Professional golfers playing for the PGT are golfers of good standing in the ASEAN PGA Tour, Touring Professional Golfers Association of the Philippines, and the Professional Golfers Association of the Philippines. PGTI also invites foreign pros and the country’s top low amateur golfers to play in the circuit.
The PGT is also the country’s richest tournament circuit. The tour revitalized golf in the Philippines with local pros gunning for the top spot in the PGT Order of Merit (OOM). The OOM is the ranking of professional golfers based on the accumulation of prize money as players participate in the various legs of the circuit.
The first thing Dennis Montecillo did after a pioneering stint in the 1974 San Diego Junior World Championships as the sole Philippine representative was to convince his parents, lawyer Manuel and Amalia Montecillo, to put up a competition for local kids that would prepare them for the bigger stage. Amalia who later on became more popularly called as Mommy, did more than that.
Not only did she organize an annual summer circuit for boys and girls. She also brought together parents and sponsors for a common cause of breedng international champions that eventually became a solid organization called the Philippine Junior Golf Association that later on became the Junior Golf Foundation of the Philippines.
Jungolf is believed to be the forerunner of all associations in the region.
