Golf Scenery


Haven't you realised by now that we are all walking miracles. The fact that you can choose to golf means you should be very grateful where you are and being who you are.

With a fairway so huge with only one bunker and you will hit into the bunker. So the proper way for you should be to aim for the bunker since wherever you aim you won't get there. Where there is only one tree with a sprawling fairway and you will hit that tree even if you reminded yourself out aloud about that tree and like I have said many times, it is like driving in a desert and you crash your car into a tree. Whatever we aim for, we miss and would not get it but we make do with our hits.

Allow me to share with you that even the best professionals and top players do have their balls in the wrong places and funny moments.


http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/lee-westwood-tee-shot-finds-fan-sweater-13th-190801163.html

While you try to seek improvement, be patient and do not kill yourself if you do not play that well for the day or you have a bad score. Just enjoy the fresh air, nature, scenery and good companionship. Like waiting for a golf tournament to start.

Even a range can be beautiful.

Look out for sunset as the coconut trees sway.

Or continue dreaming of that elusive Hole-In-One!

Help your friends look out for troubles. Remind them where the spots are so that they may get there even if the water hazard is just in front. Haha.

Sometimes, you play where the pros played and you can occasionally outdo them. Go for it!

Read your line and learn about treacherous situation. Train your mind like Tiger used to in pressure putts. When you have no confidence you see only obstacles.



















It is all about confidence. When you have it, all your putts look like this!















Remember the source from where you drink and do no pee on it. It is also better to be pissed off than pissed on.


Life is sometimes like that. Step one of getting across is already fraud with danger and when you clear that, other troubles are waiting for you.

Don't just visualise, dare to dream. I have dreamed of hitting an incredible drive followed by a fabulous second shot just like Tiger here. Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C1s79jrG00. Then set myself up for an eagle putt. Better still, an albatross.

You have seen this on TV at least once every year.  Our trade and commerce life line.

A narrow fairway with a dogleg right. A power fade would do nicely.

The problem with dare is that when you pull it off you are a hero and you get applause all round and when you fail, it is laughter all round. Decision making - should I or shouldn't I? After a few beers, it matters not. I pulled out my 19 degrees hybrid from 180 m, hit it to the left of that tree and saw the ball faded and dropping onto the green. Will I do that again the next time and get the same result? I don't know. Give me that beer!

I believe that Man is not supposed to labour all day long and all year round. We were created superior and meant for better things. We should be golfing all the time and during your break, go fishing or vice versa.  

When you see dark clouds looming or an impending lightning threat, let God play through. Live to fight another day.

I am so grateful to friends who invited me for tournaments!

It dampens your spirit when you take a day off for golf and on the way you experience this view. I used to organise golf trips to Batam, Bintan and Johor for friends in the past at least once a month. After much planning, there were occasions when we were in the ferry and it looked like this from the ferry when we looked out. Everyone was silent, quiet.

As I have said before, look out for animal instincts. When the birds start coming out and singing, it is a good sign. Then the dogs will come out to play. Look carefully, can you see that dog.

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uaPs8sxqB0

Sometimes, the weather can kill. Be like water as Bruce Lee said. Be Indiana Jones.

To be a golfer you have to be an eternal optimist. A cloudy day does not mean it will rain on you nor does a sunny day mean it won't.

Take your bananas if you need to replenish energy and pose with the guru.

Didn't I tell you that patience is a virtue? Learn to wait and take cover.

Use a cap for your protection.

Why go to a casino when you can golf?  You can't just sit down and gamble. You have to work for your money like golf.

GPS is nice but we will get lazy and loose our instinct. Just like a salaried worker being like a domesticated animal will loose its hunting instincts of an enterpreneur.

The beauty of nature - rain pouring on the other side and in a couple of minutes you will be drenched.

I would like to thank all my sponsors over the years for the tourneys and the attire.

When you score, you can kiss that badge just like Frank Lampard does. Once, I had a birdie, not only did I punched the air with my fists. I pulled my shirt over my head and ran. If you play too many sports, you can get confused.

Long lost friends - the three amigos.

Singapore's three seasons. It is getting hot.

Hotter.

The hottest!















Time to go "on course" again.


Get the whiff of nature in your nostrils again.


I'm upgrading my camera. A friend took this shot after a second attempt.

The original was this. I was seated and by the time the shot was taken due to its lag I was up and about. Like Bruce Lee, I was just too fast.

It does not matter if you play like a pro but golf is about companionship and comradeship. You get stuck with people for 4-5 hours on the course. More if you count the before and after. Make sure they are people you like or at least people you don't dislike. You don't want to end up fighting.

Watching the sun going down on you can be therapeutic. It reminds us that what goes up must come down.

It also tells us that as we grow older and wiser we are no longer like the mid-day sun. Our energy is no longer used to dry clothes. More mellow like the setting sun.

When it rains when you are supposed to golf, do you cry or laugh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz0Sscke9z4 (Everly Bros)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uec35ppYLIc (Neil Sedaka)

Golf courses are scenic, picturesque and beautiful.

All down to nature. I believe it to be God's creation. Do you?


















It is hard not to enjoy a day out at golf even if you were not on song in bringing out your "A" game. A bad golf day is still better than a good working day? "Boss, I didn't say this!" I wish to emulate this guy on the golf course. He is totally calm and unhurried even when having a beer.


















There may come a day when I could bring you more great stuffs of golf courses and nature. May be I'll be a travel writer. Keep dreaming. Can't get enough? Addicted to golf?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avap91mc3ZY (Enrique Iglesias).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrTyD7rjBpw&ob=av2e (Black Eyed Peas)

Golf as in life, play as it lies.

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