The first batch arriving Koh Samui
(Krogsmyr, Harada, Aarthun, Bendiksen)
Even the locker rooms were custom made...
They look so fresh it must still be Thursday...
And we’re off! Starting with ‘en lille’!
Andersen, Agata, Justesen, Park, Holmes, Cho, Essaye, Hong
Fukuda, Krogsmyr, Harada, Pedersen, Hibino, Tyler, Kim, Aarthun
Hoatson, Kakeya, Bendiksen, Hwang, Alfonso, Kim, Gleditsch, Nishiyama
The six original ARB’ers
returning for the 10th time.
6 out of 12 still in - not bad
(Hibino is also an original ARB’er but he is only playing his 7th this year)
HIRO KAKEYA, TORBEN PEDERSEN, ANDREAS JUSTESEN, GUNNAR BENDIKSEN, DK KIM, TORE KROGSMYR
Early morning at Changi airport
Sean has safely brought the trophy to Koh Samui.
Guarded here with Fukuda
Final preparations before the 10th ARB kicks off
Flight 1, tee box 1:
Gleditsch, YB Cho, SJ Hong, Hoatson
Flight 2, tee box 1:
Harada, Holmes, Justesen, Hibino
Flight 3, tee box 1:
Andersen, Krogsmyr, Chris Park, Kimmy Kim
Flight 4, tee box 10:
Bendiksen, DK Kim, Tyler, Sean Hwang
Flight 5, tee box 10:
Kakeya, Pedersen, Aarthun, Fukuda
Flight 6, tee box 10:
Agata, Alfonso, Essaye, Nishiyama
First timer Chris Park (left)
Fukuda blasting one
Essaye with a bomb
Kimmy getting ready
Mr. Par retired and the real deal joined the action
Our service provider at Bondi Hotel...
Rookie Fraser took a point in his first game. Bendiksen played his 28th ARB match...
Host Alfonso can already after day 1 ascertain that ARB 2019 looks to be a huge success
The caddy for Agata and Nishiyama reading a deciding put on the last hole
Arriving at ‘The Page’ at ‘The Library’ for dinner on Friday
Lightning Agata arriving for dinner
DK arriving
Hibino - original ARB’er (played in ARB 2010) but missed 2012, 2013 and 2014 so this was his 7th
Pairings for day 2:
Team West warming up
Team East doing the same...
Nishiyama won again
Hiro played his shoes off - to no avail
AJ with an excellent pose
Sunday at the ARB - 06:30 AM
Team EAST are up early getting ready
Pairings for day 3:
Neither team saw any reason to change the pre-match routine....
(ignore the guy in the green shirt - he just hadn’t read the pre-game memo for team West)
A big shout out to ‘A’ for flawless arrangements - she made an impossible job look easy
The photographer is working hard
This photo is in here to prove to Fraser that he played the front nine as well on day 3....
Proper bomb!!!
He gave all he had. And then some...
Winners of the ARB 2019 are:
EAST
Team EAST final preparations
Until we meet again, a small competition:
Spot the odd sized ones!
Sean and Joe presents next year’s captains:
HIROAKI NISHIYAMA and CHRISTIAN GLEDITSCH
NO DOUBT IN
THE END:
TEAM EAST ARE ARB CHAMPIONS 2019
MVP 2019 IS NISHIYAMA
Team West voted HARADA as
best sportsman from Team East
- a true ARB enthusiast
Team West may have lost the golf, but they didn’t easily give in on the drinking competition
