Shanghai Link Golf Club

Driving from Gran Melia hotel to this golf course was quite an adventure and we ended up late for our tee time at 7.00 am. There were three flights of mostly low handicap golfers and it was a enjoyable round of golf and the winner was a local golfer who scored 80 gross..and I managed a respectable 90 that included a 8 on a short Par 4..this is a link course and trouble is when you didn't find the fairway...

The Shanghai Links Golf & Country Club is a luxurious golf club which is equipped with tennis courts, a swimming pool, lake, gym and children's playing area. This 18- hole golf course has been designed by the great Jack Nicklaus. It also has a bar, restaurant and golf store. Some golf traveler regarded it only behind Royal Troon and Spring City and I must admit it was the best golf course I have ever played.. The club sprawls within 410 acre landscape setting and has beautiful surroundings. It is an 18- hole Jack Nicklaus designed golf club. The club is endowed with world class facilities with best service and professional club management. This course covers an area of 135 hectares with facilities such as a Western- style high- grade residence district. The golf course has a top - level irrigation- draining system. In addition, there are over 1,500 transplanted trees and 6,000 trees of other varieties as well as green grass vegetating rapidly. The fast- changing and challenging sea breeze makes Shanghai Links one of best golf courses in the world. The course is 1000 meters, 18 hole, 72 par and 7121 yards. The course offers scenic views and is a 35 minute drive to downtown Shanghai and 12 kilometer from Pudong Airport. Whenever you are in town..try this course and after shower still has time to catch the 3.35 pm MH 389 to Kuala Lumpur.

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Contact Information

Shanghai Links Golf & Country Club
1600 Ling Bai Road
201201 Shanghai, SHI

Tel. +862158973068

http://www.shanghailinks.com.cn/

EAGLE at Monterez

First golf outing after Ramadan turned out to be extraordinary for Hj Atek, Bob, Jai and Bangdolah because nobody scored 100++! Bob played decent until the last three holes when he admitted to extremely dehydrated under the hot sun and blew up his score! He was doing allright with 6 straight pars at the second nine! He scored 83 gross and me 92.

Miracle happened at the short par 4 14th hole when Jai holed out his second shot from about 100 meter using an AW! It was a great EAGLE from him! Both Bob and I missed our birdie put for a tap in par...it took the thrill out when Atek found Jai's ball in the hole and before that he said he heard the ball hit the flagstick.

It was nice playing at Monterez during weekdays as only a few flights were on the course and we pretty much played leisurely...nobody in front and nobody at the back. I would say Atek played a very consistent golf from tee to green while Jai was struggling with his tee shot and chipping around the green. Bob played better than he anticipated while Bangdolah played his standard game.

Next outing will be Saturday at Kundang Lakes Golf Club. I am glad we played today....the rusty engine is starting to roar again!

Happy Golfing....

Golf in Vientiane

Hmm..the smell of Agarwood brought me to Vientiane, the Capital city Lao PDR. It is a landlocked nation bordered by Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam without any sea ports to export and import. The missing sea view was nevertheless replaced by the Mekong River and with all the exciting nightly waterfront activities we can forget the sea! I spent everynight having grilled Black Talapia for dinner with sticky rice and fresh vegetables. There were also river prawns and snake head fish for company!

For Muslim there were Nizam, Fatima and Ali restaurants that served the special fried rice..teh tarik and the Berianis...mutton, chicken and fish. The Jamek Mosque was still under renovation.

Old friend Mr Bounsouane and newly found friend Ms Papao made my life a little easier as they provided the basic translation in my everyday communication. Met Mr Benny Tan, GM of DRose Hotel (Malaysian owned) located next to Lao Plaza Hotel. Let him know you are my friend..he will let you stay at the hotel for USD 40 per room. The room is huge..350 sq feet!

Benny got all his friend's golf sets and loaned them to us and we played at the Vientiane KM 6 Golf Club. Arrived at the golf club about 2.30 pm and paid the green fees at the Sport Shop about Lao kip 280,000 per person including cute girl caddies! This was a 9 hole set-up so we played from White tees and then yellow tees. We finished the game in darkness..No..No.. there were floodlights at no extra charges!

Great game..shot 86 ( 5 pars and 2 birdies..not bad with a borrowed set) and enjoy the photos.
I am having difficulty loading photos here..see them at bangdolah.fotopages.com!

MyGolf Inter-team Challenge 12 April 2009

Sunday 12 April 2009 was supposed to be the event of the year for members of MyGolf.Com community ! They were suppose to fight it out on the Tasik Puteri Golf Course to determine this year Champion Team, be it DON or NAGARIA ! Nagaria team members came out in full force in blazing RED colours to frighten the defending champion Team DON and they succeeded as 8 players from Team DON failed to turn up ! Alas...due to poor coordination of Tasik Puteri Management, the tee-off time was delayed from 12.30 pm to about 2.00 pm by which time the sky was already preparing a downpour ! Much to the golfers disappointment the game was stopped 3 times due to rain and thunderstorm and some made it to finish 18 holes but many did not !
No winner was declared and prizes were given away in lucky draws! Nevertheless during dinner everybody seemed to have enjoyed the outings especially in meeting new fellow golfers, men and ladies alike ! With registered members exceeding 1,700 golfers this golf community would be a great platform for networking, for business and leisure!
Michelle Y H Lee provided more photos at this link,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michelleyhlee/sets/72157616712668092/

Practice Round

He got the body size and hit maybe harder than Tiger Woods and want to turn professional golfer in the future but age is catching up so he will settle down as little Kuching Woods of Taman Samudera Batu Caves. Phew... not that we don’t have talent but we could only played once a week due to the quota system imposed by the Home Minister! So we all make the most of it, sometimes played 36 holes in one day..just like the final of World Accenture Matchplay.

Wan Munir is the best of the lot with AA and Dolah a distance second and third. The rest are still trying to play at 95 consistently...and some would smile when they broke 100...golf is such a fun game!

I am still on leave and during the last 10 days, have played at Bukit Kemuning with Tan and Chan, from Klang, Kelab Rahman Putera witn Brand and Ghafar from Terengganu, Seremban 3 Paradise Valley with the usual gang, Kundang Lakes with Yob, Nordin and Abang Wan, Tasik Puteri with Selayang neighbours and Thurday another round with Rizal , Nizam and Nazeri at Tasik Puteri again...no..no..not because they have caddies from Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam but for practice round for the inter team competition on Sunday ! Razak just called if I want to join his group this Friday at Orna and Tiara Melaka...I thought we Malaysians are facing global economic recessions ? That's why they play golf...not much work in the office ! Jai also SMS for Tunku Jaafar on Saturday and Brand and Sudin asked to join 9 holes at Monterez, sorry guys..I need rest laa!

Golf in Seremban 3

Saturday 4 April 2009 our organizer Jai managed to assemble six golfers to play at the Seremban 3 Golf Course. This trip was the 3rd visit to this course this year for our group and this time around Halim joined us, my..did he struggled today and lost 4 balls ! As usual when we traveled south of KL we made it a point to stop for breakfast at the Nilai R&R for Nasi Lemak Sotong! Usually we will be there around 7.15 to 7.30 morning.

The weather was just fine when we started at about 8.45 but by the time we went to 2nd nine it was very hot..that was the problem when we played in a valley course, almost no wind to push away the heat! After the game Munir laid down in the changing room..tired he said, I was exhaussted during our last trip, so was AA..maybe we should other course next week.

By the way, Sharol from Menara KL was not around this time, he was busy with the F1 event! But he let me try his Nike SQ driver...sorry Rol, arini driver tak perform!

GOLF IN PORT DICKSON

On Saturday 28 March 2009, we assembled a group of regular golfers to play in Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan. This was the second time we organized such golf adventures in 2009 but the players were not the same. I left home in Selayang at about 6.45 am in the morning and reached Port Dickson Golf and Country Club at about 8.30 am and traveled about 110 km. I have earlier stopped for Nasi Lemak and Roti Canai at the mamak shop near the round-about just before the entrance to the PDGCC. Later I met the rest of the gang, Shahrul, Norzainal, Salleh, Wan Munir, Khairuddin, Zahari, Zaharuddin and me Bangdolah. After registration, we paid RM 70 each, we went to the 10th Tee Box for a group photograph.


This was my second time I played at PTGCC and enjoyed playing the course. However due to the hard and firm fairways and greens, scoring was much more difficult for a 18 handicapper like me. Wan Munir got 3 birdies and obviously the best amongst us and I shot 90 that included 5 par, 10 bogeys, 1 double bogey and 2 triples ! It could have been better !


Port Dickson Golf & Country Club
5 1/2 Miles, Jalan Pantai, 71050 Si Rusa, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
Tel: 606-6473123, 6473586, 6461421, 6461423, 6477004 Fax: 606-6474949, 6475668



After lunch and prayers, we went to Royal Palm Spring Golf and Country Club about 8 km from PDGCC. When we arrived there were plenty of other people at the club house and Wan Munir proceeded to register for all of us and we paid RM 52 each. However, some member were already too tired and did not play well but some guy like Zahari (Jai..) and NorZainal (Atek..) have plenty of energy and power left and they played well. We finished at about 7-00 pm and after shower went for Mghrib prayer at the Club surau..(very large..) and took off for dinner at a shop near the Guoman Hotel and resort. We left PD at about 9 pm and I reached Selayang at 10.30 pm, toll damage was RM 7.70 to Seremban and PD highway RM3.20 one way..

Palm Springs Resort Port Dickson
Batu 13, Km 21 Jalan Pantai,
Mukim Pasir Panjang,
71250 Port Dickson Negeri Sembilan.

Tel: 06-661 0260 (DL) or 06-661 0260 (GL)
Fax at 06-661 0566

Hero Indian Open, New Delhi

Well, I didn't play golf at the New Delhi Golf Club but I was there at the time they held the Hero Honda Indian Open in October 2008. On the opening round on Thurday I went to see the competition as there was several Malaysian golfers taking part. The entrance was free and I got the flight list from the beautiful ladies at the entrance. So I went to the hole where Malaysian golfers Airil Rizman and Iain Steel were playing. Chatted with Airil after he made his par put and went on to follow them a few more holes. Then I saw Chapcai Nirat and Jyoti Randawa and followed them for a few more holes. There were not many spectators, Indians are die hard cricket fans, you can watch crickets all day on their TV channels.

The course was narrow with forest areas in between holes and some animals like black deer was seen grazing at the end of the fairways.