Cannon’s,

Two flights were ready on time to teeing off on the Island nine, and Pines course was the back nine with the booth courses in good conditions with nice fairways and well maintained greens. The weather was hot and humid, and unfortunately the haze came back again after a few days with low index. Josef Winter was on fire again with a solid 85 for 39 points, second was Roland with 93 for 35 points and in third place was Fritz Katzengruber with 33 points. September games are now closed with Marc Louette champion with a fantastic 83 points, followed by Josef with 78 and Reinli with 74. Great results this month with big numbers, congratulations to the champion and well done everyone, raising the level higher and higher. For the annual competition, Bernhard still hanging is leading now with 80 points, followed closely by Fritz with 72 and Ricardo with 68, so all open for the last 3 months of the year. Helmut just landed from Europe after a long absence and he got his prize related with his performance from the last season. Lunch at the usual restaurant in Nilai with 10 of us and finally Hans was there but only if we order butter prawns, and the wish was granted and I’m sure now Hans starting to like this restaurant. Next week we will be at Johor Bahru for our away tournament with eight players on the bag.

Cheers

Ricardo Castro

LC Convener

FINAL RESULTS TABLE.

THE WINNER SHOWING OFF HIS SCORE CARD.

SEPTEMBER GAMES FINAL STANDINGS TABLE.

LCPOTY CURRENT STANDINGS TABLE.

HELMUT WITH HIS 2025 SEASON PRIZE (23rd PLACE).

THE WINNER IN ACTION.

HELLO JOHOR BAHRU.

CARTOON OF THE MONTH.

Cannon’s,

Back to Kinrara to play the fourth game of the month with good and cool weather conditions. You can see how the course conditions improved the last year, specially the greens, absolute great. Following his good game last week, Marc Louette was again with big numbers (39 points), followed by Reinly with 36 and Josef Winter also in good form with 35 points. With these results Marc cemented his first position now with 83 points and almost secure the pole position to be the September champion, Josef and Reinli trying to catch up with Marc with 74 points. Lunch at East of Highway, celebrating Reinli’s birthday and he got a nice box of balls as a birthday gift. Thanks you again Reinli for your generous contribution with 360.00 rm for the lunch. Next week lets go to Nilai Springs.

Cheers

Ricardo Castro

LC Convener

FINAL RESULTS TABLE.

THE WINNER ENJOYING HIS PRIME TIME.

LCPOTY CURRENT STANDINGS TABLE.

BIRTHDAY BOY GIFT CEREMONY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY WITH MANY GOOD RETURNS.

LOOSE PICTURES.

Cannon’s,

After more than one year we back again to Seremban to play the International Golf Club, with very hazy and hot weather. The course was very dry, with most of the fairways with many spots without grass and very nice but tricky greens. The starter was busy with 4 flights in front of us on hole # 1 and the first flight teed off with a delay of 40 minutes, and after the two flights teed off the marshal decided to give priority to the walking members and send our 3rd flight to hole # 10, so quite messy. Last year we played from the blue tees, but this time playing from the white tees opened the opportunity for a few good scores and the greens much more reachable on the second shot, as with a long and straight tee shots the ball was rolling another 30 or more meters from the landing spot. Hans went straight to Melaka following the Waze instructions, but he was able to find the way back to Seremban and joined flight three at hole # 3. Today’s winner was Marc Louette with an amazing 99 for 44 points, followed by Jan van Driel also with a solid 90 for 37 points, and in third place was Josef Winter with a nice 90 for 35 points. With these results, Marc is now leading the monthly competition with 74 points, second and third is Reinli and Josef also with 74 points but Marc has the highest score (44) on the best 2 games. Happy Malaysia day and next week we will be playing Kinrara.

Cheers

Ricardo Castro

LC Convener

FINAL RESULTS TABLE.

THE WINNER PICTURE. WELL DONE MARC.

SEPTEMBER COMPETITION CURRENT STANDINGS.

FOR A MOMENT SOME BAD MEMORIES.

HERE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW TO FILL OUT A SCORECARD NEATLY AND LEGIBLY!!!

LOOSE PICTURES.

HAPPY MALAYSIA DAY.

Cannon’s,

My first comment is that I do not understand that a number of our members do not want to play Bukit Jalil. I do understand that in wet seasons the course can be very soggy and losing balls is in that case very easy, even in the middle of the fairway. But now, without having seen rain in some time, the course is perfectly playable. Yes, it may be tight in some places, and yes, on some holes you have to have a good drive to clear the water (you know you can lay up……), but we are playing golf and also some more challenging courses are part of our challenge!

So, I wanted to say that.

We teed off today with 6 (!!) players, on a course which was dry, with very good fairways and greens, nothing wrong with that. The haze was certainly present with a blurry sun every now and then. 
We decided to play with a two-ball and a four-ball to save money on half buggies, caddies and caddie tips. In total, that saved us some 500 RM!! So worth while repeating in case we are facing the same issues.

After the game we had lunch at Da Kitchen with good food (thank you for ordering Reinli) and some nice beers.

Third place today was for Iain with 35 points, second was Reinli with 36 points and the absolute winner today was Josef with 39 points. Well done!! Because of the small group, Josef was so kind to forego his free lunch, so again, many thanks.

Next week we will play Seremban International.

Jan

FINAL RESULTS TABLE.

BKT JALIL WINNER PICTURE.

SEPTEMBER COMPETITION CURRENT STANDINGS.

ONLY ONE LOOSE PICTURE.

Cannon’s,

The first game of September was at Bangi. We teed off nice in time (the earlier the better) with three full flights. We played Bangi first and Kajang, both courses in a good shape, also because of the lack of rain. The greens were a bit variable, but good playable.

Weather wise, it was a bit strange. On some holes it was difficult to follow the ball, because of the haze, and other holes were better again.

Anyway, very good scores today, as you would expect on Bangi, a relatively easy course.

We had a very good and copious lunch at East of Highway, very generously paid for by Hans, who celebrated his 6 years after his stroke. Hans, Thanks very much and it is great that you are still strong enough to play with us !!!

We welcomed Markus, who has been away for more than 4 months, and we handed him his prize for last year’s competition.
We also celebrated Reinli’s championship of last month, well done Reinli!!

The scores of today were very good with the lowest score of 30 points, and the highest today, the real champion was Fritz with 39 Stable-ford points, a round of 90 strokes!!

Next week we’ll play Bukit Jalil, for some of us a difficult course, but come on guys, let’s try again…….

FINAL RESULTS TABLE.

THE WINNER PICTURE. WELL DONE AGAIN FRITZ.

AUGUST CHAMPION PRIZE CEREMONY. WELL DONE REINLI.

MARKU’S 2025 SEASON PRIZE (17th place) CEREMONY.

THANK YOU HANS FOR YOUR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION. STAY STRONG AND KEEP ENJOYING LIFE.

TREE CHALLENGE. TWO IN THE WATER, ONE ON THE LEFT AND ONE ON THE GREEN.

LOOSE PICTURES.

Cannon’s,

The last game of August was held at Tasik Puteri with a nice and pleasant weather. Three flights started on time on Tasik nine with quite difficult course conditions with super dry and hard fairways, and speedy greens (9.5). The back nine we played the Puteri course, with better conditions even dry but much better fairways and regular greens but with very difficult pin positions specially on holes # 2, 3, 4 & 9. The winner was Bernhard Romahn with a solid 84 for 38 points, followed by Ricardo Castro with a nice 79 for 35 points and in third place was Josef Winter with 93 for 32 points. With these results Reinli Tan is the monthly champion with a strong 83 points, followed by Steve Collins with 78 and Josef Winter with 75. August games done and for the LCPOTY annual competition, Bernhard still firm leading the pack with 78 points, followed closely by Fritz Katzengruber with 67 and Ricardo Castro with 65. Four months to finish 2026 and all still open with a few candidates to be the 2026 champion. Hans Berger just back to the course after a long 3 months recovery, and we all hope he can finish the year in a very strong note. Lets start September hostilities at Bangi.

Cheers

Ricardo Castro

LC Convener

FINAL RESULTS TABLE.

THE WINNER PICTURE.

AUGUST COMPETITION FINAL STANDINGS TABLE.

LCPOTY CURRENT STANDINGS.

THE WINNER IN FULL ACTION.

WELCOME BACK HANS.

PICTURES OF THE DAY.

CARTOON OF THE MONTH.

Cannon’s,

Nice to be back to Staffield to play the third game of the month with sunny and hot weather on the first nine and in a question of minutes the weather changed to black clouds and thunder rumbling not to far from the course, but luckily the storm just went away of us with a very little rain and we finished the round again with blue sky and hot sun. The course was in a good conditions, with dry and hard fairways, with a nice greens, playing quite fast specially on the first nine. Fritz was the winner with an amazing 88 for 43 points, beating Steve by only two points with a solid 41, and in third place was the local magnificent Chinese duo Reinli and Marvin booth with a good 40 points. Actually with these course conditions we had 4 players scoring 40 and above, and all the remaining players the lowest score was a 32 points, so pretty good scores for everyone. We had a nice lunch at the club, celebrating the Josef’s 200 games milestone, and he contributed with 300.00 rm to the bill, and we all appreciated his generosity. With these results Reinli is now leading the monthly competition with a very strong 83 points, followed by Steve with 78 points and Marvin in third with 76 points. Next week lets go to Tasik (24-08-2026) to play the last game of August.

Cheers

Ricardo Castro

LC Convener

FINAL RESULTS TABLE.

THE WINNER PICTURE.

AUGUST COMPETITION CURRENT STANDINGS.

200 GAMES FOR JOSEF WINTER AND STILL COUNTING.

HOW BAD WAS THIS BUNKER WITH ALL THIS FOOT PRINTS. VERY SAD TO SEE HOW PEOPLE ARE SO LAZY TO RACK THE BUNKERS, REALLY SOME PLAYERS LACK BASIC SPORTSMANSHIP.

PICTURES OF THE DAY.

Dear Friends,

It is with sadness that I report the passing of David Lake, a good friend and a Loose Cannons KL member.

David joined Loose Cannons on 15th of October 2024 at Kota Seriemas and he played his last game on 22nd of April 2025 at Tasik Puteri with a total of 8 games on his belt. He was also a Klogs member with 3 games played.

David has been described by many of his golf partners friends as a typical English gentleman with a dry and shy accurate sense of humor. He came from Newcastle and was a keen Newcastle United supporter. Even though he played only a few games with us, David left his mark as a truly excellent human being, with a nice character, very kind and always happy.

On behalf of the all Loose Cannons members, our sincere and deeply condolences to his wife, children’s, grandchildren and family. Our prayers to our friend David who will be sadly missed and may he rest in peace.

Ricardo Castro

LC Convener

SOME OF DAVID LAKE PICTURES IN FULL ACTION WITH LOOSE CANNONS.

DAVID AT KINRARA WITH LOOSE CANNONS, PLAYED THE WRONG HOLE, AND WITH A BIG SMILE AND ACCURATE SENSE OF HUMOR, HE MADE THE MOMENT EVEN FUNNIER.

Cannon’s,

Three flights (11 players) started before 8:00 am on hole one with cloudy and very humid weather. We had some rain for about 10 minutes between hole 3 and hole 5, and after that until the end no more rain even very cloudy but dry. The course condition was not so good with very hard fairways with many places without grass and some of the greens were not in a good shape, but overall the course was playable. Hole # 4 has now a new layout with a new green placed on the right side over the water, making this hole much more challenging and very interesting to play. Reinli Tan was the winner with a magnificent 43 points, second was Ricardo Castro with a solid 76 for 38 points, and in third place was Marc Louette and Steve Collins, booth with an easy 37 points. With these results Steve are now leading the monthly competition with 73 points followed very closely by Jan and Ricardo booth with 72 points, and Josef with 71 points. All open for the last 2 games of the month and next week we will be playing Staffield.

Cheers

Ricardo Castro

LC Convener

FINAL RESULTS TABLE.

THE WINNER CELEBRATING IN STYLE HIS ACHIEVEMENT.

AUGUST COMPETITION CURRENT STANDINGS.

HOLE # 4 WITH NEW LAYOUT, GREEN MOVED TO THE RIGHT SIDE OVER THE LAKE. JOSEF WAS TESTING THE NEW GREEN POSITION WITH A TRICKY SHOT.

PICTURES OF THE DAY.

Cannon’s,

The first game of August was held at KGSAAS with three full flights playing first the Alam nine and crossing over to the Sultan nine. The course conditions on booth nines were perfect very good fairways and greens. The weather was hot with nice blue sky. Jan was the winner with a solid 87 for 40 points, followed by Josef with a brilliant 87 for 39 points, and in third place was Steve with a easy 94 for 36 points. Lunch was at the club and David Evans got his prize related with his good performance on July competition. Next game at Bkt Kemuning.

Cheers

Ricardo Castro

LC Convener

FINAL RESULTS TABLE.

THE WINNER PICTURE.

JULY CHAMPION PRIZE CEREMONY.

ACCORDING TO JAN, JIM HAD A HUGE INFLUENCE ON JAN’S GAME, HELPING HIM TO SCORE 40 POINTS, SO JAN ANNOUNCED JIM IS NOW IS OFFICIAL CADDIE FOR THE REST OF THE 2026 SEASON.

NEWCASTLE BOY.

KGSAAS SUNRISE.

SMOKER’S CLUB PLANNING THEIR SECRET STRATEGY.

LOOSE CANNONS LEGEND EROL AKINCI.

PICTURES OF THE DAY.