Golf From the “Travellers Rest” (Please appreciate your Caddies)

I am taking a slightly different direction in my report this week.

I had decided this week to not a have a whine at anything but had to change my mind after a trip out mid-week. I oversaw some of the most offensive behaviour towards a caddy to date and that really made me want to hide and ashamed to be considered a Farrang in this beautiful country.

I am always reminded that we as foreigners in Thailand are “Guests” that is no different when you are out on the golf course.

The abuse towards the caddy in question was not within our own organisation but a group that were in front of us. I am not sure from which bar or organisation.

I am certain that fellow golfers really need no reminder that we should always consider ourselves very lucky to have the services of caddies when play-ing here at what are very menial costs. So why do some golfers feel that they should be used as the target of there own inadequacies when things are not going so well. Always remember the golf club is in your hands not the caddies so if you do not like their opinion on a shot etc. then don’t ask for it.

On a much lighter note I want to offer my personal thanks to the management of the St. Andrews 2000 Company Limited who sent out an invite to the golf organisers in the Pattaya area to hold a meeting and discuss a better way forward for golf on their courses during 2010.

I was asked to attend and represent the TRGG along with some sixteen or so other organisers. I must say I was duly impressed with the frankness of the chairman on the day Narongdej Sinthukiow at the outset for an abject apology to those in attendance for past inadequacies in the way that problems had been allowed to occur and then badly handled over past months.

The tone of the meeting was very constructive and not obstructive.

Not everyone agreed with all discussed but I left the meeting optimistic that the future at Green Valley / St. Andrews could only improve if the management does what it said it would do and listens properly to any problems or complaints that may occur and deals with them appropriately. But I am reminded that it will take “cooperation from all of us involved in organised golf” to pull together and make it work.

Sorry no full written reports on play this week. Just a full results list  below.If you want any further information about the golf outings played by the TRGG please contact Fergus Brennan on 086 056 7019 or call in to the Travellers Rest in Soi LK Metro.

Detailed Results for the week

Monday, February 22 - Crystal Bay

Division 1
Ed Brubaker - 38 hc 10
Tristan Gilbert - 37 hc 13
Ben Durham - 34 hc 10

Division 2
Roger Wilkinson - 37 hc 16 c/b
Don Erickson - 37 hc 28 c/b
Frank Courtney - 32 hc 17

Six two’s  Ben Durham, Billy Gray, Fergus Brennan, Steve Carlton, Graham Johnson, Brian Prudden

Tuesday, February 23 - Emerald

Division 1
Ed Brubaker - 37 hc 10
Maurice Herbergs - 34 hc 09
Brendan Moore - 33 hc 12

Division 2
Tristan Gilbert - 40 hc 13
Ted Senior - 34 hc 13
Paul Whitnall - 32 hc 13

Division 3
Alan Evans - 39 hc 24
Neil Allison - 32 hc 18
Philippe Tellechea - 31 hc 24

Thursday, February 25 - Phoenix

Division 1
Garry Blackborne - 38 hc 08
Simon Spaulding - 37 hc 00
Hugh Byrne - 36 hc 12

Division 2                       
Mike Rushant - 37 hc 13
Pierre Bourgault - 36 hc 14
Ted Senior - 33 hc 13
 
Saturday, February 27 - Khao Kheo C&A

Division 1
Moreton Mooers - 37 hc 06
Mike McPhee - 34 hc 07
Bill Shepley - 31 hc 03
Nick Hand - 31 hc 08

Division 2
Tewin Lamthong - 36 hc 09
Michael Prideaux - 34 hc 12
Mike Rushant - 33 hc 12 c/b
Tristant Gilbert - 33 hc 12 c/b

Division 3
Marlene Prudden - 37 hc 23
John Baxter - 34 hc 15
Laurinn Brinn - 33 hc 24
Bo Benjaminson - 30 hc 15

Six two’s Jon Lay, Bo Benjaminson, Michael Prideaux, Kurt Bertelson, Mike Rushant, Bill Shepley