April Fool's Day at the Sta. Elena Cup

Continuing my now-annual tradition of failure at the Sta. Elena Cup this year, I basically played like a zombie last Sunday, coincidentally also April Fool's Day. In my defense, this has only been my fifth round of golf this year. Such lack of fairway time results in this ugly swing, which can only be kindly described as ... enthusiastic.

This year, I was invited by Alex Y, in red on the extreme left. Alex and his wife, Marilen, are the main sponsors of the tournament, graciously offering the top raffle prize of a seven-day, Royal Caribbean Alaskan Cruise.

In contrast to my lackluster golf, our playing partners, Nonoy C and George W, were in top shape - both play-wise and display-wise. They have won the Best Uniform Award for two years running and this year decided not to go for a three-peat. Thus, their effort in this area was limited to matching madras shorts.

George has been seeing a relatively new pro, Abe Rosal, recently. Nonoy, on his part, has been playing for the Sta. Elena Orchard Golf & Country Club Federation Team, which has sharply honed his game. Thus, both scored in the 40-point area, enough to clinch the Class A runner-up trophy. Here are the stellar results of the Abe Rosal sessions:

After the tournament, the Awards Dinner is always a scrumptious, relaxed food fest. I asked Tyrone to join me, since the "boss" and Ty's sisters are all out of town and only the two of us are left in Manila.

Ty came with his cousin, Martin L, the same age but a good head taller. At the dinner, they met Rafa, the ten-year-old son of Alex and Marilen. Their bonding was done via wifi, as all the kids whipped out their Nintendo DS's and proceeded to ignore the grown-ups.

Of course, as we can see, the chocolate fountain was not to be ignored either.