Alido bounces back; Hwang surges past Harmie

Ira Alido blew a three-stroke lead at the front but fought back from two shots down and went 2-up again over a charging Rupert Zaragosa with an eagle-spiked 69 in a topsy-turvy third round of the W Express RVF Cup Amateur Golf Championship at Cangolf’s North course in Canlubang on Thursday.

But while Alido managed to thwart Zaragosa’s challenge and regained the men’s lead, Harmie Constantino tumbled down the women’s leaderboard with a 76 as Korean Hwang Min-jeong fired a 70 and wrested a huge four-stroke margin heading to the final round of the annual championship held as part of the PLDT Group National Amateur Golf Tour and backed by the MVP Sports Foundation, Cignal and Metro Pacific Investments.