Carl Corpus dispatched Kristoffer Arevalo with an early burst of birdies while Sean Ramos bucked a shaky start to subdue Paolo Barro as they moved to the semifinals of the Philippine Amateur Open Match Play Championships at the Luisita Golf and Country Club in Tarlac yesterday.
The top seeded Corpus, who needed three extra holes to turn back Korean Ha Tae Won in the first round of the knockout phase Wednesday, birdied the first three holes to seize control, went 4-up with a par on No. 4 then held sway the rest of the way to fashion out a 4&2 romp over the ninth ranked Arevalo.
Ramos, on the other hand, bogeyed the first hole and yielded the third on a Barro birdie. But the second seeded bet fought back with a birdie on the fourth, forced an all-square game with a par on No. 5 then surged ahead by taking the next two holes. He clinched a 3&2 victory with a birdie on the 16th.