May 2025
Highlands, 13.05.25 The International
Ten teams representing seven countries and two areas today participated in a most enjoyable scramble event at one of the better courses in Chiang Mai. This event consistently attracts the largest entry of all CMSG events throughout the year.
38 members all arrived in plenty of time enabling us to have a mini shotgun start. Many thanks to Highlands for agreeing to this, and many thanks to all these 38 members for making it easy for the organisers. However, I am going to criticise one member who did not show, nor had the courtesy to let us know he wasn’t coming. You let the Society down but more importantly you let your other team-mates down who had to play as a 3 ball.
It looked at first that we were going to get caught in a heavy shower. It started to rain heavily at 8.40, but at 8.50 it stopped and we had great weather all the way round. The course was in good condition although a few of the greens were a bit slow.
Nearest the pin prizes were sponsored by Chris Ryan and Bluestar. One was won by Iain Jensen and all the other three were won by Randy Teisl. In his generosity Randy only kept one and donated the other two to a lucky draw. These two were won by Fergal Barry-Murphy and Lamyai Prasarn. Thankyou Randy!
These were the scores for all the teams
Australia 52.750 – winners
New Zealand 55.125 – 2nd
North America 56.625 -3rd
U.K.1 – 56.750
USA – 58.625
Europe – 59.833
U.K.2 – 60.250
Netherlands 60.875
Thailand 63.325
Switzerland 63.833
Congratulations Australia
Paul Marsh, Peter Cheong, Garry Walker and Shane Lambert
Other team photographs
Team Europe Christian Friis, Fergal Barry-Murphy and Serge Arnaud + a phantom
Team U.K.2 Brian Rundle, Stuart Duncan, Iain Craig and Roger Bishop
Team U.K.1 – Julian Wing, Kenny Jones, Iain Jensen and Chris Ryan
MaeJo, 09.05.2025
13 players, 12 in the comp. Warm out today, all groups finished in under 4 hours. Course conditions are really good, a couple greens have been sanded. The birdie hole was taken out today by Eric. Tied in 3rd place with 32 points Randy, Mike and Kay Kay. In second place with 34 points was Eric and todays winner with 35 points John O. See you all Tuesday at the international.
John O, Randy, Eric, Kay Kay and Mike
MaeJo, 07.05.2025
Another fine day at MaeJo today, however like Haripunchai it became very warm at the end of the round. The course was in good condition following the Singha tournament last week with a couple of the greens being lightly sanded. There were 14 players today with 12 in the competition. We played a stoke play competition, in 1st place was Nigel with a net 71, in 2nd place with a net 73 was John De Jong and in joint 3rd place with a net 75 was Iain Craig and Randy Teisl. Well done to everyone that competed today.
Randy, John DJ, Nigel and Iain.
Hariphunchai, 07.05.2025
Another lovely morning for golf, it was roasting hot by the time we finished. The course remains in very good condition, the greens were very fast. New sand has been added to the bunkers, this resulted in some buried balls. We had 11 members playing today, we also welcomed Ian back and wish him all the best in his new role as Lanna Captain. Lamyai and Shane were tied for 2nd on 36 points and our clear winner on 38 points was Brian.C, well done guys.
Please remember that next Wednesday’s event at Hariphunchai is cancelled.
Shane, Brian and Lamyai
Hariphunchai, 01.05.2025
Originally, we weren’t going to play Hari this week as the majority of the members were playing Highlands on Tuesday. It was Serge who suggested playing on Thursday as Maejo was closed for the PGA championship. We ended up with 13 members and 1 guest. It was nice to see Randy and Aom again and we welcomed Rob Knight who was up from Phuket for a week. We decided to try something different and we went for a 2-ball better ball format. With the government holiday it was busier than normally and we had some large groups in front. After some discussions we decided to field a 6ball followed by 2 x 4 balls. We experienced some delays but all groups finished in just over 4hrs. The scoring was pretty close, in second place on 45 points were Shane/Brian and our winners today on 46 points were KK and Serge, well done.
The course manager also thanked us with some free Ice cream on completion of the round.
Brian, Shane, KK and Serge