Another year another place of great Golf.... We took the 7.20 pm Tiger flight direct to Shenzhen. From there the agent pick us up and transport to our hotel for the next 4 days in Changping.
What better place to golf other then Hainan?.... don't know? try Shenzhen ba...it is great but can't beat Hainan for the value for money. Nonetheless a great place to golf with excellent golf course and well trained caddy.
Flew in on Tiger air and reached Shenzhen closed to midnight and proceed directly to changping for out next 4 days of golfing.
2 Sept 09 (Wednesday)
Mission Hill (ANNIKA Course)
Ironman Hwee show us how to handle the course with his traditional 4 Iron Tee shot .... easily out driving any amatuer using the latest BIG head driver ;)
While TCB cleverly position his 2nd shot under the shade, away from the biting heat of changping.
As Hoo, busily playing bunkering recovering shot, our Ironman Hwee quietly reach the green with a beautiful chip & roll to inches of the pin. Luckily, all this beautiful shot was capture by my trusty Fuji camera with 10x zoom. This fantastic shot as prove that you dont need driver to have a good score. Sand was not an obstacle too, again he executed a beautiful sand punch to land within feets of the flag.
Not to be outdone, out season player TCB punch out from the greenside bunker with such precision waiting to convert it into a PAR. Finally, this is me taking a breather photo shot with my caddy taking opportunity to recompose myself after all those stray shots. Time to strategise and return back to my game, lots of catching up with Ironman Hwee, 2 holes down with 2 more holes to go. Win to draw, what a challange > I like it ;)
3 Sept 09 (Thursday)
Mission Hill (Duval Course)
Standing infront of Mission Hill sign board. The masterplan of Mission hill 12 x 18 holes world largest golf course. 2 down and 10 more games to go ;) .Duval lookalike pose competition before tee off. The winner will get a round with David Duval himself at none other then Duval course . Give your best pose boys.
Duval course was set up differently from Annika. Many of its holes are designed with elevated tee, offering spectacular view of the beautifully lawn green. While Annika course are abit shorter it is strategicly lay with many bunkers.
A group photo shot for membrance. Oh before I forget I wish to remind all that we had you had to pay an extra RMB 100 per caddy if you made prior reservation. This are the same caddy to caddy for us on day 1 on Annika course and since they are pretty knowledgeable and excellent caddy we decided to reserve them for day 2. But then we would had let the clud select the caddy if we knew about it earlier. SHhhhhhhhh ....silent, no movement please, golfer teeing off.
This beautiful KwanYin was located in the middle of Mission Hill, a stone throw away from the caddy dormitory. We can't resist and got the caddy to bring us here for a quite prayer :-)
All square with Ironman Hwee after 2 roundsat Mission hills despite getting 2 balls from him. Last round at Wind Valley to decide who is the winner.
4 Sept 09 (Friday)
Public Wind Valley Course
We were plesantly surprise at the beauty of this public course. Some said better then Mission hills course but the fact is it is located on the hill side with well maintained manicure fairway and green. The only setback is the level of difficulty which made it very challenging. Many of the fairway was designed so narrowed that at time tee shot must be so accurate to find the 30meter width landing area.
Easy will do.... ahhhhh not again, another lousy 3 putts... what happen to my putter today? time to change strategy. me: "Caddy can you bring my 3 iron please ?. " Caddy: "hAR??? bu keyi chec, bu keyi".
Hoo : "Can you guy please stop talking so loudly, I am trying to make a decent shot here. This is a golf course you now not wet market you know ^*$#%@^"
Ironman Hwee: "sorry sorry.... I was too excited on rebutting BG on his claim on his shot. I will zip my mouth now and play my game quietly."
As usual, with a smooth swing the ball flew toward the green and landed on the fringe. Not a bad shot for this 3 x 5 meter green PAR 3. Now for the difficult undulating putt. 
Ironman Hwee said: "Watch my Horse Stand (Ma Pu), here it goes and trust me it is my secret formula in hitting great irons shot time and again. They don't call me Ironman Hwee for nothing you know!!. ;) "
Nice shot Ironman. We are all square after 8th holes and I narrowly won 1stroke on the 1st 9th hole, what a closed fight. On the back nine the story was very different all together. Ironma Hwee came back strongly and easily won by 4 holes... thus ending the 3 rounds of Shenzhen golf challenge "chak Ong Lai" mean all square in hokkien.
On top of the hill stand a tall and golden Kwan ying. This is the entrance to the golden Kwan Yin, in all there are a total about 600 steps of devotion to reach it.
5 Sept 09 (Saturday)
Day tour to Nan Kun San
No golf today, just russian poker during the 6 hours rides to/fro Nan Kun san.
Upon reaching Nan Kun San we had our sumptious meal, consist of the above chicken, fish soup, paiku, vege etc. The chicken was so fresh the cook had to go back door and catch them, here is a snap shot of the chicken playground :) Below are some photos of the places we visited in Nan Kun San, nothing to shout of ..
A 5 story waterfall, what else? nothing else to see...
A few flight of step to see green green grass of mountain, nice? ok lah... all green mountain lor .. 
That should be all for the trip back to Singapore. We reached the airport by 9.30 pm waiting for our 11:30 hrs flight but alas it was delayed for 3 hrs. so what can we do? sleep in the airport lor
Snorrrrrrrr.... snorrrrrrr ZZzzzzzzzzzzWe would like to thanks our driver, Chan Sifu for his time and great recommendation on our trip.
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