TARLAC – The Philippine Golf Tour Asia resumes today with the CAT (Central Azucarera de Tarlac) Open featuring a stellar field bannered by the local top guns and toughened up by a slew of foreign aces all primed up for the $100,000 event at the Luisita Golf and Country Club here.
Sam Gillis, for one, exudes confidence coming off a playoff victory in Malaysia last week, leading a crack US contingent that includes regular PGTA campaigners John Michael O’Toole, Lexus Keoninh, Nicolas Paez, Andy Kang, Sydney Chung, Charles Lee, Cory Oride, Pete Vilairatana and Joshua Salah.
The Australians will be as much tested as the Americans with the likes of Tim Stewart, Nathan Park, Jack Sullivan, Nabil Abdul, Jeram Chudleigh, Calum Juniper and Simon Vitankangas setting out to keep their compatriots’ remarkable showing in the first five legs of the second season of the region’s newest circuit put up by ICTSI.