On Saturday I went with Razak and his son Arief to watch the Maybank Malaysian Open 2010 at the KLGCC. I reached the club at 10.00 am and already has to park the car at the nearby Sime Darby Convention Center, more than 1 km from the KLGCC gates. The organizer provided shuttle though..a brand new Hyundai Starex to carry people from the parking location to the club and vice-versa. We have simple breakfast of roti canai and nasi lemak at the club and saw a lot of caddies and their masters also having breakfast there, we sat next to Mark Haastrup from Denmark.
I started to walk around at 11.00 am and watched several players at the practice green and then went to watch Mark's tee-shot at hole 10 at 11.35 am together with David Horsey of England and Darren Back of Australia. Man...they were fantastic golf swing from three of them and I managed to capture Mark's swing before the marshall spotted me. I was at the viewing galley about 30 meter away.
First thing I noticed the pros hit the ball really hard..I am sure they could managed 112 to 115 mph club speed easily, their posture at impact and the extension of the arms after impact and the balanced finish were the major different from my friends swing and my swing..our swing were anywhere from 86 mph to 95 mph with some of the bigger size friends like Atek, Yasni, Sharol , Munir and AK getting 110 mph! See Mark's swing here!
i went on to watch KJ Choi's and T Jaidee at the practice putting green and then proceed to the 1st Tee Box just in time to watch Chinnarat Padungsil, Matthew Griffin and Peter Lawrie launched the golf balls 250 meter down the fairway! The rest of the day I followed the last three groups of KJ Choi, Thongchai Jaidee and the leader then Rhys Davies.
It was an exhausting golf learning experience for me to see them tee-off, hit approach shot, pitch shot, bunker and putting. In the end the heat was too much for me on this Saturday and I left after 12 holes and I have probably walked 4 km already!
I started to walk around at 11.00 am and watched several players at the practice green and then went to watch Mark's tee-shot at hole 10 at 11.35 am together with David Horsey of England and Darren Back of Australia. Man...they were fantastic golf swing from three of them and I managed to capture Mark's swing before the marshall spotted me. I was at the viewing galley about 30 meter away.
First thing I noticed the pros hit the ball really hard..I am sure they could managed 112 to 115 mph club speed easily, their posture at impact and the extension of the arms after impact and the balanced finish were the major different from my friends swing and my swing..our swing were anywhere from 86 mph to 95 mph with some of the bigger size friends like Atek, Yasni, Sharol , Munir and AK getting 110 mph! See Mark's swing here!
i went on to watch KJ Choi's and T Jaidee at the practice putting green and then proceed to the 1st Tee Box just in time to watch Chinnarat Padungsil, Matthew Griffin and Peter Lawrie launched the golf balls 250 meter down the fairway! The rest of the day I followed the last three groups of KJ Choi, Thongchai Jaidee and the leader then Rhys Davies.
It was an exhausting golf learning experience for me to see them tee-off, hit approach shot, pitch shot, bunker and putting. In the end the heat was too much for me on this Saturday and I left after 12 holes and I have probably walked 4 km already!
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