Antonio Lascu ña minimizes his opportunities at The Country Club.– ADDED PICTURE
Antonio Lascu ña, the Philippine Golf Tour’s ruling suit play champ and also its Order of Merit (OOM) champion, typically talks with a great deal of self-confidence heading right into any kind of regional event.
He seemed much various as he prepares for the rich The Country Club (TCC) Invitational in Laguna, which will certainly see its resurgence onFeb 8, 2 years after being shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Six-over, eight-over—maybe more—will have a great chance of winning,” Lascu ñan informed the Inquirer in Filipino on Friday as he, like a great deal of various other pros, have actually begun preparing for the 72-hole champion to be held at TCC, the swank design currently related to as one of the most requiring test in the country. “And I am not providing myself that a lot of a possibility.
“The course is super long for me,” he discussed. “With the winds at this time of the year, there are at least six par-4s that I cannot reach [in regulation] even with a 3-wood [for my approach].”
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Jessie Balasabas, the last Philippine Masters champ at tree-lined Villamor, sees somebody going “four-over total for four rounds” winning, “which would certainly be extremely, extremely remarkable.
“There are no easy holes at TCC,” Balasabas stated in a different meeting, additionally inFilipino “There are holes there which I really cannot imagine scoring par on, so you would need to get those dropped shots back somewhere—and it’s hard to see where.”
The occasion, moneyed by port mogul and also golf client Ricky Razon for the regional pros, is conveniently the wealthiest in the country and also is restricted to the leading 30 gamers of the previous period’s OOM and also its previous champs.
There are no cuts in the occasion– ensuring every person a significant cash advance– yet the area will certainly need to sustain a brutal test for 4 straight days where one par-3, the very first one in the back 9, in some cases needs motorist off the tee if the winds strike in the gamers’ faces.
Guido Van Der Valk, the Dutchman that calls the Philippines residence, will certainly be the safeguarding champ. In 2020, the complete pot was P5 million.
Aside from Juvic Pagunsan and also Angelo Que winning the occasion 3 times, nothing else gamer has several victories, with Lascu ña’s triumph in 2004 coming method prior to Razon purchased a huge increase in problem of the design a couple of years back.
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