http://birdiegolfblog.com The Travels & Adventures of Birdie Golf Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:45:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-the-vintage-course-3-mission-hills-resort-haikou-china/ http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-the-vintage-course-3-mission-hills-resort-haikou-china/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:00:57 +0000 birdie http://birdiegolfblog.com/?p=4213 Share|This was the course used for the World Ladies Championship the last three days. We played the Pro-Am on Thursday, but it was in Texas Scramble format so we didn’t really play the course in its entirety. So we thought we’d might as well give it a go.   We had to catch our flight [...]]]> http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-the-vintage-course-3-mission-hills-resort-haikou-china/feed/ 0 http://birdiegolfblog.com/birdie-mission-hills-haikou-hainan-china/ http://birdiegolfblog.com/birdie-mission-hills-haikou-hainan-china/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:00:49 +0000 birdie http://birdiegolfblog.com/?p=4202 Share|We almost couldn’t make it to the Stone Quarry Course at Mission Hills Resort in Haikou (Hainan, China). We were here to be the official starter for the inaugural World Ladies Championship (won by Feng Shan Shan). Last night was the Players’ Party hosted by Mission Hills and R was totally wasted. He could hardly [...]]]> http://birdiegolfblog.com/birdie-mission-hills-haikou-hainan-china/feed/ 0 http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-stone-quarry-course-7-mission-hills-resort-haikou-china/ http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-stone-quarry-course-7-mission-hills-resort-haikou-china/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:00:19 +0000 birdie http://birdiegolfblog.com/?p=4207 Share|We weren’t very sober teeing it up on the Stone Quarry Course (course #7) at Mission Hills Resort in Haikou, China, but the 20 minute ride out (for courses 5 to 10) from the clubhouse made it a bit better. Note that the bus schedule is fixed and not very frequent so make sure you [...]]]> http://birdiegolfblog.com/review-stone-quarry-course-7-mission-hills-resort-haikou-china/feed/ 0 http://birdiegolfblog.com/weekend-of-birdies-lotus-hill-china/ http://birdiegolfblog.com/weekend-of-birdies-lotus-hill-china/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:00:27 +0000 birdie http://birdiegolfblog.com/?p=3770 Share|We were in China this weekend for the Reunification Cup tournament between four of Hong Kong’s private clubs – Country Club (which we were playing for), American Club, Football Club and the Chinese Recreation Club. We went up to prepare with a practice round on Friday and managed one Birdie. This happened on the Par [...]]]> http://birdiegolfblog.com/weekend-of-birdies-lotus-hill-china/feed/ 2 http://birdiegolfblog.com/roller-coaster-round-palm-island-china/ http://birdiegolfblog.com/roller-coaster-round-palm-island-china/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:00:05 +0000 birdie http://birdiegolfblog.com/?p=3445 Share|We were playing at the annual JWNV tournament celebrating our dear friend Johnny Wong’s 60th Birthday. We were blessed with cloudy skies and managed to avert the thunderstorms and heavy rain that were in the forecast. On the Lychee and Lake courses at Palm Island, China, we started from the Lychee’s 6th hole and after [...]]]> http://birdiegolfblog.com/roller-coaster-round-palm-island-china/feed/ 0