Golfing

I need not spend too much effort explaining this interest, this is a obvious interest for me.  Bali has five golf courses.  I wanted to play in a couple of the nicer courses and more importantly I was looking forward to playing golf with Mah-day.  As such playing golf itself was somewhat minor interest, since I can play golf anywhere; it was the idea of playing with Mah-day after such a long time in some of the nicest courses in Bali was this interest was all about.  After I got to Bali I came to realize that my time is very limited 3 ½ days, and I had a rather ambitious plan.  If I wanted to achieve my goal, something had to be scaled back.  I chose to scale back golf.  So I played only one round of golf in Nirwana Golf Club, Bali.  This is considered the best golf course in Bali.  Mah-day had told me that he used to be the operations manager at Nirwana before he went to work at Bintan.  Not until I got to the club house did I realize that how popular he is still with the staff at the club.  We were treated like celebrities including 50% off the green fee.  And the celebrity treatment continued all through the round of golf.  The course being rated as the best golf course in Bali was well earned.  It is a beautifully manicured and cared for golf course.  A fairly difficult course especially the greens were fast and was hard to read.  Mah-day did not do that much better than me.  In all fairness he had not played for almost nine months.  I started out great, I had a 12 foot birdie putt on the first hole, but ended up three-putting with a bogie.  Of course in my level Bogie is a good score but would have been great to start with a birdie or  at least a par.  In the back 9, Mah-day’s buddy and the teaching pro Mandy joined us.  Mandy explained to me that Mah-day and he come from the same village and he has always looked up to Mah-day as his big brother.  Mandy gave me a few swing tips during the game.  Unfortunately my back started bothering me after hole 13 and got progressively worse and I had to stop playing at hole 15.  It was a shame to have to stop.  But I got out of it how great it can be playing golf at Nirwana with all the Mah-day connections to be mined in the future.