PSC golf from The Golf Club
Monday, Oct. 29, Green Valley (White tees) – Monthly Medal
A Flight
1st Kyle Roadley (6) net 69
2nd John Emmerson (11) net 69
B Flight
1st Serge Straeten (18) net 72
2nd Joe Mooneyham (14) net 73
It was a strong field today as 36 golfers took on the challenge of the TGC Monthly Medal for October at the beautiful venue of Rayong Green Valley.
Our Melbourne buddy Kyle Roadley has been a great friend and supporter of our little enterprise here at The Golf Club since we opened our doors over 5 years ago. Back then, we had bare walls and no budget to do much about it. Kyle is better known to his friends as “Roachie” (for reasons we will not go into here) and has been a PGA tour caddy for yonks.
Treasure Hill winner – Dale ‘Gangnam Style’ Shier.
He saw our situation, and of his own accord went out and got us signed hats, signed pin flags from the golf major tournaments and whatever else we needed to create the intimate and cozy atmosphere that we now have. That’s the kind of guy he is, and he does it time and time again.
Roachie was caddy to Marcel Siem until he broke his collarbone at his 5th Charity Caddy Cricket Classic at Wentworth earlier this year.
Roachie is a great mate, but like most tour caddies, does not have much time to play golf himself. After returning from his recent foray in Europe bagging for Richard Finch, he signed up for today’s Monthly Medal to get out and have a good stretch and ended up shooting 3 strokes better than normal to walk away with a win, for himself this time, of the coveted Gold Star! OK, it’s probably not the most treasured award he has had bestowed upon himself, but we sure had a good time helping him celebrate the occasion! Hey, what are mates for if you can’t help them with a future hangover? Goodonya mate!
In the B Flight, our jovial Parisian M. Serge Straeten won by a stroke over PSC golf chairman Joe Mooneyham for top honours. But it was the way he did it that was surprising, having 10 strokes on one hole! The 11th par 5 is a tough reach all right, but when Serge ended up in a greenside bunker lying 3, nothing was too unusual. When he took another 4 strokes just to get out he ended up with a big fat 10 for the hole. Undaunted, Serge maintained his cool and finished off with a win on the day. Goes to show you that even in medal play, don’t let one hole do your head in, hang tough and play your best.
Tuesday, Oct. 30, Laem Chabang (White tees) – Stableford
1st John Pierrel (12) 42pts
2nd Tom Sully (20) 39pts
3rd Michael Hastie (17) 36pts
John Pierrel has been here in Pattaya for the last couple of months and today had his personal best, a round of 42 Stableford points. John has been in the frame of late. He won last week at Greenwood as well, but today he surpassed himself for a great win at Laem Chabang. He’s back to the States next week, so what a great feeling to go out on top!
How amazing it was that I had to cancel a tee time because guys had not signed up for Laem Chabang and the last Sports Day of 2012. Please take note: any golf course in the world wants to sell as many tee times as they can to maximize their profits. That is their business and it runs just like your business back home.
I get a phone call from the golf course a day or two before a scheduled golf comp to make sure we are using all of our requested tee times, and if not then they are released and they will sell them on. That’s just business and I do not blame them for it. If you do not sign up, then I will release those tee times so please do the right thing and sign up early. If you do not do this then don’t expect to play, simple as that. As it turned out, a four-ball came in Monday night and wanted to play. Too late, we are in the high season now so plan ahead.
Friday, Nov. 2, Treasure Hill (White tees) – Stableford
1st Dale Shier (13) 36 points
2nd Pierre Cere (12) 36 points
3rd Ken Aihara (5) 33 points
What can you say about Dale Shier (at least that’s printable) that hasn’t already been said? His list of golfing accolades runs as long as a piece of string. Far be it from me to wax lyrical with any more honours, so let’s just give him formal congratulations here for a job well done, finally. Only 3 blobs on the card this day out was just enough to take the top spot (OK, shared with Pierre) so well played mate.
Ken Aihara has just returned from Japan for the high season and you will be seeing and reading more of him as his consistent good play will always put him in the frame. Today he came in third, but he is just warming up, so watch out.
Note: The Golf Club is located on Soi LK Metro. We usually play on Monday, Wednesday and Friday 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.
