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Golf debuts in NCAA Season 101

Published Apr 14, 2026 03:03 pm

At A Glance

  • The special event will feature eight teams in Season 101 host Mapua, along with San Beda, Letran, College of St. Benilde, University of Perpetual Help, Jose Rizal University, Emilio Aguinaldo College, Arellano University, and a guest school in University of the Asia and the Pacific.
PSC Chairman Patrick Gregorio, middle, with the NCAA ManCom
PSC Chairman Patrick Gregorio, middle, with the NCAA ManCom
Golf makes its inaugural appearance in the history of NCAA Philippines as it holds a one-day tournament on May 20 at the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club.
The special event will feature eight teams in Season 101 host Mapua, along with San Beda, Letran, College of St. Benilde, University of Perpetual Help, Jose Rizal University, Emilio Aguinaldo College, Arellano University, and a guest school in University of the Asia and the Pacific.
San Sebastian College and Lyceum of the Philippines have yet to confirm their participation.
Nonetheless, the collegiate league is limiting the number of participants to around 100 combined in both the team play and individual event.
San Beda representative to the NCAA Management Committee and current vice chairman Atty. Jonas Cabochan, who has been delegated to arrange the tournament, said the initiative to include golf as a demonstration sport in the collegiate league’s calendar of events was mainly through the endorsement of no less than Philippine Sports Commission chairman Patrick Gregorio.
“The first golf tournament in NCAA season history is mainly the initiative of chairman Patrick Gregorio. He told us na yung mga sports where the Philippines win golds in international tournaments bakit hindi natin ilagay sa NCAA,” said Cabochan in the weekly Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum at the PSC media room.
Along with golf, boxing, aero gymnastics, and weightlifting will also be held for the rest of Season 101.
Gregorio later joined Cabochan in the weekly session presented by San Miguel Corporation, PSC, Philippine Olympic Committee, MILO, and the country’s 24/7 sports app ArenaPlus, together with NCAA ManCom chairman Melchor Divina (Mapua), Lorenzo Lorenzo (EAC), Frank Gusi (UPHD), and Atty. Jord Valenton, who will be the commissioner of the golf tournament.
“As I’ve been saying, ‘speed is better than perfection. Gusto ko mas mabilis kaysa perpekto. I want to thank both the NCAA Board and NCAA ManCom for what they are doing is really commendable,” said Gregorio of the country’s oldest collegiate league’s swift action to include Olympic sports in its calendar of events.
“Higit pa sa pasasalamat ang gusto kong sabihin.”
Held in partnership with the Pilipinas College Golf Series, the tournament is going to be historic and a fun-filled event, according to Divina.
“Yung golf sabi nila pang mayaman lang daw. Usually mga private tournaments lang kadalasan ang meron. Pero ngayon magkakaroon na ng golf sa Pilipinas where it will somehow help encourage students to take up the sport,” he said.
Valenton said the team play will feature a six to play, four to count format, where team members could feature one alumnus and five undergrad students or an all-undergrad student.
“Very timely yung pag-host ng tournament dahil kakatapos lang ng Masters,” he said of the first major golf tournament for the year won by Irish Rory McIlroy.

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