A Fruitful Sunday....

Sunday, 27th February 2011

Pakdokter woke up early for the usual Sunday morning game at the RSGC with the 'young men' of the club. 11 golfers had signed up for the weekend game which was played on the New Course as the Old Course was closed for the 2nd round of the Club Championship.

Pakdokter's flight consisted of Amran ( handicap 18), Redza Tan Sri Abu Talib ( handicap 18) and Syed Izuan ( handicap 24). Pakdokter also played to handicap 24. ( the Sunday group's rule is highest handicap allowed is 24 - for the record, pakdokter's club handicap is 29 and Syed Izuan 26)

We decided to play a partnership match between pakdokter and Amran against Redza and Syed Izuan. At the same time we also played individual matches against each other except between the partners.

Starting from the 1st Nine Syed Izuan took the 1st hole to go 1-up using his handicap advantage. Pakdokter helped keep it at that by squaring the 2nd hole but lost out to go 2 down when Syed Izuan 'birdied' the index hole par-5 3rd! By the 7th hole the Redza-Syed pair was 3 up after Redza birdied the 5th and Syed scored a par at the 7th. With game over for the 1st Nine, Syed took the 8th (with a par) only to be cancelled out by pakdokter's par at the 9th.

The Redza-Syed pair went into the 2nd Nine with a 3-ball lead and great confidence! But pakdokter's game finally came in with two consecutive pars on the 10th and 11th with Amran taking the 12th to give us a 3-up lead. After a square at the 13th pakdokter took the 14th with another par to go 4-up with 4 to go!

Although Redza got a par for the 15th, pakdokter's bogey squared it due to the stroke advantage. We went on to square the 16th and 18th and pakdokter took the final hole to give pakdokter's pair a win of 8 balls.

Pakdokter's score for the day was 51/46.

In the individual matches against Redza and Syed, pakdokter collected from them too by virtue of the good 2nd Nine which cancelled out their 1st Nine winnings.

Now for the 2nd round of he Tom Morris Cup on Wednesday...

For the group's Sunday ''pool" money, Azman Noorani, who came home from Zurich for a short business meeting here took all when he came home with a score of -3 ( handicap 18?). He must be getting good golf training in Switzerland. He also won the last time he was home in early January.