Other Happy Moments to Remember

 

To celebrate his 86th birthday, Khoo bought us dinner at Restaurant Gold Hill, Bandar    Manjalara on 5th Nov 2024                                                                                                                                                 

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Hock Ju 50th Anniversary Dinner 2023

    Golf after Covid, stay 1m apart !!

Swing like a Pro????

Golf trip turned leisure day tour

 After playing 2 rounds at KKBGC, we taught we should share the experience with other gang members who has not been there before. So on Feb 1, 2024 we invited Khoo San and Woon to join us. Unfortunately, due to my forgetfulness I did not made the advance booking as such we were not able to play as the course was fully booked. Definitely a big disappointment due to my carelessness. After much discussions, we decided to drove up to Fraser Hill although we were not able to contact the club before we drove up. After driving through the long and bending road, we were equally disappointed as the course was closed due to its extremely bad conditions, obviously it has not been maintained for a long time. Anyway we enjoyed the fresh air and cool breeze, and lucky Khoo san also met a new friend!

At the end, we had also decided to have lunch at Raub since most of us have not been there many many years ago.

What a golfing trip that ends up to being a day tour!!

Hole-in-one

 At last, one of our gang members hit a HIO on Tue, 13th June, 2023! Hoorays!!

Kim Sun scored the HIO on KRTU hole #5 from a distance of about 160m from the blue tee, using his favorite rescue woods. 

The dream-of-all-golfers was miraculously assisted by few tiny leaves from the big tree before the pond. Had the ball just hit any of the tiny branches, very likely it will end up with a splash! But instead, the ball landed just before the green and rolled straight into the hole!! The feat was witnessed by James, Lee and David.

 Congratulations from all of us :):):)

Lunch at Full House Restaurant, Subang Village. Sponsored by Lim after scoring hole-in-1 recently.

Ramadan Golf 2023

 Every year, during the Puasa Month, it has become a common practice for many golf courses to offer special Ramadan Golf packages. The Ramadan period for 2023, was March 23 - April 21. 

We have also taken this opportunity to play as many courses nearby where the promotional rates were too attractive to miss.

A summary of the courses that we have played are listed below:

Golf aside, one of the most important item in our golf itinerary, is also to find a restaurant nearby that serves the best food for our lunch after the game. In this respect, we must thank David who has done an excellent job, searching the web, review the comments within, finally suggested a place to eat. So far he has never failed, 3 cheers to our friend!

Places to eat, near Amverton 

Places to eat, near Danau:

Places to eat, near Kota SerieMas or Bukit Unggul GC:

Places to eat, near Port Dickson:

KRTU GanG - Our Golf Rules wef 2023

 Effective 2023, the USGA & R&A has made quite a few changes to the Golf Rules in order to speed up the games and also make it more enjoyable especially for the non professionals and golfers with disabilities. 

In view of the above, I have made a summary of the key points so that it is easier to understand and for us  to follow. Although  some areas may not conform to the R&A Golf Rulings, let’s just enjoy the game together. 

Here it is...........

Our Golf Rules…

  1. GUR, ball or feet in Casual Water, Embedded ball, Cart Path, Distance Markers, Divots, Roots and Rocks, all Immovable Obstructions:

     - Free Drop within 1 club length, after taking nearest point of complete relief.                                         See also note 3, Winter Rule.

2. Bunker (if ball in foot print, bunker unraked, casual water, drainage marks ):

       - Free Drop within 1 club length, but ball must be dropped in bunker.                                                        - if drop outside bunker:  +1 stroke

3. Lost ball, OB: +1 stroke; see Drop Options below.

4. Penalty Area: +1 stroke

      - Red stakes, see Drop Option 2. 

        Or take lateral relief on opposite side from point of reference (point where ball last crossed the              hazard line).

     - Yellow stakes, see Drop Option 2. 

        Ball must be dropped behind the yellow line/stake. 

5. Ball lost in OPEN fairways of same teeing ground: - Free Drop at spot best determined by the player 

      

Drop options…always not nearer the hole

 1. Play another ball from location where you last played, eg re-tee

 2. Play another ball from where the original ball last crossed the unplayable line: 

⁃ Dropped within 2 club length (left or right)     Or

⁃ Dropped as far back as you want on imaginary line from point to pin (back-on-the-line)  Or

⁃ Play anywhere within GAC (ground already covered) area

Winter Rules…..always not nearer the hole

To determine and declare before hitting our 1st Tee:

1. Free drop: within 1 club length anywhere in the general area even under tree but Excluding penalty areas, bunkers, tee box and greens.

2. Free drop = LCP (lift, clean, place)

3. However, after the free drop and your line of play is still blocked, you may chipped out or take the Unplayable option with 1 stroke penalty.

Some Illustrations......

KRTU Gang -The Magnificent 8

                                             GAC Line,

Golf around Malaysia during Covid pandemic period

Kelab Rekreasi Angkatan Tentera (KRAT) - 

KRAT was officially affiliated to KRTU wef 22nd Jan 2022. From those who played there before, most of them would say that this is a tough 9-hole course, hilly most of the time, tight fairways with   many water hazards in play as well. Of course, nothing is better than seeing it for ourselves. 

So here we are on Thursday, 17th March 2022. Initially, we have planned to go in Khoo's Toyota Alphard, so six of us, namely Khoo, myself, Alex, Lim, James and David; can travel all in one car. Unfortunately, Khoo was tested Covid +ve just a day before, and David graciously withdrew; so four of us went in James car instead.

Lunch at Restaurant Eden Hakka, built beside a  fish pond

Under A huge ceiling fan

worker collecting veggie before cooking

ducks looking for food in the fishpond next to the restaurant

In Summary, looking at the water hazards across the first 2 tee boxes ; we changed our minds to play 2 rounds from the white tees; just to experience the unexpected. 

Personally, i would agree that this is a tough course with narrow fairways, many greens on the uphill with steep side slope.  Lot of thinking to place the ball, in position for the next approach.  No doubt, worth coming again!

Since this is the first time we came to Sendayan, we have to google for a place to eat. Eventually, we decided to try out Restaurant Eden Hakka, which is not far away from the GC. To our surprise, the restaurant was built just besides a fishpond, with 2 tiers of dining spaces. Apparently, the chicken, duck, fish and vegie are all rear and farm here; likely to be owned by the restaurant owner. We ordered Tilapia steamed HK style, a hakka braised pork with salted veg (Hakka Mui Choy Kaw York) and a fresh spinach grown in their own farm. The portion was big for 4, but tasty and delicious. The environment just fantastic. Highly recommended for anyone wishing to enjoy a good meal far away from the city crowd.

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A'Formosa Golf during CMCO

 Every time we drove past A'Formosa Golf Resort, which we could vaguely see the layout of one of the hole near the North-South Expressway; Kim Sun always made the comments that he had not yet played this course.

After digging through the web, we found out that AGGR is offering golf package for Senior Golfers at RM78.00  during the CMCO (Conditional Movement Control Order) COVID-19 pandemic period. It was easy to decide that we will come here  when the date was proposed!

Tuesday, Oct 6th.

We played the Palm nine and the Rocky nine today. The greens of palm nine were recently under sand tiling, as such the green speed were rather slow.  

Overall, the course is reasonably well maintained , and  most par 4s and par 5s are designed  with dogleg left or right and you have to drive across water hazards on a number of holes as well.

After shower, I met and chatted with a young Executive, Mr Jimmy Tan and offered him some of my feedbacks and to my surprise, he gave me 4 free vouchers which entitled us to free green fees for our next game!  Mr Tan gave me another present surprise when he told me that Mr Khoo can play for FREE and will only have to pay for Golf Insurance as he is above 80, thus qualified as a Golden Senior Golfer!!

Khoo San looking good in his 80s,  truly deserve FOC golf package at A'Formosa

Tuesday, Oct 13th.

Since we have the Golf Vouchers, we decided to come back and play AFGR even though we were here last week. We were so fortunate that this is probably the last game we could played outside KL as the Govt has just announced this morning that KL, Selangor and PutraJaya will be placed under CMCO effective 14-27 Oct. With this lockdown, inter state travel are strictly restricted! 

Today we played the Rocky nine and the Crocodile nine. All of us agreed that the Crocodile nine was very well maintained especially the greens.  Even though it was raining  last few days, the fairways were not very soggy. Still the holes played rather long since the ball does not run that much.