pakdoktergolfblog: The Club 300 Tokyo...

Pakdokter, the Biwako Champion 2009 with the statue of the ?founder of Club 300 Tokyo...

the RSGC entourage to Club 300 Tokyo....

As The Club 300 Tokyo was closed on Monday, our game was scheduled for Tuesday, the second day of our stay in Tokyo. From our hotel in Odaiba we passed the port of Yokohama before reaching Club 300, which took slightly more than an hour from the hotel.

As implied by its name, Club 300 is a very exclusive golf club, having only 300 members at any point in time. A new member will only be elected into the club upon the demise of an existing member. As such, on a weekday like that Tuesday, we were the only golfers who came to play at the club. RSGC is very fortunate indeed to have a reciprocal arrangement with Club 300 Tokyo and it was indeed an honour for us to be able to play at this exclusive course. We only had to pay a game fee ( which covers the caddie fee and taxes and the buggy) which came to about 13000 yen. It would have cost us a fortune if we had to pay the full fee to play at this course, I guess.

As we arrived earlier than our assigned tee-off time, and the weather looked threateningly cloudy, we were allowed to play our game immediately. After all the whole course was completely empty!

flowers in bloom......

caddies organised our bags to the respective buggies..

During the bus journey to the club the group came to a consensus that we play from the blue tee instead of the white tee as at the Biwako Club. Club 300 Tokyo has 2 Nines which measured 6875 yards from the blue (championship) tee.

peach blossom at the tee of hole No. 10....

As pakdokter was the Biwako Champion, pakdokter was given the honour to play in the Captain's flight with pakAli Dewal and pakMuthanna Abdullah. RSGC Captain, Mr Lee Tak Suan, was club champion for five times and despite his seniority still plays to a handicap of 15. PakAli Dewal and pakMuthanna were until recently playing to a handicap of 6 but currently play to handicaps of 14 and 9 respectively. Due to pakdokter's fine performance at the Biwako, pakdokter's handicap was brought down to 20........yeeeeaaa

Muthanna Abdullah, pakdokter, Captain Lee Tak Suan, Ali Dewal...

From our toss of golf balls, pakdokter partnered pakAli Dewal against pakMuthanna and Captain Lee. We agreed on a small bet, enough to quench our thirst after the game...

Captain Lee teeing off at hole No. 10....

The course in general is narrow, tight, hilly and undulating. As we played from the blue tee, every hole was very much longer than the Biwako Course. The par 3's measured between 180 yards to 200 yards. The longest par 5 measured 570 yards.

Muthanna at the 14th tee....

Pakdokter must have been affected by the company of good golfers that pakdokter's first tee-off went O.B. into the right jungle and scored a double par for that par 4 hole. The long and narrow course demanded consistent straight drives and pakdokter could not live up to it. Pakdokter finished the 1st Nine with a score of 57. It was left to pakAli Dewal to save our partnership and he returned a score of 47 against Muthanna's and Captain Lee's scores of 43 and 44 respectively. Obviously we lost out the 1st Nine to them.

ripe tangerines at the tee of hole No. 14..

Pakdokter tried to do better in the second Nine but only managed a slightly better score of 54. We were stalled for a while during the game by quite a heavy downpour of rain. Muthanna and Captain Lee returned scores of 49 and 48 respectively and although it was game over for us after 14 holes, pakAli managed to reduce our damage and loss by coming back strongly in the last few holes to help us take the 2nd Nine. PakAli scored 44 in the 2nd Nine.

a pretty wooded scenery of the course....

pakAli with his 2nd shot to the green...

After the game we all scrubbed ourselves clean in the Japanese bath and had a good soak in the steaming 42 degrees celcius pool. We had our lunch at the club's restaurant before returning back to our hotel in Odaiba. Our Sports Manager from RSGC Che Mokhtar Ibrahim, helped entertain us in the bus with his rendition of Elvis Presley's songs. Unfortunately pakdokter and pakAli were very tired and slept through the trip.