Our second away of the year was a trip to Bangkok 19^th to 24^th November the city had not been visited in over 10 years. Seven players joined the official tour flight, Jimmy only discovering that he was on the ½ half later flight when he was at the airport. Only a minor mistake – others in the past having booked for the wrong, day/month and even one of our guys landing in Chiang Rai instead of Chiang Mai. The tour hotel of Taipan was conveniently located close to Sukhumvit and the main commercial district. Twenty One tourists plus resident fitness coach Richard Moss met at the Corner Bar shortly after 6pm on the Monday evening to renew acquaintances. The tentacles of KLOGS seem to reach further and further and it was good to have 2 new guests both based in Hua Hin – Lars Faerch from Denmark and an Irishman John Callaghan. Other frequent away specialist were also in force David, Frank, Gary, Richard, Colm and Ron. An early night enjoyed by all ready for the next day’s golf.

1st Day – Monthly KLOGS Medal – Summit Windmill Golf and Country Club

After an eventful bus journey, much of it in reverse and repeated U-turns we eventually arrived at our venue Summit Windmill Golf and Country Club for the November Game still in good time. Under clear skies we teed off on what proved to be a challenging course. The course was in good condition but had water on nearly every hole.

Results

After finally being embarrassed to stump up his membership fees earlier on the bus with the inducement of an extra shot Tony Morris was the day’s winner with a score of 95 for 34 points cut 4, he was astounded at this as this severely curtailed his chances of his main objective the money game. Second was Geoff McLaws 81 also for 34 points cut 2 and 3^rd Tom Holmes 93 for 32 points cut 1.

NTP winner hole 2 : Ricardo
NTP winner hole 4 : Tom
NTP winner hole 12 : Frank
NTP winner hole 17 : No one – All fined 100 baht
Lowest gross : Gary 89 (Geoff already taking second place)
Last birdie : can’t remember

COTD

There were 3 nominations for this initial award :

1. Geoff McLaws for bringing his Baileys from home but forgetting to take it out of his carry on and place it into his hold luggage. He then had the option of leaving it in a locker in KLIA2 but this works out more expensive than the cost of the Baileys so has to place it in the liquid bin at airport security and then buy another one 50 yards later from duty free.
2. Tony renews his membership on the bus with a promise of 1 more stroke and promptly wins the trophy game resulting in a cut of 4 for the money games.
3. El Pres for organising a bus driver who went down several back alleys that were way too small for a coach to fit and for failing to issue every flight with their tape measures for the NTP.

The winner was EL PRES an easy decision.

On the bus back to Bangkok the fines master Martin did his rendition and boosted the Klogs WHIP, followed by the draw for the Horse and Jockey.

 

2nd Day – 1^st Day of 2Day Competition – Subhapruek Golf Club translated as Superpr*ck

The bus journey on day 2 was far less adventurous, The guide and driver having mastered the simple left, left and left again to get out of soi 23 and on to the main road. After team photo attended by nearly all we teed off ahead of time and we all finished by before 3-30pm.

Results

The scoring on day 2 was much improved with Roger McGowan shooting an excellent 94 for 42 points closely followed by Pietro on 40 points, Richard Green 39 and Tom on 38 points. Bernie was in last place. 39).   Full results below :-

NTP winner 1st Nine hole 2 : No One
NTP winner 2nd Nine hole 14 : Stan – 2m
For winning day 1 Roger got a hat and shirt from the Pro Shop

COTD – Nominations for this award :

1. Stan for completely failing to understand HCPs even though Tom explained it to him 3 times. On hole 16 he was claiming a 5 for 2 points. ‘No’ says Tom ‘It’s a 5 for 1, you have a HCP of 15’ ‘Yes’ says Stan ‘I get strokes on holes 16, 17 and 18’
2. Roger for panicking when the bus leaves the golf course and tries to get the coach driver to turn round and collect his clubs even though they were already on the bus and Roger for taking 5 minutes and 6 attempts to finish the winner’s jug.
3. Geoff McLaws for complaining about the continuous whips being collected. This was after he had to borrow money from Jimmy to pay for his caddy and then had to buy a shirt from the club shop as he had forgotten to bring a clean one to change into.

The winner was Geoff.

 

3rd Day – 2nd Day of 2 Day Competition – Subhapruek Golf and Country Club

For the second day of the competition EL Pres decided the field would play off the longer gold tees.

Results

The change in tee box resulted in only 4 players scoring better than on the previous day. The majority found the longer course and maybe that this was now day 3 a handicap. One player however came from last on day 1 to first on day 2 and scored an impressive 41 points – as Stan would say it appens. This was however not sufficient to overtake Roger who managed to hang on to 1^st place with a second – round score of 32 points for an overall score of 74points. Runner up was Ricardo with a two-day total of 66.

Full results below:

Day 2 – Winner Berni Schobert 41 points – sleeve of balls
NTP winner 1^st Nine hole 6 : Can’t remember 2^nd Nine hole 16: Richard 2.7m

The winners of the Horse & Jockey competition were Roger ridden by Enzo for 1^st (6,300 baht each)and Gary ridden by Pietro for 16^th (4,100 baht each) (Tony Morris’s manipulation placed him in 17^th place).

COTD

There were 5 nominations for this:

1. Tony for trying so hard to finish 16^th and collect the money only to score 1 point to many and finish 17^th
2. El Pres for changing to gold tees and seeing only 4 people improve their score
3. John for being so well prepared for on course drinking that he brings his own glass
4. Gary for stealing somebody else’s KLOGS shirt
5. The easy winner was Gary for stealing Lars wallet in a bar. He finds it in his pocket 30 minutes later in a relaxation centre but cannot be bothered to leave the establishment and find Lars so continues with his relaxation. The police were involved and he gave his wife’s number instead of his own in relation to the incident.

Later that evening all 18 players and fitness coach Richard attended Cabbages and Condoms a famous Bangkok Thai Restaurant owned by the former Health Minister of Thailand widely acclaimed for promotion of contraception into the country and responsible for the birth rate averaging at around 2 children. Thailands population has remained static for the last 30 years.

A good set menu washed down with ample quantities of beer were enjoyed by all

4th Day – Team Scramble – Panya Indra A & C

The course proved to be rather busy, possibly due to the night before being Loy Krathong a Thai festival where hand-made Krathongs, made from banana tree trunk and banana leaves, held together with pins, and decorated with flowers and lanterns are floated on water.

The 21 players were split into 4 teams of four and a jumbo team of five players. Progress was annoyingly slow with waiting on every hole. The round was finished in just short of 6 hours. Expectedly most players were a little worse for wear including some of the caddies who managed to drink more beer than their players.

Results

All 5 teams were separated by only 4 shots vindicating EL PRES’s team selections!!!, The top 3 teams all shot 70 – 2 under par. After complicated count-back the winners were the the jumbo team of 5 players Geoff, Stan, Enzo, Roger and Jimmy.

Second was the team of Gary,Tom, Richard and Allan. -2,100 Baht each

COTD

There were 4 nominations for this:

 

1. El Pres for picking a big hitter in every flight but his own and for picking the scramble flights and coming last
2. Ricardo for discovering on the last day that his clubs had been damaged on the flight over resulting in his 4 and 6 irons being bent out of shape and playing with them for 4 days without noticing.
3. Frank for being a peeping Tom
4. The winner, taking away a sure fire win for El Pres just before the voting was Tom for berating El Pres for hitting onto the green on a par 3. ‘What is the maniac doing?’ exclaims Tom ‘Can’t he see we are putting?’ He then gets assurance from his caddy that this hole is definitely not a ‘call on’ hole. ‘No No’ says his caddy ‘ No call on here’ There was an enormous sign behind the tee box stating ‘CALL ON HOLE’ that Tom somehow didn’t see

COTT

The COTT voting was a brief affair with Gary Cooney, quite rightly, taking the honours for his thieving of Lars wallet and then not doing anything about it and continuing with his evening as if nothing had happened.

He is now known as ‘Fingers Coney’

 

The various prize winners received sleeves of balls courtesy of Renaissance Hotels (thanks to Robert Frager) and Liberty Travel.

Fines & Honesty Jugs

 There were numerous jugs on this tour, along with those dealt out by the Fines Master (Martin) who was in fine form, penalising numerous people for various misdemeanors.

Thanks

 To Ricardo for taking care of the Money, for Tom assisting with the Scribe role, Martin for acting as Fines Master and to El Pres for his organization of the tour. Lastly to the overseas participants for joining the tour.

Condolences

The whole group sends their condolences to our Scribe Dave who had to scratch at the 11^th hour following the passing of his mother. As a sign of respect a minute’s silence was held on the bus on day 1.

 

Sponsors

 

Our sponsors are a main reason that we can play at good golf courses
and award members with trophies, attractive prizes as well as “KLOGS”
signature golf balls. In order to show our appreciation we encourage
members to support our sponsors.

Wine (Richard Rodwell): 

sales@winesdirect.com.my

Golf Balls

www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/kulrn-renaissance-kuala-lumpur-hotel

robert.frager@renaissancehotels.com

AWAYS:

www.liberty-travel.net/ simon@libertygolf.com.my

 

Photos : courtesy of your Bernie, Pietro Ricardo. Visit the blog (soon) for more photos.