Team Villa comprised of Jason Villa, Michael Villa, Steve D’Orsay and James Amerelo shot a sizzling 63 to capture the 2011 Kalayaan Centre Golf Classic Tournament (Scramble Format) held at the championship course of Royal Ontario Golf Club last Saturday, August 27, 2011. Team Villa scored 2 strokes ahead of runner up Team Bombardier 3 consisting of Ambrosio Parnes, Rick Jones, Albert Baclao and Rob Perri. This is the second year that the scramble format has been used in the Annual Kalayaan Centre Golf Classic.

“Fantastic tournament!”, “Great day!”, “Fun and friendly!” were some of the comments from the players. A survey taken after the event gave the tournament an overall rating of 4.42, just shy of Excellent score of 5.0.

The tournament is fortunate to have the support of 9 Gold sponsors, 13 Silver sponsors/advertisers and 27 Bronze sponsors. Kalayaan Centre volunteers conspicuous with their orange t-shirts ensured that the event proceeded as smoothly as possible.

A sumptuous dinner and awards presentation was held at the club house after the game. Every player received a gift bag. Many gift items including certificates to free golf for 4, 2, and 1 players, blue-jay tickets, free weekend stay at Baldwin Village Inn were raffled.

Other winners include:
Longest drive men: Chris Beliski
Longest drive women: Justine Lopez
Closest to the pin men: Paul Bidini
Putting Contest: Bernie Eliazar

There were hole-in-one prizes with the major prize of $10,000 but the closest tee shot was about 5 feet from the hole.

It was a beautiful and fun day for golf. As one of the player’s commented, “Will see you next year!”