Star-studded field banners PGT resumption

Tony Lascuña —CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Save for one out of the six leg winners in this Philippine Golf Tour (PGT) season, all of the local circuit’s big guns will be seeing action next week when the ICTSI Forest Hills Classic gets off the ground at the complex’ Nicklaus course in Antipolo.

The circuit resumes after a two-month break, and the well-manicured layout poses as a stiff challenge to the big field led by reigning PH Masters champion Angelo Que, Caliraya stop winner Clyde Mondilla and the indefatigable Antonio Lascuña.

Jonel Ababa, the Apo Golf champ, and Sean Ramos, who broke through at Lakewood, are also entered, although Lascuña was the last to win before the break when he triumphed at Splendido.

And that makes him one of the men to beat in the P2 million championship next week as he plays a new, lighter driver to be able to navigate the grind needed at the up-and-down lay out.

“I need all the edge I can get,” Lascuña told the Inquirer in Filipino on Saturday while trying out his new driver which he feels could help him in the 72-hole tournament. “This makes me swing easier and makes me conserve some energy, which is critical because fatigue could set in during the last two rounds.”

Mondilla won this leg last year by five shots, the victory boosted by an 11-under 60 in the opening round.

Que, meanwhile, remains as a truly formidable threat owing to his length.