Bayron sizzles, wavers to cling to 1-shot lead

Rufino Bayron blew what had been a solid eagle-spiked round with a double-bogey mishap on the final hole, barely wresting a one-stroke lead over obscure Rolando Marabe with a five-under 67 at the start of the P3.5 million ICTSI Tournament Players’ Championship at the Southlinks Golf Club in Las Piñas on Tuesday.

Just when he thought he had the relatively short course tamed with his precision game and superb putting, Bayron dropped two strokes on the par-5 18th on an errant drive and a poor second shot, settling for a 34-33 card and keeping him from pulling away from the field on a course where terrors lurk on most holes.