Another golf

Ok, so I will try and not make every blog post about golf. Just because golf is what I do I know that everyone out there doesn't want to hear golf all the time.
But you have to know that my life experiences will lean towards golf. You get that right. I mean, I play golf. I do not do it for a living. I do nothing for a living. Playing golf is what I do though to get away from my job, just like you would. It's relaxing. Gets my mind off the routine. Exercise, fresh air and comaraderie. Well not so much of that here, but still it is exercise. If you walk.

The other day I am at my course. I took a few pics with the bb, they aren't the greatest quality but good for putting up here on the blog. No pics of the caddies! I will put up one to get over the mind picture that some of you have of this experience. Trust me, you are wrong. They are caddies. How many of the caddies on the pga tour are you staring at? Right, same here!

The first shot with the club house behind is of  the 18th green, you can see the pin which is sitting just off to the right side of the picture here.

This is the landing area / fairway of the 18th hole. A good drive from the whites (235) would put you here with only a wedge in. I play from the yellow tees most often and would have about 8 iron in. Fairway slopes hard left to water so you need to play the ball up on the right hand side. Then you hit across the pond into the green. Nice way to finish with a medium difficulty par 4.





18th green again in the shot to the right, I took two pics of this one because the first time I played the course I stuck a wedge to within four feet and made the putt to finish the round with a birdie. Wahoo! A perfect end to my first round.

In this  picture, I believe it is the fairway on # 9 you may have to look real close but you will be able to see to the right of the cell phone tower another tower just sticking up between a u in the trees. This tower has got flood lights on it. Yes, the other reason I joined this course is because it has night golf. In the heat of the summer it may not be possible to play in 42 degree heat without passing out, soooo play at night when the temperature drops to a fresh 33. Wonderful. I am sure that first round will be a blog all to itself. Caddy should earn her money that day.
Go find my ball!!
Hehehe.

This is the short par 4 #15 dog leg left. Big hitters go for it over top of those trees on the left. I aim just left of those two tall coconut trees (all palm trees are referred to as coconut trees by farang like me) and try to fade the ball into the middle of the fairway. Leaves a comfortable 7 or 8 iron into a tough front to back sloping green. Greens here are firm and do not accept a low shot well. If you want the ball to stop better be hitting it Tiger high coming in. Playing the ball to the front edge of the green is what I try to do so the ball has a chance to stay on the putting surface.

Speaking of big hitters, last time out I played with two young Thai fellas. I would put them at about 23 - 25. Both of them pounded the ball about 270 - 80. They played the tips. And I mean the tips. To heck with the tee blocks. These guys stood at the very back edge of the tee box to tee it up. Playing from the Gold tees left me just 10 or so yards behind them in the fairway.

When I met these gentlemen on the first tee I think they gave me the old Bowery Boys shuffle. Cause when they introduces themselves I heard their names as "Bip" and the other was "Bap".
Yeah, so now what do I do? Hey it's bad enough when two guys you have never met before in your whole life are named Larry and Gary and the third guy in the group is, well I don't know, because I forgot that already. But "Bip and Bap". Come on. That's a set up.
It goes something like this:

"Nice shot Bip"
"Uh sorry misster, he Bip methap."
"Sorry what, you're methupt, I thought your name was Bapt, orrr...."
"No Bap"
"Bip"
"Uh what, uh who's away, I think its............... one of you guys?" He says pointing

So on to Nice Shot, or Yeah Baby, no name mentioned. And as always at the end of the round. "Gentlemen, thank you very much for the game. Pleasure, Great to meet you . Thank you. Korp Koon Krup. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Much bowing and bobbing of heads.
Under his breath as he walks away he whispers, maybe we should wear those red and white tags with HELLO MY NAME IS: on your shirt. On the back of your shirt anyway!
Sawadee Krup