Two full flights started before 8:00 am on hole # 10 with overcast sky but very humid with heavy rain on holes 5 and 6, but we were able to finished the round with wet fairways and greens. The winner today was Steve Collins with a solid 95 for 36 points, followed by Bernhard Romahn also with a solid 88 for 35 points, and in third place was Hans Berger (maybe he drank the very special Spanish wine from Banting) with a nice 119 for 32 points. With these results Bernhard is now leading the monthly competition with a strong 75 points, followed by Steve Collins with 70 and in third place with a nice number is Ricardo with 69 points. Lunch at Fei Chuai restoran with special dishes to celebrate Marc’s birthday and he donated a generous contribution of 400.00rm to the bill, receiving a nice box of balls as a birthday gift. See you guys at Bkt Kemuning.
Cheers
Ricardo Castro
LC Convener
FINAL RESULTS TABLE.
THE WINNER SHOWING HIS HAPPINESS.
BIRTHDAY BOY GIFT CEREMONY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARC WITH MANY HAPPY RETURNS.
Fourteen LC members celebrated one more Christmas lunch at Four Points KL City Center hotel (Our 2025 sponsor) with glamour, friendship, happiness and a lot of fun. All arrived on time, except Hans Berger (fined 50.00 rm) at R bar for a couple of welcome drinks, virgin ceremony to Steven Collins, Marc Louette as a new members and Markus Nijmeijer as the first Christmas lunch) and Iain Wise as the wine expert, checked the crappiest bottle of wine with the winner fine of 50.00 rm went to Hans Berger with a “Spanish wine bottle” produced in Banting, Malaysia. A big thank you for our sponsor who offers a bigger room (Garden room), much bigger with a nice and well decorated Christmas table with a nice buffet and a special Christmas lunch set menu. The food was excellent specially the tenderloin (thank you to Bipan Kapur) accompanied with great service. Ricardo Castro open the formalities with a big thank you to all the LC members, and distributed the 2025 season summary report with all the numbers and a Christmas goodie bags with some gifts, including the 2026 shirts. After, our honorary member Andrew Robinson said some words about the beginning of the Loose Cannons society and we made a special toast to the members who have passed away, because they will never be forgotten. After some great food and drinks, and following the tradition, everyone have to say a joke or sing a song, and I must say this year we had a quite a strange jokes and funny presentations, maybe we all are getting older. Thanks again for your support, Merry Christmas to everyone extended to the families, and may the force be with you.
Cheers
Ricardo Castro
Convener
PREPARATION AND GOODIE BAGS.
THE VIRGINS CEREMONY IN PICTURES.
THE WINNER FOR THE CRAPPIEST WINE WENT TO HANS BERGER WITH A “SPANISH WINE” PRODUCED IN BANTING, MALAYSIA.
Back to one of the best courses in town for a nice round of golf. Seven players started on tee box one before 8:00 am, with a nice blue sky and sunny day. The course was in good condition with fair greens. Today’s winner was Ricardo Castro with an excellent 77 for 37 points, second was Steve Collins with a solid 98 for 34 points, and in third place was Jan van Driel with a nice 94 for 33 points. After two games Ricardo is now leading the monthly competition with 69 points, followed by Steve with 66 and Martin Belderink with 64 points. Lunch at the club due the low numbers and Jan welcomed Charlie Chow. See you guys next week at Impian.
Last month of the year and Bangi was the course to play and start December games with style. With 2 flights starting on Putrajaya nine and 2 on Kajang nine we had a fast and smooth pace all morning. The weather was overcast, hot and humid, with very good fairways and nice greens. The winner was Bernhard Romahn with a excellent 83 for 40 points, second was Marvin Gan with a solid 85 for 38 points, and in third place was Iain Wise with a nice 99 for 33 points. We celebrated Jan’s birthday with a nice lunch at East of Highway and he contributed with 200.00rm to the bill. See you guys next week at Bkt Jalil.
The last game of November was held at Amverton Cove course with overcast sky full of dark clouds all morning but luckily no rain and off course very humid. We’ve had a lot of rain over the last two days, but surprisingly the course was in good conditions to play, and we had a very nice and pleasant round of golf. Today’s winner was Siggy with a fantastic 90 for 39 points, followed closely by Ricardo Castro with the lowest gross of 75 for 38, was not enough to beat Siggy score, and in third place Jim with a solid 96 for 35 points. With this final results, Jim Stevenson is the November champion with a nice 78 points, second was Ricardo Castro with 73 and in third place Tony Morris and Siggy booth with 32 points. For the LCPOTY competition Ricardo increase is distance to the second place with 156 points, Jan van Driel holf for now the second position with 76 points and Bernhard moved close to Jan now with 72 points. Christpoh Hobtitsch played is second game with us. One more month to close 2025 and the first game of December will be at Bangi.
Cheers
Ricardo Castro
LC Convener
FULL RESULTS TABLE.
THE WINNER CELEBRATING HIS VICTORY.
NOVEMBER MONTHLY COMPETITION FINAL STANDINGS.
LCPOTY CURRENT STANDINGS.
FIRST TEE SHOT ACTION FOR OUR GUEST CHRISTOPH.
PICTURES OF THE DAY.
CONGRATULATIONS TO JOSEF WINTER, OUR LC IRON MAN TO HIS FANTASTIC RESULT AT THE LAGUNA PHUKET TRIATHLON INTERNATIONAL EVENT. OUT OF 350 PARTICIPANTS, JOSEF FINISHED IN 181st WITH A FANTASTIC MARK OF 03:51:16, BEATING MANY YOUNG ATHLETES, ON THE MALE GROUP HE FINISHED IN 149th PLACE, OUT OF 287, AND OUT OF 13 HE FINISHED IN 4th PLACE IN HIS AGE GROUP (60 to 69) UNDER FOUR HOURS, IMPROVING AND PULVERIZING HIS TIME FROM LAST YEAR BY 9 MINUTES. WITH THIS IMPROVEMENT I AM CERTAIN THAT JOSEF HAS ALREADY BEGUN PREPARING FOR THE 2026 EVENT TO IMPROVE UPON THIS RESULT. WELL DONE JOSEF.
Rainy morning at Nilai specially the first 3 holes, but after the storm came the bonanza with cool and fresh air, and we finished the round with a hot sun, but very humid weather. We started on the Island nine hole 16 (flights 2 & 3) and hole 17 (flight 1), crossing over to the Pines nine. The fairways were playable except the first 3 holes (16, 17 & 18) on the Island nine, they were very soggy, and under the conditions the greens were quite nice. Hans Berger and Fritz Katzengruber abandoned the game after the first 3 holes due the poor weather and course conditions. We welcomed two guests (Siggy friends from Austria), Bernd Loibnegger and Christoph Hobitsch, and they got 1 LC sleeves of balls each as a welcome gift. Today’s winner was Reinli Tan with a solid 102 for 37 points, bernhard Roamhn ws second with a nice 88 for 34 points, and Ricardo Castro finished the podium with 33 points scoring the lowest gross of the day (80). With these results, Jim Stevenson is now the leader of the Monthly competition with 73 points. followed by Tony Morris with 72 and in third place is Ricardo with 68 points. So all open to the final game next week at Amverton Cove.
The second game of November, was played at Bkt Unggul club with hot weather, short rain, and finishing the round with hot sun. The course was playable with slow and sandy greens on the first nine (1-9). Today’s winner was Jim Stevenson with an excellent 88 for 43 points, second was Tony Morris with a solid 90 for 38 points, and in third place Hans Berger with a nice 114 for 36 points. With these results Tony Morris is now leading the monthly competition with a solid 72 points, followed by Fritz Katzengruber with 66 and Iain Wise with 65 points. After the game 5 of us rushed to the East of Highway restaurant to celebrate in style Josef’s birthday who contributed with 300.00 to the bill. We all wish to our Iron man, Josef Winter good luck to the Laguna Phuket Triathlon event at the end of this month. See you guys next week at Nilai Springs.
What a great way to kick off the November competition, playing Tasik nine and Puteri nine. The course was in good condition with nice fairways and well maintained greens. Today’s winner was Fritz Katzengruber with a nice 96 for 35 points, beating OCB Ricardo Castro and David Cheung. We celebrated the convener’s birthday with a gift and Ricardo sponsored 200.00 rm to the bill. Siggy got a Ipoh shirt and cap as a gratitude for his non stop support to our society and Martin Belderink got his deserved gift to commemorate his 200 games miles stone. Fritz received his deserved champion prize to celebrate his October monthly performance.
Cheers
Ricardo Castro
LC Convener
FINAL RESULTS TABLE.
THE WINNER HAPPY WITH HIS PERFORMANCE.
BIRTHDAY BOY GIFT CEREMONY.
THE OCTOBER CHAMPION PRIZE CEREMONY.
GRATITUDE GIFT CEREMONY TO OUR SPONSOR. THANK YOU SIGGY FOR YOUR SUPPORT TO OUR SOCIETY.
200 GAMES GIFT CEREMONY. WELL DONE MARTIN BELDERINK.
The last game of October was played at one of the most hated golf courses in KL, either because it’s to soggy or wet, or because the greens aren’t fair, or because the pin position is ridiculous, or because the hole # 2 has a very strange layout, or because it’s to dry and maybe because the quality of the grass, or maybe the sunrise is not so nice comparing to other courses. These are the excuses for some of our high-level members give, which Danau not meeting such quite high expectations. Any way I always enjoy to play Danau and I believe most of us have the same feeling. The course was dry with playable fairways and yes the greens were very fast with difficult pin positions, but gentleman that is the beauty of golf, playing different courses with different challenges, different layouts, different greens speed etc…etc….etc….making these difficult challenges easier to overcame, appreciate the moment, and think about how lucky we are to be able to play golf every week regardless of the golf course. Back to the main subject, the winner today was Ricardo Castro beating OCB Roland Steiner (92/33) with a solid 79 for 33 points, and in third place was Fritz Katzengruber with a nice 98 for 32 points. With these final results Fritz are the October champion with 71 points, followed by Ricardo with 69 (nice number) and in third place Roland with 67 points. For the LCPOTY and only two months to finish 2025 Ricardo solidified the first place now with 142 points, second still Jan with 76 and Bernhard is now third with 66 points. Diederik paid a visit from Singapore and hope see you soon again. We also celebrated Helmut Dicknoether birthday with a nice box of balls and he contributed with 200.00 rm to the bill. Lunch was good with excellent food and thank you again to Chia for helping me to organize the dishes in advance and secure the private room. It was a very intense and interesting month with our trip to Ipoh, and lets end the years beautifully.
Cheers
Ricardo Castro
LC Convener
FULL RESULTS TABLE.
DANAU’S WINNER PICTURE.
FINAL OCTOBER COMPETITION STANDINGS TABLE.
LCPOTY CURRENT STANDINGS TABLE.
BIRTHDAY BOY GIFT CEREMONY.
REINLI ENJOYING HIS NAP WITH AN EFFICIENT PACIFIER.
SO STYLISH AND GRACIOUS, BUT FORGOT TO HIT THE BALL.
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