for the past 10 years......
pakYuzer, pakdokter, pak? ( lupa dong..maaf ya ) and pakMesha....
pakdokter and Maris ( ahhh yang ini bisa ingat...)
Pakdokter, whose handicap was revised upwards to 30, based on the previous day's performance, was matched to play against pakMesha, whose handicap was 29. It was a fair matching.
Pakdokter was told that pakMesa was a 'strong' hitter but had a tendency to hit 'wild'. So in order to help pakdokter remain cool, the Captain put regular winner, pakYuzer, to play in pakdokter's flight, to ensure that pakdokter had a winning chance against pakMesa.
(Pakdokter was actually deeply insulted - these people had the cheek to think that pakdokter could not be 'coooool.....' ). But pakdokter was cool enough not to show how insulted pakdokter was!
PakYuzer, with his 'hockey-style-half -back-swing' sent the first drive easily 200 yards but a little left to the first cut. His opponent hit a similar distance but further inside the fairway. PakMesha who hit next sent a long drive but almost went OB to the right. Pakdokter sent an 'ezy' swing right to the centre of the fairway just 5 yards short of the others. Pakdokter's 2nd shot unfortunately was a top that rolled into the flower bed to the left. All the other three sent their second shots short of the green. Pakdokter used a pitching wedge and manged to get the ball out of the flower bed. With 160 yards left and a huge tree in pakdokter's line, pakdokter used the 26 degrees rescue club and sent the ball for 3-on. But, as on the first day, the green was fast and pakdokter 4 putted for a 7. PakMesha went 1-up with a bogey.
PakYuzer was obviously impressed by pakdokter's drive on the first hole and was determined to do better than pakdokter this time. His drive went 200 yards a little left almost missing the bunker. PakMesha sent another long wild drive to the left into the rough. PakYuzer's opponent hit to the right. Pakdokter's 'ezy' drive went smack to the middle, further than everyone else......heh...heh.....
(PakYuzer commented that 'ini sudah lawan tuan......')
PakMesha second went way off to the right but made it up with a good chip close to the pin. Pakdokter sent the second to the green but again was let down by the putt. PakMesha went 2-up.
Still 'coool' pakdokter consecutively got pars for the next 2 holes ( please refer to the card above 'kalau tak caya'....), but pakMesha pun tak mau kalah.....He also got pars for the next 2 holes to keep the 2-up lead. The other pair in our flight was actually playing like those with handicaps of 24 saja......Pakdokter and pakMesha were actually showing them up.....
PakMesha took the next 2 holes to go 4-up before pakdokter reduced it to 3 at the 8th hole only to lose the 9th hole again to finish the 1st Nine with 4-down.
On the other hand pakYuzer was having a fairly easier time going into the 2nd Nine with 4-up? also.
Pakdokter surprised everybody with a 'birdie' on the 10th hole to reduce the deficit but lost the 11th again to go back to 4-down. Although pakMesha had 'brute, brawn and beauty', pakdokter, like any good old wine, had ' age and maturity' which made it 'smooth and easy' ( if you are a wine connoseaur, you would understand what pakdokter means). Pakdokter took the next 3-holes and went 1-down. Pakdokter could see pakMesha was showing his 'nerves' - very fragile, much like a very young and cheap wine, 'tak bolih tahan panas'......(this was actually his own excuse, he said he plays better in cooler climes., which prompted pakdokter to suggest to him that we should one day play a match in Kunming.....)
So pakdokter took the next hole to make it square at the 16th hole.
At the par-3 17th hole, pakdokter crossed the water but only to send the ball to the fore bunker. PakMesha's ball looked like it was swerving towards water but luckily landed deep into the front bunker. Pakdokter came out short, chipped in for a 5. PakMesha took out the ball nicely near the pin and took the hole with a 4.
Certain of not loosing the game anymore, pakMesha sent a long drive but to the right. Pakdokter needed to win to at least come home with half-a-point for Staroba. Pakdokter's drive was a good one to the centre. PakMesha duffed his second but unfortunately pakdokter did the same and sent it to the left but still in play. Hitting a safe 3rd out to the fairway pakdokter hit the 4th to send it just about 50 yards in front of the green. The 'excitable' pakMesha again sliced his 3rd to the right, hit the track and looked like the ball had bounced off into the flower bed behind the advertisement panel. Pakdokter was too easy with the 5th, shanked it to the right into the bunker......aduuuh.....
PakMesha found his ball behind the advertisement panel and got a free drop and could hit the 4th to the green. He felt he got the game already but chipped it short. Pakdokter hit out of the sand too hard and the ball rolled over to the opposite apron for the 6th. PakMesha topped his 5th that went over the green. Pakdokter was hoping that the ball had rolled into water but, alas, it was saved by the thick rough. Pakdokter chipped in for 7-on and 2-putted for a 9. PakMesha chipped in for 6-on but as it was further from the pin, he 3-putted for a 9 to square the whole and win the match.
Although pakdokter lost the game, pakMesha was generous in his compliments of pakdokter for despite of pakdokter's age, pakdokter had given him a good fight.
But pakdokter could not say the same of pakYuzer though. His constant whining about pakdokter's drive being further than his in a few holes luckily did not affect pakdokter's game.
(PakYuzer, by the way, easily won his match against his opponent.)
pakRoslan receiving 45 million rupiah 
