My golfing adventures in Vietnam

Hi Asahi,

It was a pleasure meeting you and also Steak this afternoon for a game. Steak has the potential to be RRRREEEAAALLLLYYYYYYYYYYY long. HIs 5 iron is only like 25-30 yds shorter than our drivers....haiz....the joys of being young.........

BTW, thanks for the shaft!!!! really a great gesture. Hope I can return the kindness one day.....

Any reports on ur welcome party?????

All I know Vietnam has no fat women. Asahi : is that correct???

Winston wrote:

Hi Asahi,

It was a pleasure meeting you and also Steak this afternoon for a game. Steak has the potential to be RRRREEEAAALLLLYYYYYYYYYYY long. HIs 5 iron is only like 25-30 yds shorter than our drivers....haiz....the joys of being young.........

BTW, thanks for the shaft!!!! really a great gesture. Hope I can return the kindness one day.....

Brother brother, by showing us around, your kindness precedes everything else.
Darn, it was a great night out, man.

Btw, it's 5 am here now and we are heading out for our 2nd game at Twin Doves.

just came back n setting off agn.. machiam deliberate nite attack followed by MTC..

pls remember to re-org n send out sit-rep b4 next mission

Bro Winston

now you have met me & my twin bro in GR, Asahi. I'm the flabby one, he's the Men's Health cover one. But we share skin color, hairstyle, golf clubs, playing style and especially our fascination with what Gwendolyn Wan like to boast. Pls show him the best of HCM have to offer, in that department hor

Twin bro, see you soon. Duck rice will be waiting at the den. Complete FR!

Who the hell is gwendolyn wan???

Nientsu, obviously you are a leg (or bum) man.

golfer is it???

Yes...think DGMan once said that she is a very decent putter-er Google lah.

pushslice wrote:

Bro Winston

now you have met me & my twin bro in GR, Asahi. I'm the flabby one, he's the Men's Health cover one. But we share skin color, hairstyle, golf clubs, playing style and especially our fascination with what Gwendolyn Wan like to boast. Pls show him the best of HCM have to offer, in that department hor

Twin bro, see you soon. Duck rice will be waiting at the den. Complete FR!

Now I know why Asahi looks so familiar. whahahaha...

Anyway's, if you think Asahi is the Men's Health Cover, wait till you meet Steak, he puts all of us to shame....

I am trying to psycho him to come to Danang with you in June so that I wont be the lamp post if I am able to join you....

asahi wrote:

Yea boy. My injury at L3 & L4 making a nuisance. Not sure if can endure 3 rounds of golf straight.

Asahi, injury my butt, the way you hit those drives were jaw droppers.

Complete strangers but all completely nice people! Thanks for your guidance and definitely patience with a newbie such as myself.

Winston, you are one heck of an amazing host. And thanks for those bananas

Asahi, you are a super friendly chap with an insane drive. Great partnering you with one of the 6s.

To that one other anonymous chap, thank you so much for your guidance and teachings of the proper pitching/chipping stance/stroke and correcting me in other areas i'm terrible in.

It was my first time playing in a 4-man flight and i must say playing with you guys has made me love the game even more! An eye -opener.

Thank you all!

Steak, if you have even better physique than Asahi, then I'm sure you can drive the ball well too once you get the technique right.

Asahi's driving used to be his weakest point...and now so many good reviews after swing change with Brett.

Twin Bro, let's play together at Horizon HIlls yea? Maybe we can do a little bit of Bad Boys lite match up! Oooopss teaser trailer!

Asahi is a tall chap and i'd kill for that! Physique can always build up one... Once you're short, you're short for life

Who is Brett? That caught my interest. If it worked for Asahi, surely he's something?

jia lat...I think Asahi wants to migrate to HCMC liao........

I am not surprise.. Which poison is deadlier, golf or vietnam ladies

Steak, do try to join us play in Da Nang on 17th-20th June.

Agumon wrote:

just came back n setting off agn.. machiam deliberate nite attack followed by MTC..

pls remember to re-org n send out sit-rep b4 next mission

Wow! This is worse than my NS tour as a scout! Non-stop action from day 1. Agumon put it really aptly. It was beach landing attack on day 1, followed by night attacks all the way with only a brief respite of 3 hrs before a dawn attack. Barely surviving on 4 hrs rest per day but still hanging on.
Will be sure to complete this 4D3N misson in one piece.



Before we set off on yet another night attack, here's a brief FR on the past 48 hrs adrenaline pumping moments.

1000 hrs, Day 1 - Just touched at HCM Airport, linked up with local intel ala 'Winston', straight away moved off for the attack on Song Be. Met up with steak at the clubhouse before our game.
Boy, steak is a Manhunt International potential lor.

Anyway, we played Palm and Desert courses at Song Be. Love the Palm course, for obvious reasons of scoring well. Was going strong at 3 under before the 9th hole when a wayward approach shot on the par-5 went into the woods. And from there , it was a blockhead me versus the many trees in there, resulting in a ping-pong game which I lost; 4 strokes to get outta of that hellhole.
It was like NAM all over again for that hole. hiaz.......was doing so well.....

Did not like the Desert course as much because it was longer and there were a lot of desert-like scenarios like red earth areas and stuff you'd find in the desert. Not my cup of tea especially when 2 of my shots went into one of those areas and got my 8 iron scratched. Bugger!



Funnily, was driving much better here than I had ever been. Dun know whether it was the Viet coffee or the 'lighter' air. Found most f/ws and had a personal best drive of 245m courtesy of a neat tiger line tee-off.


After the war, the soldiers needed to re-supply and Winston to the rescue! Brought us to this outstanding mee kia place. Pwah! The noodles was simply out of the world and super Q-Q. Can eat it on its own man!

FR on Day 2 to follow shortly..........

I think I have created a monster......Asahi is totally in love with HCMC....

Asahi, we are not interested in your jungle warfare ! but we prefer FR on urban warfare ! like Bomb size, booby traps , inhumane torture and unarmed combat !

Asahi, any FIBUA warfare? FR if any pls....

Saigon was infamous for its many tunnels.......i can see poor Brandon groping in the dark.

also suggest he check in into a decontamination facility when he returns instead of joining Sham and i for prata at ABC Joo Chiat on thursday nite.

DGman

and68low wrote:

Asahi, we are not interested in your jungle warfare ! but we prefer FR on urban warfare ! like Bomb size, booby traps , inhumane torture and unarmed combat !

By popular request, here goes, though meant for this to be a covert op.
Btw, back from another successful night attack. All intact and game for more.
Gentlemen, tackling FIBUA is nothing. There are more widows to access and more mountains to climb than what I have ever experienced before in NS. Here's the lowdown from a very innocent moi.

Shampoo shops are not shampoo shops. Period.
That aside, found a beri wonderful respite amidest all the battles we are fighting. A jolly good massage place. Just the thing we need after every round of golf. Without which, I do not think I would have survive thus far. This is the quinessential must have for a 4D3N misson at HCM.
Helps to rejunvenate one's body, especially the back.

Other than that, we were desparately hounding the locals for asahi beer here but to no avail.
Had to settle for Singleton whiskey for the past 2 nights, though in the company of 'hostile' company who happened to excel in the games of 5-10, frog jump etc.....Man, I swear those are spies in disguise waiting to get into out heads.

Alamak, you guys made me deviate from giving FR on the 2nd course we played earlier.
FR on that to come later. Gotta rest body for anmother assault on Hamburger Hill (Vietnam Golf & Country Club) in 4 hrs time.




@DGman, I really thot the Cu Chi tunnels were athing of the past but I\d be damned. It is still here in HCM. Talk about shooting in the blind. Btw boss, think I would have to be isolated when I am back on Thurs. It is that bad.

DGman wrote:

Saigon was infamous for its many tunnels.......i can see poor Brandon groping in the dark.

also suggest he check in into a decontamination facility when he returns instead of joining Sham and i for prata at ABC Joo Chiat on thursday nite.

DGman

Groping in the dark??? No need lah...have me in HCMC.....

Winston. Asahi is not going to let u grope on his behalf. I wld think he will want to grope in the dark on his own.