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Canlubang Golf & Country Club is one of my favourite golf clubs in this country. This is one club where you won’t see a grand clubhouse, marble floors and a five star restaurant. This is a club that you go to celebrate the great game of golf and the field on which it’s played. In all the Philippines, there are few locations as natural for golf as Canlubang. The twin courses were designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr. in the infancy of his career. He was in the country helping his father with Hacienda Luisita when Don Jose Yulo showed him this stunning piece of land in the vast Canlubang Sugar Estate. It’s said that he just needed to decide where to put the tees and the greens and the... Read More

The wedges are the true specialty clubs in your bag. They are called upon to perform a variety of tasks; chipping, pitching, full shots, bunker play, even putting on occasion, in varying circumstances, most of them bad. Judicious applications of spin work magic around the greens allowing players to jerk the ball around, as if on a string. They are the instruments with which to salvage a good score from a poor ball striking round. To the accomplished wedge player, having to manufacture a shot from a dodgy situation, this improvisation, is like playing jazz. To optimize your performance with your wedge, three variables need to be considered: Wedge sole design variations Swing types (on half... Read More

I’ve been privileged to have played most of the great golf courses in The Philippines in the course of my work and I’m often asked which course is my favorite. The is a very tough question that leaves me groping for an answer and no answer is put forward without qualifiers, but there’s one constant; Calatagan Golf Club in the sleepy Batangas town that lent the club its name, is always near the top of that list. The next question is usually, “Why?” And my stock answer is, “If you’re asking, then you probably haven’t played it yet”. Sure enough they have not. Calatagan connects with me on a level that I’m not sure I understand myself. Just driving up the Kalachuchi lined... Read More

When: April 21-24, 2009 Location: Dye Course, Eagle Ridge Golf & Country Club click here to know more The Philippine Golf Tour at Eagle Ridge came to a conclusion yesterday under rainy skies. Play was suspended on a couple of occasions because of torrential rain and lightning but the golfing gods relented in the end and allowed play to conclude. The Andy Dye Course gave the pros all they could handle as no one finished under par. Marvelous Marvin Dumandan came from behind 2nd day leaders Tony Lascuna, Jay Bayron and Joenard Rates to steal the ICTSI Eagle Ridge Invitational with a 1-under par 71 on a day when the leaders cracked under the severe scrutiny of the penal Dye Course. Jay Bayron... Read More

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