About 50 golfers from the RSGC made it to this annual pilgrimage to Bangkok to play against the Royal Bangkok Sports Club during the weekend of 14th and 15th March 2009. Some golfers (like pakdokter's group of 4) made our own travelling arrangements while others hopped on the package tour organised by the club's travel agent.
pakTgAzman and pakGarrick Law..
the partnership of pakdokter and pakHyder...
The first game was played on Saturday afternoon. After a buffet lunch at the club-house we all teed-off to a shot-gun start from our allotted tees.
pakHyder, pak?, pakGarrick and pakdokter..
The Royal Bangkok Sports Club golf course is located smack in downtown Bangkok and doubles up as the Royal Bangkok Race Course as well. It is a short course playing to par 66 but is cleverly designed to make use of all the available ground in the limited space of the course grounds. There are many streams and lakes too in this very tight course!
the golf course with the horse-race course at its perimeter..
Novotel Siam Square at the fore-ground of the golf course..It was quite an experience to play golf here. Apart from a caddy who walked and carry your golf bag, there was also a 'fore-caddy' in each flight who will look out for your ball if you sent it into the water. The 'fore-caddy' will jump into the stream or lake and retrieve your ball for you. So no worries about not having enough golf balls in your bag!
Pakdokter partnered pakHyder and we both played to an 'adjusted' handicap of 21. (In our own club we played to a handicapof 24!) Our opponents were RSBC committee member Mr Garrick Law who played to a handicap of 20 and a young golfer ( whose name pakdokter has forgotten..sorry) whose handicap was 12. Mr Garrick Law is a British who had worked in Thailand many years ago and after selling off his private hospital enterprise in Jersey Island has decided to come back and retire in Bangkok with his Thai family...
The game was played on a 4-ball best ball format. Taking advantage of our handicaps, pakdokter and pakHyder were able to match our opponents throughout the game and only won the match after hole 17.
the driving range of the RSBC is in the centre of the course..The rest of the RSGC pairs did equally well in their games. The first day game ended up with RSGC taking the lead from RSBC 21 points against 13.
pakGarrick trying to figure out how to beat pakdokter and partner..In typical RSBC style, we were entertained to a sumptuous dinner at the club that night to be followed by a 'typical' Bangkok 'cultural show' which pakdokter is unable to post the picutres here. The pictures are only for 'mature' and 'cultured' viewers.....heh..heh....
Sunday morning saw us play the second round and despite being mesmerised by the 'potpourri of culture, cuisine and free flowing wine' the night before, the RSGC golfers surprisingly returned a better score of 21 -3.
Pakdokter again partnered pakHyder and played against RSBC committee member Vichet Bunthuwong ( the CEO of Bangkok Mass Rapid Trains -MRT) and Mr James Richard Amatavivadhana ( the Regional Director of Johnsons & Johnsons SEA). Pakdokter and partner managed to beat our Thai partners only at the last hole!
Apparently RSGC has never beaten the RSBC the past 10 years or so at their home turf until this year. Well done RSGC...
2 comments:
Pakdoktor tak cakap pasal double-up and triple-up yang you kalah tu!
Pakdoktor tak cakap pasal double-up and triple-up yang you kalah tu!
This is selective reporting just like NST!
For everyone's info, I played against Pakdoktor with a sprained shoulder ("Frozen Shoulder" says my physio) and yet won. At this rate, I will have a share of Pakdoktor's Shrink Clinic at Ampang Park in the not too distance future...Ha..ha..ha.
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