Long Island Country Club...

17th December 2009

The second day in Shenzen turned out to be colder than the day we arrived at this southern Chinese city. We left the hotel at about 8 am hoping to reach the Long Island Golf and Country Club by 9.30 am for the booked tee-off time of 10 am. Unfortunately the bus driver took a wrong turn and went into the traffic-jammed streets of Chang-An city. With directions from the club staff over the phone, the driver trekked back to the golf course only to arrive past our booked tee-off times.

The cold weather also made many golfers sufferred very 'irritable bladders'. Unfortunately there were no R & R stops for toilets and short of doing it into plastic bags in the bus, some of us forced the bus to stop by the highway and helped 'clean' the bus tyres.....

washing off mud from the tyres...


the arch at the entrance to the Long Island Golf Club...

pakdokter and Thomas Chun...

Thomas Chun, pakdokter, Goh Kee San...

the clubhouse was in Christmas spirits already...

this was on the wall above one of the urinals at the washroom..

pakdokter's golfing experience can be accurately summarised as such..

the Malaysian flag was strung out to mark our visit...

views of the clubhouse from the course...

pakAzizi, pakdokter and pakTgAzman...

Goh Kee San, Chong Kuet Yoon and Pong Kai See..

pakAzizi at the tee

pakAzizi getting out of the bunker..

pakTgAzman at tee No-10..

he pulled his drive to the left and hit the edge of the track..

causing the ball to be deflected to the other fairway on the right..

despite the cold and the stiff body....

it was quite a good drive.....

The Long Island Golf Course was designed by the JMP Golf Design Group ( J Micheal Poellot). The 27-hole course is located at the foot of Lotus Hill in Chang An County. And this is the only golf course in China with facilities for night-golfing.

Many Malaysian Golf Clubs have reciprocal arrangements with this club amongst them the RSGC, KGSAAS, Pulai Springs, the Tropicana and the Tg Puteri of Johore.

We played the West and East Courses which measured 6444 yards from the blue tee.

Pakdokter played in the second flight with pakAzizi (handicap 10) and pakTg Azman ( handicap 24). We agreed to play on a small bet of 30/10/10 against each other. PakAzizi played to his form and won full-house over pakdokter and squared against pakTgAzman. Pakdokter was the main casualty, luckily loosing to pakTgAzman by only 2 balls.......

Anyhow, the great golfing condition made up for the losses and the mug of Heineken after the game quenched away all frustrations from the missed shots.....

The restaurant at the club-house had a Malaysian chef and a Malaysian manager. So they had in their menu dishes like curry mee and mee mamak.......

Pakdokter had a helping of a big bowl of curry mee which was authentically Malaysian....