After counting each member's vote on the best golf course within the Klang Valley, we now have the final result. Watch the video below. Best of 2014:Best Premium Golf Course: Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club
Best Value Golf Course: Kelab Golf Perkhidmatan Awam Best Golf Course for Food: Bukit Kemuning Golf & Country Resort Best Golf Course for Beginners: Kinrara Golf Club Best Golf Course with a View: Templer Park Country Club Best Out of Town Golf Course: Horizon Hills Golf & Country Club (Johor) Best Overall: Palm Garden Golf Resort (IOI Putrajaya)
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As we come to the end of 2014, lets review what gadgets or technology that was introduced to us up to this year. These items or techs that we listed are based from what we have seen on websites, social media and even something which we have had the opportunity to used them ourselves. Most important of all, we felt the list of items here are very cool to have and even can't live without when playing a round of golf. OK, let's get the ball rolling.... 10. MICROFIBER TOWELMost golf brands today have started carrying this microfiber towels in their product line-ups. This technology have been around for long but only in the recent years being introduced to the golfing world. It has the capabilities to absorb a lot more fluids compared to regular towels, and especially good for cleaning golf balls and clubs. 9. SYNLAWNElegant and beautifully crafted for your golfing pleasure at home. They have perfected the art of artificial grass. When it comes to real golf performance, no one does it better than SYNLawn® and Dave Pelz. All SYNLawn® golf products have been tested, analyzed, and developed to perform as close to a natural golf course putting green as possible. World renowned teaching professional, best-selling author, and golf researcher Dave Pelz has been working with SYNLawn® for over two years to bring you the very best golf putting system for real golf performance and real golf improvement. When you purchase a golf green from SYNLawn® you are getting so much more than a fake golf green in your backyard. SYNLawn® artificial putting greens are designed to act like a real golf green, installed to strict specifications, and provide you with real golf improvement. Click here for more info 8. GOLFBOARDCool.... enough said. Click here for info. 7. GAME GOLFPlaying golf should be exactly that—playing. With GAME GOLF, game tracking happens in the background, so you can focus on playing instead of note-taking. All you have to do is power up, put on the device, and play your game. Install the unique tags into each of your clubs and simply tag each club to the device before you take your shot. That’s it. GAME GOLF logs what club you use and where on the course you use it. By combining these observations, your game is visualized like never before. Click here for info 6. GARMIN APPROACHIts a watch, its a GPS, its Garmin Approach. Rugged, waterproof, high-sensitivity GPS golf devices with thousands of preloaded golf courses. Each device features precise distances to the front, back and middle of the green as well as digital personal scorecard and individual shot distance measuring. Additional devices in the series add feature and capability combinations you can only get with Garmin. Click here for info 5. GOLFLOGIXThe #1 Golf App. With hundreds of golf courses in Malaysia made available, this app provides not only the layout of the hole, and distance, but also many other features like, scorecards, golf news, and more. Click here for info 4. DV8 SPORTSStarted off from a project in Kickstarter, DV8 is now available to be purchased. If your car is too small to carry golf bags, or you have to take the bus to the nearest driving range, you no longer have to worry about carry that huge golf bag of yours. Forget 14 clubs with 14 shafts. DV8 clubs let you carry 14 different heads, but only one shaft. Best of all, they fit in just a small bagpack. DV8 simply vary the lower shaft length from coupler to club head, keeping each club true to its regular length and shaft flex. Click here for info 3. BUSHNELL RANGE FINDERWith its new ergonomic design and its award-winning PinSeeker with JOLT Technology, the Tour V3 Jolt Slope sets the standard for being the complete laser rangefinder package - design, performance and feel. JOLT Technology eliminates all doubt by delivering short vibrating bursts to reinforce the laser has locked onto the flag. Use what the Pros use, feel the exact distance... FEEL THE JOLT. Features Bushnell's patented Slope Technology that provides the golfer with compensated swing yardage depending on the degree of incline or decline. Click here for info 2. GOPROStep aside surfers, skate boarders, and snowboarders! Here comes the golfers. Not only GoPro captures good quality photos and videos, it is also perfect for golfers due to its size. Click here for info 1. INSTAGRAM APPWith the amount of selfies taken these days, you definitely need a place to post it. Apart from Facebook or Twitter, the best photo posting social media to us is the Instagram app. #selfie #wefie #golfie
Visit GBWL Instagram account here In the recent months, we hear a lot about this interactive game being introduce all around KL. One of the most popular is the EscapeRoom. What is Escape Room Games? Real-life room escape games are a type of physical adventure game in which people are locked in a room with other participants and have to use elements of the room to solve a series of puzzles, find clues, and escape the room within a set time limit. This is what they have to say about them (Escape Room) in their website: About us Escape games have been proven to be a global massive phenomenon that is taking the world by storm with over 1,000,000 fans from countries such as Australia, China, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Singapore, Taiwan, United Kingdom and United States of America. In 2013, Escape Room landed in Malaysia and proved to be a massively influential as other local escape game counterparts go. Escape Room is a form of a puzzle simulation game where participants will be locked within a room with a specific scenario according to the respective theme, alongside a team of individuals, to solve a series of puzzles and riddles using the elements found inside the room to attempt and escape within the given 45 minute time limit. Game Masters and Escape Marshals are introduced to direct the flow of the game play throughout to add a hint of drama and boldness to the story. Being physically thrust into the story is what is proven to be the unique element of the game, and what sets Escape Room apart from their counterparts is that it has achieved a balance between the physical and intellectual aspects of the puzzles. And now Escape Room is going global! With locations in Melbourne, Ho Chi Minh City, & Manchester; you can look forward to experiencing this new phenomenon hitting your shores soon! And with up to 2 dozen different themes and story lines to choose from, get ready to have your adrenaline pumped up and to have the boundaries of your intellectual capabilities pushed to limits you wouldn't have imagined with the hottest new game around! We Did It!We gave it a shot last Sunday nite at their PJ outlet, situated in the e@Curve Shopping Mall. Booked the "Prison Break" game. Before we started the game, a short briefing we provided by the game marshall, then all of us we hand-cuffed to each other, blindfolded, and left in a locked room (prison cell). The objective is to solve all the riddles, problems and to unlocked the door using a hidden key within 45 minutes.
"Prison Break" is rated with 4 stars difficulty. Well, 3 stars would be easy, then 4 stars would be intermediate and 5 stars would be the most difficult. We did managed to escape the room with 3 minutes left on the countdown clock. Looks like the next step is a 5 stars game. Now, can you escape the room??? Check out their website for more info and bookings: EscapeRoom Congrats to our dear friend, Syed Hafiz for winning the longest drive competition during the Sime Darby LPGA Pro-Am game today at the Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club. The winning drive was at 255m, and won him a Samsung Galaxy Tab. His playing Pro was Amy Yang from S. Korea.
Check out some of the actions at the venue. Looks like Taylormade is all geared up to promote a new product. Wonder what will it be? A new driver? New clubs? New ball? Find out for yourself on the 15th October. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar; Muslims worldwide observe this as a month of fasting. There will be some who will be hanging their golf bag during this holy month. But for those who are strong enough to play during the Ramadhan month, below are some promotions that you can leverage on..
To all GBWL Members and friends, "Selamat Berpuasa". Chicago is a golf game format where players start the round with a negative number of points based on their handicap. Scratch golfers start at -39 with each handicap stroke over scratch adding one point to the starting figure (i.e. 20 handicapper would start with -19, 10 handicapper -29, etc.).
Golfers then try to get out of the hole by adding one point for a bogey, two points for par, four points per birdie, and eight points for an eagle. This fun format encourages players to take risks trying to score under par; especially considering a double bogey or worse is all worth zero points and doesn't bring down your score further. The player with the highest score (negative or not) wins. Last nite, we celebrated Wawa's and Zak's (advance) birthday celebration by trying to get out of a locked room. Yes, we physically tried to escape from a dark and smoky room. We went to Escape Room at eCurve. It is located on the 2nd Floor, next to a Family Karaoke joint. SInce it was a surprise birthday do, both Wawa and Zak thought that we are taking them for a TCSS session at that particular spot.
First, we had chosen in advance thru a booking on their website to solve the Mysterious Room which was rated with 4 stars difficulty. We had 45 minutes to get ourselves out of the dark locked room by solving several clues inside. Prior to the clock starting, a short briefing was given by the staff. One of the best task in the Mysterious Room is to crawl below several lasers, just like in the James Bond movies. It was hilarious to see a couple of dudes reliving their cadet or scout days... In the end, we won... or was it lost? Here are some photos from that super fun nite. |
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