The April game was held at the popular Staffield Country Resort which, as always, was in very good condition. 26 players including 3 guests (Wayne, Hakan & Chin Hong) teed-off from the Western & Northern nines. Unfortunately, although there were few other players out on the course, there was one very slow four ball who tee’d off in front of Flights 1-4 so those groups were delayed throughout; eventually the four ball dropped out at hole #13 so two flights played through but then the four ball cut back in again (apparently having stopped for prayers), so further delayed the final two flights. They then encountered heavy rain and traffic so arrived well after the others at the restaurant. Flights 5-7 had no delays so all finished quickly.
The weather was initially sunny & hot, then later became more overcast and cooler.
The players then adjourned northwards to the trusty East of Highway restaurant, some arriving an hour ahead of the final groups. We were joined for dinner by Richard Moss. The (good) food was selected by El Pres (thanks, Iain) accompanied by numerous bottles of beer, plus some good wines provided by RICHARD RODWELL (our sponsor for the wine prize).
Results
The April medal winner by a clear margin was Ron Linden, with a score of 91 for 45 points (cut 9). Second with 94 for 42 points was Stan C (cut 2) with Paul Geddes third with 83 for 41 (cut 1).
Full results below.
NTP winner 1st nine : Juerg Stoll (2.43m)
NTP winner 2nd nine : None (the only contenders having won other prizes)
Longest drive : Edwin Ferner (253m)(Niall drove 293m (!) but had another prize)
Lowest gross : Niall Murray (78)
Last birdie : Allan Wright (17th)
COTD
We had 6 nominations this month for COTD.
Juerg, Hans, Helmut, Martin & another – for arriving late at the restaurant
Juerg – for wanting to be driven to his car by buggy because of the rain
Allan – for not driving him !
Martin – for forgetting his fine
STAN – for hitting a caddy twice with his ball, and nearly hitting Geoff
Enzo’s caddy – for amusing remarks on Enzo’s play
Stan was unanimously voted as COTD (having successfully deflected the award to others on 2-3 previous occasions)
Fines
Three players failed to pass the ladies tee – Dave, Martin & Helmut. Plus numerous other fines for various misdemeanors.
May Away
El Pres highlighted that we currently have 18 people registered for the Vung Tau Away in May; more are welcome
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.
Photos : Courtesy of Victor (thanks) & your scribe
The March game was held at the very popular Staffield Country Resort which, as always, was in very good condition. With one player missing (Ricardo, apparently with passport issues ?), 19 players including a couple of returning KLOGers – Peter Kenyon & John Arkinstall – and 3 guests (Edwin, Helmut & Siegfried) were ready to tee-off from the Western & Northern nines. Unusually, there were few other players out on the course so the groups were able to tee-off early and with no delays, some groups made very good time.
The weather was initially sunny & hot, then later became sunny & very hot, causing a number of players including your scribe to flag in the heat. However, it was good to actually finish a KLOGs round this time, the last two events being rained off towards the end.
The players then adjourned northwards to the trusty East of Highway restaurant, some arriving an hour ahead of the final stragglers. The (good) food was selected by El Pres (thanks, Iain) accompanied by numerous bottles of beer, plus some good wines provided by RICHARD RODWELL (our sponsor for the wine prize). RICARDO did not play but was there in spirit(s), have kindly delivered a further 6 bottles of wine carried over from the previous month.
Results
The March medal winner by a clear margin was Enzo Filoni, with a score of 43 points (cut 7); Enzo shrugged off the heat to finish with 23 points on the second nine. Tied at 39 points so settled on count-back were Ron Linden (cut 2), Geoff McLaws (cut 1) and Robert Frager (uncut). (Notably, our guest, Siegfried posted the 2nd highest score at 41)
NTP winner western : Siegfried Glanznig
NTP winner northern : None (the only contenders having won other prizes)
Longest drive : Iain Wise (Enzo having won overall)
Lowest gross : Robert Frager (Geoff having placed 3rd)
Last birdie was John Arkinstall
Richard Duxbury was presented with a sleeve of balls, as well as getting the best value from his round. Richard also won the lucky draw – a free round for 4 at Kota Permai donated by KPGCC as compensation for the buggy / caddy issues at the last game.
COTD
We had 5 nominations this month for COTD.
Pietro for declaring the course “easy off the whites”
Enzo for his efforts with the tape measure while trying to measure his longest drive – measuring off ~45m with a 30m tape measure from the 200m line, rather than measuring back from the 250m line
Helmut for driving off across water to completely the wrong green, then hitting a bunker near the same green, but then hitting out of the bunker to the correct green and stopping within a metre of the flag
Bernie – for not telling Helmut his mistake !
Your scribe, for jumping into the wrong buggy on a few occasions
Enzo was unanimously voted as COTD
Barry Cousins made a bid to chair the dinner and brought his own (see photo below) !
Fines
Two players failed to pass the ladies tee – Andrew & Helmut (the ball technically passed the ladies tee but hit a tree, and returned to sender)
Your scribe was also fined for telephone abuse on Hole #1 but in mitigation, he was taking a returned call from Ricardo explaining why he was not present (Ricardo – you owe me !)
May Away
El Pres highlighted that we currently have 14 people registered for the Chiang Mai Away in May; more are welcome
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.
Photos
Our two professional photographers (Stuart & Ricardo) being elsewhere, the less artistic photos below were provided by your scribe
The dirty dozen braved the elements for the September game which was played at Staffield Golf and Country Resort. Considering the prolonged rain the course was in remarkably good condition. With only 3 flights and the course empty we teed off in persistent drizzle shortly after 1:00pm and got round at a leisurely pace and were all back at the club house before 6-00pm Dinner was taken at the Restoran East of Highway near to the Sungai Besi toll, all players arriving in good time before 7-00pm. As usual a good meal accompanied by some excellent red wine was enjoyed by all. It was good to welcome back Andrew Robinson after his extended stay in the UK. Also pleasing to see Allan McNicoll back on holiday from South Africa and a warm welcome to Franz, hope to be seen on a regular basis.
The results of the day were as follows:
1st – The Scribe Iain Wise 92 for 42 points (cut 6).
2nd – Allan McNicoll 95 for 40 points (cut 2). (Allan kindly donated his bottle of wine to the group)
3rd – Mike Smith 95 for 38 points ocb (cut 1) sleeve of balls
NTP front nine – sleeve of balls – Allan McNicoll NTP back nine – sleeve of balls Richard Moss
(Both NTP’s being won by being the only shots on the green and both at over 50 feet from the pin a new
record.)
Longest Drive – Enzo Filini 222m – sleeve of balls Lowest gross – Stuart Taylor 86 sleeve of balls
Last Birdie –was awarded to Barry Cousins for having a par free round
There was one jug – Richard Rodwell.
Fines – Inventive
Allan McNicoll Iain Wise for artificial knee enhancements -20Rm.
Andrew Robinson & Robert Frager for incorrect scorecard returns -20Rm.
Enzo – fee for arranging his flight 50Rm.
Robert Frager for e-mailing the scribe to check whether the game was still on 20Rm.
Ron Lindon -20Rm as down payment in case he was fined.
The full results being:
COTD nominations:-
Stuart Taylor for an air shot on the 10th hole
Richard Rodwell for taking too long to nominate Stuart Taylor
All Kloggers for at sometime matching the photo and being Sh1t on the Green
Stuart Taylor for not understanding the output from a swiftlet farm
After a rigged vote Stuart Taylor was awarded COTD making it a hatrick of Kloggs awards over the last 3 months. Well done Stuart
The November away will be held in Kanchanaburi Thailand (Bridge on the River Kwai) 18th to 22nd November 2015. Twelve players confirmed to date, plenty space for more however due to Thai holidays hotel rooms are short so contact El Pres promptly if you wish to go. El Prez will be back with us next month.
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.
The August KLOGS event was held at the perennial favourite Staffield. all played at this course many times. The enjoyment of playing at this venue never wanes due to the Western and Southern Nines was great with sometimes gusting winds. overseas we had in as “Moneybags” and registration went soothly allowing for a timely start.
The final scores were evenly split between those playing a sub enjoyed more golf. Stuart Taylor tore up amazing round. The results of the day’s proceedings
1st place: Stuart Taylor 90 gross 44 points cut 8
2nd place: Klaus Kretzschmar 92 gross 39 points cur 2
3rd place: Rick Brown 104 gross 32 points cut 1*
*Tough luck Rick. Richard Parr was 3rd on points but as a guest can’t be on the winner’s list.
NTP front nine: no one
NTP back nine: Stuart Taylor (
Longest Drive: John Arkinstall with 234 meters
Last Birdie: John Preston
Lowest Gross: Des Hassan 87
The results are as follows:
We had an excellent dinner at the club which was marred only by the fact that our absent Moneybags had (again!) not made arrangements for the wine. The backlog of those who are owed a bottle is ever increasing.
El Pres stared his spiel by welcoming the three guests. He then gave a blow by blow account why our sponsors could not attend. We are however as always very grateful to the sponsors being Ye Old Club House, Wines Direct, City Golf and Robert Frager.
The November Away is firming up and the destination will almost certainly be Siem Riep.
The call for COTD nominations yielded four nominations:
John Preston: For attempting to increase the day’s fees
Karl Muir: For making a fashion statement with his Calvin Klein briefs (as an aside the German word “klein” means small)
Stuart Taylor: Klaus walking in front of Stuart dropped his glove. Stuart bent down to retrieve pick up the glove. A surprised cry ensued when to Allan McNicoll bumped into the bent over Stuart. You get the picture.
Klaus Kretzschmar: For allegedly stealing Allan’s honour on some tee box
Stuart was crowned COTD (although Allan did have a share in this)
A total of 17 showed up at Staffield which included two guests – Phillipe Hammon and either V. J. Chan or Vincent Vijayan or Vincent Chan or ?????. I never did get that properly sorted. Karl Muir was reportedly hoping to be there but it appears duty called and he had to maintain the appearance of work. We have it from reliable unknown sources that it had nothing to do with being lost or having a non-operating and/or overly complicated GPS.
New Serving Area
Staffield is a very good golf course that is always well maintained. They have remodeled the serving area at a minimum expense to members and, of course, had two tables arranged for our lunch.
Unfortunately the food was a bit late in arriving after a firm reminder from member and V.P. John Preston. It consisted of rice (which was OK), noodles (ordinary) and deep fried chicken parts.
While most of our esteemed members were on the practice tee, putting green or in the pro shop trying to find something magical to cure a slice/hook, the course was being given it’s final trimming before our assault as Money Bags continued to squeeze anyone in the vicinity.
A Final Haircut before the AssaultKLOGS Ah Long at work
It then became known that there was a potential “situation” brewing. It appears Somebody Veryimportant had called the day before and arranged a competition. KLOGS management went to war with Staffield management but we were sorely out numbered.
Their Buggies EverywhereOur sidelined little buggies
After some fierce negotiating it was agreed KLOGS would start before Somebody Veryimportant’s competition. However, it was to be a Mini-Shotgun Start – whatever the Hades that is. Flight No. 1 proceeded to the 3rd hole, Flights 2 and 3 proceeded to the 2nd hole and Flight 4 and 5 started from the 1st hole. As it turns, there was no problem with the other competition. We did not see them all day and they disappeared from Staffield at the conclusion of their game. This was a good thing – they looked like a very hungry and thirsty mob. They had already made a major drain on the available Caddies. Flight 5 was unable to capture a Caddie for the day. However, Flight 1 was able to commence their game with two Caddies due to the shrewd militaristic action of Rick Brown by booking a particular well endowed Caddie the day before.
The game commenced with Andrew Robinson slamming a power drive down Fairway No. 1 and Raymond Keys bird-watching down Fairway No. 1.
Power HittingWe have no idea what the Hell he is doing!!
It was an interesting round with Klaus and Bernie Schubert being the stars of the day. Klaus shot a gross 93 and net 66 with 42 points. Bernie shot a gross 82 (with a sensational 38 of the 2nd nine) and net 67 with 41 points. Well done to both !!!!! Richard Rodwell was in the running for 1st or 2nd place but when you 3 putts at few times ……. well, it’s tough.
COTD was an interesting. Requests were made for the appointed Captain of each flight to make an offering or suggestion.
Flight 1: John Preston for three putting from 4 feet and losing three skins in the process.
Flight 2: Mike Smith for being able to reach 1st Hole on the Western in 2 shots and proceed to miss sufficient putts to only score a par.
Flight 3: All good friends and no nominations until someone remembered the entire flight could not follow directions to their 1st tee in the mini shotgun start whatever in the hell that is. It appears they blasted past the 2nd hole and were proceeding to the 3rd hole until stopped by a Marshall. They were instructed to return to the 2nd hole for their starting position which immediately resulted in mild mannered Barry Cousins calling the honorable , and trying to be helpful, Marshall a Kunt – whatever in the hell that is.
Flight 4: Robert Frager for hitting his 3 or Tree Wood into the trees five times on one hole. Must be a record for KLOGS.
Flight 5: These handsome lads found the Cunt of the Day. As they approached the 17th they noticed Andrew Robinson and Robert Frager in the drop zone on this deadly Par 3. Both hit their balls directly into the water again and proceeded to stay in their buggy having maxed out on the hole. Bernie assumed Raymond Keys had done the same or was just looking around in the bush for some place convenient to urinate. Bernie slams a 7 iron onto the back of the green of 17th and out of the bushes rushes a rather irritated Raymond Keys various threats to our entire group. Needless to say Glen and I ran for cover and Bernie very respectfully acknowledged his error. Raymond pulls the flag from the hole and is beginning his first of three putts. Meanwhile, Bernhard Romahan has pulled a 6 iron out and is about to start his downswing while Raymond is on his 2nd of 3 putts (flag is out). Only a diving tackle at the knees by Glen prevented Bernhard from completed his swing and ruining the possibility of a 4 putt by Raymond. Bernhard was a clear COTD for attempting to hit into Raymond for the 2nd time on one hole.
Klaus – Man of the DayBernard duly appointed COTD
Towards the close of the day, the members requested some time to for discussion of some items of interest. KLOGS management always having the members interest of primary concern agreed. The primary point of discussion was the December (sic) Away Game. The members wanted to know the venue so they could make plans. The benefits and drawbacks of Phuket and Hua Hin was taken to task. When asked who they would favor the overwhelming favorite was Hua Hin.
In conclusion, I would like to add that KLOGS should not be taken as a place for whining and whinging. We are there to play golf as it is should be played and for a good time. Life is not perfect and neither is KLOGS Management. But each goes on and we have to make the best of it. Let’s try to enjoy it a bit more and not so many complaints. Please.
