The Pattaya Golf Society (IPGC)at Rabbi’s Elephant Bar
On Monday, 25th March, the Pattaya Golf Society travelled to Bangpakong Riverside to play its monthly medal competition on the sumptuously prepared course. The fairways were like carpets and the greens were of a very high standard indeed, thus giving golfers who were striking the ball cleanly every opportunity of scoring well.
Sharing second place were Alan Maxwell and Dave Lehane with net 71 but they were overshadowed by the doyen of the group’s higher handicappers, Bryan Barrell, who put into practice all he had gained from regularly playing the short course at the Asia Hotel to record his best ever score of net 70. It was a fine performance by a golfer always inclined to hide his light under a bushel.
There were no birdie ‘2’s and Rabbi’s free beer went to John Chelo whilst the Booby Bevy went to Masashi Iizumi for his low score of the day. It is always an enjoyable day at the Riverside and inevitably scores are good.
More bricks in the wall
On Wednesday, 27th March the Pattaya Golf Society visited Emerald to play a pairs combined stableford event which served as the group’s charity fund raiser for this month. The course conditions were excellent and the greens as good as they have been in a few months. The day was extremely hot and the breeze was cooling if a little impudent.
From the start the pre-tournament favourites were making their mark and at the turn the lead was shared by the Aussie pairing of Robbie Taylor and Ken Grimes and Masashi Iizumi and Mr Len, both pairs on 35 points. Three holes later the scores were still level until the golf gods decided to intervene and hide Mr Len’s drive in the farthest reaches of the dark locker-room in the sky. From that point on there was only one winner as Robbie and Ken finished on 69 points to take the win from Dave Lehane and Larry Ang (67) and Greg Gawron and Peter Ditz (69).
Near-pins were sponsored by Mr Len, Alan Flynn and PJ Mitchell and they were won by Ken Grimes, Dave Lehane and Greg Gawron, with the fifth green avoiding pitch marks entirely!
Additional sponsorship from Masashi Iizumi and Jesper Hansen helped the fund pass its target and once again the big beneficiary of the day was the Fr Ray Foundation as it strives to fund a security wall around the Streetkids Outreach Center on Soi Thepprasit. Well done everyone and here’s to the next one at Phoenix at the end of April.
A Good Friday at Khao Kheow
Khao Kheow Country Club is in top condition at the moment and the Pattaya Golf Society visited there on Friday, 29th March, to play a stableford competition from the yellow tees on the A and B nines. The day was one of the hottest of the year so far and it was to be a long Good Friday for many in the field.
As a result of the weather conditions, the scores generally were low and it was left to the longer hitters in the field to sweep up the places. Recording 33 points Alan Flynn took third place, just one behind Dave Edwards’ 34 point card. The winner was Wichai Tananusorn, making a welcome return, and his best gross of 79 gave him 36 points for an excellent performance in the heat.
Dave Lehane, Gubbi Innvaer and Walter Pachini shared the ‘2’s pot with birdies on A5 and B8. Bent Saeverud won Rabbi’s free beer draw and low finisher Mr Len took his own Booby Bevy for a nil return. Khao Kheow as always provided a tough challenge for the PGS.
