Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The Staroba Medan Masters 2009 (111)...Graha Metropolitan Golf and Country Club....




After the second game at Martabe Sejahtera Golf
Club, about half the entourage went to the RAS Spa for a round of massage to their tired body. Pakdokter signed up for a 2-hour traditional Javanese massage and slept through the whole process from sheer fatigue after 2 days of golf.







The third and final round of the Medan Masters 2009 was played at the Graha Metropolitan Golf Course, which was a short half-an-hour ride from our hotel. The Graha is a walking course, so pakdokter and pakHyder had no worries about this as we had been regularly walking in our own home-course at the Royal Selangor Golf Club.







The Graha is a relatively short course but in almost every hole, there is water that came into play. The fairways are generally narrow and slope steeply into the side waterways or lakes which demanded straight drives and shots all the time. The presence of cross-winds made it more troublesome all the time.








Pakdokter played with pakHyder, pakRahman and pakRaja Ramlee. After only managing a stableford score of 30 on the second day, pakdokter's handicap was again generously adjusted to 27 from 25. Having had difficulty with the driver, pakdokter decided to tee-off with the wood 3 and this helped pakdokter return a fairly good score enabling pakdokter to collect 37 stable ford points altogether.






The other golfers had great difficulty taming the
course and this helped pakdokter to be among the top-scorers of the day.









And of course, pakdokter was happy to collect a few hundred thousand rupiahs from the others....

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