The Chambers

Today I booked one of the internal flights I’ll be taking as part of my holiday in China. The flight is with Shenzhen Airlines. I was doing some research about the Shenzhen airport and Shenzhen Airlines and this comment was part of the Shenzhen Airlines page on wikipedia:

Shenzhen Airlines is one of the several airlines discovered to have employed a large number of pilots with falsified flight experience and qualifications. The authorities warn they cannot be sure all fake pilots have been rooted out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen_Airlines

I really shoulda checked the page before booking!

On the other hand. I just found this on the youtube and at least we’ll be entertained if these faux pilots take us down!

Today the Mighty Canberra Raiders had a big win over the Sharks. The year has not been a great one for the Raiders, with a couple of key injuries and some disappointing games along the way, we’re an outside chance for September finals action. So, a big win like today’s is exciting. When I saw the replay come on foxsports tonight, I tweeted the following.

The @RaidersCanberra match replay is on @FOXTEL right now! It’s worth watching @Josh_Dugan & co rip the Sharkies apart twice

— Chris Chambers (@ckjchambers) July 22, 2012

I notice the Raiders had re-tweeted my tweet and I got a couple of replies. Nice work Green Machine.

A nice quick 30 second piece from Callaway.

I like this spot as it brings in the personality of an identity related to the brand in a way which watchers will quickly connect with. (Bones is the caddy of Phil Mickelson)

There’s quite a few videos featuring “Bones” posted on the Callaway YouTube channel.

After watching a few more of the videos, I found this call in for customer service assistance to be great too:

Adding another member to my #goodpeople twitter list.

Ben Southall became the “Caretaker for the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef” a couple of years ago through the Best Job in the World campaign. Ben loves @queensland and the Great Barrier Reef &
is one of the most energetic people I’ve ever met.

Ben tweets regularly about being in some wonderful part of Queensland…

Monthly Medal competition = off the stick scoring.

Why the heck is it that Monthly Medal is the comp I seem to have a couple of blow out holes on?! Very frustrating…

Summary of the round:

Date played: 4th February, 2012
Score: 92 off the stick

Highlight: Definitely the par 5 6th hole which measures 439 metres (480 yards). After a cracking drive and a beautiful 3 wood approach, I had a downhill putt of around 2.5 metres for an eagle. Only my second ever eagle putt. I left the putt short, but made the birdie with a very easy tap in.

Lowlight: A tough call. Two shocking holes today. The par 3 tenth hole (the first hole played in the round) where I put the tee shot out of bounds (by around 30 cm’s) and I ended up with a 6. Or, the par 4 12th hole. After a great tee shot, my wedge into the green flew a little left of the green (not far!) and I couldn’t find the ball. I had to go back down to the location of the approach shot, dropped a penalty and then put my approach wedge left and into the greenside trees, duffed my chip and ended up with an eight on the hole. Those two holes were two of the first three played, thank heavens I corrected the round and got things back on track. I’d end up going with the effort on the 12th, my average on that hole is 5.5 and I ended up with an eight.

An interesting looking scorecard this weekend which included five pars and a birdie went with four bogeys. The round also included four penalties, FOUR! Two lost balls, one out of bounds and one in the water. #lesigh

The scorecard can be found http://golfshot.com/Rounds/Detail/34-8671929-8671977

Putting continued to improve this round. I had four one putts, but also had 2 x three putts. A total of 34 putts for the round. Putting continues to improve from the 40 plus putts in a round about a month ago. I can definitely continue to improve this phase of my game and aim to get down to the 30′ish putts per round consistently by the end of this year.

Pre-round handicap was 22 exactly. This round was a new entry into my best 8 rounds for handicapping purposes. It knocked out a 95 off the stick and my handicap drops to 21.6, so I still play off a 22 in next weeks comp.

I’ll try and get a couple of photos during future rounds. I know these reviews are a little droll without imagery… (maybe even with imagery they’re drool)

My turn!

My bet for the weekend was a five leg multi of victory by the NBA’s Thunder and Magic, into the English Super League Leeds Rhino’s, into the NBL Gold Coast Blaze and PGA 3-ball victory by Webb Simpson over Keegan Bradley and Aussie Jarod Lyle.

A good result for the team with all five legs saluting.

Updated visual of results for each punter so far:

I am out in front by a ways, but, my style of punting can easily be run down by Mick. Mick backs 15-1 / 20-1 horses, so one win by him would put him in front. I need consistent collects to keep winning.

Number 11 onto the #goodpeople twitter list is one Matthew Burgess. @therealburgo previously worked @tourismqld in the Digital Marketing team, but recently moved on to greener pastures.

Matt’s a cluey dude who knows how the internet works and is an all round good guy. Currently tweeting about renovating his newly acquired house, you can expect to see a good mix of witty one liners and intelligent online marketing information.

Follow him, it’s worth it.

#notdeadtome

More background details to come on this later…. The highline = a few friends and I have a punters club going. The aim is to put a way a little cash each weekend for a trip away somewhere and we also place a weekly bet, with any winnings (optimisic, huh!) going into the kitty to cover some of the travel costs.

This years punters club trip will be to a golfing trip to China. Very excited by this. I’ll post more info here over the coming weeks, but I’ll post the weekly update here.

After 3 bets by each of my clubmates and two bets by me, the winning % is below… A % of 100 means money back on bets laid.

Oh yeah! That’s me out in front at the moment. I’m following my regular strategy of multi-bet combination on short priced fav’s.

(PS…. I bet these posts really bring in the SPAM)

I’ve added another interesting tweeter to my #goodpeople list. More info on this project can be found – @ckjchambers favourite tweeters

#10 #goodpeople @brettow who runs BNE digital shop Speedwell. Very knowledgeable about digital & team does great work https://twitter.com/#!/ckjchambers/goodpeople

Four ball aggregate competition today. Interesting competition style where two golfers play as a pair. At the completion of each hole both players take their handicap from their score and then add those scores together. Coxy and I scored a 149, which we think will be well off the mark.

Summary of the round:

Date played: 21st January
Score: 90 off the stick

Highlight: Par three scored on the fifth hole. My tee shot (9 iron) flew the green and landed on the tee block, some 15 metres behind the green. My lie was sloped severely and I needed to chip down an embankment. Given the difficulty of the shot I was happy to land on the green and have a 7 or 8 metre putt left. I sunk it. My scores on the par 3′s today = 4, 4, 3, 6.

Lowlight: The par three 8th, which I knocked my tee shot well left. Chipped through the green, duffed a chip back on and then three putted… #lesigh

Last week I undertook an AimPoint putting lesson. More info to post on that later. I was hoping my putting would improve and it certainly did. I only recorded one three putt (break in concentration) and recorded three one putts.

No 7′s on the round! Nine bogeys and three pars.

Round result 21st January

The scorecard can be found http://golfshot.com/Rounds/Detail/20-8542412-8542446

Putting definitely improved a touch. I played the par three’s better than usual (except the 8th) and no blow out 7 or 8 scores on any single hole. Definite improvement, but had a couple of brain explosions.

My handicap pre-round was 22. Considering the round was inside my best 8 of the last 20, my handicap should drop lower. This round will knock a 95 out of the equation.