CLUB 12/68 ANNUAL REUNION IN BANGKOK 23 – 27 SEPTEMBER 2017

 DAY 5 – 27th September 2017.
GOLFThis was to be our second golf game in Bangkok. Its at Riverdale Golf Club. As described in the brochure: A premium course with excellent greens and hole routing. Designed by Jonathan Morrow and Al Tikkanen. Riverdale Golf Club is destined to become one of the most celebrated Bangkok golf courses.

The landscape includes several large lakes which were dredged to create the hills that surround the golf course and frame most of the holes. Beyond the perimeter though there's not much to look as it is predominantly comprised of factories and small villages. But once you've fired your opening tee-shot at the gently sloping downhill opener, the challenges and considerable charm of these immaculately groomed links will quickly assert themselves.
Aside from its excellent conditioning and undoubted challenges, the real joy of Riverdale Golf Club lies in its wonderful interplay of gently rolling fairways, many small reed-lined lakes, raised greens, excellent bunkering, and large hills that break-up some of the layout's innate openness.
After negotiating many immaculate, subtly breaking greens and hopefully coming through the 18 holes with scorecard relatively intact, enjoy cool refreshments at the contemporary styled club house which overlooks the 1st and 18th holes. Elegant locker rooms provide for nice changing facilities characteristic of a 5-star private members golf club.
We got there after a 40 minute ride. Change and proceeded to the buggies, caddies and the 1st tee-box. A group photograph prevailed.

 
We were in our grey golf shirts.

 R17 BANGKOK on the left sleeve, our names on the right sleeve, The Riverdale Golf Club logo on the right chest and our Club logo on the left chest and the Sponsor’s logo TM, on the right – emblazoned with pride. We top it with the designers’ caps on our heads. Impressive.

 

 

 

 

 

It was an interesting stroll through the course. As it gets midday the heat was getting to us. More so buggies were confined to the tracks only. Chances were that we tend to place our shots away from the buggy tracks. And it’ll be another 30 metres walk to it. Phew.

We got back in one piece and after cleaning up proceeded for lunch. Linking up with the rest of the club members.
It was here that the prizes were distributed. The prizes were all in KL. We just drew lots on the prenumbered prizes to be claimed once home. By order of performance we drew. What was interesting was that the front runners may not necessarily win the better prize. It was the Luck of the Draw.

 

 

 

The standings of the 15 golfers are shown below;

 And their winnings were:

We then proceeded to the airport for home. It’s  been 5 days of fun, frolic, food and fraternising. A bit of bearable glitch, then we were airborne reaching KLIA at about 12.00 midnight.
Good Show Fellas. Hope we’ll be able to link up again one of these days.
Warmest Regards