  
Here's what she wrote and the photos she posted:

Dear All, 

Carl and I were partners in the Pro Am tournament today in The Country Club with Carl playing as my pro partner even though he's still an amateur.  Great partnership and more importantly, we had fun.  In our flight was Chito Buenaventura and his pro partner Rolando Marabe who was having difficulty with the fast greens.  Carl made 5 birdies I think but with 4 bogeys to end up 1 under gross. Great score in the windy conditions.  We ended with a 65 (7 under) best ball but the winning score was 61 (11 under) so we were just 11th place.  Not bad from a field of 48.  Toby and partner Joel Opaco were at 36th place.  

Winner was Miguel Tabuena, an amateur playing in the pro division and the amateur was Sheryl Villavicencio, one of the girls in the ICTSI training pool with Carl.  It was she who shot 4 under gross with a 7 handicap, so she alone did 11 under!  Since Miguel Tabuena is an amateur, he couldn't win the P80,000 cash prize so he just had a trophy while the girl got an IPAD 16GB 3G, an iPhone 4 and a Technomarine watch for her win.

Carl and I started really hot with a birdie-birdie-birdie on the first 3 holes, with Carl's 2 natural birdies and my 1 net birdie but we couldn't seem to keep it going.

Carl says he's not going back to the U.S. anymore with tournaments like these here!

Dading and I and maybe Yeyo plan to go on Saturday to watch Carl.  We would've gone on the last day Sunday except that we have the Enrile reunion. 

Table holding the amateurs prizes and raffle prizes.  Grand raffle prize of the Samsung LED 40" 4D Tv with Blue Ray DVD and a pair of the special glasses used to watch 4D TV was won buy Temiong Murakami.  Other prizes were the new Mac Air, Iphone 4, Blackberry, iPad and Toshiba Libretto Dual screen laptop and Technomarine watch.

Carl says he wants to be standing there next year. These were the winners from the different legs of the ICTSI tournaments in 2010. Among them 2nd from left, Cassius Casas, Angelo Que, Jay Bayron, sponsor Ricky Razon, Juvic Pagunsan, Marvin Dumandan, Mars Pucay and Benjie Magada.

Playing Partners Rolando, Bernie, Carl, and Chito Buenaventura

11th Place Finish at the Pro-Am