A Golfer's Delight

I was on a visit to the Trivandrum Golf Club and played a round of 18 holes on sunday and 9 holes on Monday.

The weather was wonderful with cloudy sky,light drizzle and the course at its best green with the trees grown taller.The view of the Ponmudi hills in the backdrop was wonderful too.

The only structure of its kind in India and maybe whole of the world this Golf club building -a pagoda like structure is unique.

I was happy to see that the club has also received the best Tourist friendly golf club award in Asia and Pacific.

In fact when I was playing there I had given a suggestion to have special packages for tourists to enjoy the only one of its kind heritage golf club in the world.

I had a good round on sunday making at least 7 or 8 pars.

1st November 2009 saw the All Cargo ECULine Golf Invitational Masters Tournament very successfully organised at the Oxford Golf & Country Club Pune.
The participants included Shri Tarun Govil,R.B.Tiwari and Shri R.K.Jain Commissioner's.
3.11.09
There was the first hole in one at the Oxford Golf & Country club during this tournament by Mr.........
It was managed by the Tiger Sports Marketing.
Mr.Brandon D'Souza was at the mike.
There was music and prizes.
The OGCC looks beautiful but is also demanding as 260 balls were lost by about 90 participants in 18 holes play.
The man behind it all Mr.Shashi Kiran Shetty,MD of All Cargo and his team with ECU Line.
In addition to the longest drive and closest to pin prizes in each group,
the winners list is as follows:-
Hole-in-One--
Overall Winner--
Overall runner-up--

0-14 winner--
runner-up
15-18
18-24
25-36

Mr.Paciano

Randomly made team of two winners
runners-up
There was a small mishap with one of the golf carts for hole 14 when the golfer driving it tried to drive with one hand while sipping the hot tea with the other and the golf car went in to the left side drainage ditch as he tried to pass the tea cup to the caddy behind.Escaped with very mild cuts & bruises and some pain.

All wished the next tournament would come soon.

Played today at the Willingdon Sports Club golf course,mahalaxmi,Mumbai,Bombay,India.
Got five pars.My drives are getting back the boom.Short game needs some more time to get back to earlier or better levels.

First hole
1-In the bunker
2 on the fringe
3-near the hole
4-putted in (4/3)

Second hole
1.Driver to the right
2-3 low shot went off the fairway to rough on the left
3-a low punch reached the green
4 & 5 putts (5/4)

third hole
1-driver2 went straight-good shot
2.9 into the bunker
3 sw on the fringe
4 putt close
5 putt given (5/4)

fourth hole
1-driver2 sliced to over the trees to right
2-choice to go to side or over the tree and bunker or go low and head for bunker;chose to go over the tree-caddy said take full shot but to gain height took the pitch shot which grazed the top of the tree and fell in to the bunker
3-sw in to the next bunker
4-sw on to the green
5-putt
6-putt (6/3)

fifth hole
1-driver-hooked left hit trees and fell in penalty area
2 in penalty drop area
3-3w-long
4-3w-long but right in to the right greenside bunker
5-sw-just manage to get to the fringe
6-duffed chip just on to the green
7-putt-long close to hole& 8-putt given(but putted)
8/5

sixth hole
1-Driver-good shot right down the middle
2-3 long but went over the fairway into clay area mud dried gravel
3-7i hit the ground and so ball went short of green
4-putter missed the hole to the right and got the slope
5 and 6 putts (6/4)

seventh hole
cross the road back
1-drive- long and straight-really good drive
2-3i-a little long-little too much to right in to the penalty drop area of mud
4-7i duffed in the sand
5-7i went to the left front of green
6-close to hole
7-putt given (7/5)

eighth hole
1-Driver-what a shot-straight,long, right down the middle-appreciation from all
2-9i -short of the sucking water body
3-7i-right to the flag but a little more to the left back on the slope above
4-drained putt a little past the hole,just missed the right line
5-putt for par --Satisfaction and appreciation for the good par from all(5/5 on difficult hole)

ninth hole
1-driver-ob hits the trees to the left,2-penalty
3-driver again into the left trees and OB-4-penalty
5-driver too hard again trees but luckily rolls to the right side of the fairway
6-3w-long shot right of the fairway below a tree-bunker comes in between
7-a 4i shot right up the green and finish with a putt (8/5)
Still not found my game yet--my group says -you will get it back if you are able to play more on the course.You have the game -a very good drive-Play more, Sir!