The STAROBA Masters 2009 was postponed from December 2009 to this date due to some unforeseen circumstances. A full turnout of 72 golfers took part in this stroke-play game held at the Nilai Springs Golf Course.
Pakdokter had had an overdose of golf the past 10 days or so, having played 4 days in a row during the Chinese New Year break and 3 more days in a row starting last Friday. With the weather being as it was ( it's a heat-wave season now!) pakdokter was feeling quite exhausted even at the beginning of this championship.
Pakdokter played with batchmate AK (Ahmad Khalid) who pakdokter played with every Sunday at the RSGC. The other 2 players in the flight were Said, 2 years our junior at school and Ariffin who was 6 or 7 years our junior at school.
Apart from the championship itself pakdokter partnered AK in a matchplay against the juniors. AK played to a handicap of 12, Said 15 and Ariffin 16. Pakdokter played to the 'proud' handicap of 24.
In the 1st Nine, pakdokter's pair was more or less slaughtered by the juniors. Said was in his element, scoring 1 birdie and a few pars. Pakdokter contributed nothing to the pair and AK was somewhat off-form. We went 3 down with 2 to go, but having lost the 1st Nine, made amends by getting even on the 'buy'. So we lost 3 balls there.
As losers we opted to 'double up' for the 2nd Nine. And AK came back with his game, delivering an escalation of 4 pars in a row! The juniors must have got quite rattled. They came back but we went 2 up with 3 to go at the 16th hole when pakdokter finally came back and scored a par at the par-5 island hole( the other 2 sent their ball into water and Ariffin missed his par after pakdokter holed-in for par from 12 feet away....yeeeea...) which gave us the game for the 2nd Nine. With game over, the last 2 holes were fought for the 'buy' and we were square on this.
So the 'senior gentlemen' proudly walked back to the clubhouse with our heads held high, taking home 3 balls with us.....
The 'Masters' was won by one of the junior golfers ( apologies...pakdokter forgot his name ) who played to a handicap of 23 and returned a net score of 66!.....
Congratulations...
pakdokter, Said, Ahmad Khalid (AK) and Ariffin.....
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