Cannon’s,

The last game of July was held at Danau, one of the most infamous golf courses for some of our members for different reasons and excuses. Today we had 3 flights (11 players) and all started before 8:00 am on hole # 10. Sunny weather and blue sky all morning turning hot and dry around 9:30 am. The fairways were dry, with nice and fast greens, but some, the pin position was quite challenging for most of us, costing a lot of puts, but that’s Danau greens, always like this all the time we play there. The winner today was David Cheung with a fantastic score of 85 for 40 points, second place, Jan van Driel also with a nice 92 for 38 points, and in third place with the lowest gross of the day, was Ricardo Castro with a solid 76 for 37 points. With these final results, Jan van Driel is the July champion with a total of 84 points, followed by Ricardo Castro with 80 points, and in third place, Martin Middleton and David Cheng, booth with 79 points. For the LCOTY competition, Jan van Driel took over second place with 65 points, Bernhard is now in third place with 64 points, and the leader, Ricardo Castro consolidated his first position with 86 points. I must say July was very competitive, with quite high scores, making the competition for the last 5 months quite interesting and good quality of golf. Free lunch, sponsored by the LC Kitty, at East of Highway restaurant for eight of us, with a nice food selection ordered by our F&B expert, Iain Wise, but he had some problems with the Chinese staff ordering the Currie Vegetables dish (quite a common dish in KL), taking a few minutes and 3 people to understand what Iain was asking.

Cheers

Ricardo

FULL RESULTS TABLE.

FINAL JULY MONTHLY COMPETITION STANDINGS.

LCOTY CURRENT STANDINGS TABLE.

EARLY BIRD SUNRISE MOMENTS.

DANAU’S RAINBOW.

OTHER PICTURES.

Cannon’s

Back to Tasik Puteri, with hot and sunny weather. Three flights started before 8:00 am on Puteri Nine, crossing over to the Putera Nine. The course was dry, with good fairways, with nice and speedy greens, costing a lot of puts to most of us. The winner today was our international member, Frans Bakker with a solid 89 for 38 points, beating OCB, Jan van Driel, and Dave Evans, and in third place, with the lowest score, Ricardo Castro with a nice 76 for 37 points. With these results, Jan van Driel still led the pack with 84 points for the July competition, followed by Ricardo Castro with 80 and Martin Middleton and Dave Evans very close with 79 and 78 points respectively, so a lot to fight in the next final game for July. Lunch at the club lounge.

Cheers

Ricardo

FULL RESULTS TABLE.

WINNER PRIZE CEREMONY.

JULY COMPETITION CURRENT STANDINGS.

THE CHAMPION CONCENTRATION, VISUALIZING HIS SHOT. WHAT A PLAYER!

SOME ALIEN ACTIVITY LAST NIGHT AT TASIK, WITH SOME SIGNS ON THE GRASS, MAYBE MEL GIBSON PLAYED GOLF LAST NIGHT? CHECK THE NEXT X-FILES EPISODE.

OTHER MOMENTS CAPTURED ON CAMERA.

Cannon’s,

Back to Kinrara and the course was quite dry with only two or three fairways a little wet, and slow greens with channeling pin positions, cost too many puts for almost all players. We all started from hole # 10 with a little drizzling rain but all stopped after hole one and we had overcast weather all morning. The course was completely empty with the first flight finishing the round around 11:10 am, The second and third flights finished around 11:45 am, so a good time to have a good shower and no rush to go to the restaurant. The winner today was Ricardo Castro with an excellent 74 for 40 points, followed by Charlie Chow with a nice 92 for 37 points, and in third place David Cheung and Reini Tan finished with a reasonable 34 points. With these results in the monthly competition, Jan van Driel kept his strong first position with 84 points followed now by Ricardo Castro with a solid 80 points, and in third place is Martin Middleton with 78 points. Following Reinli’s recommendation, we tried a new restaurant (Dream Kitchen) for a private lunch with cool beers, with special dishes freshly cooked by the chef. It’s always good to try something new to have more other options and experience something new. We had one minute of silence and a toast as a tribute to our LC member Andrew Barber. All our condolences and prayers to the family and May He Rest In Peace.

Cheers

Ricardo

FULL RESULTS TABLE.

WINNER PRIZE CEREMONY.

JULY MONTHLY COMPETITION CURRENT STANDINGS.

DREAM KITCHEN PRIVATE RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE.

KINRARA EARLY BIRD VIEW.

PICTURES OF THE DAY.

Andrew Barber showed his skills at Clearwater Sanctuary on 23 March 2010 (LC Northern Tour, Ipoh).

Gents,

Andrew Barber joined Loose Cannons in 2010 with his first game on 23-03-2010, at Clearwater Sanctuary, the first game of the LC Northern Tour. In 2010 he played 13 games followed by a long gap without playing and only in 2018 he played the last two games with LC completing 15 games. He will always be remembered for his often quirky sense of humor, a man of many talents, kind, considerate, intelligent, always curious, and a loving and proud family man, he married Caroline, and they had two daughters, Sarah and Catherine, really a true gentleman. A few notes about Andrew Barber’s life, born in Uganda where his father was a District Officer, had first-class honors from Cambridge in History, had a successful career with the Foreign Office in London, Jakarta, Ethiopia, and Malaysia, and then set up a Security company in Malaysia, also successful. A keen historian and author of several books, a prestigious speaker at many conferences and on cruise ships, and a long service on the Alice Smith School Board of Governors. Andrew was also a keen golfer and trekker in Nepal and Eastern Europe.

Thanks to Andrew Robinson for some notes and information

ON BEHALF OF ALL OUR LC MEMBERS, OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES AND PRAYERS TO ANDREW BARBER AND, HIS FAMILY, MAY HE REST IN PEACE.

1959 – 2024

Ricardo Castro

Loose Cannons Convenor

Cannon’s,

The second game of July was held at Staffield, always in great condition to play with nice and dry fairways and nice greens. Three flights started on the Western Nine before 8:00 am, crossing to the Southern Nine and we all finished before noon. Greens on the first nine were nice but fast, but on the second nine, they were the opposite, very slow. With these nice course conditions, we had quite a good round of results with the majority of the players scoring over 30 points except the winner, David Evans who scored 40 points followed again by Jan van Driel with 39, and in third place was Martin Middleton with 35 points. Jim Stevenson is now an LC full member with his 5th game, receiving some LC gifts (LC Flask, LC sleeve of balls, and 2 LC greens marker chips), congrats to him, and welcome to the LC family. Lunch was at the club and this time we had a battle against an army of flies which turned our lunch quite uncomfortable and challenging trying to protect our food and drinks, I hope next time they can find a simple solution to reduce the number of flies, but even we complained, the manager seems not worried about the situation blaming the nearby chicken factory. Anyway, we played so many times at Staffield and we never experienced such an increasing amount of flies.

Cheers

Ricardo

FULL RESULTS TABLE.

WINNER PRIZE CEREMONY.

LC NEW FULL MEMBERSHIP GIFTS CEREMONY. CONGRATULATIONS TO JIM STEVENSON.

MORNING STRETCHING FROM OUR YOGA EXPERT SET DISPLAY, BERNHARD ROMAHN. WHAT A PLAYER.

FRITZ SHOWING OFF HIS FITNESS.

DAVID CHEUNG IS VERY FOCUSED, VISUALIZING HIS SHOT WITH TWO CLUB CHOICES.

SOUTHERN NINE HOLE 13TH PAR 4 THEY CUT OFF 3 MAJOR THREES, LOSING ALL THE CHARM AND CHALLENGING ON THIS HOLE FOR THE SECOND SHOT. VERY SAD TO SEE THESE OLD AND BEAUTIFUL THREES JUST GONE.

GOOD WAY TO USE YOUR ALMOST LOST WOOD COVER TO PROTECT YOUR DRINK FROM THE AGGRESSIVE FLIES.

FIRST TEE OFF WITH HAPPY GROUP.

OTHER PICTURES.

Cannon’s,

Always good to play Bangi with very dry fairways and nice, but slow greens. Three flights started before 8:00 am on Bangi Nine crossing over to Kajang Nine, and by 12:30 some of us were already at the restaurant having some cool beers. The results reflected the perfect conditions with nine of us playing under hdc. The winner today was Jan van Driel with a fantastic 88 for 45 points (the investment in the new set of irons is definitely paying off), in second place were Hans Berger and Martin Middleton with 43 points, and in third place, Ricardo Castro (lowest gross) and Fritz Katzengruber with 40 points. A good start of the month with big results showing an improvement in our member’s golf game, leveling the bar height for the last 6 months of the year competition. Jim Stevenson played his fourth game, and Martin Middleton got his prize for the June competition. Lunch at the usual East of Highway restaurant with a good crowd.

Cheers

Ricardo

FULL RESULTS TABLE.

WINNER PRIZE CEREMONY.

JUNE CHAMPION PRIZE CEREMONY.

A LOT OF STRETCHING BEFORE THE GAME. WHAT A PLAYER.

IAN’S FRUSTRATED BY HIS SHORT GAME, OR WAS HE HIT BY HAN’S BALL? DON’T MISS THE NEXT EPISODES.

PICTURES OF THE DAY.