Town-Hall Meeting Wed. May 16th, 2012

April 2012 - On Wednesday May 16th our annual Mid Year Town Hall meeting will be held at Sheraton, Meeting Room 2, starting at 7PM until 9PM. Issues at hand will be discussed along with general members queries and/or advice. Please respond before Friday afternoon May 11th if you wish to attend by mail to our chairman.

PAN PACIFIC CUP 2012

April 7, 2012 -  Today we start our first out of six Pan Pacific Cup Competion for awesome prizes. The other five PP-competition dates are:

May 5th - June 30th - Aug. 11th - Sept. 22nd - Nov. 3rd FINAL.

As in previous years, the winners will be adjudged from the players who have the best 5 Combined Stableford scores from a maximum of 6 rounds played.

Pan Pacific Cup Prizes:

UPCOMING XGS EVENTS 2012

February 25th at Southern Wood - Boat 10:30AM
March 10th at Orient - T OFF 8AM - Ecco Open!!!
March 24th at COSCO - T OFF 8:30AM
April 7th at Southern Wood - Boat 8:30AM

More scheduled outings for the first half of 2012 can be found under the menu 'Upcoming Events'.

Sign up now for the 2nd Edition of the ASIA CUP

Febr. 2012 - On April 19th, a group of golfers will head to Taichung, Taiwan, to represent XGS to play in the 2nd edition of the Asia Cup. The Asia Cup is a two days golf event with teams from Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen and Taichung. Last year XGS was the host and this year the Taichung International Golf Society (TIGS) will organize this fantastic Ryder Cup style event. For more information or to sign up contact Don Jordan. We'll need minimum of 16 players. Click on the link here to watch last years Asia Cup fun!!!

NEW SPONSOR - FREE WEBSITE!

Febr. 2012 - XGS is having a new sponsor: Yardi Technology Co., Ltd.. Yardi is a Xiamen based website builder. They will make a brand new website for XGS with some great features. The transition may take several weeks. During this period there might be some inconvenience with our site. We ask for you understanding and patient.

Happy New Year!

Jan 2012 - XGS wishes everyone a happy and prosperous 2012 with a lot of good golf and good fun. Our first upcoming event is scheduled for Saturday January 14th, 11:30AM T OFF at KaiKou. Sign-up is open now!

The second event of the year will be on February 4th T Off at 7AM at Orient Golf Course.

New board and membership 2012

Dec 2011 - 2012 Membership Sign Up is open.  The member fee is 700 RMB. If paid after January 31, 2012 it will be increased to 750 RMB. Please contact our new treasurer Theresa Westgard for your payment.

XGS Executive Board 2012 appointments:

Anthony Walker - Chairman
Pim Overes - Vice Chairman
Theresa Westgard - Treasurer
Dave Roberts - Secretary
Anthony Walker - Captain

Committee chairs appointed:

Membership - Ewa Walters
Sponsorship - Anthony Walker
Events - Rob Bird
Handicaps - Pim Overes

New board members elected!

Nov. 2011 - Congratulations to our new elected board members Rob Bird, Neil Waters, Theresa Westgard and Pim Overes. Together with Anthony Walker, Dave Roberts and Ewa Walters they will form the 2012 XGS board. We wish to thank the leaving board members Don Jordan, Kendall Matthews, Peter Bourque and Ben Huxley - Williams for all the fantastic work they did for our society over the past two years. Thanks a lot!

Annual Meeting on Wed. Nov. 23rd

Nov. 2011 - The AGM of XGS will be on Wednesday November 23, 2011, at the Pan Pacific hotel. There will be sandwiches, canopees, mini pizza's, mini burgers and deserts from 6PM and drink till 9:30. All free of charge. The meeting starts at 7PM. Don't miss it. New board members will be voted in and we have other interesting topic to discuss. Let our chairman know if you will be coming so we can give the Pan Pacific a good headcount.

XGS Club Championship 2011

Nov. 2011 - And our new champions are:

Ben Huxley - Williams winner lowest gross (79 strokes)   -   Tone Wierod winner lowest net (70)

Fredrik Westgard runner-up lowest gross (83 strokes)   -   Ben Huxley - Williams runner-up lowest net (70)

Congratulations!

Golf rules boring to learn? Not with this Video!

Aug 2011 - We have uploaded an awesome video 'Golf rules in Action'. It explains the main rules of golf, using TV fragments of major tournament featuring famous golfers like Tiger Woods, Ian Woosman, Lee Westwood, Ernie Els and many others. An entertaining way to learn the fundamentals of the rules of golf. The next time you face one of these ruling situation, you most likely will remember what to do. If you want to learn more about rules, take this fun yet informative quiz!

Click here to go to the website of the R&A.

Winners 'The Open Charity Golf Pool'

July 2011 - In a sensational Open Championship, the European favourites struggled most with the ultimate golfing conditions. Although the European golfer Darren Clarke won the windswept 140st Open Championship at Royal St. George's, it was our own American Don Jordan won The Open Charity Golf Pool with his US All Star picks!!! Five of his 10 picks made the cut and the total of his top 5 players was +12, the lowest total of all participants.

We had 44 participants in the pool and raised 4400RMB. 40% of the pot (1800 RMB) will go to our charity CP Sapling of Xiamen. The other 1800 RMB is going to the pool winner and the rest (800RMB) will go to Philip, a guest of our member Scott Moss, who became second.

Our first Hole-in-One!!!

July 2011 - What is believed to be the first “Hole in One” in a XGS competition history was accomplished by Mark Liang at Cosco golfcourse on Saturday July 9th 2011. It happened on the par 3, hole number 12 (B3). Following the Event Mark hosted several celebration parties for XGS members throughout Xiamen. Note, this is familiar territory to Mark as it’s his third hole in one. At the same event another record was set by our Chairman Don Jordan who shot a net 55! Click here to find out who the other prize winners were.

XGS Charity roll out!

July 2011 - Following a resolution that was approved at the last AGM, the board has been working to identify a suitable charity for XGS to support. After looking at several charities it was unanimously approved at the last board meeting to adopt CP Sapling as the charity that XGS will support.

CP Sapling of Xiamen, which was founded two years ago in Xiamen, is a non-profit charity organization dedicated to helping families with disabled children. They provide an activity center, adult care and play group and home visits to the families. CP Sapling has been striving to seek to decrease abandonment of children with disabilities by partnering with families with children with disabilities

XGS support will consist of the RMB30 Outing fee that we all pay for each event along with other fund raisers that will be launched in the future. To read more about our donations to CP Sapling of Xiamen and about the charity itself, click here.

Top-10 Mid Year most improved golfer (Jan-July 2011)

Rank	Name	Starting handicap	Closing handicap	Improvement factor
1	Overes, Pim	33.4	20.0	1.42
2	Kim, In-Seon	27.1	19.2	1.25
3	Vermeulen, Alain	31.7	23.9	1.22
4	O'Brien, Dave	28.0	21.0	1.21
5	Wierod, Tone	26.0	19.4	1.21
6	Saunders, Graham	22.3	17.5	1.16
7	Zobrist, Peter	34.2	29.0	1.13
8	Lindstrom, Nils	22.1	18.4	1.12
9	Walters, Petro	12.8	10.3	1.11
10	Ullum, Steve	18.5	15.6	1.11

New on the menu - Videos

June 2011 - Check out all our videos under our new menu 'Pics & Vids. Among them is a cool video about the Asia Cup 2011. A brilliant masterpiece with coverage of the whole Asia Cup event, showing some good golf and even more good fun. Great job Ben! Click here to watch this video.

Some like it hot!

June 2011 - XGS outing June 25th, what a great event it was. We were met with our first real hot and steamy summer golf event on the plains of Southern Wood. Water and not beer was the essential beverage of the day with the latter finishers doing well to overcome the scorching conditions! Well done all - no serious casualties - but a seriously heat dazed Dane at the finishing line did well to pick up his close to the pin at the well attended Londoner wrap party... Cheers all. (Weather Underground reported Heat Index at 47C @ 11 AM on Sat. cooling to 43C by 2PM).

Looking forward to more sizzling action at Cosco on 9th July - 7am bus from the JJ's / M&You 2 Parking lot... more details to follow by Email.

Check out all the winners here and for more detailed tournament scoring click here.

Pan Pacific Standings as of May 28th, 2011

June 2011 - We are halfway the Pan Pacific Cup competition. Click here to find the standings as of May 28th, 2011.

Inaugural Asia Cup won by Shanghai Golfers Club

June 2011 - After a fantastic event in which 80 matches were played (16 best ball matches, 16 greensomes, 16 scrambles and 32 singles) the Shanghai Golfers Club won the Asia Cup 2011 with 21 points. Only half a point difference from Xiamen who became number 2. Taichung, who was in the lead after day one, ended up third with 20 points. Beijing became last with 19 points. Some great exciting golf was played and many matches were decided on the 17th and 18th hole.

XGS can look back on a very successful well organised tournament! Thanks for the sponsors for their continuously support.

Taichung volunteered to host next years Asia Cup on April 20-21st, 2012.

Soon, we will upload a link to a video with an impression of the whole event in which many new friendships have been made.

XGS Hat Clip and Ball Marker

May 2011 - Besides our recently launched XGS branded caps we now have our own XGS hat-clip and ball-marker! Every member will get one set for free. If you want more, for your other hats or to give to friends back home, you can buy them for 25 RMB each. Ask Ewa or Ben.

The unofficial pre Asia Cup video - Asia Cup update

May 2011 - The party is coming to Xiamen. We are approaching the one Month mark until the 1st annual Asia Cup to be held June 10 and 11th. To get in the mood watch this Unofficial pre Asia Cup video 'Unfamiliar faces from afar, soon to be friends'.

Along with great golf we have some exciting evenings planned starting June 9th with a Meet&Greet at the Londoner, followed by dinner at Coyote Café. On Friday the 4 teams will play 27 holes at Cosco (indeed, change of the golf course) and in the evening we gather at Me&You2. On Saturday we play 18 holes at Orient A/C. Awards presentation and the final party will be held at the Pan Pacific.

If you want to join the team or just want to play a social round, email our chairman. We also can use volunteers (e.g. XGS-liaisons for the other teams) to make the event a success. Hope you will be part of the party; playing or non-playing!

KaiKou early Bird 'Weekday Special' is back

April 2011 - KaiKou golf course started the early Bird 'Weekday Special' again lasting until October 31th. You have to start between 5:30-8:00 A.M. and the green fee is only 400 RMB for 18 holes, including a cart (Note - this year it does not include a breakfast). You have the make a reservation!

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