The ICTSI Champion Tour will make its way to south Manila for its tenth pit stop at the Manila Southwoods Golf & Country Club.

In the fourth-year partnership, the ICTSI Champion Tour - Manila Southwoods Golf & Country Club will be the first of the two TLPGA tour and LPGT (Ladies Philippine Golf Tour) co-sanctioned tournaments which are arranged in back-to-back weeks.

The winner out of a field composed of 100 international elites will be decided on Friday after 54 holes, who can take away a $15,000 cash prize. The runner-up will take $7,500. The $75,000 event serves as the sixth leg on the 2018 TLPGA Tour.

The TLPGA Tour has been striving to increase its involvement in co-sanctioned tournament overseas. In addition to a growth of influence on the global scene, this will have the substantial benefit of building a stronger tour structure and, critically, allowing members to have more playing opportunities abroad for a more compact portfolio and simply richer ranking points.

The ICTSI (International Container Terminal Services, Inc.) is the title sponsor of the LPGT for the sixth consecutive year. The number of tournaments has been increased from six in 2013 to eleven in 2017.

An 18-hole traditional pro-am was supposed to be played through the 6,543-yard layout at the Manila Southwoods Golf & Country Club, but unstable weather caused by the nearing Typhoon Henry forced the organizer to call it a day.

A cut will be made to the low 50 and ties after Thursday’s second round. Players will be teeing off tomorrow at 7:00 in the morning; the late flight will set out at 11:00.

The field will see the return of home girl Princess Mary Superal and Thailand’s Yupaporn Kawinpakorn, the two multiple-title winners on the 2018 LPGT, headlining the list of 84 pro golfers and 16 amateurs from nine countries including Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the United States and Taiwan.

Current leader on the LPGT money list and 2016 prize money winner, Ikeda Chihiro, will be hoping to join Superal and Kawinpakorn as multiple titlists. Cyna Rodrigurz, record holder as the LPGT money winner in year 2013-2015, and last year’s money winner Pauline del Rosario are both set to tee off on Wednesday.

The Thai squad is led by the Philippine Ladies Masters champions in 2016 and 2017, Saranporn Langkulgasettrin and Renuka Suksukont. Langkulgasettrin has already had one TLPGA Tour victory this year at the EFG Hong Kong Ladies Open.

Supamas Sangchan, this year’s Hitachi Ladies Classic winner will also be looking to add another TLPGA Tour title to her resume.

Three TLPGA Tour top-10 players, Lee Hsin (李欣) (no.2), Chen Min-Jou (陳敏柔) (no.3), and Lin Tzu-Chi (林子麒) (no.9) will try to fly the Taiwanese flag high. Teenager Hou Yu-Chiang (侯羽薔), who just won the TLPGA Ladies Open – Nan Pao in May as an amateur, will be in the field as well with her sister Yu-Sang (侯羽桑).