Thread: The Kouyou Cup 2010 - Report and Photos

The 3rd annual Kouyou Cup @ Windsor Park G&CC, Ibaraki, Nov.13th, 2010.

At the 3rd annual Kouyou Cup, we had our biggest turnout yet for a Golfjin event. An impressive 73 players were in attendance. 19 different nationalities from all over the globe were represented and it was great to have more Japanese (16) and Ladies (12) joining a Golfjin event.

It was a lovely autumnal day on Saturday, perfect weather for golf and the kouyou was looking beautiful.



A huge thanks to everyone who helped organize this event. It wouldn’t have been quite as well run without all the Golfjin’s and volunteers who did their bit for our golf club:
Check in desk: Laura & Caroline
Stableford scoring team: James & Jason
Awards Party: Spike & Laura
Cameraman: Olly
Charity fund-raising: Matt Kass, Sachiyo, Mie & Jason
Car pools: Frank, Jochen, Kowata-san, William, Jason, Evan & Pavel
Prize donation: Mike H
Sponsors in attendance:
Peter from Piranha Golf
James from Ocean Park Capital
Olly from Olly foot care
Thanks also to Yasu for his company’s donation of bananas

And finally thanks to Yano-san and the Windsor Park staff who did an excellent job of looking after us.

The Competition:
This was just the 2nd time to use the stableford format in a large competition and thanks to our experiences at the Sakura Cup, we were able to organize things a lot more efficiently this time around. It takes a lot longer to calculate winners but we did it in record time. And as before, it was great to see people who played well on the day winning prizes instead of the shin peria lottery deciding places.

Here’s a full list of results:




Congratulations to Kowata-san who shot a personal best of 88 and won the event with 46 stableford points

NB: When players stableford scores were tied, countback was used to determine places.
Countback 1: Comparison of stableford scores for the last 9 holes
Countback 2: Comparison of stableford scores for the last 6 holes
Countback 3: Comparison of stableford scores for the last 3 holes
Higher countback score places higher. If still a tie after countback 1, compare countback 2 and so on.

Winners list:
1st: Hirotaka Kowata
2nd: Marcus Kosins
3rd: Hilmar Thorlindsson
4th: Jack Snell
5th: Fred Parr
6th: Miwa Nagakubo
7th: Pierre Godard
8th: Kenichi Nizeki
9th: William Ramsay
10th: Peter Gordon
14th: Jonnie Hughes
20th: Eduardo Ferrada
25th: Scott Graves
30th: Julien Laronze
35th: James Allen
40th: Matthew Williams
45th Takashi Suzuki
50th: Arjun Kanthety
55th: Mathias Leroy
60th: Ian McDade
65th: Hiromi Hosokawa
70th: Caroline Beuze

Near pin winners:
Mike O’Neale
Peter Gordon
Roger Williams
Joachim Hinne
Phil Rowe
James Allen

Driving contest winners:
Jason Millward
Yi Han Peh
Jack Snell
Grant Prentice

Best male gross score: Marcus Kosins (72)
Best female gross score: Jan McDade (88)
Business Card Draw: Joachim Hinne, Shiori En, Elizabeth Basuare, Grant Prentice, David Anthony, Yasin Alyasin & Pierre Godard

And a big thanks has to go out to our sponsors for this event. Without their involvement this event wouldn’t have been such a success. We had a fantastic amount of prizes for winners and the charity raffle thanks to all the sponsors so please check out their websites and consider giving them some business.

Sponsors:
























Charity:


“Empowering and enriching the lives of orphans in Japan”

And this was the 2nd time we did some charity fund-raising for Living Dreams. Thanks to everyone who donated money to a very worthy cause. We raised a grand total of ¥218,000 which will go towards the sports program at Living Dreams homes.

See below for loads of photos from the day:

The Players:


Yumi, Pavel, Miwa & Pierre


Yi Han, Jack, Ian M and Windsor Park Club Champion Suzuki-san


Tim, Ian M, Frank & Arjun


Shiori, Ei, Laura and Chiho


Roger, Jan & Ian


Phil, Evan, Andy & Kolo


Matt N, William, Jonnie & Scott


Mathias, Julien, J-F & Philippe


Martin M, Kenichi, Mak & Fred


Martin P, David, James & Stephen

(David who wasn’t competing in the competition is a pro and shot 66 on Saturday!!)


Mark S, Charles, Ryan & Marcus


Kowata-san, Yasin & David B



Dean, Christian, Joachim & Jochen


Junichi, Hiromi, Elizabeth & Eduardo


Nemoto-san & friends


Grant, Jason, Spike and Matt W


Fabian, Shogo & Mike H


Deborah, Doug, Mike O & Hilmar


David C, Marc R, Caroline & Peter G

Some action shots on the course:


Nicely out!




David the Pro on his way to an impressive round of 66 (6 under par)


Eduardo’s footy match got cancelled so he joined us instead






Hilmar - approach shot to the 9th


Golfjin’s very own Happy Gilmore


Laura on the 18th tee


Marc “Katayama” Rocher on the tee


Some nice form from Mak


Matt N chipping in for the skins




Worm burner


Miwa escaping the bunker on 5




Phil lining one up with the help of Evan




Roger “Woosie” Willams splitting the fairway down the middle






Fridays Stableford winner Yumi


Marcus on his way to an impressive 72

Party time


Matt from Living Dreams with event organizer Laura




The buffet




Matt from Living Dreams making a speech


Near Pin winner Phil - A case of beer donated by Ikon Europubs


Near Pin winner Roger - A magnum of wine from Hotei Wines


Near Pin winner Peter - A feel wedge donated by Matt Kass


Near Pin winner James - A case of beer from Nagano Trading


Near Pin winner Joachim - Gift voucher from Sinden (for her indoors?)


Long Drive winner - Jason - Gift vouchers from Footnik
Jason also won the Holiday in Saipan donated by Pacific Islands Club in the charity raffle.


Long Drive winner - Jack - Gift vouchers from Footnik


Long Drive winner - Yi Han - Gift vouchers from Footnik


Best Male Gross (72) Marcus - Gift vouchers from Thilak catering


Best Female Gross (88) Jan - Gift vouchers from Sinden


Business card draw - David - a bottle of champagne from Ocean Park Capital


Business card draw - Joachim - a bottle of champagne from Ocean Park Capital


Business card draw - Elizabeth - a bottle of champagne from Ocean Park Capital


Business card draw - Shiori - a bottle of champagne from Ocean Park Capital


Business card draw - Yasin - a bottle of champagne from Ocean Park Capital


60th place Ian - A bottle of wine from Orca Wines


55th place Mathias - A bottle of wine from Orca Wines


40th place Matt W - Gift vouchers from Orca Wines


30th place Julien


20th place Eduardo - Gift vouchers from Thilak catering


14th place Jonnie - Gift vouchers from Thilak catering


9th place William - well done shooting 79!


8th place Kenichi - Ian Poulter Design gear


7th place Pierre Godard or is it Peter Gordon?


6th place Miwa - Evelyn Claude Jewelry
Well done shooting a personal best!


5th place Fred - Dinner tickets for Le Petit Tonneau


4th place Jack


3rd place Hilmar - Gift vouchers from Biervana
Another personal best - well done Hilmar.
(Another candidate for handi-watch)


2nd place Marcus - Putter from Piranha Golf
(You must have quite a collection of putters now)


The Kouyou Cup champion Kowata-san who won a set of cavity irons from Piranha Golf

Looking forward to seeing you all at the Sakura Cup in the spring

Sweet event this year Grant and a job well done - thanks for all your efforts!

Where is my real Happy Gilmour picture - off the pet bottle on #9?

Originally Posted by jmillward

Where is my real Happy Gilmour picture - off the pet bottle on #9?

Here you go:

Jason driving off a pet bottle.

Sorry to have missed this great event.

Congrats to all the winners!

And thanks to the sponsors and organizers.

PS Nice weight shift there Jason ...

Nice drive Jason!

He didn't look so happy first thing Saturday morning!

Grant, a carton of beer for near pin!!! Never had those prizes when I was there, I would have been hitting them stiff all day if you did!!!!!

Originally Posted by brett

Grant, a carton of beer for near pin!!! Never had those prizes when I was there, I would have been hitting them stiff all day if you did!!!!!

Since you left Japan, there's been a surplus of beer over here...hence the generous near pin prize

A beautiful day for golf (who was the hareotoko?) and a very well-organized event--well done Grant and company! Virtual beers for all who helped!

I enjoyed it very much and am looking forward to the next one.

I sent out a quick survey to Kouyou Cup players. If you haven't taken it yet, please do so soon

Check your email inboxes for the survey link. Thx