Pattaya Sports Club Links Golf Society
Friday, Feb. 19
Laem Chabang B+A
Stableford
We are so spoilt these days with so many of our regular golf courses in such wonderful condition, as well as the lower pricing for most of them. Laem Chabang is one of them and, as usual here, looked picture postcard perfect. Manicured fairways, greens that are as good as any around and weather conditions just about right with a nice breeze that became stronger at times, and wasn’t always at our backs.
On this day, twenty two golfers just couldn’t resist such a great course and still at the amazing price of 1900 baht all-in.
Under the conditions, we expected some pretty good scores, and we got them.
Any golfer who can score 38 points has certainly had a good game and, this time, we had three of them with that excellent score, so more countbacks were needed.
George Mueller started the week on Monday with a win and a Green Jacket, and he has ended the week on Friday with another win and a new photo of the Green Jacket. George won a tight countback to relegate Tony Browne to second spot after another solid game from Tony, the count going to last six.
Mr. Golf, Paul Smith, also had 38 points from his handicap of #4, but had less points on the back nine than the other two and took third place.
Wayne Peppernell paid a visit from the Siam courses, where he plays a lot these days, to grab fourth spot with a handy 36 points.
Michael Blumhagen was there again by winning a three way countback with 35 points and fifth place.
We welcomed back two more players, having completed quarantine, Thorsten Jodehl and Jochen Stepp are ready to find some form.
Near Pins: Paul Smith, Paul Stewart (x2), Peter Lacey
Winners at Laem Chabang
1st Place – George Mueller (15) – 38 pts c/back
2nd Place – Tony Browne (20) – 38 pts c/back
3rd Place – Paul Smith (4) – 38 pts
4th Place – Wayne Peppernell (16) – 36 pts
5th Place – Michael Blumhagen (8) – 35 pts c/back
Best Front Nine (non winners) – Mark On – 21 pts
Best Back Nine (non winners) – Thorsten Jodehl – 19 pts
Even Laem Chabang, on this Friday, had very few players around and, consequently, we were given the go ahead to start about 30 minutes early. As we happily had no slow groups, all finished in good time for an early trip back to Links Bar.
We have been advised that the great price of 1900 baht all-in is set for Links Golf for our appointment on March 15.
PS. There were some Thai groups preparing to play later, so all was not as bad as it seemed, relatively speaking.
