{"id":5309,"date":"2016-11-01T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T02:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2016-10-28T13:57:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T05:57:33","slug":"a-67-year-world-war67th-fil-am-invitational-golf-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2016\/11\/01\/a-67-year-world-war67th-fil-am-invitational-golf-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"A 67-year \u201cworld war\u201d:67th Fil-Am Invitational Golf Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s longest-running and biggest amateur golf tournament just got bigger as five more teams join the pool of over 200 to compete for bragging rights and a chance to bring home one of six trophies at the <strong>67<sup>th<\/sup> Fil-Am Invitational Golf Tournament, <\/strong>happening in Baguio City this November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5311\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/10\/logo.jpg\" alt=\"logo\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>THE LONGEST \u201cWORLD WAR\u201d CONTINUES. The Fil-Am Invitational Golf Tournament is back. Tee-off is on November 23 at the Baguio Country Club and Camp John Hay Golf Club.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Fil-Am Invitational Golf Tournament is a two-week annual amateur golf tournament held at the Jack Nicklaus-designed course of Baguio Country Club and Camp John Hay. It started in 1949 and has since become extremely popular with the Filipino and American elite.<\/p>\n<p>Considered the longest-running and biggest amateur golf tournament in the world, the 67<sup>th<\/sup> Fil-Am Invitational will bring in over 1,200 players split into 230 teams, with five new clubs joining this year\u2019s tournament: Saint Leonard of Maryland, USA; Hawaii Five-0 Plus of Hawaii, USA; For the Boys of Davao; Sandigan Golfers; and Yokosuka Rising Sun of Japan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5310\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/10\/schedule.jpg\" alt=\"schedule\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/10\/schedule.jpg 742w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/10\/schedule-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Up for grabs this year apart from bragging rights are six trophies and prizes for various side events, like the popular Hole-in-1. Personalities and politicians grace the yearly tournament, making it a star-studded event.<\/p>\n<p>You can catch the 67<sup>th<\/sup> Fil-Am Invitational Golf Tournament from November 23 \u2013 December 10, 2016 at the Baguio Country Club and Camp John Hay Golf Club in Baguio City.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/sports\/2016\/10\/28\/1638007\/230-teams-vie-67th-fil-am\">The Philippine Star<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.mb.com.ph\/2016\/10\/27\/5-new-teams-join-the-67th-fil-am-invitational-golf-tournament\/\">Manila Bulletin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>All photos grabbed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Fil-Am-Invitational-Golf-Tournament-153666084651887\/photos\/\">Fil-Am Invitational Golf Tournament Facebook page<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>67<sup>th<\/sup> Fil-Am Invitational Golf Tournament<\/p>\n<p>November 23 \u2013 December 10, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Baguio Country Club and Camp John Hay Golf Club, Baguio City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s longest-running and biggest amateur golf tournament just got bigger as five more teams join the pool of over 200 to compete for bragging rights and a chance to bring home one of six trophies at the 67th Fil-Am Invitational Golf Tournament, happening in Baguio City this November. THE LONGEST \u201cWORLD WAR\u201d CONTINUES. The Fil-Am Invitational Golf Tournament is back. Tee-off is on November 23 at the Baguio Country Club and Camp John Hay Golf Club. The Fil-Am Invitational Golf Tournament is a two-week annual amateur golf tournament held at the Jack Nicklaus-designed course of Baguio Country Club and Camp John Hay. It started in 1949 and has since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,18,4],"tags":[792,790,791],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baguio","category-games-contest-and-tournament","category-location","tag-baguio-city","tag-fil-am-golf-invitational","tag-golf-tournament"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5312,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions\/5312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}