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Thursday, February 12, 2004
Chiongbian: Tiger Woods of Mars
By Edgar R. Chiongbian
Tee time
IF YOU were looking for this column last week, so was I and couldn’t find it either. Sun.Star’s electronic mail was so loaded up my email got beamed into the spy satellites in outer space.
Now they are also reading Tee Time in Mars. How lucky can they be! And to make those Martians happy, I will need some special golf tips to be compatible with their golf courses.
In Mars, they have fairways made of sand and lava lakes instead of water as hazards. Their golf courses have only one fairway with 18 holes on one green and they use one club (a putter) for driving and everything else. This makes Mon Escario, the Tiger Woods of Mars should he decide to move there.
Feb. 14 is fast approaching and so the ladies chapter at CCC is having a Valentines Day golf tournament. They used to call this the Hit and Giggle golf tournament but I think it was changed after the men complained it was sexist. Besides the men said, “We don’t giggle when the ladies hit their shots – we squirm.”
The best advise for husbands teamed up with their wives is to ask for the additional handicap strokes they lobbied so hard last year. The stress allowance or combat fee works for both sides that the ladies might just give in this year.
And once again we are on our way to Manila to play at the Alabang golf course for a golf tournament organized by the Inner Wheel Club of the Philippines. This special tourney was designed primarily for the Rotarian husbands who were henpecked, err, I mean handpicked into accompanying them to the IWC National Convention.
But how can we complain when we get to play quality golf courses in Manila. Like last year it was at Mimosa golf course in Clark. Year before it was in Sta. Elena. Our usual Cebu team is Momoy Soco, Fidel de Jesus, Cely C. and myself. But this year Larry Wood replaces Fidel who has jumped over to the RC Makati South team for greener pastures.
This past week was a sad one for us as we said goodbye to two young personalities in our community. Our cousin Vivian (Chiongbian) Pastrano Garcia passed away last Tuesday after two and a half years battle with cancer. We will miss her dearly, as she was such a lovely lady who could not hurt a fly and loved life so much.
Also leaving us last Sunday was Ernesto Boy Amores, a golf colleague and a fellow Rotarian from RC Cebu West. He will not get to see the re-opening of Kang-Irag of which he was very involved in as representative of the tenants. But I’m sure, along with Maestro Peter, he is around to watch the Karaoke golfers and the crocodiles do their deeds in our fairways.
FAIRWAY TALES: Chuck Macdonald, a spectator at the 1996 US Open was sitting near the 16th green when Steve Lowery pulled his approach shot and hit him on the head. Chuck was more dazed than hurt.
Several hours later, Payne Stewart hooked his shot from the fairway and again Chuck was hit on the head. This time he had a nasty gash and needless to say, he got the hint and left the course saying, “I don’t think I’m coming back here anymore.”
GOLF TIP: A common fault at address is when the hands are too far ahead of the ball, while the feet, knees, hips and shoulders are aiming left. This exaggerated open alignment causes an out-to-in swing path that results in a pull with short or medium irons and pull-slice with a long iron or wood.
To correct this, the butt of your club should point between your navel and the crease of your left pant leg. This setup will make it easy for a smooth takeaway and the club can move low to the ground for the first 18 inches of the swing creating a wide arc and an on-plane swing.
(erc@skyinet.net)
(February 12, 2004 issue)
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