International, North Hill 23.03.17
For the 2017 “International” we had (53) members comprising (14) teams all arriving on time for an most orderly on schedule 9:00 AM tee-off. Prior to announcing the results a special thank you goes out to Gary and JayJay Walker for coordinating the on-course aspects of this year’s tournament. Also, hats off to the staff of North Hills for their outstanding efforts to make this a most successful event.
Relative to the results it should be noted that David Urlwin Smith won both closest to the pin on holes #4 and # 14. On hole #4 David tee shot was 5′-31/2″ from the pin and on hole 14 he was 1′-81/2″ from the pin. Based on our policy of only (1) prize per member Peter (Smiley) Haddon was awarded a prize for second place on hole #4 with a shot of 7″6″ from the pin. Great golf David and Smiley!
Jack & Smiley
David Urlwin
Getting to the overall results we had some pretty impressive results as noted in the following results:
Winner, Team USA (Trump), Mike, Jack, Randy & Tom
Runner Up, Team Chiang Mai, Jomo, Darrell, Kieran & Roscoe
Tied for third: Team England: Mark, Nigel J., David and Julian
Tied third: Geelong Cats, Bob, Kuzie, Shannon and Graham (not in picture)
On March 23rd at 09:00 am we will have The International Tournament @ the North Hill Golf Course. North Hill will donate 2 Golf shirts and 2 Golf hats for closest to Pin on 2 Par 3s (to be decided).
The pricing received from North Hill is as follows:
Green Fee: 800 Baht for NH members Incl. Caddy, non members 1.000 Baht including Caddy.
Golf Cart: 500 Baht
Teams shall be made up of 4 members from the same country. If that is not possible, they shall be from the same continent or other region (e.g. Scandinavia, North America, South America, Europe, etc.). If a team cannot be or does not want to be created in this way, then that team can of course play, but are not eligible for the trophy but can enter the money wager. The committee shall have the final say in what constitutes a qualifying team.
The following rules apply:
- All players can tee off at each hole.
- The nominated team captain then selects the best drive and marks the position with a tee peg (not nearer the hole). The other players then retrieve their balls.
- A minimum of three tee drives (only par 4 and par 5) per player is to be used. The second shot and third (and so on) can be hit by all players.
- The players play within a score card distance of the tee – peg (not nearer the hole). Note! Golf balls shall be placed on closely mown areas and dropped if the chosen ball in play is in the rough or a hazard (one penalty shot).
- Par 3’s are played by all Team members and do not count as Drives.
- The above method of play is followed until the green is reached.
- On the green the same method applies. The chosen ball is marked and players putt from the same spot in turn.
- Each player must mark the ball after putting. Play continues – from each chosen position until the ball is holed. If a player misses the Putt and taps it in without giving his team members a chance to putt than this is the final score.
- The score is the total number of shots from the chosen spots (including the tee shot).
- As for the Score calculation, a divider of 8 is used from the combined Course Handicap of all 4 players (if three players the divider is 6), this will be the team Course Handicap numbers will not rounded to prevent ties.
- If a team consist of only 3 players (the divider is 6 from the combined team Course Handicap), each player must have at least 4 drives counted for the team. 3-ball team has (4) puts of the selected ball on the green. Each member of the team rotates who makes the 4th put.
At the end of the round the total for each hole is added together and the strokes received subtracted to give the total net medal score for the round. The winning team will be the one with the lowest net score. All other rules of golf apply to the “Ball in Play”. Rule 14.2. (assistance) will be ignored for the Club Scramble.
Teams submitted:
- The Brits = Julian Wing, David Urlwin-Smith, Nigel Jones, Mark Morris
- England = Peter Haddon, Soren Nielson, Ashley Kim Sing, Keith Freeman
- Europe = Frank Schwarz, Lennart Larsson, Alex Stewart, Christian Friis
- Team USA = Randy Teisl, Tom Berger, Mike Pattavina, Jack Kuzina
- Canadian Beavers = Ted Taylor, Ralph Hamilton, Barry Ochitwa, Gary Lyon
- Team Australia = Michael Kuzmich, Graham Adams, Shannon Livingstone, Bob Green
- Skippy’s = Garry Walker, Ric Cameron, Terry Redding, Lester Twidgen
- Thailand Lanna = Jayjay Walker, Tayakorn Saenjuy, Ram Taylor, Preeya Lounsbury
- Stars & Stripes = Yung Beece, Roger Mack, Jim Hopkins, Steve Bjorge
- The Dutch = Joop Schillemans, Rob Grootenhuijs, Ans Scholten, Mari-Anne Lancel
- Team No Name = Nigel Stubbs, Andy Galwey, Ian Carr
- Team Chiang Mai = Roscoe Butler, Kieran Savage, Darrell Pinney, Jomo MacDermott
- Team Lotus Bar = Mike Belbin, George Appleton, Peter Brown
- Team Lanna 2 = Inthira Patterson, Noy Taylor, Sarinee Livingstone