Category: Golf
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Buriram Golf Society Tour To Khao Yai
Khao Yai Golf Tour 5th and 6th September 2016. A band of ten enthusiastic golfers, some with their partners, who added greatly to the atmosphere and kept us in check, drove the 250 km from Buriram to Khao Yai Valley in a pleasant three hours to be delighted that the Tour Manager had chosen such…
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Ariya Jutanugarn Becomes First Thai To Win A Major
Ariya Jutanugarn became the first Thai of either sex to win a major when she won The Women’s British Open at Woburn yesterday. She held off the challenge of South Korea’s Mirim Lee to win by 3 shots at 16 under par. Ariya led Lee by 2 shots going into the final round and quickly…
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Magnus Makes It A Sweden Double In The Claret Jug
Following Henrik Stenson’s outstanding win at The Open, Magnus Sundgren made it a Swedish double in the Buriram Golf Society’s Claret Jug competition. As reported earlier, it was a two round stableford competition, played at the Khao Kadong Golf Course at the army base in Buriram. Magnus was trailing first-round leader Rod Young by 5…
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Buriram Golf Society Play Their Final Round For The Claret Jug On Friday
The local golf enthusiasts knew they would enjoy watching “The Open” over the last weekend. So some months ago the Golf Society decided to have, their own Claret Jug competition. It was to be held over two rounds of stableford golf, the first round having been played last Friday. The esteemed senior member, Colin Bradwell,…
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Buriram Golf Society Make American Independence Day Go With a Bang!
On Friday July 3rd, the Buriram Golf Society held a Texas Scramble to celebrate American Independence Day. A number of our former colonial “friends” have been prominent supporters of previous events so we thought it appropiate to honour their big day. On this occasion it was to be a shotgun start (hence the bang, though…
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Record Numbers Participate In Buriram Invitation Golf Challenge
On the third ever occasion of the six month old and rapidly expanding Buriram Invitation Golf Challenge, record numbers of players participated in a one day Texas Scramble competition. 32 players took part. This was six up on the last outing which took place at Christmas time, and eleven up on the first ever Buriram…
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Buriram Christmas Golf Tournament
Due to the great success of the Buriram Times Challenge Golf Tournament earlier in the year, a group of Buriramers took it upon themselves to have a whole other contest to themselves. In an early burst of Christmas frivolities, twenty four keen golfers donned their Christmas hats and hit a ball round eighteen holes of…
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Inaugural Buriram Times Golf Tournament A Great Success
The first – ever Buriram Times Golf Tournament was held on Tuesday, October 28th at Buriram Golf Club. Twenty-one golfers of varying degrees of prowess took part and the verdict was a unanimous thumbs-up! 1st Place Team Steve, Lynn and Larry (above) It was a multicultural event with players from the USA, New…
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New High-Tech Golf In Your Own Home
The answer to every amateur golfer’s (and pros) prayers may have been finally answered . A company called SIMGOLF.asia has developed a brand new indoor golfing experience using various products developed by other companies. They have assembled a host of state of the art, high tech golfing aid devices into a single package to produce…
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Surin Golf Course
The Buriram Times has already featured Buriram Golf Course and for those who fancy a trip out to play another course, Surin is only 50 km down the road. Like Buriram, it is situated at the quite picturesque Army camp on the outskirts of Surin. It is a nine hole course consisting of two par…