Oakley Day Singapore 2010

played the Oakley Day tournament held at Laguna National Golf and Country Club on Wednesday the 14th of July 2010.
the high entry fee was made worth it with a free pair of Oakley Radar sunglasses and an Oakley golf shirt. could see that it was a mainly male dominated day because the men's shirts were displayed on a nice rack while the ladies shirts only fit onto a small chair behind the table.
I was really excited to look at the sunglasses because i couldn't decide which color combination to get and needed to see it up close in order to make a more informed decision. We were allowed to customise a pair of Radar sunglasses but essentially we only had to choose 3 or 4 components.
1. frame color
-they looked really plastic-ey all lined up in a row without the lenses in them yet
-i chose a bright pink color (which i'd been eyeing on the website since the beginning of the year)

2. ear socks color
-you had more choices if you chose the white colored frame but since my frame was so bright i matched it with white ear socks, only to realise the possibility of them getting dirty, or even turning yellow in the future.. (eee i hope the ear socks are made of materials as good as their lenses so they will be resistant to color change and grime)

3. Oakley logo color
-almost took the last gold color O but i decided they'd look nicer on mom's red pair so i chose white instead
(now i've got a really BARBIE looking pair of Oakley sunglasses which people say suit me because i like the color pink)

4. type of lens
-they have cool names that i clearly do not remember, i classify them according to whether people are able to see your eyes through them or not
-i chose a brown shade that is not reflective on the outside. (i don't like the idea that people can look at my sunglasses to check out their reflection)
-i find the brown tint tones down the bright sunlight instead of keeping things the same color but dimming it slightly because the bright white light from the sun is still equally painful to my eyes)

i played quite a good round, only struggling with my putting on the greens.
they had a very fun way of playing novelty games on almost every other hole. we started on the 4th hole where we teed off from a waste bunker only 100m from the green although still playing the hole as a par 4. i was the first to tee off and put it nicely on the green. confidence boost !

because it was an event held jointly with Golf Punk Magazine, they had these interesting Golf Punk Dollars that you could earn along the game to be used at the end of the night to bid for Oakley products.

my worst hole was on the 18th with water all along the right side of the fairway and a waste bunker between the fairway and the water. silly me teed off with a high cut (wasn't planning on it) and landed straight in the water. had to take a drop in the waste bunker which had fluffy sand so my ball landed straight in its own drop mark. thinking i could hit it out and near the green, i dufted it in the bunker 20m in front of me only to land in someone's foot mark. (i found out you don't need to rake waste bunkers)
eventually took 5 shots to get out the bunker. mucked around the green and went away with an embarrassing 12 on a par 4. yuck a triple par :(

lesson learnt: if you don't have a good lie in a bunker, always play it safe !!!!!! especially if you do not feel confident of hitting a good shot.