Celestino Tugot

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| birth_place = Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon, Philippines

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Celestino "Tino" Mancao Tugot (6 April 1910 – 18 January 2010) was a Filipino professional golfer. Tugot is widely regarded as one of the best, if not the best golfers the Philippines has produced,{{Cite web |date=2011-04-12 |title=Remembering the Tugots |url=https://plantationsustainableliving.wordpress.com/life-in-a-mountain-camp/remembering-the-tugots/ |access-date=2020-12-10 |website=Bukidnon My Home}} and the first Filipino athlete to step into the White House and shake hands with US President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954.{{Cite web |first=Abac |last=Cordero |date=2011-02-16 |title=Pacquiao mobbed in US capital |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/02/16/11/pacquiao-mobbed-us-capital |access-date=2020-12-10 |website=ABS-CBN News}}{{Cite web |title=Pacquiao dinumog sa Washington |url=https://www.philstar.com/palaro/2011/02/16/657436/pacquiao-dinumog-sa-washington |access-date=2020-12-10 |website=Philstar.com}}

Career

Tugot won his national open title six times between 1949 and 1962, including four consecutively from 1955{{cite news |last=Castillo |first=Musong R. |date=18 January 2010 |title=Tugot, 6-time Open champ, 'breaks' 100 by 3 months |url=http://sports.inquirer.net/professional/professional/view/20100118-248097/Tugot-6-time-Open-champ-breaks-100-by-3-months |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100121182320/http://sports.inquirer.net/professional/professional/view/20100118-248097/Tugot-6-time-Open-champ-breaks-100-by-3-months |archivedate=2010-01-21 |accessdate=27 July 2010 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |df=dmy-all}} and represented the Philippines in the World Cup on ten occasions.{{cite web |date=2 November 2009 |title=Most appearances in World Cup history |url=http://worldcup.pgatour.com/playerappearances.aspx |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128100134/http://worldcup.pgatour.com/playerappearances.aspx |archivedate=28 November 2009 |accessdate=27 July 2010 |publisher=PGA Tour}}

= Del Monte Golf Course =

The final 9 holes of Del Monte Golf Course which is located in the Del Monte Plantation was designed by Tugot.{{Cite web |title=Del Monte Golf Club {{!}} Discounts, Reviews and Club Info |url=https://www.golfph.com/golf-courses/del-monte-golf-club/ |access-date=2020-12-10}}

= Our Mother of Perpetual Help Church =

Upon surviving the sinking of S.S Corregidor in 1941,{{Cite web |last=Avila |first=Bobit S. |title=Remembering a maritime disaster 68 years ago |url=https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2009/12/17/532838/remembering-maritime-disaster-68-years-ago?fbclid=IwAR2qrwVM6pheQONV6wzfaKH6Dkn2tVZlRr5POOL1CXSMCsWPsDIXxZmUP9k |access-date=2020-12-10 |website=Philstar.com}}{{cite news |title=Von Nida Third in Title Contest |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article76177533 |access-date=26 February 2025 |work=Central Queensland Herald |date=27 January 1949}} Tugot and his wife Obdulia built a Catholic church beside their home at Manolo Fortich in the late 1960s. The church continues to spread and inspire devotees and has since become one of the pilgrimage sites of the people of Northern Mindanao and its surrounding areas.{{Cite web |last=Amadeo|date=2017-09-16 |title=The Ignatian Perspective: A Church In Kawayanon, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon |url=http://theignatianperspective.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-church-in-kawayanon-manolo-fortich.html |access-date=2020-12-10 |website=The Ignatian Perspective}}

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