INQUIRER Sports

MANILA, Philippines--Alta Vista Golf and Country Club of Cebu failed to win a division but played consistently well in Friday’s penultimate leg to pull away by 11 points and move on the brink of winning a record-tying fourth overall championship in the Sta. Lucia Golf Tour.

The Cebuanos managed two runner-up finishes through Kim Kwang-seok-Peter Aznar (Group 2) and Enrico Solon-Al Dayot (Group 1), a third place showing by Lorenzo Alaan-Roy Damole (seniors) and a fourth place trophy (Rene Piano-Edwin Go Lim in Group 3) in the Summit Point leg in Lipa, Batangas, for 42 points and a series total of 127.

Eagle Ridge could only gain a point from the Cebuanos but took over the second spot from Rancho Palos Verdes of Davao with 43 points for the day and 116 overall. Palos Verdes made 33 and slid to third at 115.

Lakewood and Royale Tagaytay topped Group IV and Group II, respectively.

Peregrin de Guzman and substitute Amor Tanjuakio took the seniors title for Lakewood with 97 points while Oscar Desipeda-Manuel Calimba Jr. gave Royale Tagaytay its first win in the series by topping Group 2 with 85 points.