Thread: Golfjin World Cup 2010 Photos and report

The Golfjin World Cup 2010 @ Windsor Park G&CC, June 20th

Thanks to everyone who played in the first Golfjin World Cup. I think the event was a big success and I’m already looking forward to doing this again next year.



My self-proclaimed title of hare-otoko (Fine weather man) is thankfully still intact although it was looking dodgy there for a while.
Golfjin 1 Rainy Season 0

And it was fantastic to see lots of countries represented. We ended up with 23 teams from all over the globe:
11 from Europe, 5 from North America, 2 from Oceania, 2 from Asia and 3 Commonwealth teams. Hopefully, next year we can get even more countries involved.

The competition:
For this event, we played a 2-person Texas Scramble. Everyone seemed to really enjoy this format and taking into account team handicaps, the results were pretty close with lots of teams not far behind the eventual winners.

The Golfjin bookmakers were pretty spot on with their odds. USAII, Canada II and Scotland were where the smart money was going and they all finished up the top.

Congratulations to USAII (Scott G and Marcus K) who won the cup with a net 60 (Gross 64!). Apparently, they started birdie-birdie-birdie and added an eagle to go out in a mere 31 shots!


Marcus and Scott with their spoils of victory

Well done to Norway who finished 2nd which was aided by Stein’s eagle on the 10th (holed his 9 iron approach shot )


2nd place - Norway (Stein and Tor)


Stein's eagle on the 10th

And commiseration's () to Scotland who finished with a net 62 (gross 67) to finish in the Bronze position (I blame the hats )


Granto, the Brisbane Bandit & Matt N

Here are the full results:



At the party, forgot to say Canada I were tied 5th with Commonwealth III (Sorry Ryan/Jonathan! )
And Belgium were lucky number 7th not GB (Already emailed them about it and offered them the same prize which I'll cover )

Near Pin winners:
Kowata-san (Hole 8)
Chris Massie (Hole 8)
Greg Mettam (Hole 17)
Marcus Kosins (Hole 17)

Long driver winners:
Chris Massie (Hole 6)
Jonathan Allen (Hole 6)
Ryan Mills (Hole 18)
James Allen (Hole 18)

Best dressed: A new prize category. Thanks to James from Ocean Park Capital for the donation.

Not sure if they were the best dressed but they certainly stood out the most. See Australia below
And an honourable second place went to Scotland. Thanks Matt for getting those hats - No really! Thank you very very much


Greg, Matt & Chris

A few more photos from the day:


Matt "The Pitchman" Neilson "Let's start the bidding at ¥100,000....do I hear ¥100,000?"


Peter T and his very handy UV umbrella


Banzai!

If anyone else has photos, please upload them here

Great day and event!!!
Thanks Grant for initiative!
JoChen

Just added some photos and a report to the first post.

Iceland will play next year :)

Nice report Grant!

Top day! More chili dips than a Thai restaurant!

We finally got the honor on the last hole ...