pakdoktergolfblog: Koba Invitation Edisi 3, Bali: Pakdokter's Rematch against Mesha...

The Staroba CdM had printed out the course layout of the New Kuta Golf Course on Saturday night and had distributed a copy to every player of the team. That was how serious we all took this competition! Pakdokter feels it would have been better if the team had come 2 days earlier and played one practise round each at the two golf courses. What about that, Sir?...

As reported in the previous blog, pakdokter played to a handicap of 34 against pakMesha's 31. So pakdokter received 3 strokes from pakMesha in this individual matchplay.

PakMesha and pakErikIndradewa must have thought that pakdokter and pakAzman would be chicken-feed on this final day based on our two earlier performances. They partied at one of the Bali clubs until 4 am in the morning and almost arrived at the golf course late for the tee-off. Pakdokter had had an uninterrupted sleep for once and was detemined to finally make amends against pakMesha over the previous two close losses in Jakarta and Bandung.

We teed off from hole 7 and pakMesha sent his first tee way to the left, bounced off the track and looked like it went over the wall into the OB territory. Pakdokter played safe and hit way to the right which the caddy reassured was on safe ground. PakMesha second tee again went straight into OB land to the left again. Pakdokter felt that it was a good start and would capitalised on pakMesha's severe 'hangover.'

Lucky for pakMesha, his first ball had actually hit the wall and came down on to the edge of the fairway. He hit the second over the stream in front of the green and was on for 3. Pakdokter hit a wedge to go before the stream but sent the 3rd into water and lost the 1st hole with an 8 against pakMesha's 5.

Pakdokter again lost the 8th hole long par-3 and went 2-down and thought history will repeat itself.

Pakdokter forgot to record our score-card on camera but in summary pakdokter can recollect that upon going into the 2nd Nine pakdokter started winning hole after hole and led all the way to reach dommy 4 when we teed off at hole No.1. Poor pakMesha was really struggling with the 'hangover' - at one stage while waiting at one of the par-3 holes due to the 'traffic jam' he slept and snored on the bench at the hut.

PakMesha tried very hard to at least square the match with pakdokter - he took hole No. 1 but lost it when pakdokter squared him at hole No.2 to go 3-up with 2 to go.

So pakdokter's tally against pakMesha is now 1-2 in Mesha's favour. And pakdokter managed to collect most of the rupiahs pakdokter lost the day before.

PakAzman was also able to capitalise on pakErik's lack of sleep and came home with a victory of the same margin as pakdokter.

the flight in front of pakdokter...