Kym Olsen wins (again) in Taiwan Qualifying


Local golfer Kym Olsen has sent the following email about his travels both in Asia and locally back in Victoria.

Hi all.
The link below is to the Taiwan Senior PGA facebook page. It shows some youtube clips from the Taiwan TV show which filmed some of the final day Q school and presentation’s.

There are also some photo’s of the scores, timesheets and the course. If you read/write/listen to Chinese you are way ahead of me. Also remember now , the tv adds 10 lbs. (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it) hahaha

LOCAL NEWS
Just finished playing the Senior Victorian Open but did not play well enough on the final day. Too many dumb mistakes. Finished around 5th or 6th 4 shots back. Certainly is a treat though playing in the same field as guys like David Good, Terry Price, Ossie Moore, Jim Lapsley. Also played the first round with Dean Jones , an Australian legend in cricket who was very enjoyable to play with. Very down to earth and light hearted.

Vic Open was played at Beacon Hills east of Melbourne. Very small greens, lots of rain with a few delays. We couldn’t finish our round on Thursday arvo and had to come back Friday morning for a 7.15am hit off to finish the last 4 holes. My last was a par 5 which I reached in 2 to the front edge and took 4 to get down to finish at 1 over which was 1 shot back. The rest is history as they say. The staff at Beacon Hills did an unbelievable job in getting the course ready as well as keeping it in a great playing condition. I believe it was the most rain out there since 1913 so that should give you an indication as to how much rain. Thanks to my good friend Alex McKay (chop to those that know him) for giving me a sponsors exemption.

I finished 3rd in Sorrento Golf club last Thursday, thanks to my good friend, Andrew Davis giving me a sponsor exemption. The conditioning of the Sorrento Golf club was immaculate and should anyone get an opportunity to play there , do not pass it up.

THE FUTURE EVENTS
It also appears now that by qualifying on the Taiwan Senior PGA tour, the Australian PGA has now granted me status to play the remaining events here in Australia albeit with no exemption category which basically means that if the field is full I don’t have a spot. Pretty unlikely this will happen except for maybe the Australian Open and the season ending tour championship. Great news because it means I can hopefully cash some cheques.

Anyway hope you enjoy the facebook clips. Look forward to catching up with everyone along the journey.

The link is below: (copy and place in your browser window)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E9%95% B7%E6%98%A5%E8%81%B7%E6%A5%AD%E9%AB%98%E7%88%BE%E5% A4%AB%E5%8D%94%E6%9C%83/247974625218796?sk=wall

Cheers
Kym Olsen

Posted: Friday 30th September 2011

Kym Olsen wins in Indonesia



Local golfer Kym Olsen (Devilbend and The National) started his Asian Senior Tour campaigns with a great win in the Indonesian Masters at Royal Sumatra Golf Resort. Kym won on a play-off with a local golfer to take out his first professional win after winning a pro-am in Malaysia a week ago.

Kym gained his tour card only three weeks ago so to win so early in his pro career is a great effort - the PDGA congratulates him.


We will follow his career as he enters more tournaments.

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