一场翘首以待, 球逢对手, 充满挑战,布满悬念的 Club 808 Ryder Cup 终于落下了帏幕.经过一场雨中鏖战, Eric Zhao为首的B 队以4:2 战胜了以Steve Yang为首的A队. 这是一场新颖的队中有队,　组中有组,　赛中有赛的golf比赛项目．既要求个人的球技发挥,　也要求队友协同配合,　更须要队长指挥排阵.　每个小组的编排均按ＨＤＣＰ为准,十分严谨．确保两军对垒，棋鼓相当.　看官说从小组编排中已知胜负,　其实未必. Yongtao You and Jason Dai组胜 Steve Yang and Zhaowei Yang组,　堪称一绝.　因数日前 Steve Yang 以80杆大胜Yongtao You 的90 杆．按理说这次两人再赛,　Steve 应该稳操胜劵．奈何黑马横出, Steve 交枪交械.　依观察 , B队胜在策略,胜在士气！临战前, B队队长Eric Zhao指挥若定地说：＂Relax, 放开打!＂-　尽展大将风度．B队队员顿时激励,　纷纷叠掌呼喊＂我们胜!＂．A队队长 Steve Yang是一个球场老将,　曾以一个月内两次Hole-in-One威镇八方!　他赛前秘授队员的妙方恐怕也是精辟绝伦.　俗话说，强将手下无弱兵， A队中猛将如云,　 该队的Jingsong Ye and Shaoyuan Chen力克B 队先锋 Tom Xia and Kailin Gu夺得本赛净杆冠军.　 A队Rachel Zhang and Shuo Chen 完胜B 队 稳将 Ben Yang and Shannon Sun, 打出了A队的气势和顽强!　可钦可佩．A队的 Yuhong Xiao and Jeff Sun 十分强悍,　 Yuhong 的driver 稳定无比，杆杆开球远出对手50-60码.打得B 队骁将 Roger Guo and Songyu He频频招架.　但对手也不是省油的灯,　 仅管下九洞打成平局.　 Yuhong Xiao and Jeff Sun终于以一个birdie 和另一个洞之差与胜利失之交臂．

A队

B 队

战绩如下:
Lowest Net #1:
Shaoyuan Chen, JinSong Ye

Close to Pin:
#5: Jinsong Ye (11’2″)
#8: Yongtao You (1’8″)
#11: Shaoyuan Chen (4’7″)
#16: Jinsong Ye (10’3″)
Ultimate KP: Yongtao You (1’8″)
Longest drive:
#4: Rachel Zhang (Woman)
#4: Shuo Chen (Men)
Accurate drive (Close to line):
#6: Amy Min
Winning Team: Team B
Winning Team Captain: Eric Zhao
Winning groups:
Jinsong Ye, Shaoyuan Chen (Group A) – 75
Roger Guo, Songyu He (Group B) – 81
Eric Zhao, Jinqiang Wu (Group B) – 78
Yongtao You, Jason Dai (Group B) – 77
Joe Welch, Michael Guo (Group B) – 79
Rachel Zhang, Shuo Chen (Group A) – 75

向本赛Ryder Cup冠军Jingsong Ye and Shaoyuan Chen(陈少元) 祝贺!
向优胜队B 队队长Eric Zhao和B 队全体队员祝贺!
向所有优胜组队员恭贺!
向所有LD, KP, Ultimate KP, Close to Line优胜队员恭喜!
向本赛总策划和总指挥Shuo Chen 表示衷心感谢!
向本赛管理团队 Grace Yu, Juliet Zhang, Debbie Lin, Yongtao You and Ben Yang 表示崇高谢意!
感谢本赛所有会员,朋友全体出勤, 雨中鏖战, 再现精神!

It may be one of the last few weekends before it starts rainy season in Pacific Northwest, the Labor Day weekend turned out to be a very pleasant and comfortable one in Portland where over 60 golfers and their family’s members from Club 808 and Formosa Golf Club (FGC) celebrated the holiday and enjoyed a peaceful and quiet retreat. Among them 26 people were from Club 808.

It was a quite joyful and interesting trip that not only FGC, the event organizer, carefully planned and selected golf courses, hotel and restaurants, but also it offered a value package, respect and friendship, and guidance of golf etiquette and rules.

A Trip of Friendship

Friendship and mutual understanding comes from very basic and tinny things. Each of our members felt warm welcome, high respect and equal treatment from FGC and their members. We not only were given a gift pack with 1 golf towel and 2 sleeves of Callaway balls, but also were subsidized $10 each day for 3 days per person by FGC. In addition more 75% of our participating members got cash awards in the three day golfing. 50% of them got $25 or over cash awards for the games. Ping Hsu, FGC president, told me that jointly playing golf and having fun are far more important than others. That was their way to treat our members!

A Trip of Fun

With 118 bunkers all over the 18 holes in the prestigious Reserve Golf Course, it was definitely a challenge course to play. It is averaged about 6.5 bunkers per hole. If your ball does not fall into any of bunkers, you got to be kidding. Riverside is a nature landscaped golf course. But it is not that natural to play and to win. This was the third course we played and had scramble game. Except for 1st place team had -4 par to win the title, 2nd place had just even par. The 3rd, 4th and 5th team had +1 par. What a course!

Most of us might know the fact that Portland has few good Chinese restaurants. With the organizer’s selection, we had wonderful meals in the trip. We would never forgot the experience that we had an authentic and high class Vietnamese dinner with 7 courses. Although we did not know some of the eating ways in Vietnamese food, it was great to learn and enjoy!

The trip package included three day golfing (including LPGA course), Sheraton hotel and breakfast and dinners. FGC management team worked diligently and negotiated the package price from $740 down to $340. It offered the best value for every participating golfer.

A Trip of Learning

Many of our members were impressed with the golf passion demonstrated by FGC members. No matter how low or how high the handicaps are, each Formosa member shown their love and passion to golf. About 40% of their attending members were high handicaps. However their spirit and enthusiasm were high. Their golf etiquette was excellent and they kept good pace. They seemed to have solid understanding what golf was and actively participated it. Ping Hsu was one excellent example. His both legs were crippled and his handicap was about 35.5. But he walked on the golf courses and played holes one by one with high confidence and passion. He did move a lot of us. If he can do it, every of our members can do it!

It was a learning trip to us. FGC members shown great patience and high professionalism to help our members to get more familiar with golf etiquette and rules. Phil Tsao, one of my team players kindly said to me: “Roger, I noticed that your golf is getting better. But you know, golf is not just skill improvement. More important are the golf etiquette and rules…”. I started to realize that we might have missed some of the basic and
essential elements in this kind of game. To become a more matured club, we have a lot to learn!

A Trip of Retreat and Family Union

While our golfers being busy in the golf courses, our family members did not stop touring and shopping around. Thanks Grace Yu’s support, our family members jointly and individually toured Rose Garden, Japanese Garden and Chinese Garden and major shopping places. Oregon is such a good shopping spot. It won’t be surprised when you saw those cars driving back North with full of goods load!

We are blessed to have such a great and friendly golf club in our community. There are many things we can learn from Formosa. We look forward to having more joint, inviting and invited games between our clubs.

Great gratitude and appreciation go to Formosa management team Ping Hsu, Kenneth Chang, Al Liu, Kevin Lee, Frank Mao and Phil Tsao for their excellent planning, quality service, hospitality and dedication to make this event such a big success! Thank for our participating members, family members for showing our passion to golf and bridging friendship among clubs!

The 4th Club 808 anniversary tournament at Eaglemont on August 11, 2012 ended with lot of excitement and memory. Despite of the hot weather, there were totally 28 members joined this event. The golf course was very beautiful, unique and challenge, but all players enjoyed the game. The Chinese seafood buffet was well chosen and food was delicious. The quality service and special arrangement on exclusive room provided by the Chinese restaurant ensured a comfortable and adequate location for our award dinner.

Abundant prizes with 15 items ranged from 2 small brushes, 4 professional tees, 2 electronic golf stroke counters, 4 golf ball savers, 1 straight shoot practice set and 2 complimentary dinner cash rewards sparked enjoyment and surprises through the Raffle Ticket Draw.

President Roger went over the past 4 years of club development, and give keynotes on club anniversary. 3 quiz covered the club management staff, reward system and special deal with Oki course. Each winners of these quiz was rewarded with a complimentary dinner at the event restaurant. When reviewing the club development, board members Roger Guo, Kerry Hu and Steve Yang shook hands with each of current and ex-officers and volunteers to express club appreciation and gratitude for their dedication, contribution and hardwork. Roger appraised and given rewards to those providing suggestion and criticism to club. The suggestions came from Yuncai Su and Xuezhong Wang. Roger especially offered a formal apology to David Liu for his criticism on unclear club tournament rules and gave him a sleeve of Talormade balls as a reward. In Club 808, we not only welcome good suggestions, but also sincerely accept criticism. We welcome all inputs from different angles which will help the club to improve, to grow and to mature.

Big thanks went to Shuo Chen, Juliet Zhang, Grace Yu and Kerry Hu for organizing, taking photos and making this event a great success and joyful!

Anniversary winners are as follows:

KP – Liren Wang

KP – Steven Lou

KP – Robert Shao

KP – Bruce Zhong

Longest Drive (for Men): Shuo Chen

Longest Drive (for Women): Kailing Gu

1st Place: Steven Lou, Liren Wang, Christopher Chen, Jingqiang Wu

2nd Place: Michael Wu, Tom Xia, Kailing Gu, Michael Guo

3rd Place: Yongtao You, Huidong zhang, Shuo Chen, Jim Young

4th Place: Kerry Hu, James chen, Bruce Zhong, Andrew Tan