Goofy Golfer

So the weather is slowly getting better...

Last week I celebrated 1/3 of a century on this planet,

The goal of having a Handicap Lower than my age has now been achieved , off course, the sooner the better and time would eventually have solved that problem, but it's one goal less :) Fact is that if you don't play enough you don't get better.

But as compared to last year at least we already got a little bit more practice. We managed to play our first 18 hole round already , on Millenium. Last year we only managed to do so the last week of june, And now we also played a round at the Ostend Wellington Course

And I'm are already making plans for more rounds..

Truth is that when in Belgium you have to play when the weather allows it .. I'd love to live elsewhere for a couple of years.. somewhere where the weather doesn't demand prioritizing other things.

Who knows .. one day ..

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Again .. yesterday evening was the 2nd time this year we were blown of the course by some really heavy storm passing over the golfcourse.

So what do you do when you are on the Tee of the 5th hole and you see bad weather. You see lighting, hear thunder It might pass by at 5Km , it might fly over or it might even head the other direction.

We both hit our T-shots and when we realised that our balls were just reaching about 70% of our regular distance because of the heavy winds we realised we should run for the clubhouse.

So we left our bags behind and picked up our balls. By the time we got back to our bags the wind really started to become stronger and by the time we were halfway the 7th we were soaked. From dry to soaked in approx 170 meters.

Off course by the time we reached the clubhouse the worst part was over and play could be resumed .. which we decided against , we preferred a hot shower :)

The joy of living in Belgium .. :)

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The 3de edition of the Telenet Trophy has been announced , the tournament is a joined project of the PGA European Challenge Tour and the Koninklijke Belgische Golf Federatie.
The 3rd edition will take place from 19 till 22 Juni 2008 at the Limburg Golf & Country Club.
140.000€ will be divided between the best players.

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About 2 weeks ago the 41th Belgie-Holland for PGA's was played in Spa. It seems like this event hasn't been around lateley so this new "tournament" in Spa was the first attempt to the organisation of a new Tournament in the Benelux.

Little visibility or noise about the event altough usually when Belgium beats the Netherlands in other sports it's prime news on the TV/Radio

Anyhow GolfTV.be has an item on the event so you can get an idea of what happened.

Hooray for Belgium !!!

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Colsaerts on the 14th green.

The crowd on the 17 the green

More pictures can be found on my Flickr page

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Nicolas Vanhootegem (B) just won the Telenet Trophy in Waterloo !
This was his winning put at the 18th par 5

More pics are on the way !

Official results are here

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This weekend the Royal Waterloo Golf Club is hosting the 2nd
Telenet Trophy looking at the current scoreboard the Belgian top is showing the rest of the world they do know this course as their back yard.

After 2 days Didier De Vooght , Nicolas Vanhootegem and Nicolas Colsaerts are leading the pack with De Vooght at 13 under par.

Who knows this achievement finally gets some real press attention in Belgium !

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