GOLF

KNOWLES/WEE CHONG JIN/CC TAN CUP

There were 34 participants at this annual golf event held at the Raffles Country Club on Sunday, 13 July 2003 in the afternoon. Large clouds provided much shade and a pleasant afternoon for golf. The prize presentation was held at the golfers’ terrace in an informal setting. The winners of the event were as follows:

Wee Chong Jin Cup Champion: Peter Coveney — 82 gross 1st Runner up: Winston Kwek — 83 gross 2nd Runner up: Ang Chin Peng — 84 gross	Mr Giam Chin Toon, SC, presenting  a prize to Mr Randhir Chandra
Knowles Cup Champion: Attlee Hue — 68 nett 1st Runner Up: Randhir Chandran — 69 nett (ocb) 2nd Runner Up: Raymond Ong — 69 nett	(Left to Right) Mr Attlee Hue Hue, winner of the Knowles Cup, Mr Peter Coveney, winner of the Wee Cong Jin Cup and Mr Julian Ball, winner of the CC Tan Cup.
CC Tan Cup Champion: Julian Ball — 37 stableford 1st Runner Up: Syed Ahmad — 36 2nd Runner Up: Joseph Liow — 34 ocb 4th Runner Up: Albert Kang — 34 5th Runner Up: C Arul —33 ocb 6th Runner Up: Sivanathan — 33 ocb 7th Runner Up: Chan Lai Foong — 33 8th Runner Up: Robert Wee — 32 ocb 9th Runner Up: Rajan Nair — 32	Some of the golfers enjoying a break.

Thanks to the kind sponsorship of Excel Golf Pte Ltd, the winner of the Wee Chong Jin Cup (gross score), Peter Coveney, was invited to play in the Pro-Am of the Asian Senior Masters to be held later this year. The 1st runner up, Winston Kwek, was invited to play at the qualifying rounds for the said Pro-Am game.

Joseph Liow
Golf Convenor, Sports Committee
Law Society of Singapore
 

Inaugural Inter-State Bar Golf Tournament

The following members took part in the Inaugural Inter-State Bar Golf Tournament organised by the Malaysian Bar Council. The event was held at the Pulai Course at Pulai Golf and Country Club on Friday, 2 May 2003.

 The Singapore team secured second place in the aforesaid Tournament, narrowly pipped by the Johor State Bar by only three stableford points. Some of our players were able to secure the following individual prizes:

Joseph Liow
Golf Convenor, Sports Committee
Law Society of Singapore

Introduction to Dance

The Law Society’s Social and Welfare Committee recently organised an ‘Intro to Dance’ course to provide some of our interested members, their friends and families the opportunity to pick up the finer points of ‘street-style couple dancing’. The course was conducted by Jitterbugs Swingapore at their spacious studio at Millenia Towers.

The course, comprising eight lessons held over eight weeks, provided instructions on the essentials of not just one, but six types of dance, namely Swing, Salsa, Cross-Step Waltz, Rotary Waltz, Viennese Waltz and Argentine Tango.

All the dances in ‘Intro to Dance’ were dances that required a partner. But for those who did not (despite utilising their finest advocacy skills) convince anyone of sane mind in their social circles to sign up with them for the course, there were no worries, as the instructors at Jitterbugs got all the participants to rotate partners during each session.

During our first lesson, we were taught the Swing (also known as Lindy Hop). Under the patient tutelage of Sing Yuen (who we found out was from the National University of Singapore’s law class of 1985), all of us managed at the end of the class to execute the basic Swing step according to the ‘one two three four five six’ tempo. Surprisingly, we also managed to learn some twists and turns during the hour-long session. I found Swing to be fun and relatively easy to pick up and unconsciously managed to get a light dose of cardiovascular exercise in the process.

The second lesson on Salsa upped the ante with its fast, spicy and sultry gyrations. In the following weeks, we also learnt the Rotary Waltz and Cross-Step Waltz.

One pleasant aspect of Jitterbug’s classes was its varied and modern choice of music to dance to. When I was told we would be learning waltzes my mind subconsciously conjured up images of my swaying slowly to the melodic strains of ‘Tennessee Waltz’, which would probably be a tune my grandmother danced to at her high-school prom. I was therefore amazed that we actually Rotary-Waltzed, at a relatively energetic pace, to a rock-style ballad, Seal’s ‘Kiss from a Rose’.

I do not think anyone in our class harboured any illusions that eight weeks of lessons would give us any chance of coming out tops in five different dancesport events. Still, a reality check was dispensed by Chan Meng, another of our instructors, who told us that the objectives of ‘Intro to Dance’ were two fold. First, it was to get ordinary folk (that includes people with less-than-perfect psychomotor co-ordination) to be able to not just dance, but to dance to any type of music and any sort of beat. Second, the rotating of partners in class was to get us used to dancing with different partners.

While not quite Ricky Martins and Jennifer Lopezs yet, we look forward to more entertaining sessions of dance instruction in the weeks ahead to take our minds off the stresses of practice.

Jitterbugs Swingapore holds a free dance class every Monday at Harry’s at Esplanade from 7 to 8pm. For those who are interested and missed out on the ‘Intro to Dance’ course, you may wish to visit the Jitterbugs Swingapore’s website at www.swingapore.com.

Koh Sin Yee
Social and Welfare Committee
Law Society of Singapore