Golf
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
what a week. on thursday my mrs and i couldnt find the ticketing office and ended up wandering onto the course somehow and before you know it we were watching the players on the driving range. a beautiful range it is. and then, after a little more wandering we ended up at the putting green which was just a few metres away from the first tee. so basically we got in for free and nobody asked us for a pass 
.
so we followed ponce, phil and pod. pod had the most ridiculous mo. and he walks like he has something up his butt. it looks really gay up close. i get the feeling ponce didnt like him so much. but that could be me projecting. he takes forever. ponce and phil took considerably less time on each shot.
this tourney if adam scott makes a putt its over. it's not even funny. he owns this course by way of giving himself soooo many chances. i know people can say, 'it's the same for everyone.' but the dude was -8 at one stage in the final round and made just 11 birdies. he had played 51 holes without a bogey. too bad his putting was so woeful this week he often missed 6 footers by an entire hole. the greens were immaculate looking tho with a stimp of 12.4 (it said on the first tee). the problem with putting on these greens is the nuances. players just cant pick it.
On sunday we wake up early and get to the fourth hole where ponce, dyson and molinari are about to restart their third round. i could not believe it. it was just me and my mrs, some lady and an aussie guy. awesome group totally in contention and it was just the four of us. it was one of the best moments ever for me. all three guys have made me money in the past and here i was watching them in contention without a crowd.
on the fifth or sixth molinari teed off with two massive ships flanking him. each ship had three massive letters and three letters only - MOL. it was a photo op that i somehow passed on. i thought maybe its an omen that he wins but then he three putted the hole for a bogey....so much for that.
all in all adam scott's putting is woeful atm. i want to say it's the greens but as we all know serapong is his beatch. there isnt a horse better for this course. he's shadowfax. thus its his stroke. perhaps we will see the short putter back this week in melb?
i havent been using internet much in singapore because my hotel charged $25 a day for internet!!!!!
.so we followed ponce, phil and pod. pod had the most ridiculous mo. and he walks like he has something up his butt. it looks really gay up close. i get the feeling ponce didnt like him so much. but that could be me projecting. he takes forever. ponce and phil took considerably less time on each shot.
this tourney if adam scott makes a putt its over. it's not even funny. he owns this course by way of giving himself soooo many chances. i know people can say, 'it's the same for everyone.' but the dude was -8 at one stage in the final round and made just 11 birdies. he had played 51 holes without a bogey. too bad his putting was so woeful this week he often missed 6 footers by an entire hole. the greens were immaculate looking tho with a stimp of 12.4 (it said on the first tee). the problem with putting on these greens is the nuances. players just cant pick it.
On sunday we wake up early and get to the fourth hole where ponce, dyson and molinari are about to restart their third round. i could not believe it. it was just me and my mrs, some lady and an aussie guy. awesome group totally in contention and it was just the four of us. it was one of the best moments ever for me. all three guys have made me money in the past and here i was watching them in contention without a crowd.
on the fifth or sixth molinari teed off with two massive ships flanking him. each ship had three massive letters and three letters only - MOL. it was a photo op that i somehow passed on. i thought maybe its an omen that he wins but then he three putted the hole for a bogey....so much for that.
all in all adam scott's putting is woeful atm. i want to say it's the greens but as we all know serapong is his beatch. there isnt a horse better for this course. he's shadowfax. thus its his stroke. perhaps we will see the short putter back this week in melb?
i havent been using internet much in singapore because my hotel charged $25 a day for internet!!!!!
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 13
|
By:
A mrs that like golf
 Where can I get one  |
|
By:
Pods Moustache is for "Movember", month of November to grow a moustache to raise money for cancer charitys. It does make him look like someone from the Village People, mind.
 |
|
By:
that's it! village people. i couldn't quite put my finger on it. nice one deplasterer.
and rhino, she even insisted on carrying/holding the umbrella  . i'm like, 'yeah that's cool.' haha.so we had a break from golf and go to some pavillion where you get three balls to chip into a small basket about a metre or so away. if you get one in you get a voucher for citigolf (some golf simulator in the orchard road area). some grandma infront me proceeds to get two our of three and i'm thinking, 'man, this could be embarrassing. grandma got two, i better get at least one. after i fail my first two attempts i'm feeling pretty retarded. but luckily i saluted on the last attempt  . |
|
By:
therhino
13 Nov 12 05:56 A mrs that like golf Where can I get one A mrs that like any sport Rhino!  |
|
By:
Pokeron , the reason you found it so easy to arrive where you did on Thursday is that generally in Asia there is nobody there , at least for the first 2 days . Had experience similar to you at Indonesian Open in Bali a couple of years ago , we had up to 20 free passes for the 4 days , couldn't give them away . Went the first day ourselves ( non umbrella carrying wife ) , found ourselves in the press area with free access to computers etc . And free food , not that we wanted any food , drink we would have taken given the exorbitant price of a lot of drinks in Bali , beer excepted , but no drinks . Nobody looking after the shop basically . Having said that the first day I went to the Cheltenham racing Festival in 1974 I found myself in the reserved enclosure for free !
Only ran for one year that Indonesian Open , guess the sums just dont work out . Would have expected more interest in Singapore though . My fellow Irishman Padraig is dead on except for his speed on the course , plus his swing tinkering and obsession with equipment . Guess its the interface between golf as a living and lifestyle choice . And I think wives sometimes play a part , not just as umbrella carriers . |
|
By:
it's a trend for golfers to bring their mrs nowadays i see.
larrazabal and rory both had theirs on their laps in golf carts. lee slattery's was next to him on the range thurs morn. more wives are seen nowadays. maybe tiger woods started something with wives and girlfriends. i think its a good thing. seeing oosty playing with his daughter while waiting for the playoff made me smile. |
|
By:
Kelly I concur with that was at the Indonesian Masters in April this year, and by one of the hospitality stands behind the 15th green, I just walked in and the waiter offered me a few glasses of wine and some grub no questions asked. Best day out I have had at a golf tournament esp. with the lookers they have marshalling the greens.
|
|
By:
so basically we are hoping the promoters don't read these forums then huh?
|
|
By:
poke.. did you try one of those cable cars.. the views looked amazing /
|
|
By:
i have an irrational fear of cable cars.
years ago there was a cable car incident with a ship and i have have had the irrational fear since then. but yes i have tried it years ago. |
|
By:
I can well understand your type of fear. In my own case, I have had ongoing eye surgery since my teens and , without realising it, I now have a fear of umbrellas. Sounds crazy, but if I see an umbrella approaching me on a pavement etc,. I will avoid it's path big time.
|
|
By:
umbrellas are dangerous in the hands of arrogant people oblivious to how big their turning circle is.
i almost got hammered a couple of times by umbrellas. wise to avoid them you are. |
|
By:
Ref the cable cars , a few years ago my wife conned me into an organised day trip out in Singapore . She loves cable cars etc , I , like you Pokeron , have an irrational fear of aerial transport ( planes excepted ) . She laughed and chatted with our fellow travellers in the cable car to Sentosa , I sat and calculated what speed I would be doing when the thing fell and we hurtled towards the jungle / sea many hundreds of feet below . Not quite the speed of sound , but terminal velocity used to be 120 mph ....
Not on my bucket list that form of travel . |