The Christmas game was held at Seri Selangor with nice weather, good course conditions, and good greens, except the one on hole # 2 was very sandy. We welcomed two new potential members, Lim Hong, and Kevin Tucker on their first game with us. All three flights started before our tee time on hole #1 after our traditional Christmas picture. The winner today, was again Martin Middleton with a regular 93 for 33 points, the second was our guest Lim Hong also with 33 points, but as a guest, he couldn’t win the first prize, and in third place was Ian Wise with 30 points. With these results, Martin Middleton still led the monthly competition with a solid 78 points, followed by fRans Bakker with 69 and Tony Morris with 68. Ten of us had lunch at Beer Factory, with Jan contributing 200.00 rm to the bill celebrating his anniversary. Ricardo presented the results with the respective prizes including a special Christmas gift for the attendees (a Christmas sleeve of balls) and a welcome gift for the two guests.
Cheers
Ricardo
LC Convenor
FULL RESULTS TABLE.
THE WINNER PRIZE CEREMONY.
DECEMBER GAMES COMPETITION CURRENT STANDINGS.
WELCOME GIFT FOR OUR GUESTS, LIM HONG AND KEVIN TUCKER.
The third game of December was held at Staffield, and what an opportunity to celebrate Bernhard Romahn’s milestone of reaching 500 games with Loose Cannons. The weather was hot and humid, but the course was in good condition, as always, with nice greens. We played the Southern and Northern nines, and the winner was Martin Middleton with a robust score of 87 for 40 points, followed by Reinli Tan and WL Chia booth with a nice 37 points, and in third place, Ricardo Castro (lowest gross) and Jan van Driel with 36 points. With these results, in the December monthly competition, Martin Middleton is cemented in first position with 78 points, second Frans Bakker with a nice 69, and third Ricardo with 60 points. Welcome back to Malaysia Jan and Markus, after a long absence in Europe. After the game seven of us rushed to Nilai for a nice lunch, fully sponsored by Bernhard. See you all next week at Seri Selangor for our Christmas game.
Cheers
Ricardo Castro
LC Convenor
FULL RESULTS TABLE.
WINNER PRIZE CEREMONY.
DECEMBER COMPETITION CURRENT STANDINGS.
500 GAMES PRIZE CEREMONY. CONGRATULATIONS TO BERNHARD ROMAHN FOR HIS MILLESTONE.
What a great Christmas lunch we had this year at the Renaissance Hotel City Center. Twelve of us started arriving at R Bar for a few drinks, a wine contest, and the virgin ceremony, celebrating our newest members Frans Bakker and Martin Middleton. Iain Wise was the only one who arrived 20 minutes late due to an LRT technical problem (that was his excuse), anyway whatever the explanation he had to pay a 50.00 rm fine for his bad offense. This time our wine expert was Frans Bakker, who decided the crappiest bottle of wine was the one brought from the other virgin, Martin Middleton, and he had to pay a 50.00 fine for his bad behavior and a bad offense. After a few drinks and finishing all the formalities, we all moved to the lobby for a group picture and then to our private room to initiate our lunch. Before the lunch started Ricardo Castro distributed Christmas goodie bags for each of us full of gifts, a birthday gift to Mike Smith and Jan van Driel, and a special gift for our honorary member Andrew Robinson, then distributed to everyone a sample of the 2024 season summary accounts with all the numbers and stats with the final approval of all the present members. After this Ricardo passed the stage to Andrew Robinson to say some words to the past LC members who are not with us anymore, finalizing with an emotional toast to their memory as they will never be forgotten. Mike Smith our LC founder honorary member, also had a few words about the beginnings of the Loose Cannons in 2004, and some nice old stories followed by a nice and happy toast. After all the formalities, we finally started our Christmas lunch, first with a visit to the buffet followed by the special Christmas menu served later and at a good pace. Just before the desert, we initiated another LC tradition, telling a joke or singing a song, and everyone participated in a good Christmas mode, even some of the guys telling more than one joke, besides all the Fritz stories. All the wine bottles were consumed, except the crap wine from Martin Middleton of course. It was a lot of fun, happiness, and great friendship, and that is the meaning of our society and the main reason why we all keep the LC society alive. Around 4 pm eight of us moved to the Corkman for more drinks and giving some support to one of our new 2025 sponsors. One word for the hotel staff who did a great job, always very friendly attentive to our needs, and proactive. Thank you also to Bipan Kappur and Benjamin for all the arrangements and the special deal for the Loose Cannons Society. Thank you to all the LC members for your support during the 2024 season and a warm welcome to the new members. Welcome 2025 season.
Cheers
Ricardo Castro
LC Convenor
R BAR PICTURES WITH IAIN CHECKING THE LRT UPDATES.
Two flights started before 8:00 a.m. from hole one, with cool and overcast weather. The pace was smooth on the first nine, but the second nine was quite slow, with some slow flights in front of us. Bernhard played his 499 games with LC and a big party is waiting for us next week at Staffield to celebrate this milestone. Due to the last two days’ heavy rain, the course was soggy, and even some of the greens were with casual water, but overall was playable and we had a good round of golf. The winner today was Tony Morris with a solid 89 for 39 points, the second was Martin Middleton with 88 for 38 points, and the third place was our Viking Hans Berger with 115 for 32 points. Next week all to Staffield.
Cheers
Ricardo Castro
LC Convenor
FULL RESULTS TABLE.
NOVEMBER CHAMPION PRIZE CEREMONY.WELL DONE MARTIN MIDDLETON.
IAIN’S TEE SHOT ON HOLE 18TH, WITH A CHALLENGING POSITION.
HERE FROM THE MASTER, HOW TO PLAY THE SECOND SHOT BEHIND THE THREE.GREAT SKILLS, AND WHAT A PLAYER.
With overcast and humid weather, three full flights started before 8:00 a.m. from Hole # 1. The course was very soggy, and with such bad fairways playing like rufe grass, some of us lost some balls, making our round quite challenging. However, it is always nice to play Amverton and enjoy the fresh air. In the last two hours, the sun came out and it was very hot until the end with a nice blue sky. As usual, we always play from the blue tees, only David Lake, Hans Berger, and David Evans decided to play from the white tees. Clive Gordon played his fourth game and unfortunately, when he returned to the looker room and opened his looker, there was nothing there, as someone opened with a master key and stole all Clive’s belongings. This was quite a bad situation as we had been playing here for so many years and I never heard this situation happen. The report was done, they are checking the CCTV, and hope they can find who did this and recover Clive’s stuff. The winner today was the birthday boy, Frans Bakker with a solid 89 for 38 points, followed by Helmut Dicknoether with 97 for 34, and third place was Mister Patagonia, Bernhard Romahn with a nice 88 for 32 points. After the game, we all rushed to I Suka restaurant for a nice meal and cool drinks. Thanks to Frans Bakker who contributed 300.00 rm for the bill to celebrate his 69th anniversary. See you guys next week at Bkt Unggul.
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