Constantino makes pro debut at Aoki

HARMIE CONSTANTINO hopes to come up big right in her first crack at a pro championship as she joined the chase in the International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) Eagle Ridge Challenge which gets going Tuesday at the Aoki course in General Trias, Cavite.

The diminutive Constantino, a former junior and national match play champion, actually nailed a pro crown as an amateur when she dominated an international pro field in the ICTSI Mt. Malarayat Classic of the Ladies Philippine Golf Tour (LPGT) in 2016.

She went on to win the RVF Cup and the Philippine Amateur Open Match Play in 2018, among the seven titles she won in the national level before signing up with the University of Georgia Athletics in 2018 and 2019.

Constantino made quite an impact as a Bulldog sophomore as she reset the record in the UGA’S Women’s Open with 66-65 rounds for 131 at the Achasta Golf Club, erasing the previous mark of 12-under 132

post by Ashlan Ramsey in Brooklyn in 2015.

But she opted to cut short her collegiate stint and move to the next level, enlisting for this week’s P400,000 Pilipinas Golf Tournaments Inc.-organized championship featuring two of the country’s leading players, Princess Superal and Pauline del Rosario.

Superal and del Rosario split top honors in LPGT’S return at Riviera last year with the former dominating the Riviera Challenge and the latter foiling the 2014 US Girls’ Junior champion’s sweep bid in the Riviera Championship.