PSC Golf from the Café Kronborg

Thursday, 22^nd April – Phoenix, Mountain & Ocean, Café Kronborg Monthly Mug – Stroke

Bjarne Presents The April Cafe Kronborg monthly Mug To Mikko Hiltunen

Well, golfers are now returning to Pattaya after their various “Songkran Avoidance Trips” and we were able to recruit 17 keen golfers to complete for the Café Kronborg Monthly Mug involving as usual a stroke round at Phoenix Golf & Country Club. We decided to book an early tee time (0904) to avoid clashing with other regular Thursday golfers who play there and after leaving Café Kronborg 15 minutes earlier than the normal 0815 the thirty minute journey enabled us to organize ourselves in easily enough time to hit off on time. It was great to see Mashi joining us again and Frank “Turbo” Pilkington back to defend the title he won last month.. Also a hearty welcome to Martin Todd, an old Gosnells Golf Club fellow member of mine who joined us and of course Ronnie Ratte back on R & R from his work in Korea. Teeing off right on time in very hot conditions we were treated to “millionaires” golf once again with absolutely no-one in front of us for many holes. The course was of course in great shape although the greens were somewhat slower than one would expect at Phoenix. Due to the conditions we were compelled to make three fairly lengthy drinks stops but still completed our round in four hours & thirty-five minutes. After all had showered and refreshed ourselves in the restaurant we headed back to Café Kronborg for presentations. Thanks once again to Bjarne from Café Kronborg for his continued sponsorship of this monthly event.

Just the one Flight with prizes going down to fifth place in addition to the overall Monthly Mug winner.

There were some very good scores and also some terrible ones but as you all know if you are “off your game” a stroke round will invariable get you every time. This month’s Monthly Mug was very well won by Mikko Hiltunen from Finland who tells me he was due back at work a couple of day’s ago but thanks to the volcano problems in Iceland he has been stranded here. Taking out first place in the normal competition was Mike Allidi with another excellent round and the consistent Mashi Kaneta finished second with Ronnie Ratte in third place on a count back. Last month’s winner Turbo Pilkington didn’t go away empty handed and finished fourth ahead of Graham Buckingham in fifth Place. I couldn’t finish without mentioning that the “Compass Hat” was won today by yours truly on a count back from Andre Van Dyk.

Results for Phoenix:

Winner of the April Café Kronborg Monthly Mug – Mikko Hiltunen (26) – Nett 66

1^st – Mike Allidi (4) – Nett 69

2^nd – Mashi Kaneta (10) – Nett 70

3^rd – Ronnie Ratte (29) – Nett 77

4^th – Frank Pilkington (17) – Nett 77

5^th – Graham Buckingham (21) – Nett 78

The starting sheet for Ray Rogers Memorial Birthday Four Person Scramble scheduled for Thursday, 6^th May at Plutaluang is now up on the notice board at Café Kronborg so please put your names down for this very popular event as soon as possible.