‘Loose Cannons’ Northern Tour 26-29th March – (Update I)

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The following have confirmed:

1.  For 3 nights 26-29 and playing 3 or 4 rounds – Robinson, Parslow
E, Parslow J, Cousins, Vijayan.

2.  For 2 nights 27-29 and playing 3 rounds of golf – Funnell, Berger, Moss, Holm.

3.  To be confirmed – Wiggins, Morris.

4.  Not going – Keys.

So we are 9 and possibly 10 or 11.  It would be nice to get 12…….any more?

Email Andrew directly at :- andrew.robinson.golf (at) gmail.com

Next Game Berjaya Hills Golf Club – Tuesday 13th March 2012.

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Golf next Tuesday 13th March 2012 – See latest post for update!

Berjaya Hills Golf Club.

Be there by 07:30 LATEST

Lunch will be at Restoran 169 in Bukit Tinggi village.
Names to Mike Smith soonest.


Berjaya Hills is considered to be one of the most picturesque courses on the ‘Loose Cannons’ circuit. Judge for yourself!


Results for Tasik Puteri – Tuesday 6th March 2011

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After so much wet weather in KL these past two weeks it came as a nice surprise to find Tasik Puteri to be very dry with firm fairways giving plenty of run and greens in good condition. The game was played in bright sun for the most part and it was quite hot but with a cooling breeze later in the round.

Dry as a bone!
The winner with an outstanding 44 points was Ted Parslow and the runner-up with 41 points was David Hughes. The low gross was Ted’s 78 and the most golf was played by Alan Holgate with 121. Ted is cut 8 strokes and David 1 stroke.

Ted (this weeks winner) sitting beside Vincent (last weeks winner)!
That cost a 1 stroke penalty! I can see the ball but can you see the moustache? 

Condolences go to Andre Holm who suffered a groin injury with his first drive of the morning and had to retire.
Only 10 of the 18 player found their way to the Equatorial for an excellent lunch.
The NORTHERN TOUR March 27, 28, 29.
If you have not yet signed up for this please do so now to Andrew Robinson <andrew.robinson.golf (at) gmail.com>
Kuala lumpur Loose Cannons have a blog. This should not be news to you. Our BLOG has been in existence for the last 2 years but is rarely visited by Loose Cannons. Originated by Stuart Taylor and supported by Raymond Keys, these members put a lot of effort into maintaining the site. Each week this report is up-loaded together with pictures (which you don’t often get with the report) and the blog has a complete archive of all of our games played since launch. Visit http://loosecannonskl.blogspot.com/ . Use it or loose it guys.

‘Loose Cannons’ Northern Tour 26-29th March 2012

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First Announcement:
The NORTHERN TOUR details follow.

The Northern Tour is proposed for March 26-29, as follows:

Monday 26th – Taiping and drive back to Ipoh for 3 nights
Tuesday 27th – Clearwater – the regular weekly Cannons game + Monthly Medal
Wednesday 28th – Meru Valley – Day 1 of Away Comp
Thursday 29th – Meru Valley – Day 2 of Away Comp & return to KL
Option 1 – the Full 4 day/3night tour
Option 2 – Clearwater/Meru Valley 3 day/2night tour
Optioin 3 – day trip to Clearwater for the weekly game
Arrangements are to be finalised, but in the first instance please indicate if YOU WILL JOIN THE TOUR, and if so, WHAT OPTION YOU TAKE UP. 
Your early reply to ANDREW ROBINSON is appreciated!
[Note: Tour Leader – Andrew Robinson. Loyal Assitant Hans Berger.]

Results Raman Putra Golf Club 28th February 2012

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With the last minute withdrawal of Erol {(some urgent business has just come up!) code perhaps???} 19 LC’s teed it up at Rahman Putra under a cloudless sky with just the slightest breeze to help cool the otherwise hot conditions. We played Hills and the course was in excellent shape if a little soft in places, but spoilt a little by uncut tee boxes but it did have very nice greens. But there was much more to the morning than the condition of the course.

Mats on his first visit to a ‘LC’ game strolling the fairway.
Looking towards the 9th green on ‘Hills’.
Since we were last at RP misinformation and Malaysian bureaucracy has taken hold of the club. When I called them last week I was told that senior citizens had a special rate of RM56. This included GF, Buggy sharing & insurance but proof of age would be required. Fair enough. For the youngsters the guest rate would be RM108. As a result I asked all our seniors to bring along the requested proof of age. However, upon confirming our numbers as I arrived this morning I was informed that the“special senior rate” only applied to Malaysian citizens and the proof would be a MyCad. The good news however was that the walk in guest rate was RM82.50. So having explained this to the assembled LC’s I collected RM110 from everyone (except 2 members who somehow managed to pay for their GF together with their payment for 2 caddies.). So off I go to register, having filled in the 5 registration forms only to be asked for every ones handicap. OK, no problem, just a bit more bureaucracy. Of course I had to point out that 2 had already paid and was then advised that in addition to the RM82 every flight had to have one compulsory caddy. Why the fuck they couldn’t have told me this at the beginning I have no idea. And why the fuck they didn’t explain this to Jeff & Ray again I have no idea. Stupidity I suppose.
The registration process was protracted to say the least. This included amongst the other bureaucratic nonsense the laborious writing out of Bag Tags with everyones names and the equally laborious filling in of “Meal Vouchers”. These however could only be used I was informed, for Breakfast!!! Which turned out to be just as well as the next bit of nonsense was about to be thrust upon us. They don’t take CASH anymore. All F&B bills have to be paid by Credit Card!!!! John Laidley I believe, settled his RM8 bill by this means before the vouchers arrived. The mind boggles.
Eventually we got to the 1st tee only to have to wait for 2 flights of walkers to tee off and we finally got our first flight away at 8:30 and my god were these walkers SLOW.
More problems at the 3rd hole, as Vincent was about to take his second shot, a buggy pulls up along side and the female idiot from the registration desk that took the money (oh yes, money is OK for paying for the golf apparently and for the RM50 deposit for the locker key) starts waving a piece of paper and calls to me. Vincent shanks his shot into the trees. Not a happy camper. Well it tuned out that one of the RM100 notes I had given her had a corner missing and she wanted me to change it. As our lawyer pointed out to the said idiot, the serial number was undamaged and so it was perfectly good legal tender. Suffice it to say that things didn’t improve much after that and the round took 5 long hours.
The winner on this painful morning was the golf course. RP is tough as we all know but on this day it was at it’s toughest with not one of our 19 players, which included welcome guest and hopefully new member Rick Currin, the City Golf Teaching Pro, managing to play to their handicap. The winner of the February Trophy was Vincent Vijayan with 34 points + 3 bonus points and the R/U was Andre Holm with 32 points + 3 bonus points. The lowest gross was Rick’s 78 and the most golf was played by visitor Ken Oakley.
The winner looking a bit shocked as he received his trophy!

No prizes for coming second (except for a stroke cut), and rightfully looking truly pissed off!
Vincent is cut 4 strokes and Andre 1 stroke. The full horrors of the day together with your adjusted handicaps can be found on the attachment.
M&M was taken at the club and was good but it had to be paid for by CC.
As convener of Loose Cannons I will not be taking us to this venue again. There are much better places than RP. They have just lost a good customer. – Mike Smith

Can you believe your eyes? – No beer on the table!!!!
19 Players, and 2 jugs of beer consumed. Well done guys, your health and safety comes first!

Results – Lembah Beringan Golf Club – 21st February 2012

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Cannons all,

17 LC’s teed it up at a very soggy Lembah Beringin Tuesday. We had been 20 but with Mike Han pitching up Monday!!!! and late withdrawals because of a bleeding nose and work interruptions from Tony Russell and Bruce Davidson we were reduced to 17.

The weather was fine and although the course was rather busy with some visiting Koreans, a pleasant round was anticipated. What we didn’t know was that the course had been inundated overnight restricting buggies to the track for the most part and with very soft fairways (akin to a quagmire in places) and water filled bunkers (they have a serious drainage problem here) LB was a sterner and longer test than we had expected.

The winner was Ray Funnell with 39 points and the runner-up Hans Berger with 38 points. The lowest gross was 89 by Siegmund (actually Kevin Wiggins recorded 88 but his flight had unilaterally invoked Winter Rules and so their scores were not considered in the official results) and the most golf was played by Alan Holgate with 113.
Full results and handicap adjustments can be found in the attachment.

13 of us drove down to the EQUATORIAL for lunch and excellent it was too. The Scandinavian contingent missed the exit and arrived later after a detour to the Sungai Buloh exit. You will get this with great navigators.

DOESN’T LOOK GREAT, BUT THE FOOD IS EXCELLENT!

The winner; Ray, chose to eat at the club and in his absence it only seemed right that he should “generously donate” his winnings to the pot. Thank you Ray.

This was Mike Hughes & Lars Barkhed’s last game on their annual pilgrimage from the frozen north. Bon voyage guys. We hope to see you both next year.