Tabuena seeks 2nd PGTA crown at WW
Miguel Tabuena rejoins the PGT Asia Tour next week, bracing for a four-day shootout with the country’s best and a slew of foreign aces in pursuit of a second crown in the ICTSI Wack Wack Championship set Nov. 15 at the fabled WW East layout in Mandaluyong. Tabuena topped the kickoff leg of the inaugural staging of the region’s newest circuit last August, besting Angelo Que by one in the Aboitiz Invitational before the former Rio Olym- pian shifted his campaign abroad in search of world ranking points.
And back on the course where he nailed the first PGTA victory, the 23-year-old shotmaker looms as the marked player again in the $100,000 championship put up by ICTSI and serving as the fourth leg of the circuit organized by Pilipinas Golf Tournaments, Inc.
But Tabuena, who also won the ICTSI Open Championship at WW in 2015, will be taking on a souped-up field raring to spoil his bid, including the two other PGTA winners – Rene Menor, who nipped Thai Pasavee Lertvilai and American John Michael O’Toole in sudden death at Splendido and this year’s ICTSI Philippine Golf Tour Order of Merit champion Clyde Mondilla, who held off Michael Bibat and Korean amateur Tom Kim at Riviera.
Jay Bayron, who also won at WW in last year’s Aboitiz Invitational where he nipped Malaysian ace Gavin Green, is also in the fold along with veteran campaigners Elmer Salvador, Jhonnel Ababa, Charles Hong, Zanieboy Gialon, Ferdie Aunzo, Orlan Sumcad, Mhark Fernando, Gerald Rosales, Marvin Dumandan and many-time PGT OOM winner Tony Lascuña.