Tuesday, 5th April 2011
The final day game of this tournament was played on an individual matchplay format. The 20 pairs in the competition was arranged after the auction and bidding of players by the respective captains which took place after the second day game.
Pakdokter bidded to play against pakMesha, whom pakdokter lost to at the last hole in the final day matchplay in Jakarta last month. Pakdokter paid 100,000 rupiah to buy the opportunity to play against Mesha.
Pakdokter's handicap was increased to 25 based on the second day's scores while pakMesha had his handicap of 30 retained.
Erik IndraDewa, pakdokter, Tg Azman and pakMesha...
pakdokter and pakMesha....
pakdokter and pakdokter's caddy, Tefi.......Pakdokter and pakMesha had had quite a number of drinks at the lounge the night before. PakMesha was quite an accomplished singer and he would definitely make a good R & B crooner if his game of golf takes him nowhere.
We both started our game still struggling to shrug off the effects of our indulgence. Pakdokter's caddy, Tefi, a sweet 18 year old who had just started caddying for about 8 months, was also a significant distraction. Her soft and gentle demeanour and her two deep sweet dimples on each cheek each time she smiled made pakdokter's heart missed a beat every time she did so! As a result pakdokter quickly went 4 down by the time we finished our 1st Nine.
Luckily pakdokter managed to come back in the 2nd Nine. Pakdokter crawled back to reduce the deficit and was lucky enough to square the game at the 17th hole. So it came down to the last hole once more.
The last hole we played was a long par 3 over water. As pakdokter had won the previous hole, it was pakdokter's homour to tee of first. Pakdokter had easily sent pakdokter's ball across water in the previous 2 days and so thought it should be no problem again. But fatigue and excitement must have come into play and pakdokter topped the ball which went rolling into the lake. PakMesha hit strongly but his ball came just across the lake in a depression before the green. Pakdokter took the 3rd shot, sent a good drive which looked like it would easily fall on the green, but alas the strong wind kept it back and the ball hit the far concrete wall of the lake and the ball bounced back into water. Pakdokter shook hands to give the game to Mesha but still went to the drop zone and hit the 5th which went up nicely about 1 yard below the pin. Mesha should have no problem with his chip but overhit and his ball went rolling into the top end bunker. Now this would be a difficult sand play as a slight mistake would send his ball out and down back into the lake. Despite having shook hands, pakdokter told him the game was not over yet! He had to earn his victory. His shot out of the bunker fortunately was not strong enough to roll down into the lake but far down to the bottom fringe. And the pin was at the top end. He putted short well below pakdokter's ball. His fifth missed the hole and went above for a difficult fast downhill putt. And pakdokter now felt pakdokter had a chance to square the game if pakdokter could putt in for a 6!
But as fate would have had it, pakdokter missed the uphill putt for a 7 and Mesha made sure he was in for a 6.
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