Family Event: New Year's Day 2010

Much to our (my family's) delight, the Del Monte Golf Club brought back the Annual New Year's Day Hangover Tournament.  It wasn't exactly the same, and I didn't really expect it to be, but it was pleasing to know that the "younger" generation of Cawayanon residents were making an effort to revive the old traditions.

The mechanics were the same:  form a team of 2 players, golfer and non-golfer, and bring along 3 clubs of your choice (usually a driver, an iron and a putter) and 1 ball, which they marked.  Sequence of play was simply alternate.  The golfer would tee off for the first hole while the non-golfer did for the second.

This year's game committee introduced some unique mini-games, where teams had to aim for shapes drawn on the course using specified means other than the usual golf strokes, i.e. using the sole of their shoes, using the clubs as billiard cue sticks or using their nose.  It was an amusing version of the game, all in the name of fun and the new year.  For me, it certainly beat keeping track of the number of strokes trying to get to the hole, hehe.

For this year's Christmas holidays, we hope more of our family comes down and celebrates with us!