PSC golf from The Golf Club
Monday, Feb. 3, Green Valley (white tees) – Stableford
T1st Peter LeNoury (11) 38pts
T1st Derek Winkless (9) 38pts
T2nd Alan Rothwell (6) 36pts
T2nd Vic Hester (18) 36pts
T2nd Akifume Tate (15) 36pts
It was another beautiful day as 8 groups of the best golfers in town journeyed out to our regular Monday venue.
Peter LeNoury kept his cool after discovering someone had backed into his brand new Honda Accord, just a month old. I would have been a lot more upset, but Peter was unfazed and went on to shoot a 38 to share the win with Winkless…that’s Derek, not brother Peter. The brothers have been joining us on a regular basis on this trip out and playing some good solid golf.
Mark Wood, Don Bland, Kevin Moraghan and Nigel Flanagan.
Right behind them on 36 points was American Alan Rothwell, a 6 handicapper who is hard to beat as he is one of the most consistent players we have.
It was also the week where we welcomed back our old pal Vic “the Rig” Hester, another car junkie like Mr. LeNoury. You will usually find Vic behind the wheel of some gorgeous exotic machine, and I’m not talking about a Club Car or E-Z Go here. Vic shot a 36 as well, and Aki Tate made up the trio of 36’s for joint 2nd place credits.
Wednesday, Feb. 5, Royal Lakeside (white tees) – Stableford
T1st Don Bland (4) 37pts
T1st Kevin Moraghan (16) 37pts
2nd Mark Wood (9) 34pts
T3rd Derek Winkless (9) 32pts
T3rd Nigel Flanagan (14) 32pts
Derek Winkless with Peter LeNoury.
It is just under an hour’s drive to get to this course, but certainly worth the extra 20 minutes in the van. Lakeside is usually in top condition and aside from the hard greens, it was perfect. The course played long and we were also challenged by some high winds as the day progressed.
We quickly filled our 5 tee times so got another 2 a few days ago. Mark Wood was lucky enough to find his group as our additional 2 tee times were put off the 10th to speed things up, quick thinking from a clever starter. Mark stumbled a bit at the end and could only muster 4 points on the last 4 holes (with 2 strokes!) for his placing. Coulda, woulda, shoulda? Wood finished sole second, not a bad result for a finish like that.
But it was a rogues gallery for the lead photo this week with Don Bland finally getting a well deserved tie for first with Kevin Moraghan, then Derek and Nigel sneaking in with 32 points for a few handsome man vouchers.
Seems like the Siam members have to slum it this week with the Old Course closed for the LPGA and good to see them back in the fold.
Friday, Feb. 7, Plutaluang Navy (yellow tees) – Stableford
1st Ken Aihara (3) 38pts
2nd Bob Mulholland 36pts
3rd Reg Glass () 34pts
4th Ray Powell (16) 33pts
Last month when we played here a splendid time was had by all. This time it was quite different: no carts, no caddies and a starter who had no clue. We schedule this course just a few times a year, and that is probably enough. It is such a shame because it is a great layout in a spectacular setting and I personally love the elevation changes this course presents. They just need to get up to speed with the maintenance program here.
Thanks to partner John Emmerson for filling in Phil’s spikes as Capt’n. Smedley is off to Cambodia for a little R&R. Johnny gave me the properly filled in results sheet, which I proceeded to lose immediately. Never mind, I’ll just go back over the scorecards, right? What a mess of scratches and scribbles, and that was just filling in the name on top.
Guys, take 10 seconds to print your name in block letters so we can read them please. You can’t win if we can’t read your card. The one card I could read was the winner, Kenny Aihara, who had a big 38 circled at the top of his card, next to his name in block letters, just like you’re supposed to do. It was good to see Kenny return to form as he hasn’t been scoring well of late, so this was a well deserved win for him.
Next was either Bob Mulholland or Bill Meader, must be Bob on second glance, who had 36 points, then came Reg (have another) Glass with 34 and Ray Powell with 33…I think.
Note: The Golf Club is located on Soi LK Metro. We try to schedule summer “Sports Days”, so come join us for a seriously fun day out. Just call 085 434 3377 or see our website www.golfclubpattaya .com and for more information mail us: pattaya4golf @gmail.com and see updates at www.facebook.com/golfclubpattaya… all handicaps welcome!
