The Philippine Star
September 8, 2025 | 12:00am
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines — Fidel Concepcion units out for an additional week with renewed hope and rising expectations.
Along with his recreation trending upward in latest Philippine Golf Tour stops, the Southern Utah College product is raring to lastly seize that elusive first win because the ICTSI Negros Occidental Basic comes off the wraps tomorrow on the Negros Occidental Golf and Nation Membership right here.
The P2 million occasion on the storied Marapara structure attracts the Tour’s high weapons, with focus not simply on back-to-back leg winner Keanu Jahns, but in addition on the resurgent 29-year-old Concepcion, whose constant performances have hinted at an imminent win.
After ending seventh at Forest Hills, Concepcion climbed to fourth at Caliraya Springs, the place he battled toe-to-toe with Jahns and Angelo Que in a high-stakes remaining spherical shootout, solely to falter below mounting stress.
Studying from that have, he bounced again in final week’s Bacolod Golf Problem, staying within the hunt till the closing holes. Although Jahns once more surged along with his signature stretch-run brilliance, Concepcion fired a bogey-free 67 to safe a runner-up end.
