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The 6th Staging Of The STV Invitational Golf Cup |
Sunshine Television has successfully staged the 6th STV Invitational Golf Cup last March 10 at the Couples Course of the Riviera Golf and Country Club in Cavite.
This tournament was first held in 2012 to mark the 25th anniversary of Motoring Today, the longest motoring program on Philippine television. It puts together top executives of the local auto industry, motoring journalists as well as friends and supporters of STV.
Ray Buthch Gamboa
Chairman and CEO
Sunshine Television
" You understand this is the 6th staging of the STV Invitational Cup. Just to refresh your memory, we did this first in 2012 when we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Motoring Today. And I saw all of you were so happy coming back despite having a bad day in the road course, we decided to have this as the yearly event, a traditional yearly event for the supporters of STV and friends of Butch Gamboa. If we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Motoring Today, when we first did this, this year we're celebrating the 30th year of Motoring Today."
This year's winners in this tournament that is now considered as an auto industry institutional event were the following:
Overall Champion : Willy Tee Ten of Auto Hub Group
Class A Champion : Alex Dandan of Melo Konstrukt
1st Runner-up : Boni Pimentel of Ilustrado Restaurant
2nd Runner-up : Ryan Lorenzo of Ford
Class B Champion : Erlo Tenedero of Isuzu Alabang
1st Runner-up : Danny Isla of Lexus-Manila
2nd Runner-up : Eric De Leon of Davies Paints
Class C Champion : Rico Macalintal of Tata Motors
1st Runner-up : Art Balmadrid of Tata Motors
2nd Runner-up : Vivian Chua of BAIC Motors
Fun Hole winners were
Bobby Shaw of Auto Nation Group for the Longest Drive
Tey Sornet for the Nearest Pin Hole
Rene So of Toyota Pangasinan for the Most Accurate Drive
Johnny Fetalvero of Honda Cars Kalookan the Longest Putt
The top auto industry executives that participated in this year's staging of the STV Invitational Golf Cup included, Hajime Koso, president of Isuzu Philippines, Willy Tee Ten, president of Auto Hub Group, from Lexus Manila former president, Danny "Sir John" Isla and current president, Raymond Rodriguez, BYD managing director, Mark Tieng, BAIC president, George Chua and Ssangyong Philippines managing director, Dave Macasadia.
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