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Next Game – Bukit Unggul Golf Resort – 18th December, 2012

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Golf next week on 18th December will be the Xmas game and will be played at Bukit Unggul. Santa hats or antlers will be the dress code and apparently Ray Funnell has a couple of additional “Xmas Surprises” lined up for us all!

Please be at the club by 7:30am for an 8:00am tee-off and indicate your attendance to Ray Funnell by e-mail or call him at 012 203 0510 as he is arranging this game.

Results – The Club @Bukit Utama – 11th December, 2012

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12 Loose Cannons showed up for this week’s game at The Club @Bukit Utama, a rather tight and challenging 9 hole course. We played the white tees on the front nine holes followed by the blue tees for the second 9 holes.With it being a Public Holiday there were a few other players on the course but we managed an efficient check-in and registration and were off at around 8am. However play was from there onwards rather slow and the round was close to being a 5 hour round had we managed to actually finish. Unfortunately a large thunder storm came in and play was suspended as the last Cannons flight had just completed the 16th hole. 
The course was a little wet but the fairways were in pretty good condition – it was only the greens that rather sadly let down the course with many in poor shape. The rough was unforgiving and should your ball have entered any of the trees on either side of most of the fairways … it was gone!
Lunch was taken at the Restoran Supertanker in the club and food was very good washed down with around 15 large bottles of cold beer. Richard Moss who didn’t play joined us for the lunch. It was decided that this game result was scratched, all handicaps to remain unchanged and the winner’s pot to go towards the lunch bill which was a hefty RM900+ figure. Much muttering about the course, the state of the greens, and the slow play etc probably means we will not be playing The Club @Bukit Utama for some time to come.

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Loose Cannons Xmas Lunch – Coliseum Cafe – 5th December 2012

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The Loose Cannons group convened at the Coliseum Cafe on 5th December at noon for their annual Xmas lunch which was well arranged by our temporary convenor, Mr Andrew Robinson. There were 11 attendees at this luncheon function and the ensuing events of the day are well documented in the following photos and video. 

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Next Game – The Club @Bukit Utama – 11th December 2012

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Next week we will play at the 9 hole course at Bukit Utama Golf Club, going round twice, and then take lunch at the on-site Supertanker Chinese restaurant.  If you want to quaff vino,  bring your own…..

Stuart Taylor and Alan McNicoll are members of the club and have organised the needful.  Lets have a big turnout and a sturdy luncheon!

Please confirm your attendance to Andrew Robinson asap.


Results – Nilai Springs Golf & Country Club – 4th December 2012

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Another good turnout saw 18 players at Nilai Springs.  The weather was most clement, the course in fine condition, if rather soft, and it was very quiet. Lunch was taken at the club – the food has improved in recent times at this club.  And there was not a drop of amber nectar
to be seen…….?

The WINNER with 86 off the stick for 43 points was Kevin Wiggins, with Ted Parslow runner-up with an 81 for 42 points. Kevin is cut 7 and Ted is cut 1.  Ted’s 81 was the lowest gross and Richard’s 125 the most gross.  Full details:

1. Kevin Wiggins – 86/43
2. Ted Parslow – 81/42
3. Dave Riggs – 94/40
4. Vincent Vijayan – 99/44
5. Julian Hodson-Walker – 94/38
6. Stuart Taylor – 95/38
7. Bernhard Romahn – 87/37
8. Andrew Robinson – 96/35
9. Geoff Parslow – 83/33
10. Hans Berger – 94/33
11. Ray Funnell – 102/32
12. Barry Cousins – 109/30
13. Siegmund Meierbruger – 97/29
14. Peter Davies – 110/28
15. Allan McNicoll – 111/28
16. Tony Morris – 99/27
17. Andre Holm – 107/25
18. Richard Moss – 125/14

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Loose Cannons Xmas Lunch – Coliseum Cafe – Thursday 6th December 2012

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THE ‘LOOSE CANNONS’ CHRISTMAS LUNCH 

will be held on Thursday 6th December at the Coliseum Restaurant in Jalan TAR. 

Address: 98 Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, 50100 Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur

Phone: 03-2692-6270












We will muster in the bar at 12.00 hrs for pre-lunch refreshments and go into lunch at 13.00hrs. 

The ‘long established’ resident chef will cater to your every need!






….. and prepare the following:-

Oxtail soup with garlic bread.

Steak pie with mash & gravy.
Desert.

Dress code is Cannons green golf shirt, or any other green golf shirt if you don’t have a Cannons shirt, and blue jeans.  Everyone to bring one bottle of decent wine! Festive hats, poppers, streamers and the like will be provided.

This luncheon is NOT for the feint hearted – you have been warned!!!

Although not absolutely compulsory, everyone will be asked to rise and ‘entertain’ the gathering with a
song, ditty, joke, or whatever for a few minutes. 

Cost will be RM50 per head with the balance of the bill coming from the ‘float’.

PLEASE let andrew.robinson.golf(at)gmail.com  know ASAP if you intend to join the fray!!

Results – Tasik Puteri Golf Club – 27th November 2012

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CANNONS AT TASIK PUTERI – 27th Nov, 2012

It was another good turnout this week with 19 Cannons gracing Tasik Puteri. Compared with KGPA the week before, check-in was a breeze. The weather was good and we were all round without a hitch. 

The winner with 90 gross and 40 points (plus 3 bonus points) was Tony Morris.  Runner-up with
93 gross and 39 points (plus 3 bonus points) was Andrew Robinson. Tony is cut 4 adn Andrew is cut 1. Tony had the lowest gross with his 90 and Allan McNicoll brought up the rear with a gross 120.  

Despite their best efforts some players ended up in the sh*t!
Even the ‘green keeper’ wouldn’t touch that one!

Full  details follow:

1. Tony Morris – 90/40
2. Andrew Robinson – 93/39
3. Ray Funnell – 94/38
4. Barry Cousins – 102/36
5. Andre Holm – 94/36
6. Kevin Wiggins – 94/34
7. Peter Davies – 100/35
8. Glen Wombwell – 105/34
9. Hans Berger – 92/33
10. Jeff Pearce – 103/32
11. Vincent Vijayan – 106/31
12. Gordon Wingate – 98/30
13. Bernhard Romahn – 93/29
14. Raymond Keys – 102/27
15. Bob Simpson – 103/27
16. Dave Riggs – 109/24
17. Julian Hodson-Walker – 111/20
18. Frank Webster – 112/16
19. Allan McNicoll – 120/14

Vincent – Man with a mission!

After the game we had lunch at Restaurant Hin Chiong on the way back to the toll and it was excellent.

Are those prawns really worth US$50?

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Results – KGPA Golf Club – 20th November 2012

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15 Cannons mustered for the weekly game at KGPA, a convenient venue that we had not played for some time. We had booked 4 flights for 8.30, the earliest time non-members can tee-off.  

The registration was a nightmare!! A rugby scrum at the desk which was manned by extremely inept and slow personnel.  Eventually getting ‘served’ I was asked to tear out the TP coupons from the 8 books proffered, to save time, said Doris No1.  So I did and then she disappeared only to be replaced by Doris No2 who told me the coupons were unacceptable as they had to tear them out of the books themselves! With my systolic blood pressure rising there was now a mini conference of Doris 1, 2 and 3.  And after some delay they said OK.  But Glens coupon was rejected as the bottom left hand corner of the coupon was missing!  So retrieving Glens book I tore out the missing corner and there was another mini Doris conference to confirm that this scrap of paper was indeed the missing corner?  Eventually approval was granted, by which time there were about a dozen others in the queue behind me. And then all the serial numbers on the coupons had to be carefully recorded on the flight chits.  And then all the assorted driving license, passports and so on for the remaining 7  Cannons had to be carefully added to the chits to obtain the ‘package rate’.  And then the whole lot had to be carefully fed into the computer……!!  Registration took 40 minutes, by which time flights were backed up on the starting blocks.  We got underway by 9.30 and finished some 5 hours later! On the positive side the weather was good and the course was in pretty fair nick considering the amount of rain of late. But it will be a long time before KGPA features again on the Cannons schedule.

13 of us made our way to the annexe for lunch – or was it high tea or early dinner?  Ray and Paul having had to rush off to important meetings.. The food was good when it arrived and a fair wack of beer/wine was knocked back.  Tony managed to have 2 meals – a mee mamak adn an unclaimed fish & ships.  And the germano-scandinavian axis tucked into hideous looking banana splits after their main course.


And then the plaintive cry went out…..’LISTEN UP!!’  And it was time to announce the winners.  Ray Funnell with 100 off the stick and 36 points edged Tony Morris, 95 off the stick for 36 points, OCB,  Well done Ray, you are cut 4 and Tony is cut 1. The lowest gross was Geoff McLaws with 86 and Allan McNicoll wrestled back the most golf played accolade with a solid 108. Full details as follows:


1. Ray Funnell – 100/36
2. Tony Morris – 95/36
3. Gordon Wingate – 95/33
4. Stuart Taylor – 98/33
5. Glen Wombwell – 106/33
6. Allan McNicoll – 108/33
7. Bernhard Romahn – 90/32
8. Kevin Wiggins – 95/32
9. Jeff Pearce – 101/32
10. Andrew Robinson – 100/31
11. Geoff McLaws – 86/30
12. Hans Berger – 96/28
13. Raymond Keys – 104/26
14. Paul Jeyaraj – DNF

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