The International cup was up for grabs again. This time the venue was the new Chiang Mai Inthanon golf course, and what a day it turned out to be. 40 members had signed up for this Texas scramble event and everyone turned up bright and early. So early in fact that the shotgun start was 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Thank you all.
The course was in as good condition as you can expect from a brand new golf course. The fairways nice with enough grass to make decent shots and yet give lots of roll, so many long drives were made. The greens are still a bit hard, but very nice and they read true.
The staff at Inthanon did a great job with transportation to the various tees and even had set out the nearest to pin markers, much too our pleasant surprise.
The Ambrose system worked very well, with a difference of only 5 shots between the winning team and the last team.
Results were as follows:
1. Team Australia Net 58
2. Team International Vikings Net 59
3, Team North America Net 59.99
4. Team International Nomads Net 60
4, Team Canada Net 60
4. Team Colonials Net 60
7. Team England Crusaders Net 61
8, Team USA Net 62
8. Team International Fusion Net 62
10, Team Thai Net 63
Nominations will be accepted at venues from 2nd March 2010, from Current Members only, for this years Challenge Cup which will be held at Doi Inthanon on Thursday 25th March 2010 (700 Baht inc.caddy).It will be an 09:00 tee-off but all nominated teams are to be at the course, registered and green fees paid by 08:30.
A Nomination Fee of 200 Baht is to be paid by each member and nominations will close on 21st March 2010. Once your fee is paid your name will appear on the website and once your nominated team is fully paid up it will be listed on the website.
Teams should consist of 4 golfers from the same country of origin. You can nominate a team but they must comply with country of origin. If there are insufficient numbers from any individual country to make up a team then the team will be subject to committee approval and subsequent teams will be made up from the nomination list e.g., if insufficient from Norway, Sweden or Denmark then they will be combined to form a Scandinavian Team. The committee will also endeavor to accomodate all paid up playing members to form a team if a national team cannot be formed under the above terms.
All team
s will have a handicap which will be deducted from their gross team score at the end of the game to give a net result. The handicap system used will be the Ambrose method for details of this see this link Ambrose Method HandicapWinning Country and names will be engraved on the Perpetual Trophy. There will be cash prizes which will be determined by the number of nominations received and there will also be nearest the pin prizes.
Rules
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ch player must uset three of his/her drives on the 14 par 4 or 5 holes and indicate on the score card which hole their drive was used. As there are four persons who must count three drives each (12 drives) in a team that will leave two holes/drives for the captain to decide.The person whose drive is counted must mark his ball with a tee and the other three players must place their ball near the tee to take their teams second shot. The person whose drive w
as counted cannot play a second shot, it has to be one of the three other players. There is no restriction on third or fourth shots, any team members shot can be counted..The f
our par threes have no restrictions. Any team members shot can be counted.Once you are on the green and the best ball is chosen, it is to be marked and all four players will putt from that position. Each player will putt in turn and once the ball is in the hole that score will be counted. In other words if you putt a ball up to the edge of the hole for one and then tap it in without giving your team mates the chance to one putt then the score stands as two putts. So even if it is on the rim, mark it and give you team mates a chance at a one
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tt.Local rules apply for ‘out of bounds’ and ‘lost ball’ all other rules are as per the Royal and Ancient Rules of Golf.
