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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KRTU - 30th October 2015

The haze was gone and the sky was clear and blue again making it a wonderful morning at KRTU. With the recent rain the course was a little soggy in places with balls being plugged but otherwise in great shape. The greens were as usual very good. We had 8 eggers today making a nice two full flights - although we almost lost one player who had some issues getting into the airforce base without his passport due to some officious Indian guard. We got off on hole no 1 at 8:00am and were all finished by 12:30 in time for an excellent lunch onsite (the new special murtbak daging was really excellent!).

Results

Local knowledge obviously paid off today with Zak Zainal shooting an excellent 86 with 40 points on his home course - the clear winner. Runner up today was Richard Rodwell with the best gross of the day  of 84 and 37 points. Full results below :

Rotten Egg Award

There were a few nominations today for the Rotten Egg Award :

1. Stuart for failing to remind players to bring passports
2. Richard for forgetting his passport, parking incorrectly at the base entrance and upsetting the Indian guard
3. Brian Stubbs for asking about using the TP discount book, then running all the way back to the locker room only to find he had used all the vouchers from his TP book

Brian was awarded the prestigious Rotten Egg of the day.


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KRTU - 31st July 2015

We had 10 Eggers today at KRTU and although our tee times were 9:00, 9:10 and 9:30 we all got off at about 8:40 albeit from 2 different 9's. Weather conditions were good and the course was in pretty good condition .... which is more than we can say for some of our members by the end of the day.

Our 3 ball with Allan Wright, myself and Mike Smith got off to a bad start on the 3rd hole when Allan lost his prescription sunglasses .... but things got worse on the next hole. Driving up the buggy track I maneoevered our buggy slightly to allow Allan to pass and the wheels went over the edge of the track onto the slope resulting in my buggy getting grounded with back wheels spinning. Allan and Mike both assisted by pushing from the rear in an attempt to get the buggy over the edge ...... when it did go ... it went rather rapidly and as Mike was in full pushing mode he ended up taking a nose dive down the slope which was covered in some very large tree roots. As well as covering Mike's immaculate golf outfit in mud from top to toe his ribs were somewhat bruised and after struggling on the next few holes he retired after the 9th. Jackie Stewart was duly transferred to Allan's buggy and the round continued as a 2-ball.

We all finished by about 12:30 to 1pm and had lunch at the club with drinks kindly donated by Hendrik who will be leaving the fold for a while ... many thanks Hendrik and hope to see you return soon.


Results

The winner today was Tony Morris (returning from a 4 week golf absence) with a respectable 37 points, runner up was Peter Davies with 36 points. Best gross of the day was Tony Morris with an 89. Full results below :

Rotten Egg Award

It was fairly obvious which way the nomination was going to go today and as predicted Stuart got the award for his reckless "Jackie Stewart style" buggy driving and causing an incident which caused harm to his fellow Egger. It must be said there were some other mentions including our poor injured player who was nominated for picking and cleaning himself whilst in the rough and not on the fairway and also for not putting his RM10 in the pot ........ anyway fair game Stuart graciously accepted the award this week.

However automatic Rotten Eggs have been awarded to Mike Smith, Robert Mulliss and Henrik Moller for arriving late at the club.

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