The Inter-Club Match between RSGC and KGNS

Saturday, 28th April 2012

This is an annual 'home and away' game which is popular amongst most members of the two clubs. The 1st Day game this year was hosted by KGNS at Subang on Saturday afternoon. Each club was represented by 20 pairs and the game was played on the ' better total stableford points' match between the 2 opposing pairs of the flight. 2 points for a win.

Many from the "RSGC Sunday Buayas" group signed up to play in the game. Pakdokter partnered AK ( Ahmad Khalid) , regular Sunday morning golfer and pakdokter's batch-mate in secondary school in STAR, Ipoh.

Our opponents from KGNS were Hj Roslan (10) and Tuan Syed (14). Pakdokter played to a handicap of 24 and AK (12).

Pakdokter played relatively well - hitting straight and long drives that often went further than the other 3 golfers. With so much 'strokes' advantage, the KGNS pairs were demoralised early in the game with pakdokter missing so many near 'pars'. Pakdokter's pair finished the 1st Nine 2-up on the opponents.

Heat and fatigue affected pakdokter's game in the 2nd Nine but AK game back to keep the match going. We kept our lead to the end and pakdokter clinched the match at hole 17 with a par on the par-5 hole.

KGNS plays much shorter to RSGC. It was not too difficult to reach the green 'on regulation' - but the greens were much slower than RSGC. It played to a green speed of 8 at the most. Pakdokter often putted 6 to 10 feet short.