The Practice Round at Biwako Country Club : The Minami Nine

Pakdokter was put in a flight with Ezane Bakar ( handicap 16 and Biwako Tour Champion 2010), Micheal Sielecki ( handicap 18) and Matsuokasan (handicap 7). Pakdokter played to RSGC's handicap of 24!

Pakdokter played hopelessly - starting with double pars on the first two holes before regaining some composure to safe further embarassment. The cold made the body stiff ( age had already caused the same to the body) and the layers and layers of clothes to keep warm made things more difficult. Pakdokter noticed the others were also having similar problems.

Pakdokter finished the Minami Nine with a score of 61! The others scored in the mid and high 40's.

Ezanee @ hole 1 Minami Nine
long and narrow with brown dry grasses
every hole has 2 greens, one in use and the other in maintenance

Matsuoakasan who played to a handicap of 7

Micheal Sielecki - RSGC member whose wife comes from Nagoya

Les, the name we use to call this complicated Austrian name, does

conversion of biomass to ethanol

the technology he uses converts palm oil pulp and fronds into ethanol

he told pakdokter his methods delivers 30% sugar from palm oil pulp

and a Japanese from Nagoya has 'patented' this first-generation technology.

he is now doing work for Felda

the course has a very European feel to it

many coniferous trees

Les ( Micheal Sielecki) said that it could easily be a golf course in Austria

at the drink hut...

water, hot coffee or tea, cold beer or hot sake?.......

on learning that pakdokter is a shrink, Les told pakdokter

" you don't know me, ya!"

( quote from the funny movie where Mafia chief, Robert de Niro

was in treatment by shrink Billy Crystal)

a typical drink hut and toilet stop

this buggy moves on a remote control

no need for a buggy driver

this hut not a drink-stop

in winter, it served to protect from cold before tee-off

"you don't know me, ya!"

what an embarassment!