Pradera Ladies Challenge 2 kicks off

LUBAO — The cPradera Verde Ladies Challenge 2 kicked off yesterday at the Pradera Golf and Country Club here.

Yuka Saso hopes to cap a brilliant two-week display of individual skills with a victory in team play as the Philippines seeks to equalize against Team Southeast Asia. Saso bolstered the hosts’ chances in the novel event by winning a pro tournament and the Philippine Ladies Open the last two weeks, and the Fil-Japanese shotmaker is brimming with confidence as she leads the team out to avenge a lopsided defeat in last year’s inaugurals of the three-day championship.

“The battle cry is to win the championship. We will give them a very good fight given the depth of the team this year,” said Norman Sto. Domingo, one of Team PH’s skippers who include Rolly Romero and Daisy Reyes. “We have beefed up our lineup and I’m hoping the girls all play 100 percent in all three days.”

But Team SEA is upbeat and all primed up for a repeat in the Ryder Cup-style format event, a brainchild of Archen Cayabyab, Lubao Mayor Mylyn Pineda-Cayabyab and Sto. Domingo as part of their effort to help boost the country’s junior and amateur golf program and at the same time foster camaraderie and friendship with the neighboring SEA count r i es.

Under the Private Education Student Financial Assistance Scholarship, graduating high school students to enroll in private college may get P15,000, provided their GWA reaches at least 85 percent.

The Tulong Dunong program gives P12,000 to graduating and high school graduates with at least passing grades in GWA.

For students with earned units in college and those who passed the Alternative Learning System and Philippine Educational Placement Test, the Tulong Dunong shoulders the college tuition and other fees.

Deserving college students in any year level may avail of the Study Now, Pay Later Plan that gives P15,000.

Applicants must be Filipino, and have a combined annual income of parents not over P300,000; though CHED reviews exceptional cases where income exceeds P300,000.

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