Amran Hassan, Accenture IT Consultant, senior RSGC Sunday Buayas member, is in between jobs this month, and is on long leave before he joins Maybank IT Department. So he now has more time for golf and called pakdokter and a few 'independent' self-employed 'buayas' for week-day golf @ RSGC.
6 of us came this first day of June and pakdokter played in the second flight with Syed Hazrain and Tg Farith. Before we teed off, the guys in the 1st flight - Amran, Zulfikar and Ismail asked pakdokter to compare our cards after the game and bet on our usual format.
Playing from the 2nd Old - pakdokter, now playing at handicap 19 got 5 strokes from Syed Hazrain who played to handicap 14. Tg Farith played to handicap 19 as pakdokter.
Pakdokter played reasonably well at the long and difficult 2nd Old Nine - returning a score of 49 with 2 pars to boot. Tg Farith scored 47 and Syed Hazrain 48. However in the match-play format - pakdokter lost 4 balls to Tg Farith but scalped Syed Hazrain winning the match against him at the last hole. Tg Farith also took 3 balls from Syed Hazrain but had to leave for work commitment at the end of the 1st Nine.
Syed Hazrain doubled-up at the 1st Old Nine. We joined 2 golfers from Perth who came to play at RSGC that morning as a reward for winning a tournament in Perth sponsored by AirAsia and Tourism Malaysia. Kenny?, the younger OZ golfer played to a handicap of 6 and his father, Matt, played to a handicap of 20? Kenny was good, got 3 birdies and nearly missed a hole-in-one at hole-7 by a foot. For his winning of the Perth's tournament - they were awarded free flights Perth-Kul-Perth on Airasia, free nights stay at the Gardens Hotel at MidValley and golf games at RSGC and KLGCC. They will travel to Phuket next for more golf. What a life!
Pakdokter maintained good form boosted by the new-found confidence after winning the monthly medal last weekend. Syed Hazrain and pakdokter remained square at hole 1 and 2. Pakdokter went 1 up with a par at the index 1 par 5 hole 3 and stayed 1 up with both of us scoring a par at the next par-3 hole 4. Pakdokter remained 1-up at hole 5 taking advantage of the stroke there but lost the next par-5 index hole with a 7 to Syed Hazrain's par. Pakdokter took the next hole with a par but lost the 8th to leave us to fight for the match at he 9th hole. Pakdokter hit a reasonably good drive and used a 7-wood to send the second shot about 50 yards to the pin. Syed Hazrain hit his usual long drive but his second went into the bunker. The bunker sand being rather hard, Rain came out too strongly and second his 3rd to the opposite bunker. Pakdokter took an easy 2 putts for a 5 to take the match.
Pakdokter totalled 45 for this Nine. Could have been easily 43 if not for the 'double-bogeys' at holes 1 and 2.
At the lunch table - the other 3 were not even interested to look at pakdokter's card! Ismail offered to pay RM50 instead of calculating the damage! Only Zulfikar got away when he won the 1st Nine but lost out the 2nd.
Amran had to break his 'coin-box' to settle his losses to pakdokter
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