Andrew Bautista has not scored a hole-in-one yet as a golfer, but when it comes to business as consultant and sales director of Kisan Lu Lands and Development Inc., he has in some ways, scored many aces in connection with his work.
First, is the exciting Amiya Residential and Golf Resort in Puan. Second, is the Twin Palms in Maa, a 4.5-hectare project that offers a Balinese Community, a first in Davao. Third, is the Bamboo Estates, a 28-hectare project in front of the Philippine Science High School campus in Mintal. Fourth, is the upcoming project in Bago, a condominium by the beach.
That’s four aces, you may say.
“Kisan Lu is not merely offering properties for sale, but also a lifestyle for Dabawenyos courtesy of high quality development,” he said, adding that the company started as a low-cost housing developer that has evolved into one offering better living amenities to the public.
Andrew’s aggressiveness can be traced to his growing up in a military camp in Lipa City, Batangas and raised by a military officer. “My dad is a retired military officer and I grew up in a military culture, straight forward, honest and fight for what is right,” he said.
“In my business, that’s my mindset. Do what is right, go for it,” he said.
No wonder, Andrew has been successful in running the projects because of the values he learned as a boy which define his business dealings..
Playing golf has become a part of Andrew’s life as a businessman. “I mix play, leisure and business,” he said.
He is proud to say that he is a promoter of Davao City by telling his friends in Manila and elsewhere to relocate in Davao. In Manila, he said, he spends almost a day for a round of golf, including the travel to and from the golf club. But in Davao, it takes him only four hour to do that.
No wonder he has made Davao City his home.
Seven years ago, Andrew took up the sport of golf after a friend, Ernest Damaso, taught him the game. Back in college at the Centro Escolar University, and high school at La Salle-Lipa, he engaged in various sports, especially basketball and tennis.
He had already developed a good swing of his racket in tennis, hence, shifting to golf was never difficult.
From double-digit handicapper seven years ago at the Davao City Golf Club in Matina, Andrew is now an eight-handicapper at the Rancho Palos Golf and Country Club.
“But golf is unpredictable, sometimes you play good, sometimes you play bad. It’s basically a mental game, a game of focus, and you must be sports-minded to love the game,” he said.
Andrew is not only into Kisan Lu Lands developing, he is also part owner of Davao Orchard Road as vice-president for sales and marketing. Davao Orchard Road is a multi-awarded memorial park in Mindanao best known as a “theme park” for the living, rather than for the dead.
“That’s the evolution of memorial parks,” he said.
Andrew, as in golf, is focused on expanding their projects in Toril and Cabantian.
“I consider real estate as the No. 1 in doing business,” he said, and he can’t stop working to attain the good life for him and his family in Davao which has given so much to him and his family.
So, come Saturday or Sunday, Andrew and his golf buddies — Paul Larrabaster, Bobby Wee, Allan Soriano, Tony Boy Floirendo, Tony Fanlo and others — enjoy a round of golf, the Davao way, which he perfectly describes as the best.
“That makes me stay in Davao,” said the “Batang Fernando” of Lipa, Batangas. [Moses P. Billacura]
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