DANANG, VIETNAM, 22 JAN

TEAM WEST:

Petredec

Poten & Partners

Steensland

Evergas

Statoil

Petredec

Poten & Partners

Statoil

Hesnes Gas

Avance Gas

Fearngas

Gibson Gas

TEAM EAST:

E1

DK Broking

Ginga Petroleum

Poten & Partners

CCI

Sietco

Astomos

Itochu

Clarksons

Glencore

Vitol

SK Gas

3 rounds of golf as follows:

Friday 22 Jan

First tee-off 12:00 (hole 1 & 10)

Those flying in from Singapore that morning, please make your way straight to the golf course.

Danang Golf Club - Dunes, Danang, (http://www.dananggolfclub.com)

(designed by GREG NORMAN)

Saturday 23 Jan

First tee-off 09:30 (hole 1) (pick-up at hotel at 07:30)

Laguna Lang Co Golf Club, Lang Co, (http://www.lagunalangco.com)

(designed by Sir NICK FALDO)

17th hole at Laguna Lang Co

Sunday 24 Jan

First tee-off 10:55 (hole 1 & 10) (pick-up at hotel at 09:30)

Montgomery Links, Danang/Hoi An, (http://www.montgomerielinks.com)

(designed by COLIN MONTGOMERY)

12th hole at Montgomery Links

PLAYERS:

COURSES:

CAPTAINS:

East:

Chanho Kim, E1

West:

Oliver Andersen, Poten & Partners

We will of course also this year have bibs for the caddies.

The Challengers team (EAST) will be using the ones provided by POTEN & PARTNERS and the Champions (WEST) will be presented by HESNES GAS

Shirts for the teams will for ARB 2016 be provided by GINGA and AVANCE GAS

CLARKSONS will provide a golf travel cover bag to each player

STATOIL will provide two pairs of shorts to each player

GIBSON will provide balls to each player

For food and beverages we have the following contributors:

Lunch Friday 22nd Jan:

STEENSLAND

Dinner Friday 22nd Jan:

DK BROKING

Dinner Saturday 23rd Jan:

SIETCO

Lunch Sunday 24th:

POTEN & PARTNERS

FORMAT, RULES and SCORING:

FORMAT:

We will play 3 rounds of golf, one each day Friday through Sunday.

The games will be held at three first class golf clubs as follows:

Friday 22 January at 12:00: Danang GC

Saturday 23 January at 09:30: Laguna Lang Co

Sunday 24 January at 10:55: Montgomery Links

Each round will consist of 2 teams of 12 players each. Alternatively we will play 10 man teams each day.

Traditionally we have played Fourballs on Friday and 2-Man Scramble on Saturday. But this year we will do the 2-man Scramble on Friday and the Fourballs on Saturday. See formats explained below.

The final round will be played as 12 (or 11 or 10) Singles matches. The West team needs 12 (or less if we field less than 12 players any day) points to retain the DK Trophy and any team amassing more than 12 points will be crowned champions.

FRIDAY AT THE ARB:

2-Man Scramble

Two pairs play against one another. Each member of the pair makes his tee shot, then the pair chooses which ball to play and picks up the other ball. Both players then play their 2nd shot from the spot of the tee shot they chose, and again choose which 2nd shot to play and pick up the other ball. This continues until the ball is holed out, and the pair with the lowest raw score on the hole wins the hole. Any hole that is tied is halved. Any match that is tied after 18 holes is halved. Each pair must play each member's tee shot minimum 6 times during the match.

1. Individual handicaps will be taken as a whole number.

(less than 0.5 to be rounded down, 0.5 or greater to be rounded up).

2.The team handicap will be 50% of the sum of the two whole numbered individual handicaps. In case the calculated team handicap becomes a decimal number it shall be rounded (as it can only be a XX.5 it will be rounded up to XX+1).

3. The number of strokes to be given will be 100% of the team handicap difference.

For example:

Team WEST : Gunnar (17.9) & C.Holmes (21.9) will be a team of 18 & 22

Team handicap shall be (18+22) x 50% = 20

Team EAST : Kimmy(13.2) & Agata(20.1) will be a team of 13 & 20

Team handicap shall be (13+20) x 50% = 16.5 (rounded up to 17)

So team EAST will give 3 strokes to team WEST.

A total of 6 (or 5) points are up for grabs.

SATURDAY AT THE ARB:

Fourball

All four players play their own ball. The team whose player has the lowest score wins the hole. If the teams tie, they halve the hole. The team that wins the match receives one point, and if the teams tie they each get 1/2 point.

Each match is played off the lowest handicapped player in that group of four. Handicaps are rounded to the nearest whole number (e.g 12.4 and lower = 12, 12.5 and higher = 13). So a group with an 8, a 12, a 17 and a 25 handicapper plays off the player with the 8 hcp so the other players receives 4, 9 and 17 strokes respectively from the lowest handicapper, starting from index 1. We are using 100% of the handicaps and we are not adjusting for the slope or rating of the course played.

A total of 6 (or 5) points are up for grabs.

SUNDAY AT THE ARB:

Singles

Players compete in match play head-to-head. The best score per hole wins that hole and

tied holes are halved. The player who wins the match earns one point for his team.

Ties are worth 1/2 point to each team.

Two players from each team will go head to head based on their rounded handicaps. The higher handicapped player will receive the number of shots that his handicap is higher than his opponent. Again, he will receive the shots as one shot per hole starting with index 1, counting until he has received the allotted number of shots

A total of 12 (or 11 or 10) points are up for grabs.

Points:

There are (hopefully) a total of 24 matches and available points. The team with the most cumulative points at the end of the tournament wins. If the teams tie (12 vs.12) the team that last won the tournament retains the DK trophy.

Pairings:

The 2 captains will do the pairing for the scramble at the lunch prior to the game on Friday. Pairings are done by one captain calling a name and the other matching that name. The captains will alternate in calling the names and the first to go is decided by a coin toss.

The consequent pairings will be done at dinner on Friday and Saturday respectively.

Handicaps:

Every player must submit their official handicap in effect 1 January 2016 to Chan Ho Kim (chanho.kim@e1.co.kr, please copy Gunnar at gunb@statoil.com and Kentaro Harada at kentaro.harada@astomos.com (or post it at our WhatsApp forum) by 15 January, 2016.

Please also update your handicap on GameBook with one decimal point.

Handicaps as per 1 January 2016:

Name: handicap:

TEAM WEST:

Andy Hoatson, Petredec 11.0

Sebastian Venjar, Hesnes Gas 15.9

Torben Pedersen, Fearngas 16.3

Gunnar Bendiksen, Statoil 17.9

Christopher Holmes, Evergas 21.9

Oliver Andersen, Poten & Partners 22.7

Jonathan Fancher, Petredec 23.1

Tom Rush, Gibson Gas 24.9

Christian Gleditsch, Steensland 28.0

Romarin Maillard, Statoil 30.0

Tore Krogsmyr, Avance Gas 35.3

Andreas Justesen, Poten & Partners 32.0

Avg hcp: 23.25

Median hcp: 22.90

TEAM EAST:

Jared Tang, Sietco 9.5

Chanho Kim, E1 13.2

Kentaro Harada, Astomos 14.6

Sean Hwang, Clarksons 16.0

SK Park, Glencore 19.3

Hajime Agata, Ginga Petroleum 20.1

Tommy Son, SK Gas 21.4

DK Kim, DK Broking 21.9

Hiro Kakeya, Poten & Partners 25.7

I,S Ryu, CCI 26.2

Takahiro Hibino, Vitol 26.3

Noriaki Okada, Itochu 44.0

Avg hcp: 21.52

Median hcp: 20.75

Rules:

If you need to freshen up on your grip of the rules of golf, please read at the

following link:

http://www.randa.org/en/Playing-Golf/Quick-Guide-to-the-Rules.aspx

Scoring:

As you will remember from Pattaya, we used GameBook for live scoring. We will aim to do the same in Danang. For the newbees, please download the app.

One player in each group (from team West) will be given the task to post his flights score after every hole.

As a back-up, we have the WhatsApp group where the scores will be posted live should the GameBook app not function as needed. Newbees have been invited to join.

Regardless of which electronic media we choose to use a paper trail will be produced by the means of an old fashioned score card (yes, those still exists). A separate person in each flight (from team East) will get the task to record all scores manually on this scorecard.

The chosen charity for the 2016 ARB is War Legacies Project (WLP). The aim is to donate 37,000,000 Vietnamese Dong, which means 1,556,000 dong (S$100) per person. The contributions are of course voluntarily but we hope to reach the 37 million dong as this would mean an awful lot for these people.

A representative for the charity will stop by at our dinner in Hoi An on Saturday evening to talk a bit about the charity and to receive the money.

Web page: http://www.warlegaciesproject.org Check it out!!!

ACCOMMODATION:

BIBS:

Drinks during dinner

Friday 22nd Jan:

HESNES GAS

Various distances and times:

Danang Airport - Danang Golf Club: 15.7 km, est at 29 mins

Grand Mercure Hotel - Laguna Lang Co: 30.7 km, est at 47 mins (doubtful!)

Grand Mercure Hotel - Montgomery Links: 14.2 km, est at 22 mins

Montgomery Links - Danang Airport: 17.1 km, est at 32 mins

TEAM SHIRTS:

The EAST team will wear the white shirts and blue shorts during Friday’s scramble while the WEST will wear white shirts and red shorts.

The EAST team will wear red/orange/white shirts and white shorts in Saturday’s fourball while the WEST will wear purple/black/white shirts and black shorts.

It is then given that the EAST team will wear blue/navy/white shirts and blue shorts in Sunday’s singles and the WEST will wear red/orange/white shirts and red shorts.