Bangkok Open - Third day: Moving day… Jang Shahbudin birdie lagi ohh… Jang Manan’s game definitely is back….

Course: Lam Lukka
Tee off: 11.30am

Lam Lukka is one of the best courses in Bangkok.. similar standard to Empire in Brunei.. Greens are fast… But tight fairways and water in play for 50% of the holes…Banyak tok nam jang… Recipe for a good score…

When we arrive after an hour’s drive from the hotel… we saw a large group of people around the golf course…

“Macam ada tournament” said Jang Budin…

there was one… Flags flew around the course

“FIFTH KING’S CUP” with some 10 teams competing….

Looks like gonna be a slow day…

Front nine: Saudi trained started brightly with three pars in the first four holes… “Only two over ohh..” I said to Jang Manan…

“Au… nda tahan Jang jadi ATM hari-hari” Manan’s game is really back… he had FIVE PARS on the front nine… the kind of form that made him an ASCOPE player many-many times…

Budin had a disastrous first four holes with a score of six over… and ended up with a 46

Yours truly, had five consecutive pars but some sloppy approach play on 8th and 9th ended up with bogeys of both holes which could have easily been pars.. I had a 40 on the outward nine.. my best so far… and then came the back nine…

Back nine: Jang Budin was seriously in trouble at the turn… he was down by six to me and seven(?) over Jang Manan… and true indeed he summoned all his skill and concentration with birdies on the 10th and 12th sandwiched with a par on the 11th… TWO UNDER GROSS OHH… AFTER THREE HOLES…. Hot streak kali ah… Three days birdie oh….averaging two birdies a day…

Ada tu karang….

Manan was ok with three consecutive bogeys confirming his game is “back”

Looking at Shahbudin’s resurgence… I had to do something… I had to respond….

I bogeyed the first two and then pared holes 12th and 13th… At the half way stage on the inward nine… I was on a roll… short game… putting… Macam Golf channel 815…. Ended up with SEVEN PARS IN A ROW… WITH 38 GROSS..
78 overall

Shahbudin.. could not capitalize on his super hot start with a costly double on the par 3 15th.. this was followed with a par, bogey and triple at the last but still a respectable 42..

Jang Manan was consistent.. but despite a double and triple on 16th and 17th his score was still good enough to beat Shahbudin for an overall 94.. a great score considering his first day’s performance…

In the end abis dorang dua… Cream always rises to the top….

PHRA RIEO CUP TO BRUNEI….

Jurubayar Agung: Jang Shahbudin
Big winner: Of course…..