The Quad 2008 - Day 2...

We arrived at the Laem Chabang Golf Club to be welcomed by the liason officers rocking to samba music which woke all of us up from the night sleep.




The second day event was an individual event and each flight consisted of one player from the four participating clubs. Our handicaps (based on our own club's USGA Handicap Index was readjusted to Laem Chabang's Rating and probably also taking into consideration the score of yesterday's game) were adjusted accordingly.

Mr Kalaie, Mr Patrick Lam, Pakdokter, Dr Allan Ng

Pakdokter was put in a flight made up of Mr P M Kalaie of RBSC , a former Malaysian from
Malacca who is now a citizen of Thailand running a petrol refinery. The other two golfers were Mr Patrick Lam of Hong Kong (with whom I had played with at RSGC when he visited us two months ago) and Dr Allan Ng, a retired Singaporean obstetrician and gynaecologist.

The Laem Chabang Course is a Jack Nicklaus design and is characterised by a lot of bunkers including fairways bunkers. We were made to play the Mountain and the Valley Courses and after taking into considertaion of the previous day's performance we were happily told to play from the white tee which measured a total of 6305 yards. ( the total yardage of the previous day was 6721 yards.)




The Mountain course must be a little easier (or was it because of playing form the white tee?) because I managed to return a score of 46/54 ( handicap reviewed to 28!). Allan Ng from Singapore (h'cap 24) returned a score of 53/43, PM Kalaie of Bangkok (h'cap 19) did 49/46 and Patrick Lam of Hong Kong (h'cap 23) carded 51/56. As only Patrick, Kalaie and Pakdokter played the game on a small bet against each other, both Patrick and I ended up paying Kalaie for his winnings.

Allan Ng teeing of under close watch of caddies while Patrick readying himself with a few practice swings

The team event was won by the host club, the Singapore Island Country Club followed by thr Royal Selangor Golf Club close behind with the Royal Bangkok and the Hong Kong Golf Club in third and fourth places consecutively.

Vincent Lien, SICC Captain receving the Quad Trophy from Dr Adul, the current Chairman of Laem Chabang and Past Chairman of Royal Bangkok Sports Club.

And a special achievement of mention during this tournament, one of the Hong Kong's player did a hole-in-one at the hole No. 8 par 3 which measured 143 yards from the white tee.

The Royal Selangor Golf Club team.