WET KUNDANG LAKES

After a miss of several weeks we came back to Kundang Lakes for Saturday morning game. It was raining from last evening and continued until 8.00 am and we took double teh tarik at the kundang lakes stall to wait for the rain to stop. After all was done we teed off at the 1st nine as it was drier than the 2nd nine, there were 3 flights in our group.

Surprisingly the 1st nine was a breeze for us, 1birdie 2 par and 1 bogey on the 1st hole, 2 birdies on the 2nd hole and everybody got par on the 8th hole! If not for the 3 putts double bogey on the index 1 9th hole, I would have scored 38! Other scores were 44, 45 and 47.

The 2nd nine was harder but there were two birdies by Yob and Jai, these two guys have 2 birdies each against my lonely birdie. At the 18th tee box, during tee off there was an incideent when a bird was hit by golf ball, it fell and was found dead upon landing with broken bones of-course!

It was fun and we will be back next Friday on Deepavali...

LPGA LADIES IN KUALA LUMPUR

When I reached KLGCC at 11.00 am Sunday, I was directed by Security Personnel to drive all the way along a narrow road towards TTDI because all other parking spaces were fully occupied. My GOD..so many people came to watch little Korean and Japanese girls hit golf balls. The crowd was so much bigger than those who attended the Asian PGA championship earlier this year. There was a shuttle service frequenting Route 1 for the almost 2 kilometre distance to the main gate.

I bought daily ticket for RM 23 and got a pass a few promotional brochures, tee off times and a mini fan to cool off, it was a hot day! Met my buddy Abg Mokh who just sit at the grand stand, watching tee off at Hole 1 and the putting green of Hole 9, sorry I can't walk he said!

Now who should I follow? There was a large group of spectators following the trio pairing of Ai Miyazato and Jeong Jang and I followed them for a while, their score placard showed 322 for the three of them. I was not until JJ made double and drop to 4 over that I switch to Natalie Gulbis and Mika Miyazato, kind of like her because she was cute and played very consistently. The last group played quite good until they faltered at Hole 14 and never recovered. Actually Maria Hjorth could have won the title will a little bit of luck...

I stayed at the par 3 Hole 15 for whilw watching a few groups teeing off, best of the lot was the eventual champion group of Jinin Kang where all three golfers made birdies. I didn't know what club they used for 136 yards..

In front there was loud cheers as Julie Inskter and Jinin Kang were making birdies. J Kang played aggressively while J Inkster was too conservative. I managed to stopped by to chat with the last group while they were waiting at the 9th Tee, Diana Tham looked exhausted but Vopan looked beautiful. They have to wait because one of the girls in the front flight has to come back and redo her tee shot, probably an OB or lost ball!

I managed to take some photos during the Final Day although the organizer prohibited such activities. But then how can you stop Japanese and Korean spectators from taking photos and videos of their superstars ? Well as long as you don't take photo during their swing and putting and at reasonable distance from them, should be okay.

It was a great outing and looking forward to this week outing at the Mines Resort for the CIMB Asia Pacific !!