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Paulis is man’amko ground golf champ
Kingech Paulis makes the winning putt last Wednesday during the annual Man’amko Ground Golf Tournament. (Kimberly A. Bautista)
Kingech Paulis was named champion of the 2018 Man’amko Ground Golf Tournament Wednesday last week at Coral Ocean Golf Resort.
He was proclaimed the 2018 ground golf winner after five teams completed one game and making two holes-in-one out of four in just one game.
In second place was Nick Klewei and completing the top three was Roger Hernandez.
The first-place winner was awarded $30, the second-place winner was awarded $20, and the third-place winner was awarded $10.
The E-Land Group, parent company of Coral Ocean Golf Resort, hosts the Man’amko Ground Golf Tournament every year during Mes Man’amko (Older Americans Month).
According to Office on Aging director Walter Manglona, COGR has hosted the tournament for nearly four years and he has witnessed every year the sheer joy the tournament brings to the man’amko.
“We truly appreciate, on behalf of the man’amko, everyone at the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, we appreciate their kind generosity and we hope they continue to provide their accommodation and services,” he said.
According to E-Land Group Corporate Social Responsibility’s Lindsay Anh, the event is a way for E-Land to give back to the community that has accommodated them for years.
The E-Land Group, a Korean corporation, shares similar values with the CNMI and one of those values is the importance of the community’s elderly. Anh said the man’amko are the backbone of the community because many of them kick-started and even pioneered the development of the CNMI and E-Land believes that that should not be overlooked.
Aside from hosting the ground golf tournament, COGR also hosted a lunch buffet for the man’amko that was not only appetizing but healthy too.
According to Coral Ocean Golf Resort’s operation manager Kalvin Park, it has already become a tradition for COGR to host the man’amko once a year and it is a tradition he intends to sustain.
