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/

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KAKIGOLF SWING SEQUENCE

Played with Syaiful COO and Sam at the recent friendly game at KRTU and took some video footage of their swings. Both have similar swing actions, noticeably the wide takeaway, lateral body movement, impact positions and the arms extension after impact. These were good points and if executed rightly would result in long and straight drive which they did occasionally...

Here are the snapshots taken selectively from the video footage...

GOLF AT KRTU

Sunday 11 April 2010 members of the golfing community i.e. Kakigolf.com organized a social golfing event at the KRTU, Subang. Some 33 golfers from both sexes and all ages came to play and actually there were only 2 lady golfers, Anne and Liza.

The course KRTU was very good and we played from the White Tee to give long hitting golfers some birdie chances!! Indeed there were many birdies..bogeys, doubles and triples as well as pars! I managed to scramble a few pars but fell prey to the dreadful island par 3..when I donated 2 balls into the pond, many of us did at that hole..

My flight mates Syaiful COO and Sam played better, nevertheless all of us were given prizes by the organizer Pak Ngah and Co...thanks pal. The main prize went to Boeing, who won the bull eye competition and took home RM 100..

I look forward to playing with these wonderful people again who played golf in its true spirit..just for fun.

Photos of Syaiful, Sam, Mo and Accidentalgolfer...

Golf swing..our way!

On Sunday when KJ Choi was beaten by a 18 year old Korean to win the MMO 2010, me and my usuaal gang of golfers played at KLCC. This time Halim joined the likes of Munir, Bangdolah, Bojai, Atek, Aa, Sharol and Yob in the early morning tee-off accompanied by 2 ungraded caddies. Yob wanted to be known as AK, not Anthony Kim but A Khairudin! we will wait for him to buy the belt buckle first.

Once again I was asked to do a photo-shoot of everybody's tee-off which I did and want to show them here. This time I have captured the swing sequence at the follow through and how amazing they all look alike...

Happy golfing while I work on the other swing capture!

The Golf Swing..the professional way!

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!

The Golf Swing..a never ending story!

I have played golf without any proper coaching, in the early days when golf magazines and free internet instructions were rare..I just self taught myself into swinging the club. Those days were gone and I played golf to kill those leisure times available to only bachelors..

Then I started to read golf instruction from golf magazines, acquired knowledge from free internet lessons and getting tips from fellow golfers and absorbing all the tips from the self-proclaimed golf gurus at the driving range! But all those information got lost in between holes...every weekend the swing changed. How can I make a good swing if I have to remember all the tips like keep the head steady, slow takeaway, don't forget the wrist cock, check the club at parallel,maintain the L shape, complete the back swing..and now the down swing, initiate with the lower body, shift left for weight transfer and rotate the hip, do the reverse C, release at impact, follow through and finish high..aaahh, that was picture perfect and I duffed the shot!

It seemed like golf swing is very complicated because golf instructors never stop discussing about it for the last 25 to 30 years. We don't find such discussion in badminton, table tennis, tennis, baseball etc. maybe there were no wrist cock required hehehe!

Here are some photos of my friends golf swing..all without proper coaching, they enjoyed their golf game just as much, happy golfing.