National Golf Association of the Philippines

Two of the nation's top junior talents – Shinichi Suzuki & Tashi Balangauan – are out at Hoiana Shores Golf Club this week for the prestigious Hoiana Junior Golf Invitational.

With them is national team head coach, Ramon Brobio!

Best of luck to the delegation 🇵🇭

The 2026 National Stroke Play Champions – Jet Hernandez for the Men's Division & Lisa Sarines for the Ladies' Division 🇵🇭

What an intense two weeks of major national competitions! Countless hours of preparation, competition, and growth. This is where champions are built. This is NGAP.

The new Philippine Amateur Open Golf Champions – Shinichi Suzuki for the Men's Division & Grace Quintanilla for the Ladies' Division! 🇵🇭

Happy Birthday to PSC Chairman, Mr. Patrick "Pato" Gregorio!

– Your NGAP Family

A round of applause for Grace Quintanilla! 🇵🇭

Bregente, Quintanilla Off to Strong Individual Starts in Singapore

Team Philippines got off to rip-roaring individual race starts in the prestigious Singapore Amateur Open Championship as Rolando "Akak" Bregente and Grace Quintanilla took the lead in their respective divisions after the opening round at gorgeous Singapore Golf Club's Bukit layout on Tuesday.

Bregente returned an eagle-aided seven-under-par 64 to take a two-shot lead over Jonty Lunson of Australia, while Quintanilla had six birdies in a 67 to lead Hong Kong China's Hei Tung Leung and Singaporean Amelie Ng by four strokes in one of the Southeast Asian region's most coveted amateur events.

A standout of the highly successful Eastridge program that won the last Interclub, Bregente had two front nine bogeys before playing the final nine holes at five-under, capped by an eagle 3 on the 18th for what proved to be the difference with Lunson.

AJ Wacan and Chris Remata struggled to shoot 74s and would need low second round efforts on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Alethea Gaccion fired a birdie-less 77 to be in a 14th place tie with American Srihitha Mandava as the traditional layout bedeviled the talented ladies field with only Quintanilla surviving the carnage.

Ng, who has more knowledge of the course than anyone in the women's field, fired three birdies that went with the same number of bogeys, while Leung needed to birdie the 18th to salvage a level card. She had four birdies and four bogeys in a 35-36 effort.

Since Bregente and Remata are the official players sent by the National Golf Association of the Philippines, their scores were the ones that counted in the team tally, a 138 like Markus Lam-Nok Him Chan (71-67) of HK-China and Settawut Kenanan-Warut Boonrod (68-70) of Thailand.

The Filipino women are a shot off of the Leung-Xizihan Wang tandem, which pooled a 143 counting Wang's 72. The host country's Ng and Junxi Guo are another three shots behind after Guo fired a 76.

2026 Philippine Amateur Open Golf Championship

The National Golf Association of the Philippines is excited to announce the 2026 Philippine Amateur Open Golf Championship, happening August 4 to 8, 2026 at Luisita Golf & Country Club. Official practice round is August 3, with stroke play qualifying from August 4-5, and match play rounds from August 6-8.

Men’s Division: WHS handicap index of 8.0 and below
Ladies’ Division: WHS handicap index of 12.0 and below

Divisions based on July 1, 2026 WHS handicap index.

Register now through the link below.
www.golfgenius.com/ggid/paogc/register

2026 National Stroke Play Championship

The National Golf Association of the Philippines is excited to announce the 2026 National Stroke Play Championship, happening July 29 to August 1, 2026 at Pradera Verde Golf & Country Club (Pinatubo Course). Official practice round is July 28.

Men’s Division: WHS handicap index of 8.0 or lower
Ladies’ Division: WHS handicap index of 12.0 or lower

Handicap index effective as of July 1, 2026.

Register now through the link below.
www.golfgenius.com/ggid/nspc/register

2026 USWING MOJING Junior World Championships

CHAMPION – Kamilla Del Mundo, 9-10 Girls Division

TIED FOR 2ND – Mavis Espedido, 9-10 Girls Division

TIED FOR 3RD – Zach Guico, 7-8 Boys Division

From Singing Hills Golf Resort to Mission Bay Golf Course, our young stars carried the flag with pride and brought home the hardware. This is what the future of Philippine golf looks like.

Congratulations, and the NGAP family couldn’t be prouder 🇵🇭