Golf Malaysia

1. We have more then 200 golf courses in the country. It includes numerous number of 'world-class' type golf club around the country

2. But, we have yet to produce world-class golfers. Not even in the Asian standards.

3. Malaysian golfers generally buy or purchase good equipments either brand new or used. Some of us change our Drivers every 6 months and a good Driver may cost more then RM1k. (I bought mine for RM400 only...hehehehe.

4. These golfers also purchase fancy clothes and shoes from brands like Titleist, Callaway, Puma J. Lindberg, Footjoy etc which are not cheap.

5. Companies like Transview, MST, RGT and the rest I would assume made huge profits from Malaysian golfers.

6. Despite all these, we still can't produce even one really good & world class golfers.

7. The Thais & Philipinos produces a lot more touring golf pros than us. What did they do that we didn't? I'm sure the Thai people felt super proud to see Thongchai at the Masters recently.

8. What happened to the Junior Program? Any investment done? An investment must involve returns right? So what are the returns?

9. Perhaps, some of us are just happy flashing our fancy golf clothes & equipment to other people at the fairway

10. We have 27 million people and we can't even find one fella that's really good in golf? Vijay Singh is from Fiji and he is a damn good player, Villegas is from Colombia-another smashing player. (well, in footballing terms, we can't even find 22 good players to even qualify for the Asia Cup)

11. We can't even win in our own 'Masters' i.e Malaysian Open since aeons. I thought, since we are playing at home, it'll be a wee bit easier. But this year, it needs an 18 year old boy from Korea to show to the Malaysians on how to win the Malaysian Open.

12. How is it possible to compete with the best when one of our so-called pro decided not to have a coach to assist him in improving his game? Bullocks!!!!

So, where do we go from here?

What are the plans?

Do we want to make a champion or just wait until the cows come home?

Actually, we can relate this topic to our current footballing standards. We used to be good (not great) but now we have gone so low that we are so bloody proud to win a gold medal in SEA games. Japan & Korea have gone leaps and bounds in footballing standards but we still have players dying to eat nasi lemak for breakfast everyday. Ck ck ck ck . Kasihan dehhh....Do you know the Slovenia, a young country with a population of only 2.1 million people have qualified for the 2010 World Cup. Well, Indonesia with their 200 million plus people couldn't find 22 players to play in the world cup as well, but they've been there before ages ago....

Anyways, that's the reality. I guess, we Malaysians are not as serious and enthusiastic about sports as compared to other countries. It's rather unfortunate that we seemed to have the facilities and some of them can be considered top class but we still can't find good sportsmen apart from Badminton, Squash and some other 2nd or 3rd rated sports. Well, at least these guys are good in their respective sports.

Ohh, i totally forgot, we Malaysians(not all lah), we like spending time watching TV or lepak at the malls or mamak stalls, perhaps go clubbing. For some, we spend our times busy politicking on issues that are so immaterials. I don't know lah. We can spend hours and hours and we still can talk about this.

Nyways, Malaysia might not be perfect but it is my home and I love it. Hehehehe.....