Cannon’s,

We had an enjoyable golfing morning. Thanks to the rain and drizzle, and no sun at all, it was cool, and sometimes even a bit chilly. A great day to be out!

Thanks to a large, and slow, group who teed off just before us, we had to juggle around the course a bit, but in the end, we all managed to tee off on different holes and the whole round took us about 4.5 hours.

It is important to come on time to the course. If everyone would have been on time, we could have teed off before the big group!!

Anyway, the course was in a good condition, the greens a bit sandy, which made it not always easy to read the speed, but the rest was good. And yes, we have to be very aware of the many, many monkeys on this course.

The scores were a bit variable, the lowest stableford was 22, and the winner was our local man, Tony, with a whopping 40 points. Bernhard with the lowest gross of 83 couldn’t reach that level. With the final game of the month results, Iain Wise is the January champion with 72 points, followed by Ricardo Castro and Jan van Driel also with 72, but Iain had the highest score (42) from all of us, well done Iain and see you again on the field for the next battle.

We had lunch at the club, where we welcomed Steve Collins for the first time, and Lim Hong for the fourth time.

Jan

FINAL TABLE RESULTS.

WINNER PRIZE CEREMONY. TONY MORRIS IS BACK, WELL DONE.

JANUARY COMPETITION FINAL STANDINGS.

WELCOME GIFT FOR OUR GUEST STEVE COLLINS.

PICTURES OF THE DAY.

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR.

Cannon’s,

Three full flights started on Alam Nine, with very soggy fairways and difficult greens, crossing over to the President Nine, with much better fairways but very slow greens, costing everyone many strokes. The weather was very humid and hot. Lim Hong played his third game leaving only two more games to reach paradise. Today’s winner was Jan van Driel with 36 points, the second was Martin Middleton with 35 and Ricardo closed the podium with 34 points. With these results, in the January competition standings, Iain Wise, Ricardo Castro, and Jan van Driel all with 72 points, but Iain has some advantage because for now, he scored the highest number of the two best 2 games. After over a year, Bipan Kapur finally joined us and we were happy to see him again. Next week I will be out of town, Jan will organize the game at Bkt Unggul. Happy Chinese New Year to everyone and see you guys in two weeks.

Cheers

Ricardo Castro

LC Convenor

FULL RESULTS TABLE.

WINNER PRIZE CEREMONY.

JANUARY GAMES CURRENT STANDINGS.

BAND OF RED SHIRTS.

SMOOTH MOVES, WHAT A PLAYER.

THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “BETWEEN THE SHOTS, PLAY A MOBILE GAME TO AVOID THINKING ABOUT YOUR GOLF GAME, ONLY WHEN YOU PUT ON YOUR GOLF GLOVE, THEN CAN FOCUS AGAIN ON YOUR NEXT GOLF SHOT”.

FROM OUR GOLF GURU, IAIN WISE.

OTHER FOCUSES OF THE DAY.

Cannon’s,

Back to Tasik Puteri for the second game of the year. With a much better organization from the counter to the starter, the game speed improved a lot, as now finally they starting following the tee times with a gap of 8 minuts between the flights. The weather was hot and dry, with a good fairways and greens condition. The winner today was Iain Wise with an excellent 88 for 42 points, followed by Ricardo Castro with 38 points, and in third place Jan playing his hdc with 36 points. Ricardo Castro is leading the monthly competition with 71 points, second Martin Middleton and Jan van Driel with 67 followed by Bernhard Romahn with 66, so a lot to fight on the last 2 games. Thank you to Tony Morris for his 200.00 rm contribution to the lunch and we had a nice birthday celebration. Next week, lets try KGSAAS.

Cheers

Ricardo

LC Convenor

FINAL RESULTS TABLE.

WINNER PRIZE CEREMONY.

BIRTHDAY BOYS BIRTHDAY GIFT CEREMONY.

JANUARY COMPETITION CURRENT STANDINGS.

PLAYING GOLF WITH THE PERFECT SHOES.

2025 LC SHIRTS MODELS.

OTHER PICTURES.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY MORRIS.

Cannon’s,

The first game of the year was held at Bangi, with almost four full flights. We all started on the Kajang nine and crossed to the Putrajaya nine. The weather was wet in the beginning with drizzling rain and cool temperatures, but the sun finally came out in the last hour and became quite hot. The course was reasonably good with some parts of the fairways soggy, especially on the back nine. After one year of renovation, they reopened the Putrajaya Nine, but the massive number of three cute off the course looked naked and lost all character. Helmut was the first winner of 2025 playing Bangi for the first time with a nice 37 points, second was Frans Bakker with 36, and in third place four players all with 33 points, Ricardo Castro, Josef Winter, Reinli Tan, and David Evans. After the game 10 of us rushed to East of Highway restaurant for lunch and to celebrate Josef’s birthday (better late than never), who contributed generously with 400.00 Rm to the bill. Happy New Year and see you all next Tuesday at Tasik Puteri.

Cheers

Ricardo

LC Convenor

FULL RESULTS TABLE.

WINNER PRIZE CEREMONY.

DECEMBER 2024 CHAMPION PRIZE CEREMONY.

THE FIRST TIME EVER PLAYED BANGI WITH A CUP OF COFFEE.

OTHER PICTURES.

Cannon’s

As announced last week, this morning, we visited the Kechara Soup Kitchen Society’s main office and food distribution counter. Every day, people rely on this organization for basic food to survive. Our donation of 2,500.00 rm from our 2024 contributions, will help the daily operations such as the Soup Kitchen, Food Bank, and Empowerment programs helping not only the urban homeless in the main cities (KL, JB, Penang, Melaka & Ipoh) but also all over Malaysia poor communities even reaching the Orang Asli settlements in the mountains, jungles, and rain forest areas. A big thank you to Josef Winter, the only LC member who made an effort to participate and support me in this event and learn more about this organization, and to James from Airdry. Below is a summary of Kechara’s activities and main programs as follows:

Dear Ricardo,

Pleased to meet you today and thank you for your contribution.

Kechara Soup Kitchen (“KSK”) is a non-profit organisation established in 2008 with an aim to provide food and provide basic sustenance for the homeless and the urban poor in Malaysia. Apart from Kuala Lumpur, KSK has other operating centres located in Penang, Ipoh, Bentong, Melaka and Johor with volunteers across the nation to serve the community in fulfilling our mission to assist anyone regardless of their race, religion, culture or background.

Our operations include:

• Soup Kitchen: providing fresh hot food to more than 1,300 homeless and urban poor clients every week; assisting with medical support, arranging for welfare aid, and setting up job interviews.
• Food Bank: distributing RM250 worth of dry food provisions to more than 4,000 registered families regularly; redirecting more than 4.0 million kilograms of surplus products from supermarkets to more than 179,000 underprivileged individuals so far.
• Empowerment: teaching baking and sewing skills to 150 individuals from underprivileged families, providing them with the necessary facilities and projects to become financially independent; and providing educational assistance and materials to school-going Orang Asli children.
• Alice Wong

If you want to know more about Kechara Soup Kitchen Society visit the below link:

-www.kecharasoupkitchen.com

For direct donations please see the contacts below:

-17, Jalan Barat, Off Jalan Imbi, 55100 Kuala Lumpur tel:+603 2141 6046 ksk@kechara.com

Cheers

Ricardo Castro

LC Convenor

Cannon’s,

The last game of 2024, was held at Bkt Kemuning, with four flights starting on time on hole one. The weather was nice, sunny, blue sky but we couldn’t finish the last 3 holes due to the bad weather. Lim Hong and Kevin Tucker played their second game with us, and they will earn full membership in three more games. Today’s OCB winner was Jan van Driel with 33 points, beating Iain Wise, and in third place, Lim Hong, Martin Middleton, and Roland Steiner with 31 points. The monthly winner as expected, was Martin Middleton with 78 points, second Jan van Driel and Frans Bakker with 69 followed by Tony Morris with 68 points. For the LCOTY annual competition the 2024 champion is Ricardo Castro with a total of 138 points, second Bernhard Romahn with 91, and closing the podium, Martin Middleton with 90 points. Ricardo had the most weekly victories (12), Bernhard in second with 10, and Josef Winter in third place with 4 wins. Ricardo Castro and Josef Winter had the most monthly victories, 3 each, and Jan van Driel and Martin Middleton 2 each. Roland Steiner and Ricardo Castro won the away games in Batam and JB. Five new members join the LC family, Martin Middleton, Charlie Chow, David Pearce, Jim Stevenson, and David Lake. Our LC blog registered a huge new record in Views of 10.882, (2,200 more than in 2023), and visitors of 2,537 (300 more than in 2023). We welcome to the 2025 season two new sponsors, Four Points City Center by Sheraton, and The Corksman Bar & Restaurant. Our charity project, Swing for Humanity collected a good amount on the weekly donations of 5,785.00 rm with the first donation to the Siloam House in November of 2,500.00 rm. Thank you for your donations to our charity. Overall, 2024 was an excellent year, with good average participation in the weekly games and away games with a lot of fun, friendship, and great golf. Happy New Year to all and let’s kick out 2025 in Bangy with style.

Cheers

Ricardo Castro

LC Convenor

FULL RESULTS TABLE.

WINNER PRIZE CEREMONY.

DECEMBER COMPETITION FINAL STANDINGS.

LOOSE CANNONS OF THE YEAR COMPETITION FINAL STANDINGS.

HDC Q4 2024 QUARTER TABLE RESULTS.

HDC PROGRESS FINAL STANDINGS.

UPDATED STATISTICS MASTER SHEET.

LC SYNCHRONIZATION MODE.

SHADOWS ON THE GRASS.

NO MAN’S LAND.

PICTURES OF THE DAY.