PH golfers finish 4th in Ladies Invt’l

CYNA Rodriguez woke up from a slumber with a two-under 70 while Clare Legaspi and Dottie Ardina submitted a 77 and an 83, respectively to help Team Philippines finish in fourth place in the Asia-Pacific Ladies Invitational golf team championship at the Sunrise Golf and Country Club in Taiwan yesterday.

Rodriguez, who didn’t count with 80 and 77 in the first two rounds, gunned down four birdies to negate her two-bogey mishap at the back for that 70.

But the reigning Hong Kong Amateur Open champion’s final round effort went to naught as Legaspi skied to a 77 and Ardina bombed out with one of her worst rounds—an 83 that included two double-bogeys and seven bogeys without a birdie to show.

With a closing 147, which proved to be the best in windy day, the Philippine pooled a 445 to tie last year’s champion Korea, which hobbled with a 152 at fourth. Australia turned in a 148 and a 437 and nipped Japan by one.

The Japanese also shot a 148 for a 438 while Thailand placed third with a 439 after a 149. /Correspondent Jonas Panerio