Well my regular golfing buddies Neil and Eric were looking at one more round before the end of the year just to remind ourselves how much practice we need during the summer. We had heard about night golf and since Neil is heading back to the the home country after this year we had best find a day/evening to fit this in. Well Thursday looked like a great day for this so we booked our late afternoon T-time and our taxi driver and off we went to Panya Indra. Panya is a 27-hole course actually quite close to where we live and takes only 15-20 minutes to get there. What is unique is that 9 holes are actually lit so you can play at night for half the round.
Here are few shots of the course. Lots of water and sand bunkers to keep you honest.
Well it was about his time that the news about the Coup d'etat was official as Neil was busy working between shots to prepare the school communications, really he was just making sure we could finish the round!
Well we did start the round under the lights as we were the last group to get off on the last nine.
Helicopters overhead just add to the atmosphere as we were just informed that we have to leave the course no later than 9 pm. Curfew has been announced so we have to get back by 10 pm and all stores, services are ordered closed by 8 or 9 pm.
Well it was just another day round, the darkness did not improve my game... although the events in the surrounding area were a little interrupted with troops moving into key locations around the city, and a few helicopters overhead. We managed to get 16 holes in before we were escorted off the course.. time to go home.
Here are few shots of the course. Lots of water and sand bunkers to keep you honest.
Nice looking clubhose.
Of course we cannot forget our caddies for this round.
No we did not hire pretty caddies, that is an extra 20 bucks. They are all dressed, many Thai do not like the sun since it darkens their skin so they are pretty much covered up all the time. I can't imaging their body temp fully dressed as the air temp this afternoon hit 37 C.
We did say we were playing night golf, so we watched the sun set as we are teeing off the last couple of holes before going to the last nine holes under the flood lights.
Well we did start the round under the lights as we were the last group to get off on the last nine.
Just waiting till the previous group gets out of the way.
Can you see the hole Neil.
Well it was just another day round, the darkness did not improve my game... although the events in the surrounding area were a little interrupted with troops moving into key locations around the city, and a few helicopters overhead. We managed to get 16 holes in before we were escorted off the course.. time to go home.
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