Twenty Players teed off at Templer Park as we were back in Malaysia following last month excursion to Thailand for the May Away. As ever Templer Park was in very good condition as can be seen from Stuart’s excellent photographs. We were blessed with good playing conditions with the initial sunny skies clouding over and with a gentle breeze it made for very pleasant playing conditions. The course was relatively quiet and with a two-tee box start we got away before one o’clock and we all finished before 5-15pm.

It was good to welcome our 2 guests, Dave Higate playing his second game and Derren Simpson on his first, invited by Enzo. After the game we adjourned to Tang Dynasty Restoran for food and copious quantity of Carlsberg. We were joined for dinner by Richard Moss, John Arkinstall and Andrew Robinson.

Results

The June medal winner was Clive Gordon with a score of 85 for 40 points (cut 4) moving up from his second place in April. We had 4 players all vying for second each with 38 points. After analysis Paul came fifth, Geoff fourth. It took a back 6 countback to establish that EL PRES was second winning a bottle of wine (cut 2),  and Edwin third, a sleeve of balls (cut 1).   Lowest gross went to Geoff McLaws with 80 played off the blues, a sleeve of balls.

Full results below. 

 

• NTP winner #8 :  Enzo Filoni (14.8m) to be commended for holing the putt for 5 points
• NTP winner #16 :  The man with no name at 1.8m was the closest – it was discovered by some sleuth-like detective work that this was Edwin, but as he was already in third place, it went to the next nearest, our other guest Dave Higate
• Longest drive #5 :  This went to Lim Hong with a distance of 296 yds.
•  Last birdie:  This went to our guest Derren Simpson with his birdie on the 18^th.

COTD

We had 5 nominations this month for COTD.

1. Edwin – for being the man with no name on hole 16 NTP and then blaming his flight partners for not putting his name on the record sheet.
2. Robert – for complaining he had to walk too far, blaming everyone but himself for the fact his ball was always a long way from the buggy track.
3. Paul – for leaving his range finder on the previous tee box.
4. Clive- for allowing a monkey to steal his four iron. 
5. Geoff – for chasing the monkeys away by doing a gorilla impersonation aptly demonstrated by Martin.

Geoff was the unanimous winner.

Fines 

Several honesty jugs this month, EL PRES then used some invention to fine all the Chickens for decling the across-the-water shot on the last, then fining those that were not chicken but not golfers as they failed to cross the water, the rest were also fined with the exception of the birdie man.

November Away

The next Away in November will be to Chiang Mai and will be between Monday 18th to Saturday 23 November; 4 rounds of gold Tuesday through Friday.

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Wine (Ricardo Castro)

Photos: Courtesy of  Stuart, Paul & Ricardo