The November 2021 game was held at the challenging Rahman Putra Golf Club – Lakes course.
With a few regulars away on their jolly’s we were a compact 12 today. We welcomed Tony Lynch returning for his second game with KLOGS today, unfortunately soon to depart for the Philippines.
The club was a complete nightmare to deal with and put back our 8 am booking to 8:37. They then proceeded to cancel our booked set lunch, advising it would be easier for them if we ordered ala carte! (Malaysian logic).
After a fair bit of rain which eventually stopped at 8:15, the siren went off to open the course at 8:40. The club in their wisdom instead of pushing all flights back, decided to cancel all pre-siren flights and requested we all re-join the queue and rebook for a 9 hole only game. It was complete chaos. That clearly was not going to happen! and after some forceful ‘discussion’ they agreed to allow us to play as booked but basically after all the members, who had jumped in our allocated buggies, got away! We eventually got off at 9:35. We won’t be back any time soon.
The course was in good nick and the greens on the second nine running fast despite the rain although the bunkers were pretty wet and proved a challenge.
The first flight off ten were waiting to tee off when one of their flight realized he had no clubs, fortunately the caddy was spared for not putting the clubs on as requested. Clubs were soon located at the Drop off point. After sculling one not-so-cold beer found in the bag, he eventually teed off just on time!
As expected, the golf was slow but enjoyable for most of the players! Unfortunately, the halfway huts accepted only member payment to account, so beer drinking on course was somewhat curtailed. That said, remembering an absent KLOGGERS RP membership number, El Pres found a work around! Cheers Pietro!
After an enjoyable game, ‘for most’, we reconvened at the Drop zone, or as the club stated in their confirmation email the ‘Drip’ zone. They must have known the forecast. Anyway, shock horror they had forgotten to book the room, as discovered by Ricardo when he went to drop off the wine. The shambolic performance of the club continued with half of the bruschetta starters arriving after we had finished soup and main courses, and with several players being told they had run out of soup, but were later offered the soup that hadn’t run out whilst eating their mains.
Anyway, to make up for it a number of banana splits and tiramisus were consumed, along with the usual few jugs and some nice wine!
Results
For most, the scoring was tough, with a fair few wet lay’s before the greens, a high tally of chunks was endured! The winner with a great score, considering the conditions of 91 for 37 points (cut 4) was Thomas Stadler, apparently single putting several greens. Unfortunately, his beer drinking performance was less impressive, it taking him 4 or 5 attempts to drink the winner’s mug! Second place went to Helmut Dicknoether with 102 for 31 points cut 2 and third was Bernd Kaiser 91 for 30 (cut 1).
Full results below
COTD
There was a not a lot to report re the COTD, the undisputed winner taking the title before a ball had been struck!
Yes it was the plonker who tried to play without his clubs and considering his first nine he would have been better without them! Taking the prize unchallenged and by a unanimous decision it was El Pres, who accepted the sleeve of ball graciously and then proceeded to show Thomas how to drink a beer!
Fines
There were 4 jugs today and one failure to submit a card along with two phone abuse fines.
Next Game
Wednesday 15th December at Templer Park followed by Christmas lunch at Chalet Suisse
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.
Golf Balls
2020-2021 were supplied by http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/kulrn-renaissance-kuala-lumpur-hotel Thanks Robert Frager
With special thanks to Sigy Maierbrugger who has procured the Golf balls for 2021-2022
Wine,
Thanks to Ricardo for supplying wine and the prize for second place
AWAYS:
http://www.liberty-travel.net/ simon@libertygolf.com.my
