Saturday, 22 August 2009

Corporate Golf Tournament at SGC


I managed to capture a shot of a Peahen at SGC...Our company organized a tournament there yesterday and I was part of the organizing committee. It was drizzling and the games were paused not long after tee off due to the thunder and lightning. I heard that the toilets on the green were so crowded that there were long queues. A guy even stripped in advance so that he could quickly finish his 'business' when it was his turn - as related by an uncle to my colleague who was in-charge of scoring.
We did not had enough bigger size shirts for our golfers and ended up with complaints from a few bigger size customers (It was on a first-come-first-serve basis since the shirts were one of our free goodies bag items). There is a massage chair in the Female Changing Room, but the attendant stopped me for using it during our break as I was just a 'tournament organizer'. I felt that they should have allowed us to use it when there are no other females golfers in the room.
We managed to raise more than $10k for our adopted charity! First time ever, partly due to our parent company's policy of us being unable to solicit for sponsorship from our suppliers, which led to us soliciting for donation instead. I heard that some supplier even scolded my colleague when she solicited for donation, saying that we want money and that was why we held the tournament. I felt that the comment was really unfair to us, as our company had spent lots of money on the event (20+ golf flights, doorgifts, dinner, charity tokens for donors etc) and all donations had gone straight to the hospice. It was a free event for all our major customers.
My arms were a bit painful after all the carrying of cartons. However, my sore eyes had healed after a good night sleep (was supposed to be on MC yesterday but had tried to put lots of eyedrop to cure my sore eyes, so that I could be at the event, which we have planned for months).