New Blog for FRID' Eggs

We have a new and refurbished blog site for FRID’ Eggs ….. the old site which was hosted by Blogger, was getting a little tired and needed a new design. I have moved the blog onto a new Wordpress site which is far more slicker, easier to update and offers greatly improved customisation.

The new site has been populated with all the old blog posts and photos so nothing has been lost and from now all FRID’ Eggs reports and notices will be posted on this new site.

The new URL for the Wordpress blogsite is : frideggs.wordpress.com

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KGSAAS - 22nd January 2016

8 Eggers played today at KGSAAS.  Check in was normal, slow and frustrating however we managed to tee off on time playing first the President 9 followed by the Alam Shah 9.  The fairways and greens were in very good condition and the weather was cool contributing to a very enjoyable round. Scoring was generally pretty good with most players managing to score 30 or more stableford points.  The winner on the day was Mike Smith with an excellent gross of 94 and 37 points followed closely by Greg on 36 points and Allan on 34 points.  Lowest gross was Richard with 89 shots.

Lunch was taken at the club (not the Chinese Restaurant upstairs) and the service and quality of food was generally satisfactory with a couple of exceptions.  Allan ordered the chicken curry potato dish and was most upset that it came without potatoes.  After several minutes of polite discussion between Allan and the staff regarding his missing potatoes Allan decided just to eat his chicken curry potato dish minus the potatoes.  Lunch was washed down with 6 jugs of beer thanks to the promotion of buy 2 jugs get 1 jug free.  After the bill was paid another jug was bought and paid for followed by another jug.  Andrew then asked for the free jug which was refused as the 2 jugs were paid on separate bills.  To refuse Andrew alcohol was a big mistake.  After 10 minutes of illogical conversation Andrew finally demanded to see the supervisor who eventually agreed to give us the free jug.  I think if Andrew carried on arguing he would have eventually found Allan’s missing potatoes. 

 Next weeks game as nominated by our winner is Kundang Lakes (just can’t get enough of this fabulous county club).

Kundang Lakes - 15th January 2016

8 Eggers played today for our normal quarterly fix at Kundang Lakes. Andrew made a good effort to be late by heading South towards Malacca but despite being on the road for over 1hour and 15 minutes still managed to register on time (guess he was determined not to pay the 20 Ringgit fine).  Due to the recent heavy rain the fairways were ‘boggy’ in places but generally in reasonable condition and the greens although not the best were very acceptable.   2 points separated the top 5 scores with Barry on 33, Allan and Richard on 34, Glen and Peter on 35 points. Peter was the eventual winner OCB over Glen who had a magnificent front 9 scoring 21 points.

As a few players couldn’t make lunch it was decided to complete the Kundang Lakes experience by having a quick lunch at the ‘club’ which was attend by all players,washed down with cans of beer.  As usual Peter’s lunch was the first to arrive despite playing in the second flight and ordering well after the first flight.  Glen again told us in his normal fashion that his fried rice was too spicy to eat therefore he only ate the fried egg. The cost per head was MYR 100 for the golf, buggy, bottle of water and bottle of 100 plus each, meal and beers.  Must still be one of the best value for money courses. It was also noted by the first group that Barry ‘Versace' Sage is starting to become a Fashion Guru matching his pink top with his pink tee, maybe we will see him in pink shorts and pink shoes in the near future. Next weeks game will be at Bukit Beruntung.

Most Improved Player 2015

Based on players' handicaps from beginning of 2015 until end of 2015 I did an analysis to determine the "Most Improved" player of 2015. Results included players who had played most of the year and had enough data to use and is tabulated below:

Name	H/C Jan 2015	H/C Dec 2015	% improvement
Peter Davies	30	22	36.4
Hans Berger	21	19	10.5
Allan McNicoll	22	20	10.0
Mike Smith	23	21	9.5
Henrik Moller	24	22	9.1
Brian Stubbs	25	23	8.7
Iain Wise	23	22	4.5
Robert Mulliss	32	31	3.2
Barry Sage	18	18	0.0
Geoff McLaws	8	8	0.0
Graham Cadman	27	27	0.0
Jeff Pearce	21	21	0.0
Stuart Taylor	14	14	0.0
Zak Zainal	17	17	0.0
Erol Akinci	22	23	-4.3
Tony Morris	18	19	-5.3
Glen Wombwell	28	30	-6.7
Andrew Robinson	22	24	-8.3
Cameron McAinsh	20	24	-16.7
Paul Geddes	13	16	-18.8

So the clear winner and our Most Improved Player of 2015 is Peter Davies with an incredible 36.4% improvement from a handicap of 30 down to 22. Congratulations Peter .... if you continue at the same rate by end this year your handicap will be 14!

KRTU - 8th January 2016

Our first game of 2016 was at our old favourite KRTU which lived up to its usual reputation of being a tough "commando" course as reflected in most of the scores. We had 3 full flights this morning and headed at at just after 8:30 am. It was a clear day and by the 2nd nine was certainly very hot and sticky. Course conditions were good and we were all back at the clubhouse by 1pm for lunch and cold beers on the terrace.

Results

We had only one player who broke his handicap this week and that was our winner of the day Glen Wombwell with a great round of 38 points (100 gross) Runner up was Tony Morris with 32 points and best gross of the day was Stuart Taylor with 92. Full results below:

Rotten Egg Award

We did not have any Rotten Egg Award this week and there has been some discussion about taking this away ... it's difficult to manage and sometime provokes a lot of rather silly nominations. We will discuss this among the founder members and decide if we wish to continue this. However we will be administering an automatic fine for late comers as an incentive to be at the club on time and not hold up all others ...... this will be an automatic RM20 to go into the pot for lunch for anyone not at registration by the allotted time.

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Seri Selangor - 18th December 2015

8 Eggers played today at  Seri Selangor for the final game of 2015.

Due to the recent heavy rain the course was ‘boggy’ in places however the greens were in pretty good condition.  The course was busy and posed it’s usual difficult but enjoyable challenges.

This was reflected in the score with nobody managing to play to handicap.  Winner on the day was Peter with 33 points followed closely by Richard on 32 points and Graham in third on 29 points.

All 8 Eggers enjoyed lunch at our favourite Pantai Seafood Restaurant with cold beer served through out the meal for the first time ever.  This was achieved by phoning 2 hours in advance and requesting the bottles to be placed immediately in ice for future consumption.

All Eggers were well behaved therefore no nomination for the rotten egg award.

Next game will be played on Friday 8th of January due to the next 2 weeks being Christmas Day and New Years Day.  General consensus was to play again at Seri Selangor followed by Glens favourite Nyonya Fish washed down with ice cold beer.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all Eggers and Family members a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Staffield - 4th December 2015

We had two full flights this morning at Staffield which was in great condition - a pleasant surprise to play a dry course after the wet bogs we have experienced over the last few weeks because of the heavy rains. Weather was wonderful with clear blue skies and a light breeze. 

We played the North and West courses and were finished by around 12:30pm - then off for lunch at Restoran East of Highway.

Welcome again to our guest Arthur Rodwell who joined us .... Richard couldn't make it due to work commitments. 

Results

Our clear winner today was Jeff Pearce who is on a bit of a hot streak of late .... shooting 40 points with a gross of 89 - well done Jeff. Runner up (on countback) was Peter Davies with 36 points from Stuart Taylor also with 36 points. Full scores below:

Rotten Egg Award

No Rotten Egg Awards this week. 

Here is a list of outstanding Rotten Eggs - these can be paid of at RM50 per Rotten Egg.

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