the Ciputra club-house...
water-features at the clubhouse..
fairway view from the garden terrace..
There were 11 golfers altogether who signed up for the Surabaya Retreat 2009. Three of them, pakAli Ariffin, pakRoslan and pakSirajuddin had come one day earlier and had the benefit of a practice round at the Bukit Darmo where pakSirajudin was reported to have played so well and had 'lynched' the other two golfers!
Pakdokter's group of 4 arrived on the early Malaysia Airlines flight which was only about a third full ( perhaps the economic slowdown is also showing its effect...) and was whisked off straight to the Ciputra Golf Club where we were welcomed by the earlier 3 golfers. After a lunch of ' sup buntut sapi' we teed-off from the 1st Nine at about noon.
pakZahardin at the tee of a par 3 hole No.2....
Ciputra Golf Course appears to be quite a friendly and relatively short course. The layout is almost always characterised by long fairway bunkers sometimes stretching for almost the whole length of the fairways...
So the risks of getting caught in the bunkers were very high....
even a seasoned senior golfer like pakZahardin could not escape the fairway bunker..Pakdokter played with pakZahardin and pakZulkifli Rauf. Although pakdokter did not start out well, pakdokter's game improved towards the end of the 1st Nine and was starting to score bogeys and a par and then a birdie! at the eleventh hole when the sky suddenly started to pour heavily with an almost gale-force storm.
The last flight of 4 ( pakTengku Azman, pakWan Husin, pakHaji Amin and pak Rahman Salleh) who arrived late on the Airasia flight only managed to complete 6 holes. PakTengku Azman who played to a handicap of 24 shocked his flight mates when he parred the first 3 holes and they had started the game agreeing to quite a heavy bet......!
The rain went on for quite a while and as the course was heavily water-logged we decided to abandon the game. What a lucky escape for the guys who played with pakTengku Azman....
Pakdokter took the opportunity during the waiting period to try out one hour of a 'total body traditional Javanese massage' at the spa of the club. At least this made up for the abandoned game....
Ibu Fareeda (pakdokter's partner) and Ibu Fiona (pakZahardin's partner) who had checked into the hotel after lunch decided to pamper themselves to two and a half hours of Spa Treatment (mandi lulur, masker and massage) at the Martha Tilaar Spa located at the Majapahit....And they were very impressed by the treatment the received and wished that we had stayed at the grand Majapahit hotel.
We all were bussed to Restoran Sari Bundo where we had a dinner of Nasi Padang...
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