Tournaments of Year 2001
3/18 9:30am Poppy Ridge
4/22 2:00pm Coyote Creek Signature
5/20 1:00pm Eagle Ridge
6/10 2:00pm Seascape
7/15 11:42am Monarch Bay
8/12 10:00am Santa Clara
9/17 11:30am Sunnyvale
10/7 12:00pm Poppy Hill (Annual Tour)
11/11 12:00pm Coyote Creek Valley
Poppy Ridge (Steve)
We had a beautiful weather to enjoy the golf game yesterday in Poppy Ridge. With the discount rate from NCGA, we are allowed to spend more money on the prize and trophy. "If you believe it, you will get it", I hope to see you more often in the driving range and coming tours. Special thanks to Alex and Ling-Lee Hsu for helping on purchase the prize. See you in the next tour at Cyote Creek on 4/22.
Here is the results:
Leader #1:Steve Hsia 86
Leader #2:Roger Su 90
Starter Net #1:Alex Hsu 92/71
Starter Net #2:Steve Hwang 96/74
Starter Net #3:Jennifer Kao 95/77
Rookie Net #1:Albert Pan 94/67
Rookie Net #2:Lucas Tsai 94/70
Rookie Net #3:Michael Wu 102/72
Lucky Par 3 Hole: Norman Lin, Yu-Huai Hsiao, Jennifer Kao, Steve Hsia
Strongest Man: Roger Su
Strongest Woman: Shirley Chang
Coyote Creek (Liz)
Thanks for supporting Coyote Creek tournament, this is the very first
tournament that we are able to collect all the green fee before play day.
Paying green fee on time and Playing tournaments are the best way to
uphold the golf club.
Gross champion: the
unbeatable Jennifer Kao - 92
First flight net:
1st place: Steve Hsia - 73
2nd place: Steve Hwang - 80
3rd place: Conrad Chen - 80
Second flight net:
1st place: Liz Chen - 73
2nd place: Albert Pan - 82
3rd place: Peter Ju - 84
Closest To Pin: Eric
Chou(19'9"), Steve Hsia(32'3"), Ying Chou(4'2"), Liz
Chen(19'8")
Lady's Longest Drive:
Liz Chen
Eagle Ridge (Albert)
If you ever saw the movie "13th Warriors", then you can imagine how the tournament at Eagle Ridge looked like. Our last warrior, Thomas Chen, just came aboard one day before the game. But as you can expect, the last warrior won the game.
Here is the score list:
Flight 1
Net 1 Tomas Chen, 89/73
Net 2 Steve Hsia, 90/74
Flight 2
Net 1 Peter Ju, 100/72
Net 2 Michael Wu, 104/73
Thanks Peter for the thirst quenching beer.
Seascape (Lucas)
Summer is usually "the" golf season, and with such pleasant weather around the bay, we cannot help but wonder "where have all the golfers gone?"
Anyway, I bet everyone joined the game were having such a good time together. Seascape is a golf course with lots of natural surroundings, and the shadow of the cypress tress can make your view very intriguing. The greens are ultra small, which demands accurate approach shots. Also, the lady tee are extremely difficult compared to man's, and this explains why Jennifer did not come out and beat on us, the poor boys again! After the game, a couple of us went on to have pizza and beer at downtown Los Gatos, where one of us was so hungry that he asked the waitress if there was any "leftover" in the kitchen after the ordered pizza was consumed!!!
The followings are the tournament results, and see you next month (7/15) at Monarch Bay, San Leandro:
Gross #1: George Cheng 96
Net #1: Michael Wu 100/ Over 2
Net #2: Randy Tan 99/ Over 5
Net #3: Michael Chang 99/ Over 7
Near Pins: Jennifer and Randy Tan
Lowest Putt: Liz Chen 35 putts
Monarch Bay (Steve)
We had a good time on Sunday except the wind and Karaoke noise.
Here is the results:
Near pin: Yu Chang and Jimmy Jen
Guest winner: Jack Lin/101 and Brian Chang/104
Net 1 winner: Steve Hsia/86/71.5 and Frank Hsu/97/78.4
Net 2 winner: Conrad Chen/93/72.4 and Jimmy Jen/102/77.3
Low gross winner: Yu Chang/80
Santa Clara (Lucas)
It is a very nice day, and we have some old friends finally emerged from their busy schedule, and join the alumni for a good game together. Obviously everyone is getting better (we have 2 NET -7 today), and it took -2 to even get a low net trophy today.
Name HandiCap Course Par Scores Awards Liz Chen 31 103 104 NEAR PIN #13 Norman Lin 10.6 83 82 GROSS #1 & LONG DRIVE Alex Yang NH (No Handicap yet) 109 Hao Ping Wen Guest 96 GUEST LOW GROSS Michael Wang 25 99 92 Leave Early Joe Chou NH 103 Michael Wu 26.6 101 94 NET #1 & NEAR PIN #17 Steve Hwang 19.5 93 89 NET #2 Paul Wen 24.6 99 97 NET #4 Jeff Lin 2 Guest 101 WenPeng Hsueh Guest 98 Derek Chang Guest 97 NEAR PIN #8 George Cheng 19.6 93 91 NET #3 Frank Hsu 17.8 91 97 NEAR PIN #4 Peter Ju 24.1 98 97 Jeff Lin 1 NH 105 Ivan Ho 16.1 89 97 Gary Wang 12.4 85 87 Albert Pan 24.6 99 101 Lucas Tsai 22.3 96 97
Sunnyvale (Liz)
Time for 9/11 mourning is gone, life goes on! Thanks for joining Sunnyvale Walking Tournament! Flight 1: Net 1 - George Cheng/73 Net 2 - Conrad Chen/74 Net 3 - Norman Lin/76
Flight 2: Net 1 - Peter Ju /61 Net 2 - Albert Pan /70 Net 3 - Michael Wu /72
Lowest Putts: Norman Lin
Long Drive (Boy): Steve Hwang
Long Drive (Girl): Lucern Ma
Near Pin 1 - Michael Chang Near Pin 2 - Haw-Ping Wen
Poppy Hill (Albert)
Thanks for your participation. This was one of the best tours we have had in
this year. We could feel how eager those players aiming at the Annual Trophy
in the Diamond group. We also could feel excitement, surprise and
competition in the Gold group.
The Iron Man, Roger Su, defended his title again. This is the 3rd
consecutive year that he won the Gross #1. (Yu Chang only got 1 stroke shy.
Hope he drove home safe!!)
In the Gold group, we found a new LPGA star, Rose Chen who took the Net #1
prize. Guess she will show up for every tournaments from now. (George,
please tell Rose that she has plenty of potential to win every tour with
index 43.3)
During the dinner, we were glad to announce our next GC Chairman, Alex Hsu.
With his help, we should be able to host better tours and attract more
players.
Gross
#1 Roger Su 87
Diamond
#1 Yu Chang 88/ 72
#2 Steve Hsia 91/ 72
#3 George Chen 96/ 73
Gold
#1 Rose Chen 116/ 65
#2 Michael Wang 95/ 66
#3 Shirley Chang 112/ 68
Low Putt
#1 Michael Wang 32
#2 Norman Lin 32
Near Pins
Steve Hsia, Lucern Ma, Rose Chen, Steve Hwang
Coyote Creek Valley (Steve)
Hi CTUAA golfers
Late is better than never. Here is the results on the 11/11 Coyote Creek Tour.
Gross
#1 Roger Su 89
Diamond
#1 Conrad Chen 90 68
#2 George Cheng 94 71
#3 Michael Chang 94 72
Iron
#1 Benny Peng 94 67
#2 Peter Ju 95 68
#3 Michael Wu 99 70
Near Pin
Lucas Tsai, Jennifer Kao, Peter Ju
See you on year 2002 tour.
The year 2002 tour schedule is coming up soon.
It is not easy this time because we are planning to go to Private Country Club
and playing golf match game with other golf club team. There will be at least 7
tour's in year 2002.
Thank you for your supporting this year and hope to see you next year in March.
Tournament of Year 2000
Mar 26 Las Positas 11:08am for 28
Apr 30 Spring Valley 11:00am for 24
May 21 Chardonnay 11:00am for 24
Jun 18 Oakhurst 1:00pm for 24
Jun 25 Summit Pointe 11:45am (CTUAA 100th event)
Jul 30 Poppy Ridge 7:00am for 28
Aug 6 Chinese Olympics 10:00am (San Jose Muni)
Aug 27 Santa Clara 10:00am for 24
Sep 24 Poppy Hill 12:40pm for 32 (Annual tour)
Oct 29 Santa Teresa 11:00am for 24
Nov 19 San Juan Oaks 9:00am for 24
Sunday, March 26, 2000, we had a wonderful day for our first Y2K tournament at Las Positas, Livermore. And this was also the first game after we adopted new membership rules and NCGA index. Roger Su, the unbeatable man, led the score 81, 4 strokes ahead the second player James Yang, and 8 strokes ahead the third player Jerry Chang. This is the 4th games he has won for the year.
What surprised more and made all the male players so shamed, Jennifer Kao (the first lady in flight 1 of CTUAA GC history) took the Net 1 prize of flight 1. She shot 90 at net 69.
Though most of the players lost balls in the hazard or water, here is a funny one. The Water Boy, Albert Pan, shot consecutive 6 balls into the water at the same hole, same spot at hole 6, 326 yards. It's witnessed by Ivan Ho who observed the whole show with no mercy to let the water boy carry the ball through the hazard by hands.
Gross 1 Roger Su
Flight 1 Net 1 Jennifer Kao
Flight 1 Net 2 George Cheng
Flight 1 Net 3 Jerry Chang
Flight 2 Net 1 Lucas JY Tsai
Flight 2 Net 2 Peter Ju
Flight 2 Net 3 Randy Tan
Longest Drive, Man Ivan Ho
Longest Drive, Lady Rose Chen
Near Pin Jimmy Jen
Near Pin Denny
Guest Gross 1 James Yang
Guest Gross 2 Taylor Wu
We had a beautiful Sunday and happy golf tournament at Spring Valley golf course. Several members have made significant progress since last year. We see Michael Chang, Lucas Tsai shot under 100 more often than before. Liz Chen is also getting close to 100. Jennifer Kao, Yu Chang, Ivan Ho are trying to get stable in the low 90's. So, what is your goal? Hope we will see more and more people shot in 80's by end of this season. For flight 2 members, hope to see them breaking 100 and staying in 90's.
Low Gross: Norman Lin - 86
Flight 1 net 1: Steve Hsia - 89/70
net 2: Ivan Ho - 90/72
net 3: Jennifer Kao - 95/75
Flight 2 net 1: Michael Chang - 90/66
net 2: Liz Chen - 108/71
net 3: Frank Hsu - 95/75
Near pin: Paul Wen, Frank Hsu
Long Drive Man: Yu Chang ~280yd
Lady: Jennifer Kao ~200yd
Low putt: Michael Chang - 34
Guest Low gross: 1) ChihLu Wu - 98 2) Steve Hwang
Luck prize: Lucas Tsai - 102 (Luck prize is offered by Roger Su)
May 21 was definitely a very special experience for us. It seemed that the temperature was setting a barrier -100F, for a lot of us, only 6 of us were able to beat this number. On top of this, huge number of pollen counts also contributed to the difficulty level.
Well, it's a hard job, but somebody got to do it!
Anyway, the tournament also marked the beginning of a new era: Steve Hsia, our rising star, who edged out roger of 88, hit 87 to claim the gross crown. And, for the first time in our club history, a lady claimed the longest drive award in the Lady/Man together format. Carol Chen hit about 180 yards to clinch this title (from red tee of course:)
Here are the detailed results:
Gross #1 - Steve Hsia G87
Net #1 - Michael Chang G96 N69
Net #2 - George Cheng G95 N74
Net #3 - Roger Su G88 N78
Net #4 - Randy/ Jennifer Tan G103/98 N79
Longest Drive Carol Chen
Near Pins Alex Hsu, Steve Hsia
Guest Gross #1 Michael Wang 97 #2 Conrad Chen 101
First of all, we would like to welcome our new members, YuHai Hsiao and Conrad Chen, played with us in this tournament. This time we had all par 3 holes competing for near pin. Hope you have enjoyed the more winning chance than before.
Michael Change continued improving and took the low gross 1st place at 94. Roger Su actually had the lowest score at 88, however, with his previous winning history, less then 81 is his target. Conrad Chen is improving lately and shot 98 to take the net 1st place in Fight 2. Benny Peng is working hard to come to close 100. He shot 104 and claimed the net 2nd place in Flight 2.
Hope by end of this season, we have most of our club members shot at 100 and better, so our tournament playing pace will be fast enough for not getting complains from "Marshal".
Once again, playing the "ready golf" is a good courtesy to our friends. If you need help on how to play "ready golf", we will be more than happy to play with you and provide suggestions on course.
Low gross 1st: Michael Chang 94
Flight 1 Net 1: Frank Hsu 99/74
Net 2: George Cheng 97/75
Net 3: Roger Su 88/77
Flight 2 Net 1: Conrad Chen 98/66
Net 2: Benny Peng 104/72
Net 3: Michael Wang 102/74
Guest Low gross: JJ Wang 94
Longest drive Man: Yu Chang
Woman: Liz Chen
Near Pin 1: Frank Hsu, Michael Chang, Liz Chen, Shirley Chang
It's a great day for all CTU alumni. 2000 Reunion has brought lots of old friends together. On Sunday, totally 28 golfers, including 8 honorable guests, joined us for a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
- First of all, let's welcome Max Wu of Acer America to join our club. Max is a CTU alumni (1978 EE) and a vivid golfer. His single-handed golf swing proved to be better than lots of traditional golf swings. We expect to play more often with Max in our upcoming tournaments.
- After Clarent (NASD: CLRN) was upgraded last week by Lehman's Brothers, it gave its CEO a strong boost of self-esteem such that Jerry Chang shot 83, 8 shots ahead of the second contender, to claim the gross #1 title, even without his caddie, Tiger Woods.
- Did you notice that 3COM recently changed its logo? It was believed the new logo came with ritual blessing from some South American Voodoo tribe, and it will bring good luck to its employees. Hey! it was true! Gary Wang was so lucky to shot 92 and was able to claim the NET#1 trophy with score of 66.8 (using New Peoria).
- The most amazing development in this tournament is, Shirley Chang, after several sessions with Butch Harmon, improved her swing on both accuracy and distance tremendously. She took home two trophies: long drive (Man/Lady format) and near pin. She out-drive man's long-drive champion, her husband Yu Chang, by an estimated 50 yards.
Gross #1 Jerry Chang 83
Net #1 Gary Wang 92 (66.8)
Net #2 Jimmy Jen 99 (72.6)
Net #3 Frank Hsu 98 (74.8)
Long Drive/ M Yu Chang
Long Drive/ W Shirley Chang
Near Pin #3 Jerry Chang
Near Pin #5 Shirley Chang
Near Pin #13 Liz's Uncle
Near Pin #16 Benny Peng
- Special acknowledgements go to Randy Tan, who cannot attend this tournament since he is the chairman of the whole reunion. Randy donated two prizes for this tournament. Also thanks to Roger Su, President of the golf club, who donated 5 lucky prizes as well. (Gee, we should have more of this kind of donation for our regular tournaments:)
It's fantastic that we enjoyed much from the Poppy Ridge golf course. We were lucky to get the tee time in the early morning. Most of the golf courses only allow the tournament starting late after.
Congratulation on Ivan Ho. He took the first prize of Gross, 90. It's a head-to-head competition between him and Jerry Chang. Both of them shot on 90. So we compared the last 9 holes. Still tied. Then we compared the last 6 holes. Walla.
YuHuai Hsiao, a black horse (new member and just got index), took the flight II first prize (96/66). Yu Chang was totally stunned. Yu gave a lot of tips and mentoring in the first few holes to YuHuai. But YuHuai just continued to have straight driver shots, incredible chip-in, and couple of one-put on green. Then Yu Chang swore if he gave any help to YuHuai, he is a pig. Well, Yu did again, so he ...
And you can find it from the result list below, Lucas Tsai shows up 3 times. Finally, a father can proudly bring back a trophy to his son who kept asking "How come? Dad, you come home with empty hands. How come?". You know how it hurt in a 5 year-old kid's heart. Congratulation.
Here is the result.
Gross: Ivan Ho 90
Flight I Gross Net
1) Steve Hsia 87 67
2) Lucas Tsai 94 68
3) Roger Su 84 73
Flight II Gross Net
1) YuHuai Hsiao 96 66
2) Conrad Chen 95 67
3) Albert Pan 95 67
Long Drive: Norman Lin, Shirley Cheng
Near Pin : Michael Cheng (G), Lucas, Lucas, Shirley Cheng
Dear CTUAA Golfers,
This is to inform you of the good news we achieved on Chinese
Olympics Golf tournament:
- CTUAA team won 2nd place for gross team competition: Thanks
to Roger Su, Steve Hsia, Norman Lin and Yu Chang.
- Jennifer won 1st place lady's net champion.
- Steve won 2nd place net competition (he broke 80, and shot 79).
- Roger won 3rd place net competition (he also shot 79).
- Jessie Yang, our young hot shot, stormed some 300 yards, and
won Man's long drive champion.
- Eric Yang's wife, Chunling Liu, won lady's long drive.
This is the first year we participated in Chinese Olympics as an alumni
association golf club, and the achievement was really exceptional.
Congratulations to all of us!!!
Best Regards,
CTUAAGC Staff (Albert, Liz, Lucas, and Steve)
Santa Clara
It's end of summer, kids are preparing to go back to schools, and people are all coming back from vacation. Before silicon valley goes into another traffic hell, 24 of our CTUAAGC golfers were determined to enjoy the last drop of summer fun, and we did:
- Monk from far away can really chant. Young Lin, vice Chairman of ITEX, shot the lowest score 77, and claimed guest gross award. Richard Jiang, our CTU alumni from Taiwan, claimed lowest putt award with only 31 putts.
- Yu Chang, and Ivan Ho, both shot 79, and Yu claimed low gross, while Ivan claimed Lowest Net 1 from flight #1. Old gingers are indeed spicier. Did you believe Yu still lost $17 on the course for skin games?
- What do Frank Hsu, Conrad Chen, and Liz Chen have in common? No, not because they are all human beings, nor because they are all ethic Chinese. They all shot their lowest score ever today! Frank shot 83, and claimed Net #2 in flight 1; Conrad shot 84, and claim Net#1 flight 2. Miss Liz broke 100, shot 99 to claim Net#3, flight 3. Congratulations!!!
- After 2 weeks vacation in Taiwan, and couple of days gambling at Reno, Roger obviously lost all his feel, and shot poorly. However, the power is still there for the old horse to claim, for the first time, man's long drive. On the other hand, Shirley seemed invincible on lady's long drive competition again!
Also, 1 week in Hawaii never slowed down Jennifer: she claimed 2 nearest pin award today.
- Detailed scores:
Gross #1 -> Yu Chang 79/ 64
Flight 1 Net #1 -> Ivan Ho 79/ 61
Net #2 -> Frank Hsu 83/ 62
Net #3 -> Thomas Chen 82/ 67
Flight 2 Net #1 -> Conrad Chen 84/ 61
Net #2 -> Mike Ling 100/ 64
Net #3 -> Liz Chen 99/ 67
Man's Long Drive: Roger Su
Lady's Long Drive: Shirley Chang
Near Pin: #5 Conrad Chen, #8 Liz Chen, #12 Jennifer Tan, #16 Jennifer Tan
Lowest Putt: Richard Jiang: 31 putts
Guess Gross: Young Lin: 77
Thanks for CTUAA GC members who made the 2000 annual tournament a fun event. No
matter the scores are good or bad, everybody is the winner. As CTUAA GC
president, Roger Su, mentioned, we had our first annual dinner banquet this
year, we would have more and more interesting events to make CTUAA GC fun to
play with.
The first flight players are incredibly competitive, one player has net 67,
three players have net 71, and four players have net 73. As Randy Tan said,
CTUAA GC is getting recognized and attention in Bay Area!!!
Before announcing the score, I like to pay tribute to a player, who won respect
not only by playing excellent, but also by being the first and the only lady in
the first flight. Jennifer Kao, the best CTUAA GC lady player.
Gross champion: Roger Su
Roger won the real champion two years in a row, shall we take the trophy away
from him next year?
First flight:
1st place: Ivan Ho
2nd place: Yu Chang
3rd place: Jesse Yang
Second flight:
1st place: Liz Chen
2nd place: Eric Yang
3rd place: Jimmy Jen
Closest To Pin: Yu Chang, Ivan Ho, Roger Su,
Michael Wang
Lady's Longest Drive: Linglee Hsu
Man's Longest drive: Jesse Yang
"If you believe it, it will not rain.", this is what happen to the last weekend's CTUAA golf tournament. The weather was so unstable that I had received so many phone calls asking about the game. But, we did it and it was just about right for us to enjoy the game. This is the first time to try 4-ball scramble game and hope everyone will find it is completely different to play individually. Team work and strategy is most important.
Here is the results of CTUAA Santa Teressa Golf Tournament
Team 1st place: Net=51, Gross=70, Conrad Chen, Steve Hwang, Michael Wu
Team 2nd place: Net=55.9, Gross=69, Steve Hsia, Tomas Chen, Michael Chang, Frank Hsu
Team 3rd place: Net=58.5, Gross=74, Ivan Ho, Ivy Ho, Mr. Hu, Yu-huai Hsiao
Team 4th place: Net=60, Gross=76, Gary Wang, Liz Chen, Albert Pan, Eric Chang
Team 5th place: Net=61.7, Gross=78, Alex Hsu, Ling-lee Hsu, Randy Tan, Jennifer Kao
Team 6th place: Net=64.6, Gross=82, Yu Chang, Shirley Chang, Friend, Friend
Longest Drive: Jennifer Kao and Tomas Chen
Closest to the pin: Ivan Ho, Alex Hsu, and Conrad Chen
Though it's the last game of the year, it is still an exciting one.
With consistent and some magic ways to put the balls on fairway all the time, Jennifer Tan took the 1st Gross prize at the lowest score of 89. It's also the first time that a lady can get the gross prize.
It's the first time that Liz Chen broke 100, shooting at 97 (with net 66). With the money she collected from Jimmy Jen, YuHuai Hsia and Conrad Chen, she bought us plenty of beer and hot wings. Thanks to those 3 gentlemen.
We were also glad to have 2 senior Alumni Raymond and Florence Hou to join the game. Hope they will be back more next year.
Here is the score list:
Gross 1 - Jennifer Tan 89
Net Flight 1 Gross Net
1 Michael Chang 91 65
2 Alex Hsu 92 71
3 Frank Hsu 91 72
Net Flight 2 Gross Net
1 Liz Chen 97 66
2 Albert Pan 102 75
3 Conrad Chen 103 77
Longest Drive
Steve Hsia, Jennifer Tan
Near Pin
George Cheng, Jennifer Tan, Albert Pan, Albert Pan (2 holes, not typo)
Guest Gross
Brian 104
