Chiang Rai Cup – Waterford, 16.11.16 ( final leg)
This Wednesday we held the final championship round of the “GMSG Chiang Rai Cup” at the beautiful ” Thailand’s Augusta of the North” Waterford Valley Golf Resort. After a hearty pre-evening meal at a new “Indian” cuisine restaurant and a few post meal liquid refreshments most members sojourned for the evening in order to be completely rested for the next’s day’s final leg of the Chiang Rai cup.
Prior to our on schedule 9:00 am tee-off we were experiencing heavy fog conditions that eventually burned off subsequently resulting in sunny and blue skies for the majority of our round with a few clouds to help cover the hot late morning sun.
The pre-favorite winners, based on the their 1st leg results, teed off first followed by the remaining groups all formed based on yesterday’s results. Upon completing this final leg we had some surprising results as a couple of the front runners fell by the wayside opening up opportunities to other players.
For reference, as I was inputting the scores, a few of the members were predicting and as they say “counting there money prematurely” as the final resulted were not tabulated!
Low and behold we had a few surprises on the final leg as can be noted in the following results table:
The top (5) finishers:
| 15-Nov-16 | 16-Nov-16 | ||||
| Player | Santiburi Stableford Points | Waterford Stableford Points | Total Points | ||
| John Noyes | 40 | 32 | 72 | ||
| Lawrence Nahlik | 30 | 42 | 72 | ||
| Graham Adams | 36 | 35 | 71 | ||
| Jomo Mac Dermott | 34 | 36 | 70 | ||
| Craig Morris | 32 | 37 | 69 |
As noted above our sleeper player today was Lawrence Nahlik who posted a fantastic final round score of (42) points tyings yesterday’s score of (42) poted by Gerry Brimacombe. Lawrence’s achievement resulted in a tie for 1st place with John Noyes both scoring a 2-day (72) points and capturing the 2016 Chiang Rai Cup!
Hats off to all of today’s winners.
A new “Chiang Rai” trophy is on order as Gordon Langtry refuses to part with the existing trophy as it was the only award he ever achieved. Hearsay is, the year Gordon won there were only (2) competitors with Gordon keeping score for both players as the other player had touble counting.
2016 Chiang Rai Cup group photo
2nd Leg Winners Circle – Jomo, Lawrence, & Craig
The 2016 Chiang Rai Cup Champions – Lawrence & John