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Bill Copeland Wins Final Round

All good things must come to an end, as so today Pattaya Links Golf played our last game at Laem Chabang, at least for now.

The great special price offered PSC golfers has lasted many weeks longer than the original advertising flyer quoted.

We can guess that the wonderful support shown by the golfers, turning out in large numbers, encouraged Laem Chabang management to “keep it going”. For this we say congratulations and Thank You.

Phil and Maurice at Links Bar also appreciate the many of our regular players and first time visitors who have swelled our numbers for the trips to Laem Chabang. Everyone knows that they are always welcome back anytime, and we do play a good selection of courses all year round.

Laem Chabang is one of the prestige courses we have around the Pattaya area and, as such, is always presented in immaculate condition.

The one thing no golf course can control is the weather and so, having had rain as recently as 6 am this morning, the fairways were quite soft and boggy in places, and of course, with no run seemed much longer than the 6,287 yds off the White tees.

With carts staying on paths only, once again a lot of walking to be done, and we played lift, clean and place through the green.

The greens here must have the best drainage as many reported that they were playing quite quickly, and seemed to quicken a little more as the day wore on.

Bill Copeland starred in the finale with a very big 40 points on a tough day to take out “B” flight (16+) and the Green Jacket. One of the important things in his armament is his consistently good putting.

Darren Beavers won the  Jacket here last week and continued that form scoring 33 points to take second place from Stu Thompson on 32 points, while Dave Arataki with 31 points rounded out the flight.

The “A” flight (0-15) saw Paul Durkan improve on his 36 points from last week to make it 38 today for the win, leading in Gerry Raftery on 36 points. Good scoring on this day.

Joerge Mueller and Chris Barker went to countback on 35 points with Joerge having the better back nine.

Near pins:  Stu Thompson (B5), Paul Durkan (B8) and (C5), Alex Sala (C8)

Winner …”A” flight………Paul Durkan (7)…………….38 pts

2^nd Place…………………….Gerry Raftery (15)………….36 pts

3^rd Place……………………..Joerge Mueller (12)……….35 pts c/back

4^th Place………………………Chris Barker (13)………….35 pts

Winner…”B” flight…….. ..Bill Copeland (16)………..40 pts

2^nd Place……………………..Darren Beavers (20)……..33 pts

3^rd Place………………………Stuart Thompson (17)…..32 pts

4^th Place………………………Dave Arataki (28)…………31 pts.

Best Front Nine ( non winners)……Maurice Roberts…….19 pts

Best Back Nine ( non winners)…….Phil Davies…………….19 pts.

The weather started hot and humid, then the clouds threatened, but happily, no rain.

Our first two groups (3- balls) set a good pace until running up to some slow movers. ( not the usual suspects or 5- ball), consequently their round took almost 5 hours.

The “silly hat” was awarded for it’s original purpose of worst nine, going to Matthew Tormay, and the dreaded “wig” for overall worst score looked good on Tim Abernathy.

Looking forward to Laem Chabang having a similar special next low season.

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