Angel Serra III and Vicente Marquez jumped the gun on the big field eyeing the jackpot prize when they made a hole-in-one each on the first day of the 21st Founders Cup, the member-guest tournament of the Orchard Golf and Country Club in Dasmariñas, Cavite.
Serra aced the No. 7 of the Palmer course in the morning before Marquez followed with his own on the 16th hole of the same Palmer course. They will share the 2017 Mercedes-Benz C180 Avantgarde worth almost P3 million staked as hole-in-one prize on all par-3 holes of the Palmer course.
Other players can still join in split of the prize if they shoot an ace on the last two days of the event this weekend. Marquez also claimed a Yamaha cart staked as an added prize on the hole where he scored his ace.
Indian expat Pushkar Misra and his guest partner Raymond Lacdao, meanwhile, combined for a net 50 points at the Player course to lead all scorers at the Player course while Danilo Macalino and Ferdinand Echiverri conspired for a net 90 for the best aggregate at the Palmer layout after the first half of action.
Derrico Dimaunahan and Aniceto Mandanas combined for 9-over-par 63 to lead the low gross competition in the event backed by Petron Corporation, Banco De Oro-CLG/Visa, Philippine Airlines, CATS Motors and Sta. Lucia Realty & Development as major sponsors.
Premium hole sponsors are U-Freight Philippines, A-Plus Paints, Pagcor, Security Bank Corporation, Cignal TV and SM Development, among others.