KUNDANG GOLF CLASSIC

Group Photo without President

Photo with President (Black pant)

Sharol won LD 213 meter and Bangdolah overall winner

Yob was joint leader but left home early

Bung Harun with green shirt won NTP 3.8 meter

Bung Ghazaly of CIMB was kind enough to organize a mini-tournament at KLGCC on Saturday 16 July 2011. I was absent during the last tournament but the defending champion played in my flight, Hj Nor Zainal who scored 95 gross became champion, wow..95 can be come champion? Why not ? We all are weekend golfers who played to keep the body in shape and to get the excess fat and salt out of our body! Anyway I received the invitation via SMS when I was in Awana Genting for a Market Research brainstorming and that was an exhausting exercise. The hotel gave me a complimentary flight to play on Friday as we are their corporate client and sure they want our organization to use their venue and facilities in the future. 

I reached Kundang's Tasik Biru for breakfast at 7.20 am and most of the guys were nearly finished with their breakfast. There were Zahari (Jai), Sharol, Hj Zainal (Atek) and one new friend whose name I forgot to ask. I tried the new LATAR highway a few days after it was opened but guess what? It does not have exit at Kundang but they have entry point there! Using that route saved me 5 km from my Selayang home from the usual Sg Buluh Kelab Rahman Putra routing.

Bung Zaly laid out the rules to all participants at the 1st tee box, there were 16 of us all eager and excited for this golf adventure, ok we will do it using System 36 Stableford using handicap of the day. I was on the second flight with my regular kakis, Jai, Atek, Sharol and we played over and above our regular handicap.

My game was not so good but quite consistent so did my flight mates. When we calculated the points none played better than 94, I scored 49 and 45 playing off the Yellow Tee. Well, short hitters like me would have long approach on Par 4s but I survived and emerged the joint leaders with Khairuddin (Yob) who returned 46 and 48 gross. My flightmate Sharol scored 95 gross and got 2nd overall placing in addition to the 213 meter longest drive effort. Senor Omar beat me by 3 feet for the NTL effort and Senor Harun beat Yob by 1 meter for the NTP (3.8 meter). 

Results (Gross)

Everybody is a winner..its makan time

Sharol and Hj Zainal discussing what might have happened..

President looked very happy..

Zahari (Jai), Harun and Mansor enjoying lunch

Yes..enjoying lunch

Scorekeeper and auditor tepuk dahi..how come everybody in C medal

1. Abdullah 94
2. Khairuddin 94
3. Sharol 97
4. Harun 97
5. Hj Zainal 98
6. Omar 99
7. Shah 100
8. Zahari 100
9. Ghazaly 103
10. Zubir 103
11. Azmi 104
12. Rahman 105
13. Fuad 111
14. Azim 116
15. No Name NA
16. Mansor NA

When is the next game....Penutup sebelum Ramadhan!

NEW MEMBERS OLD COURSE

My golfers group came back to Kundang Lakes with some new faces including Rozaly and his friend and we started amongst the early birds because many of us have to rush back early to attend to their kids at tuition center and some weddings invitation as well. Nevertheless the game was well, played in group of Mansor (University Malaya) and Munir and Khairuddin of Malaysian Timber Board. The other group comprised Rozaly and his friend of CIMB group, Zahari from Timber Board and Nor Zainal of Exxon Mobil.

Munir and Khairuddin played their usual stuff with long accurate drive and short approach to the greens, Kundang greens are not that good and below standard so to speak and birdie putts were often missed short and long but par is achiveable on most hole. Mansor was quite inconsistent and me with usual stuff managed par golf to my handicap of 19. I think Munir could play 12 at his best now although he was a single handicapper when he was younger and Khairuddin could improve if his short game is consistent probably to 14 hcp.

I realised my tee-off now is getting shorter eventhough there were always on the fairway and have to used my 4 wood for the second shot in order to be anywhere near the green. Around the green my short game and putting helped a lot to keep the score reasonably low to keep up with my younger flight mates

Having 4 sets at home doesn't help anymore because each course played almost to the saame difficulty. I have played 5 courses during the last two months with diferent set, Bukit Unggul with Cleveland, PTGC with Honma, Tasik Puteri with PRGR, Kundang Lakes with Ena and Port Dickson Golf CC and Awana Kijal with mixed bags. Scored 85 at Tasik Puteri, 88 at Bukit Unggul, 92 at Perangsang Templer and 91 both at Kundang Lakes and Awana Kijal Awana and 90 at PDGCC.

Just skipped two (2) competitions at Impian Golf Kajang, one is G2G Kakigolf of Saturday and the other one STAROBA Golf competition on Sunday. I just don't like afternoon golf, it finished well into 9-10 pm after dinner and prize giving.

Next two weeks will be school holidays, wedding invitations and social events  and these will keep me away from golf courses. Huh..I guess have to settle watching Golf Channel 815 I guess...happy golfing.

I NEED LONGER DRIVES

Ever since Sharip Dol switched to SMT driver, he really outdriven his flight mates by 10 to 20 yards. That SMT head with Diamana shaft worked for him and a few weeks ago I found somebody who wanted to sell his SMT driver and I nearly bought it if not for the loft, it was 10 degrees compared to Sharip's 12 degrees. He told me SMT is no longer winning the Remax Long Drive competition..it was Krank Golf!!! So I got lucky, somebody wanted to get rid of his Krank driver in favour of TM Burner Superfast. So now I have this Krank Driver, 460 cc with 12 degrees loft to compete with Sharip's SMT...the venue will be Kundang Lakes on Saturday 20 November 2010. I have played with it in Danau GC last Sunday but the shaft and swing weight was too heavy for me..D2. I will consider changing the shaft to 45 or 50 grams.

One of my regular flight mates named Sharol can really whipped his driver and got 240 to 250 meters off the tee..but then he is 5 feet 10 inches and weighs at 86 kg!! See him in action at the 9th hole KLGCC here..textbook swing but fairway hit only 33%...need to improve further.

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 !!

COOL GOLF AT AWANA GENTING

My friend, an avid golfer and world traveler, Stanley, called up to arrange a golf friendly at Awana Genting on Saturday. So I drove up to Awana Genting and met the others, Chai and Mathilakan. My..I have not played this course for such a long time..could just remembered a few holes! The whether was nice though throughout the day but somehow they set up the tee at the tournament tee-box!! That was a bit tough because of the longer carry we have to hit on every hole. Stanley was playing off handicap 9, Chai on 16, Mathi on 22 and me on 18, so I partnered Chai and Stanley partnered Mathi...It was fun, got a few pars and lost a few balls as well.

Kindle Lighted Leather Cover, Black (Fits 6" Display, Latest Generation Kindle)

We won the match 2 up..courtesy to my good putting. After lunch we went down and I reached home in 25 minutes..must come back soon.

Golf Swing Updates

To be good in golf you need to practice..we used to practice two times a week at the Pandan Perdana Driving Range just 10 minutes drive from the office. Now they are selling balls at RM 12 per 100 balls and no coupons of 1,000 balls available, made some golfers shied away..especially the Japanese and Koreans, who usually hits 200-300 balls per session, the driving range was quiet after 8.30 pm in the evening.

My golf buddies never practice nowadays and their swing went haywire week after week, good tee off was followed by shank iron shot, topped chip and duffed pitch shot were common! But everybody seemed to do well at tee-off because the ball was on the tee...but think again, here is a closer look at their finishing!!