BMMJ June Medal: BSM golfers steal the show

1. Sirup scores nett 61
2. Bahreen fails to cross ladies tee on #18
3. Zairin remain winless
4. Extraordinary day of golf

1. Sirup scorched the RBA GC with a 75 gross and 61 nett on his way to winning his first BMMJ tournament in only his second start. Not sure what in his breakfast but anyway well done Jang! (Worth noting also his BSM colleague Asmadi Putih "Medz Whyte" also came home with a 65 nett 83 gross.

2. Teh tariks all round!

3. AIS still looking for his first win despite playing 3 under!

4. Pg Joanda was only one over par after seven holes but ended up with 87, Pg Ali among top five for second consecutive game, low scores by Bahreen (80), Yunos (82), Samuil (83) Shahbudin (86) who all were playing near or even par handicap.. Mikin susah cari makan ani usulnya..

There's a new croc in town! Sirup Tuah does 61 nett

BMMJ June Medal
RBA GC
25th June 2011

Winner = Sirup Tuah 61 nett (75 gross)
Runner up = Asmadi Puteh 65 nett (another croc)
Third = Hj Mohd Zairin 68 nett (and still winless)

NTP #2 = Sirup Tuah
NTP #5 = No winner (shy meh dapan club house)

Well done to one of our newest BMMJ member.. and also breaks previous record held by Affandy of 65 nett

Photos and full story to come

June Medal - RBA Golf Club, 25th June 2011

Tee off: 7.30am
Lunch pool: $15 to Yusof Hj Johan
Tournament Fee: $10 to Bahreen

Flight one
1. Hj Md Yusof
2. Hj Zairin
3. Hj Rahim
4. Mohamad Damit

Flight Two
5. Pg Ali
6. Yusof Johan
7. Sirup Tuah
8. Nazrul Hizam B Ahmad

Flight Three
9. Asmadi Puteh
10. Mohd Yunos
11. Abd Walid
12. Yuichiro YS Saito,

Flight Four (Group of death)
13. Hj Shahbudin
14. Pg Joanda
15. Hj Samuil
16. Bahreen

GY in trouble

BMMJ golfers like a good challenge.. You have seen recently trouble with Mr. pensioner, now you can also learn from GY how to escape from DEEP trouble.. Must have been harnessing the skill cutting the lawn during his younger days..

Candidate for photo of the year!

A new golf superstar is born

Rory McIlroy displayed the maturity, determination and patience of a player well beyond his tender age to win the U.S Open by a massive eight strokes over second placed Jason Day at Congressional country club. His total score of 16 under par broke at least a dozen scoring records both at the US open and major championships.

If there were any doubters about his ability, then this would definitely cast that aside forever. So take out those history books, hold the front page and crash those websites.. because there is more to come from the boy from Hollywood, Ireland.

Pic: European Tour/Getty

On the verge of greatness

Go on Rory, take your place in history and prove to all what we knew all along..

Pic: Reuters

Another birthday - Pg Joanda

Best wishes Pro.. from all of us

Shahbudin hits the big 5 - 0

Warm greetings & best wishes on your birthday from all of us.. As gift for everybody, next game all reduce by 2 strokes.. hehe

US open

This year's second major looks very difficult to predict who will win. In previous years, it would be just Tiger and three or four other players that had the potential to win. With Tiger out injured this year, i believe there are at least ten players who have a good chance at Congressional.

Will the bridesmaid finally become the bride? Will it be finally Mickelson's time to win?

Will new world #1 Luke Donald silence his critics and finally land one? Which the same can be said for Europeans Lee Westwood, Paul Casey, Rory McIlroy and Ian Poulter.

So what about the Americans and the rest? David Toms looks solid as do Steve Stricker. Has Dustin Johnson learn anything from last year?

Some say the South Africans will finish strong with recent good form for Ernie and Retief.

So, it gonna be difficult to decide but i have a sneaky feeling an outsider will lift the trophy this year.

Photos: USGA

The Players: Best of the rest

For more photos, please go to Zairin's FB page and go to bandung/bmmj...

G2 in trouble at Empire (again)

As requested by Hj Zairin and as per his FB, our senior golfer was in trouble off the tee on #10 & #11 (our first and second hole) during our Players tournament last week. Case of same problem, different day... hehe

Merit Table: Post Players Championship

Full list of players points up to the Players.

Mohamad shoots straight to tied third with Hj Dua while Hj Samuil maintains P1.
Last year's President's Trophy winner Affandy Ahmad balum start engine lagi due to work commitments.

Singapore course ranking by Golf Digest (Singapore)

Took this from the online edition and makes interesting reading. Ive been privileged to play both TMCC courses and the Garden course deserves to be number one. Course is in top condition and the layout is pretty testing.

On the other hand, im a bit baffled as to the lower ranking of Laguna and high ranking of SICC Bukit course. Believe Laguna course should be higher mainly for its stern but fair test on players and pretty much water everywhere.

Own goal by KGT ( & OneAsia Tour?)

Not sure if you are following the rivalry between the well established Asian Tour and the upstart OneAsia tour over the last few years. With the latter being formed by the Australian, New Zealand, China, Korea (KGT) and Japan Tour associations.

OneAsia's objective is to be the leading tour in Australia and Asia competing on the same turf of the Asian Tour. Some Asian Tour members were fined and suspended for playing in an OneAsia tournament two yrs ago one of them is the former Brunei Open Winner - Terry Pilkadaris.

Anyway, the point is last weekend there was a golf tournament by KGT at the same time OneAsia also had a tournament in China (the Nanshan Masters) which offered more money (US$1m) than the KGT tournament (US$0.5m)

So they fined Kim B.O and Kim Dae Yun for playing the OneAsia tournament instead of their domestic tournament. Just to rub salt in the wounds, Kim BO won the Nanshan Masters in a play off over Michael Long.

BMMJ Players: The Novelty winners

BMMJ Players: The Winners

Thanks to Mohamad for the lunch! (Overdraft by $90)

Thanks to sponsors

Many thanks to our sponsors for making the Players Championship a big success..

Hj Amir Osman
Kenneth Lim
Hj Abd Rahim Matusin
Asmadi Puteh
Jamil Harun

Mohamad is the Players Champion!

Results

Winner: Mohamad Damit 67 nett
Runner up: Pengiran Hj Ali Matarsat 73 nett
Third: Hj Mohd Yusof Md Taufik 74 nett (ocb)
Fourth: Hj Mohd Zairin Abdullah 74 nett
Fifth: Bahreen Hamzah 77 nett

NTP #4: Hj Shahbudin Musa
NTP #16: Hj Dua Jais
Longest Drive #8: Hj Amir Osman (Jauuhh tu kap)
Sunshine golfer: Abd Walid Md Taufik

Other Scores (Gross)
Hj Shahbudin 94
Pg Joanda 86
Hj Amir 91
Abd Walid 121
Hj Rahim 104
Saito 102
Kenneth 94
Hj Dua 89

Second Major of the Year - The Players Championship

Lunch pool: $15 (pass to Yusof Johan or Zairin)
Lunch venue: KTM Jerudong
Tournament fee: $10 (pass to me)

Prizes
Winner = 1000 pts (Chop 2 stroke handicap)
R-up = 800 pts (chop 1 stroke)
3rd = 500 pts
4th = 300 pts
5th = 200 pts
Others = 100pts

Novelties:
1. 2 X NTP
2. Active player