This month's golf news and features

Toby Charnaud Murdered

Our committee member was found dead. He had been missing since 27th March and on 4th May his burnt remains were found in the Kaeng Krachan area of Petchaburi Province, people are being held on suspicion of being involved in Toby's death, pending forensic reports.

On 24th May 52 of us set out from Hua Hin on our farthest away trip to date. After some delay we all arrived at our hotel around 1 am on Monday 25th. There were 40 golfers and most of us played 3 rounds, at Royal Chiang mai twice and once at Gasson Khun Tan. The overall Single champion was Barry Moore with 99 points, stableford for the three days. The return journey was without delays and the whole adventure was voted a great success.

4 Ball better bad league.

This starts on 1st June and runs until 11th October, 10 (2 player) teams will play each other once and the leading pair will win our inaugural league. Matches will be played once every 14 days at a course agreed on by both teams, the total green fee cost for the four players will be shared evenly. 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, for a draw, no extra holes.

Recent Results

25th April at Royal Chiang Mai 40 players 20 pairs

1st Petra / Sam Sheriff 69pts Agg. Stableford

2nd Tip Gouldby/ Mick Evans 65pts

26th April at Gasson Khun Tan 38 players 19 pairs

1st Jim Kennedy / John Pritlove 60pts. Agg.

2nd Paavo / Robert Laminit 57pts.

27th April at Royal Chiang Mai 38 players 19 pairs

1st Robert Baker / Paavo 70pts Agg. Stableford

2nd Kjell Darselious / Malcolm Taylor 66pts.

Individual Results over 3 days Stableford

1st Barry Moore 99pts 6 hcp.

2nd Mike Ford 94pts. 11 hcp. c/b

3rd Robert Laminit 94pts. 10 hcp.

4th Neung 92pts. hcp 19

29th April at Spring• eld 24 players one group

1st Fritz 44pts. hcp 8

2nd Brian Haynos 37pts. hcp 11

3rd May at Palm Hills 37 players

‘A' group 0-18 Hcp 1st Doug East 70 net 16 hcp.

2nd Jim Kennedy 71 net. 17 hcp.

‘B' Group 19-36 Hcp 1st Neung 39 pts. 19 hcp.

2nd Walter Sroka 38 pts. 20 hcp.

6th May at Lake View 48 players

‘A'Group 0-18 hcp. 1st Neung 73 net 17 hcp.

2nd Jon 73 net 8 hcp.

13th May at Spring• eld 42 players

‘A' Group 1st Chaun 65 net 13 hcp.

2nd Laurence Garrett 69 net 9 hcp.

‘B' Group 1st Heinz Den 41 pts. 20 hcp.

2nd Luciano 37 pts. 19 hcp.

17th May at Spring• eld 37 players one group.

1st Hans Philpsen 45 pts. 15 hcp.

2nd Boom Schroeder 41 pts. 19 hcp.

3rd Doug East 39 pts. 16 hcp.

4th Adrian (Guest) 39 pts. 10 hcp.

Fixtures for June

Friday 3rd Spring• eld

Tuesday 7th Lake View

Friday 10th Hua Hin

Tuesday 14th Sawang

Friday 17th Palm Hills

Tuesday 21st Majestic creek

Friday 28th Spring• eld

Thursday 30th Lake View

Forthcoming events

3rd -7th July Annual Pattaya trip.

8th – 9th August 2 days one night in Ratchaburi, 2

rounds of golf at Royal Ratchaburi and Panurangsi

End of October commencement of the annual match

play championship

Early December, 36 hole stroke play championship.

Fit for Golf

This month the subject is strength training. Once the body is functioning properly and flexibility is good the muscles can be worked on to add more power to the game. This doesn't entail big heavy weights, on the contrary, for most of you a muscle bound body will not be flexible enough to give you a good swing. To perform the following exercises you will need something that weighs about 1 to 5 kgs. Also because you will be asked to throw the weight you will need something soft for it to land on, this we will call the landing pad.

Though the movements look as though they have nothing to do with golf they are still strengthening the body giving more power. Firstly to strengthen the shoulders stand side on to your landing pad. Keep the elbow into the side and bend the arm about 90o. Turn the lower arm out as far as is comfortable and throw the 1 kg weight at your landing pad. Then turn change hands and turn the arm in as far as it is comfortable and throw towards landing pad. This will strengthen the rotators in the shoulders and add more power as well as increasing stability to the shoulder area. Once you have completed 10 repetitions on one side turn round and exercise the other side.

Turning the torso is a major part of the golf swing so adding to the power of this area will give more force to the club and further distance. You may need the 5kg weight for this one. Stand side on to the landing pad with the body and weight turned away from said landing pad. Hold the weight close to the body as not to strain the shoulders and turn towards the landing pad throwing the weight at the pad. Repeat 10 times and then turn round to throw it in the opposite direction. All of the body can move so shift the body weight from one leg to the other and turn the hips and legs also. It is useful to breathe out as you throw the weight to help with the release. By working the rotating muscles in the torso you will increase speed helping to hit further and have the control to maintain body position.

The above exercises are better performed under supervision with the right equipment so if you are interested in improving the power of your body to hit the ball further then contact Terry at www.fit-foregolf.com or ring me on 01 0096588 .

The SAGA TAILOR Tour

Results from the latest “SAGA TAILOR TOUR” tournaments

Royal Hua Hin: Monday the 25 of April.

Place Name Score OoM Prize money

1 Somchai Saiwong 72 30 2900 Baht

2 John Wither 72 21.5 1150 Baht

2 Niwat Sesawat 72 21.5 1150 Baht

Lake View DESERT : Monday the 9 of May.

Place Name Score OoM Prize money

1 Somchai Saiwong 74 30 2700 Baht

2 Suwit Pahulo 75 24 1500 Baht

3 Jorgen Persson 76 17 250 Baht

3 Odom Poolsawat 76 17 250 Baht

The next coming tournaments on the SAGA TAILOR Tour.

DATE TOURNAMENT NAME REGISTRATION VENUE

Mon 6 of Jun 23 rd leg of the SAGA TAILOR Tour 07.30 - 08.00 SPRINGFIELD

Mon 20 of Jun 24 th leg of the SAGA TAILOR Tour 07.30 - 08.00 LAKE VIEW

After 21 tournaments of a total 24 on the “SAGA TAILOR TOUR” the OoM standings are as follows on the 2004/2005 years schedule.

ORDER OF MERIT STANDINGS

Place Name OoM points

1 Jorgen Persson 272.8

2 Suwit Pahulo 261.6

3 Kenny Walker 204.3

4 Jaruk Thananuphan 186.5

5 Somchai Saiwong 150.8

6 Tanin Nim-Oth 145.6

7 Odom Poolsawat 138.5

8 Simon Yates 131

9 Supavit Tiansomboon 122.5

10 Christopher Longbottom 70.8

With 30 points for a win anything can happed before the season is over at the end of June 2005.

I'll specially like to thank all 118 players that have been supporting the TOUR during this season, THANKS!!!!

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