Londoner Golf Club Bangkok

Captains-Corner and other news

Dear Members

Your committee held a meeting on the 22nd of June and I am writing to inform you and keep you updated on what your committee is working on at present.  We also welcome on board John Griffiths who has kindly volunteered to aid us in our endeavors

Meinhardt Cup 14 August

This Charity completion is held at Burapah and is a 3 way team event (Londoners, Lighthouse and Wanderers) within the next few weeks a sign up email will be sent.  For those players who normally would attend our Lakeside event, our monthly stableford will also be held, running in conjunction with the Meinhardt Cup, this means even more chances to go away with something than just a handicap cut

This year a new scoring system is in place, all cards will be handed in and placed into the 3 teams individual boxes. We will then draw out a card from each box for each hole and the side with the winning score will gain the point for that hole, we will tally up at the end which team has the accumulated the most points from the 18 holes played and so have a winning team for the event.

Hapag Lloyd 28 August

This event is to be hosted by the Londoner Golf Club this year and we are in discussion with the British club regarding this event, as well as making a booking for the dinner and prize giving.
More to follow soon.

Club Championships 13-14 November

The committee has selected Pattana, for this year’s club champs and set the date for 13 and 14 November.

Green Fees Thb 1,350 and a fantastic room rate of Thb 1,100 for a single room or Thb 1300 for a double, Cart fees are Thb 500.

At these prices and at this venue we are sure this will be a full house so ensure you get your qualifying games in during the year.

Quick Pack pair’s competition 27 November

The Quick Pack Pacific pair’s competition will be held at Subapruek this year and again as the time draws nearer we will update you with further information.

Qualifying games

After a long deliberation and fierce opposition regarding the above your committee has voted on the above and so have reduced the number of qualifying games to 8 with immediate effect. Games played up at Soi Dao and or previous Club Champs counts as 2 games each. It is well noted we want to see worthy champions taking away the silverware and golfers that we can say “yes we have seen them supporting nearly all of our functions” and so on this note we will reconsider this ruling during the next 1 -2 years.

Courses for next year

Every year we go through some extensive negotiations in regards to timings and prices at our events to enable you to get more golf for your money. This year is no exception, we will always look as Lakeside and Riverside as the two Londoner courses however we are in negotiation with the following courses; Lakewood, Royal Lad Krabang, Subhapruek, Kiarti Thani and Green Valley, watch this space

Sponsorship

We thank Augusto Romei, his family and Quick Pack Pacific for the generosity in sponsoring the runners up trophies at each of our events and I am sure when you get a chance you may mention so as well.  Eric Mallace of Jotun Paints who sponsors the Jotun 20/20, which is starting to bubble away nicely.

Arjan Buffing has come forward and kindly offered for his company Win-Win (Asia) Co. Ltd to sponsor a Masters completion to be played over 2 days. At this time we are considering end Jan for the 1^st game and our 1^st game in February to complete the event.

These sponsors offer the LGC a chance to ensure that our bigger events (Soi Dao, Club Champs and Christmas Dinner) that the costs are kept to a minimum where possible, and in regards to the Christmas Dinner remain free.

Lastly but not least 2 other members have agreed sponsorship of technical prizes, they will provide the prize and also choose the hole, in return they will get advertising on our website and obviously mentioned when we can, so look out for some new prizes at the coming events

Enjoy your golfing with us and please if you have any suggestions or comments, kindly approach any of us so as to help you and us to enjoy our golf and each other’s company.
(All of our contact details are available on the website)

http://www.londonergolfclub-bkk.com/

David Jeffers

Captain