50 - Unlikely TV Entertainment And Hot Shots In Singapore…

Lucky was telling me about a show he caught on Setanta Sports which looked like a Pro-Am competition. He saw a big, fat guy dressed head to toe in all the gear on a pristine American course and watched eagerly to see how someone so out of shape could be good enough to take part. The answer seemed to be that this bloke was definitely an ‘Am’ and was utterly useless!

Lucky’s missus couldn’t understand why he almost choked to death laughing when the guy on the TV took a massive divot up and rolled the ball about 15 feet. He started shouting at the screen “I can do that and he is on the telly!!!”. Eventually she told Lucky that he couldn’t be that bad and he just said “oh we have our moments”. The guy then proceeded to dribble hit tee shot into a pond when it was easier to hit the fairway and Mr & Mrs Lucky were in bits.

Conversely, I put Sky Sports on over the weekend and was amazed by the quality of the women playing in the Lexus Cup at the Singapore Island Country Club. It turns out it is LPGA event where Asia take on the Rest of the World. Along with the regular hotties like Paula Creamer there was an decent supply of Oriental eye candy firing the ball further, straighter and more consistently than I could ever dream of.

One player that caught my eye was 21-year-old Na Yeon Choi (above) from South Korea who was as cute as a button and smashed Ms Creamer all over the course in their game on the final day. The score was eventually 3&2 but Creamer was hanging on for about five holes before eventually taking one for the team (she had the last laugh though as the Rest of the World won the competition by a half).

At the other end of the scale from the lovely Ms Choi was an American player called Christina Kim who looked like a Chinese version of Rosanne Barr. Seriously. She is a little, podgy woman who waddled around the course looking like a tourist with a stupid grin on her face. Tell you what; she can’t half play though so kudos to her. In fact it was her who got the final point to win the game for the Rest of the World.

One thing that freaked me out was that the tournament was stopped for and hour and a half as it started raining. Big deal, it started raining, just get your Pak-a-Mac on and head to the next tee. The problem was that there was a very real chance that someone would die as that part of the world is notorious for lightning storms. I may moan about waterlogged fairways from time to time but I’m fairly certain I’ll get off the course alive unlike our friends in Singapore.