Month: December 2019

Results _ Danau Golf Club – 24th December 2019

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Twelve Loose Cannons assembled early morning 24th of December for our traditional Christmas golf, this year at Kelab Golf Danau located next to UKM in Bangi. After Mondays heavy rain we were sort of expecting a soggy course, but it was not bad at all, even the known soggy hole 12 par five was in relative good shape.

It took us five hours due slow flights in front of us, but the course as such plays tough from the rough, not to mention to find the ball in there as well as the very tricky Parslow & Winter greens. And even from white it’s not short with its 5921 meters.

We had the post game lunch at our usual East of Highway on the way back to KL, excellent food ordered by Tony Morris for our Christmas lunch.

Results

Not unexpected the known long-hitters / good players was at the top of the scoreboard after the game.

Winner Julien Hodson Walker on 36, followed by Jason Winter 35 and Ricardo Castro with 34 points, very close at the top it was.

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24th Dec DanauHole 10, Danau 24th DecReady to go Danau

Christmas Lunch – Coliseum Restaurant – 18th December 2019

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Following up on the final invitation, yesterday we had our traditional yearly Xmas Luncheon at Coliseum Cafe & Hotel downtown Kuala Lumpur.

Everyone arrived in time at the bar to have ample time for beers, gin & tonic etc and catching up, before we assembled at our usual room at the back of the restaurant.

Andrew began by asking for a toast for our, no longer with us Loose Canons, since it began years ago;

Murray Preston
Gordon Wingate
Andre Holm
Roger Smith

and this year

Ray Funnel
David Hughes

 

After that the groups founder Mike Smith said some well thought of encouraging words.

Follow up on that the Convener that’s me, was asked to say something;

– the number players per game has gone down since the heydays of 6-7 flights which is a bit much actually

– in general several players would like to play more games closer to KL 

Perhaps I did not say all this but that’s the situation we are in; more games closer to KL 

I don’t mind the extra travel now and then but if several are not prepared to, it defeats the purpose 

Every groups need new heads/faces now and then. I read that Sir Alex Ferguson during his days came into 

the situation that Manchester United had to change or mover people around every fourth year or so.

Coming end of February next year I have been the convener for three years and in my mind I have had the thoughts is time to handover the baton to someone else and just enjoy playing.

So it’s a done deal, Martin Belderink and Jan van Driel will take over from March 2020.

My last game as a convener will be Feb 25th and it well end were it started, at Bkt Unggul.

Would like to thank Andrew Robinson for organizing this event and the food I think was excellent and better than last year.

I believe the pictures attached speaks for themselves. 

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Results – KGPA – 17th December 2019

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Living just a stone-throw from KGPA and having had more or less the same downpours I was a bit worried about the course  conditions, but it was not too bad, soggy sections of some holes yes, but playable sometimes with a little of ball movement.

Good golf weather, nice venue but the city is coming closer and closer, next up is a hotel squeezed in next to the Phileo Semantan MRT-station.

We had a good post game lunch at Pantai Seafood Restaurant, but only 50% of the players attended…..

I was in the same buggy as Ian Wise, and surprise surprise when he pulled the bag cover off, there was no driver. But it did not hurt him at all, almost as long with the 3-wood from the tee-box and on the fairway.

Results

Result from the testing elements; three players on 37 points, Jan van Driel won with best second nine.

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hole 26 backdrop forest nineTee-box hole 23 forest nine

Obituary – David Hughes

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David Hughes sadly passed away peacefully on 8th December 2019, aged 82 after a short illness.  David for many years lived in Malaysia and was an active member of the Loose Cannons golfing group.

With his armed forces and physical instructor background he was always a strong, low handicap golfer and one of the few lefties amongst us. After his return to Wales, David made annual visits out to Malaysia to visit his daughter during the winter months and frequently rejoined our group for rounds of golf.

David, or “Taffy” as he was affectionately known,  will be sadly missed and fondly remembered by all his golfing mates from the Loose Cannons.

Our condolences go out to David’s family at this sad time and may he R.I.P.

Results – Amverton Cove Golf & Island Resort – 10th December 2019

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We were just one short of two flights at Amverton Cove today, the sky looked promising and we had only a couple of flights in front of us when we teed off from the blue tee-box.  But that was a false impression as the first flight in front held us all back, so we were waiting and waiting until Iain Wise got the opportunity to voice our concern over their slow play.
The course was in good condition but played a few shots more than normal as it had been raining lately.
We had to fork out 60Rm each for the M&M, a bit more than we expected as our birthday boy did not stay for lunch, next time Jan van Driel.

Results

Ricardo Castro being the better player this day won with 34, Roger Surieux came second with 30 points.
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Results – Seri Selangor – 3rd December 2019

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An easy ride to Seri Selangor this morning as the traffic was less then normal probably due to the schools are off for the rest of the year. Construction work was going on e.g. expanding parking and it looks like they will upgrade the locker room, we look forward to that, don’t we.

Weather was just fine for golfing and the course was in the best condition I ever played it I think except for certain sections of hole 18. We had the post game lunch at Pantai Seafood Restaurant, plenty of guests, noisy and good food, lovely place.

Results

So how did it go, we had Ted Parslow in our flight and the way he was hitting the ball from the tee-box I thought here we have today’s winner, but but the 34 points was only enough for second place. Ricardo Castro played even with the course enough to win on 36 and Martin Belderink rounded up the podium with 33 points.

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Flight 1 at tee-box 1Flight 2 on tee-box 10There are some land left 2