PSC golf from Tropical Bert’s
Tuesday, Oct. 26, Laem Chabang – Stableford
I thought for a last Tuesday of the ‘Low Season’, and before we hit the madness of the new rates’ for the ‘High Season’, it would be a fitting farewell to play what most consider the premier course around. Mind, I have to say it has never been my number one course, but it does have its good points.
Golfer of the month Frank Pilkington, left, accepts his award from Dick Warberg.
On this day we departed Bert’s early as out tee off time was at 0915 hrs, and with five groups we filled our quota. The good point was that with the improvement of access to Route 7, we did not have to leave until 0820 hrs and I had plenty of time to fill up on the way and still arrive in good time.
At Laem Chabang we were soon booked in and I learned that we were to play C & A in that order. Now the C nine is particularly difficult and it was obvious that the round ahead was to be a tough one. It has some particularly difficult holes, and a lot of water, and the carrying of spare balls is very much recommended. I can verify the fact.
The layout, as Laem Chabang goes, was not in bad condition, but not pristine of course due to the large amount of rain lately. Carts were judiciously used on the grass and generally things were a bit overgrown. The greens were slow and not up to their normal standard but were not bad. It was a day of play and enjoy but the scores were never going to be great. As we came to the end of our round we noticed that the groups on the B nine were well backed up, I guess we were lucky.
We were quickly back to Tropical Bert’s, very early indeed, however as ‘Happy Hour’ is from 1600 hrs onwards, we just made it in time. Later the results were declared and one man was seven points ahead of the rest, and the rest were not very impressive.
The winner with 38 points was Andre van Dyk, and in second was Frank Pilkington with 31 points ahead of Daryl Evans in third on count-back. In fourth place meanwhile was Ian Dallas with 30 points.
Near Pins went to Paul Brown, Frank Pilkington, Bernie Seagrave and Joel Flor.
This was also the last day of the month for the ‘Golfer of the Month’ award, and with his second place finish today Frank Pilkington took the honours. Well done Frank! T.T.F.N.
