pakdoktergolfblog: Medan Re-visited (1).......

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Medan Re-visited (1).......

Friday, 23rd April 2010

This trip to Medan was a last minute decision after pakAli Arifin told pakdokter at the Staroba April Medal that they were short of 3 balls to make a full contingent of four flights of golfers. With pakRais Mansor into the count, pakdokter managed to rope in pakRosli from Jakarta to the tally. Unfortunately, at the last minute, pakWan Husin had to withdraw due to the passing away of his elderly father, leaving only 15 of us to play in Medan.

To pakWan Husin, pakdokter wishes to express pakdokter's condolence to you and your family.

All of us reached Medan Friday morning, some on MH and some on Airasia except for pakRosli who came on Lion Air from Jakarta. The first 3 flights went ahead to Graha Metropolitan for the mid-morning game while pakdokter and pakRais had to wait a while for pakRosli to arrive from Jakarta. We stopped for lunch at a Padang restaurant before proceeding to Graha.

Graha Metropolitan is a walking course. Despite having played here for the past consecutive 3 or 4 years, pakdokter had little memory of the club until pakdokter reached the course.

Medan was still experiencing its hot and dry spell and the course was in quite a good shape. Unfortunately, that afternoon the club hosted a local competition with about 80 participants and our 2nd Nine was considerably slowed down by the crowded course.

PakRais, who played to the lowest handicap in our flight collected a few hundred thousand rupiahs from pakdokter and pakRosli in our little 'side game'. Pakdokter only managed to gather about 28 stableford points. PakRais came home with 35 points to be among the top of the 15 players in the first day of the tour.

PakRosli did not play his usual game as his mind was probably distracted by problems at his company's plant in Batam where the local workers went amuk in a 'racial' riot against some of the expatriate executives and workers.