Local charities benefit from 1998 Pattaya Sports Club Charity Classic

PSC Golf presented 210,000 baht raised at the recent 1998 PSC Charity Classic to local charities. Michael Franklin, PSC Golf Chairman, and Bill Collis, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, presented cheques to each of three of the charities nominated for support from the event.

At the Fountain of Life Children’s Center, run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Sister Michelle received a cheque for Baht 23,000 for the purchase of a water storage tank and an electronic keyboard to introduce the children at the Center to communal music. Some 70 underprivileged children will benefit at this busy center where the hard working staff give these children education and values to better equip them in later years.

Principal Aurora Lee Sribuapun, at the Pattaya Redemptorist School for the Blind, received a cheque for a further Baht 40,000 towards the Crown Princess Building Fund, which is designated to complete building projects to expand the scope of the School, and importantly to develop a rehabilitation center for adult blind students. Mike and Bill, after presenting the cheque, were briefly entertained by the students singing in class with Kuhn Aurora present.

Banglamung Home for the Aged were presented with a 29" NEC Colour Television and Sharp VCR. The donation to the Home of Baht 35,000 was sufficient to buy the TV and VCR, pay for ariel installation and leave a balance for the purchase of around a dozen videos for the residents to watch. The equipment will be installed in the main Meeting Hall enabling residents from each of four centers in the Home to come together for entertainment on a regular basis.

The fourth Charity project, to be reported separately, involved the presentation of cheques individually to ten Banglamung Schools to enable a Self-Help Food Project to be run for a one year period. The cheques were presented by Mike Franklin with PSC President Jim Montgomery.

Poteen Still take top honors in PSC fishing tourney

The Pattaya Sports Club fishing tournament on Sunday, June 14th enjoyed a large turnout with five boats containing eighteen fishermen and two fishing women taking part. No huge fish were landed, but many very good four to six kilo fish were. Six nice Pompano, five Barracuda, two Butterfly Fish, two Snappers, on Grouper, one Ray, one Shark and one White Spotted Eagle Ray were landed during the day.

Poteen Still took first place when Frank Collins landed a 12.5 kilo Sting Ray off Koh Phi on a boat captained by Gaa.

The SGP Bar team took second place with a 5.6 kilogram Pompano caught off Koh Phi on the boat captained by Dang.

Also entering teams were the Bull Ring, Sugar Shack and the Engel team.

The next PSC tournament is scheduled for Sunday, June 28th. Enter now.

Pattaya Marathon set to return

The streets of Pattaya will once again be filled with athletes in the earning morning hours of July 18-19 when as many as 1000 runners from around the world converge to compete in Pattaya Marathon ’98.

The fun will kick off with a "Fun Run" on Saturday, July 18th at 10:00 a.m. The Fun Run will be divided into 3 categories: Student teams with 10 members per team, Family teams with 4 members per team (father, mother and children with the total age of the children not to exceed 25 years), and Open teams with 5 members per team.

The Fun Run will start and finish on Pattaya Beach Road between Sois 4 & 5. Entry fees are 100 baht for Student teams, 150 baht for Family and Open teams. Applications for the Fun Run can be made from June 15 - July 17 at the TAT Pattaya Office, tel. 428750, 427667.

The Pattaya International Marathon, Half Marathon and Quarter Marathon will be held on Sunday, July 19th, starting and finishing on Pattaya Beach Road between Sois 4 & 5.

The 42.195 km Marathon will begin at 5:00 a.m., with race officials on hand to record finishers up until 11:00 a.m.

The 21.1 km Half Marathon will start at 5:30 a.m. and is expected to be finished by 8:30 a.m.

The 10.55 km Quarter Marathon will begin at 6:00 a.m. and finish around 7:30 a.m.

The application fee for the Marathon is 500 baht if made before July 13th, 700 baht from 13-18 July. The half Marathon is 300 baht before July 17th, 500 baht from July 17-18. The Quarter Marathon is 100 baht per entry up until the day of the run.

Registration can be made by post by sending a completed application with money order or bill of exchange to Director, Finance Division, Tourism Authority of Thailand, Le Concord Bldg., 202 Ratchadaphisek Road, Huai Khwang, Bangkok, 10310.

Applications in person can be made at the TAT Finance office at the above address, or the Amateur Athletic Association of Thailand tel. 214464, 2140085, or TAT Pattaya office tel. 427667, 428750, or all branches of Robinson Department Store at their information counters, or Jog & Joy Magazine tel. 7411900, fax 7410494, or Running Sport tel. 691 1028.

Note: Late registrations for marathon runners are permitted only 18 July at Pattaya City Hall.

Running number pick up: Serial numbers may be picked up upon producing a receipt for the application fee from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 17-18 July at Pattaya City Hall on North Pattaya Road. The number label must be attached to both the front and the back, rising above the waist and clearly visible, thus allowing for full electronic recording and filming at the finishing line.

Reporting for competition on the day of the race: Marathon runners should report from 4:30 a.m. - 4:55 a.m.; Half Marathon runners should report from 5:00 - 5:25 a.m.; Quarter Marathon runners should report from 5:30 a.m. to 5:55 a.m.

Prizes

The first three winners of the Marathon, Half Marathon and Quarter Marathon of all age groups will be awarded with honorary trophies. The 4th - 6th place finishers will receive medals.

Marathon, Half Marathon and Quarter Marathon finishers who finish before 11:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. respectively will be eligible for medals.

Marathon and Half Marathon runners who finish within 11:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. respectively will be presented with a certificate of honor.

Note: Thai marathon runners (men’s/women’s) who rank among the first six places of all marathon runners are also entitle to win the prizes for International.

The International Open winner will be awarded with 100,000 baht, 2nd place 70,000 baht, third place 50,000 baht, 4th 30,000, 5th 20,000, and 6th 10,000.

There will also be cash prizes for Thai men and women in both the Marathon and Half Marathon.

Townsend and Campbell keep rotating winners’ streak alive

PSC TAGGS Golf from the Hare House

Wednesday, June 17 - Great Lake Golf & Country Club

Bogey
1st: Kevin Townsend, 7 up
2nd: Carl Baumann, 3 up
3rd: Bill Thompson, 3 up

TAGGS regular Wednesday tournament was a bogey competition at Great Lake. The top three golfers all won their matches by impressive margins and all three shot gross scores of 84.

First place went to first time TAGGS winner Kevin Townsend. Playing off 18, the extremely likable native of St. Helens in Yorkshire had worked hard to win the tournament. In two of the previous three TAGGS competitions, Kevin had placed third. Lately he has become a fixture at the Pattaya Driving Range on Third Road and the practice paid off as he waxed the field with a record setting seven up.

Americans Carl Baumann and Bill Thompson both overcame the plugged and sanded greens to finish at three up. Carl, playing off 14, won second place in a count back over Bill, whose handicap has now dropped to eleven.

Friday, June 19 - Laem Chabang International Country Club

Stableford
1st: Mark Campbell, 41 points
2nd: Bill Collis, 34 points
3rd: Bill Thompson, 34 points

Mark Campbell won the Stableford competition at Laem Chabang on Friday, becoming the second golfer in a row to win his first TAGGS tournament. Playing off 15, Mark shot an 84 for an impressive 41 Stableford points. "I love this golf course," declared the good ol’ boy who comes from just south of Nashville, Tennessee. Mark likes to bang his drives way out there, but on Friday he needed a deft touch with his putter and short irons.

Playing the B course first, the recently top dressed greens were slow and erratic. The back nine was the difficult C course whose greens had not been sanded and the ball slid across the putting surface like it had been lubricated with K-Y jelly.

Finishing at 34 points apiece were a couple of guys who are no strangers to each other on the golf course. Pattaya Sports Club fixtures Bill Collis and Bill Thompson, both playing off eleven, had to wait for the count back that gave second place to Bill Collis.

Later back at the Hare House, the atmosphere got a little rowdy as most of the tournament winners in the past two months celebrated another great day of golf. Mark Campbell had become the twelfth TAGGS winner in the past twelve competitions. As Bill Thompson said, it doesn’t get any better than that.

PSC Golf next week

As June comes to an end we go on Monday the 29th to Siam Country Club from Cafe Kronborg and to Bangpakong Riverside from the Green Bottle. On Tuesday the 30th Pattaya Golf Society, from J.B. Bar go to the ever improving Pattaya Country Club for a Medal competition.

On Wednesday July 1st Noble Place and Phoenix feature from the Green Bottle and Hare House respectively. On Thursday, a Two Man Scramble takes place at Rayong Green Valley with PSC Golf from Cafe Kronborg, and the first week of July ends with the Splinter Golf Group from the Green Bottle playing Batter Ball at Phoenix, while TAGGS from Hare House play Stableford at Khao Kheow.

For more details of July fixtures see Pattaya Mail or visit the PSC Golf Web Site at www.pattayasports.org

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