Tagaytay foils Villamor, regains WGAP supremacy

Tagaytay Highlands bucked a pair of mediocre finishes with a runner-up effort in Class C as it edged Villamor in their spirited battle for the overall crown in the WGAP Circuit, which closed out its 2017 season at Sta. Elena Golf Club in Laguna recently.

Drawing two crucial points from their gutsy Class C squad, the Highlanders finished the eight-leg circuit organized by the Women’s Golf Association of the Philippines with 30 points, nipping the Villamor ladies by one to reclaim the overall crown they last won in 2014.

Just one point behind Tagaytay after seven legs, Villamor could only churn out a pair of third place finishes in Class B and C and ended up with 29 points. Forest Hills wound up with 22 for third, Sta. Elena fourth with 19 points and last year’s champion Alabang fifth with 16 points.

The top five will also dispute the WGAP Cup crown.

The individual winners were Kayla Nocum of Valley (Class A), Forest Hills’ Bebilyn Lobrin (Class B) and Cathy Yulo of Villamor (Class C).

Sta. Elena cashed in on its homecourt edge and topped Class B and finished second in Class A. Alabang ruled Class A and Canlubang took the Class C honors while placing third in Class A.

But Cangolf failed to make it to the WGAP Cup with 12 points for sixth followed by Camp Aguinaldo (7), Orchard (6), Valley Golf (2) and Wack Wack (1).

Hedy See and Jessalyn Tan each fired 37 Stableford points while Deena Mendiola and Dionne Cu added 35 and 34, respectively, as Tagaytay shot a 145 and finished behind Class C winner Canlubang, which drew 43 points from Mercediline Magno, a pair of 37s from Rosabel de Leon and Grace Vicencio and a 33 from Evelyn Villar.

Villamor placed third (139) followed by Sta. Elena (134), Alabang (133), Aguinaldo (122), Orchard (113) and Forest Hills (112).

Meanwhile, Alabang assembled 150 from Jocelyn Garcia (39), Rita Horan (38), Joan Morales (37) and Christine Popp (36) in the tightly fought Class A contest for a one-point win over Sta. Elena (149). Canlubang placed third (148) followed by Valley (146), Aguinaldo (145), Villamor (144), Tagaytay (140), Forest Hills (134) and Eagle Ridge (124).

Sta. Elena also drew from Gretchen Recto (40), Alice Jose (36), Junko Naruse (33) and Techie Leonio (33) for a 142 and a fivepoint win over Forest Hills in Class B. The Antipolo-based team pooled a 137 and nipped Villamor in the countback for second . Canlubang placed fourth ( 136) followed by Tagaytay (135), which edged Aguinaldo in the countback for fifth. Alabang was sixth at 132 followed by Wack Wack (131), Valley (120) and Eagle Ridge (118).