ICTSI Tour’s John Hay Championship tees off Wednesday

MANILA, Philippines — The “shortest” tournament in the ICTSI Tour for the year—the John Hay Championship—tees off Wednesday in chilly Baguio, where everyone is expected to go low and give defending champion Jay Bayron a run for his money.

With the par-69, up-and-down layout hosting just the second tournament of the local tour for the year, a lot names are being pronounced capable of putting themselves in the hunt for the P360,000 champion’s purse.

Angelo Que is installed as the logical favorite and is one motivated bet as he tries to redeem himself from a final round collapse in the Asian Tour’s Solaire Open two weeks ago at The Country Club in Laguna.

Rufino Bayron is also a man on a mission as he tries to carve out a breakthrough win yet again coming off a horrid final round performance in Tagaytay where he blew a seven-shot lead at the start of the final round to lose to brother Jay by one.

Antonio Lascuña, the two-time Order of Merit champion, did a lot of tinkering on his putting after finishing joint third at Splendido, and the length of John Hay seems to fit his eye.

“I am hitting it as well as anybody in the tour right now,” Lascuna told the Inquirer.