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The FCC Golf Society, in an effort to create a replacement event for the Carlsberg Media Classic, travelled to Manila in October for the inaugural Manila Media Golf Classic. There they competed against the GVB, KGB and Manila Nomads. Julian Wakh reports
Lelt The inaugural Manila Media Golf Classic gets underway with the offlces of the Philippines oldest newspaper, The Manila Bulletin, in the background behind the ancient walls of lntramuros, Above: Brenl Chamberlain of the Manila Nomads tees off on the magnificent but long,..long Langer course at the Riviera Golf and Country Club
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dead dog) residet in Manila and will be fought over again this time next year. The FCC's Richard Hughes game Competition) will
All smiles (L-R) And the winners were Roger Urbanes, Antonio Fernandez, Dick lldefonso, Peter Taylor, Andrew Chislett, Julian Walsh, Terry Duckham with Manila Media Golf Classlc trophy 'Bgoy" centre
be held at Kau Sai Chau on December 17 as a Millennium /
Robin soldiered on (since he was having a good round) and finished the game with 36 Stableford Dick "I can't miss it from there' Ildefonso. points to win the day for the FCC. 'Bgoy' was Robin's Stephen \Marren scored an epic 18 on thc 5th hole dog, and it appears that his sudden demise was due to and finally put to rest any rumours that he lvas giving eating a poisoned frog. up his dayjob as FCC Chef to turn golf pro. i\ uumber We were playing at the magnificent (and very
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outside Manila. Second place went to Manila Nomad Brent Chamberlain and third place to Andrew Chislett of the Park Hotel in Manila (wfro fra¿ so ably handled all the golfing arrangements for us thank you Andrew and. the staff of the Park Hotel). -The rest of us had traditionally unimpressive rounds, although those in the later fiigirts did have to deal with a thunder storm of staggering proportions. Perhaps it was the the god of dogs acknowledging the áeath of
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The previous day we had played at the city course, Intramuros. in Manila. Intramuros has been ránouur.á and expanded and. although short, is tricky and ,rerychàilenging.PrecisiongõHircalledforandthatis one ol the many attributes somewhat l".f.t"g f" our group. -pruyi As a result, the old city walls certainly åme i,,," u"ã ;;;t ;;ìl';;; i".;;;; trtú i;;ã central Manila. Guest Peter Taylor managed to win, another victory for the FCC, with u., irnpr.rriu. ãö 32
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of Manila taxi drivers with dented door panels are still looking for him.
W.alsowelcomedsomeofourfriendsfi-omGuam, headed by Dave Sablan representing the Grt¿rtr.l Visitors Brrr.un, who joined us, the KGB and Manila Nornads to -ake it a four way event for the weekencl' Manila is roughly half way between Hong Kong aucl Gttam and it is an excellent venue for us to meet trP ar.rcl try to reciprocate some of the outstanding hospitzrlity we received in Guam earlier this year. trir. for a combination of "best dressecl brtt tvorst golf' went to Dave Garcia whose sartorial st)'le both on and off the course brought style to the game'
ruUrlg Garcia's lead, all -.-É"., of our- gr-otrp tried to o.,t-do each other in poor taste shirt selectiorr for the evening dinner at a local restalrrant' Despite n^"hg three of the FCC's finest photographels rvith us. it îa* quite in keeping with the tradition of these .u..',. thai not one or them had a ca"'er'.ì to record
: embarrassing event. I this | W; plan to make this an annual eveDt iurcl look I}ER I 999 THE CORRESPONDENT OCl'OB!ìì'NOYI':Tf
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Meanuuhile in fillacau turn o:ut (22 players) for thein"iufucau in Septembe¡ in spite of "r-. in. ,*"l,..ing conditions' The wealher on the took its toll and most of us faltered the day was on Winner final few holes. lt points' Stableford 35' James Fu with an impressive handihis reduce we seenls that no matterÏow rnucþ cap \v(ì can't stop him. Close uårrln¿ was Dave Allison e had a good
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Michael Gr-,r, wän the broken FCC mug award for best efforts on a first Golf Society outing and noblf irssisted the ground staff with adclitional aeration of some of"the fairways. Eliza Walsh was the best, but she was also the only lady golfer of
variety of items (clubs, hats, glasses) on the course for them to retrieve for us. We ended the day with a magnificent Japanese dinner at the golf club. Many thanks to the management and staff at Macau Golf Club for assisting us so much in the organisation of this day. J.W. f
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