The Biwako Championship : 2nd Nine at the Ritto Course

The 2nd Nine was played at the Ritto Course. This is the longest of the 3 Nines at the Biwako. We did not play this Nine during the practice round. Over lunch pakdokter overheard Shahrir Roose( who was the Biwako champion at RSGC in January this year) reporting how poorly he played at this Nine and pakdokter was expecting to have a tough time there.

In the end pakdokter played reasonably well. Unfortunately pakdokter 'blew' the index-1 par-4 hole when pakdokter sent the ball from the tee into the lake. Pakdokter took a drop about 5 yards in front of the tee and hit with the 3-wood which unfortunately went into the lake again. The next drop and another hit with the 3-wood went across but sliced into the right forest. Luckily pakdokter got it out with a 7-iron and got the ball on the green at the 8th shot and 2-putted for a 10! Pakdokter came back with bogeys on the remaining holes to return a reasonably good score of 50.

Hole-1 of the Ritto Nine seen from the tee-box of hole-2
par-3 hole No.2 Ritto Nine
pakdokter had a par here as well as the next par-4

at the drink hut at hole 5

par-3 hole No. 6

only about 110 yards but with head-wind to consider

the front pin was on a steep slope

Ezanee hit the pin and had the ball just 2 feet away and got a birdie

pakdokter pulled to the left but manged to chip in but 3-putted for a 5