Gents,

For the following three days, we decided to form teams of two players, who would play a competition next to the normal individual competition. The teams were: “The Royal Balls” – Ricardo/Frans; “The Booze Cannons” – Josef/Diederik; “TOGAS” – Bernard/David; “The Hackers” – Jan/Fritz.

On Tuesday we had our regular game at Forest City. We played the Classic Course, and that was a splendid experience. Playing on a carpet, even the tees were immaculately green. That was certainly a delight. It is not an easy course, with water and a lot of bunkers around. The weather turned very hot, and in particular, it affected the second nine for a few of us. Good scoring however, with David and Ricardo sharing the third place with 32 points, Josef in second with 33 points, and Bernard, the winner with 35 points! Monday evening we were with the full 8 players and decided to have dinner at the waterfront opposite the Berjaya Hotel. And that was a mistake. We didn’t know that a new owner just took over three days before, and that was very noticeable. The beer wasn’t really beer, but resembled another yellowish liquid, and tasted very bad. So we will certainly remember that.

Wednesday we started with the first game of the two-day competition. We played at Senibong, a great course, with a lot of water on the course, but that didn’t distract us too much. Interesting there is that the first hole is a very intimidating hole over the water, dog left right, and again over the water. Because the course was relatively short, we played off the blue tees there.

Josef came in third here with 32 points, Bernard followed in second with 34 points and Ricardo had a great day with 39 points!

After the first two days, TOGAs was first with 127 points, Royal Balls second with 124 points, The Booze Cannons third with 122 points and The Hackers hacked around the courses with 91 points

On the last day, we played the Cempaka course at Palm Resort. Again great weather, luckily a bit of a breeze, because in some places it became very hot! The only disappointment there was that the greens were treated just the week before and became very slow and irregular.

The scoring was good however with Bernard winning with 33 points, Ricardo followed with 31 points and Josef was third with 29 points.

This all ended up with the Royal Balls winning with 183 points, just beating TOGAS with 1 point (182), The Booze Cannons ending third with 178 points and The Hackers finishing with 128 points.

For the individual standings, Ricardo finished as winner with 70 points. He received the special shirt and an LC cap. Bernard was second good for a bottle of wine, Josef third with an MST voucher, Diederik was 4th with an LC cap,  Frand was 5th with a Pampas food voucher, Jan was 6th with a Pampas wine voucher, a sleeve of balls was for David and Fritz received a towel.

The count of total birdies was a very simple one. Only one birdie was scored by Bernard, good for an MST voucher.

After a good lunch at the club, we left around 2 p.m. for our trips back home.

Jan

FULL AWAY GAMES RESULTS TABLES.

TEAM COMPETITION FINAL RESULTS TABLE.

AWAY GAMES PAST AND PRESENT WINNERS TABLE.

AWAY GAMES PRIZES TABLE.

ALL PRIZES CEREMONY PICTURES.

SENIBONG GAME PICTURES.

PALM RESORT PICTURES.

HOLE 19TH.