Taiwan May 2010

Taipei 101 was the first skyscraper to pass the 1/2 kilometer mark and was the tallest in the world at 1,671 ft. until the opening last year of the Burj Khaliffa in Dubai which stands at 2,717 ft.







I just had to get Betty to pose in a field of tea for me.









Betty and Tony in the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial plaza.








Me in front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial.
















Informative board for members posted by the golf course crew daily.

Feast of food all made with stinky tofu. One of the best meals I have had in Taiwan.

Time for a little R & R with friends.












Great view from clubhouse of finishing hole and looking out towards the ocean in Taiwan.

Bush and tree trimmers at golf course. Used on the course to keep hedges and trees trimmed.

Singapore April 2010

Great view of the new Marina Bay Sands Casino - hotel complex and the Sky Park complex from the Marina Bay Golf Course in Singapore.

Sentosa Country Club Superintendent Gregg Swanson, Steve Wilson from Bernhard and Company and Grace Lee from PSN.

One of the beautiful holes at Orchid CC in Singapore.

Beijing - Hong Kong - Bangkok April 2010

Huge green at Shadow Creek Golf Club in Beijing.

Great tee box complex at Shadow Creek Golf Club in Beijing, China. Darren Moore, Director of Maintenance.

Homes being built on the Forest Holiday Golf Club property outside of Beijing.

Hole at Forest Holiday Golf Club that uses crused granite for bunker sand. Extremely white and shiny.

Christine, Jackie and Sophy enjoying last meal with me in Beijing for this vist.

Darry Koster and the boys from Hong Kong out for a night on the town. (George Bigelow had just cut his golden locks off).

Chinese junk restaurant boat crossing Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong.

Old M.E.Y. Equipment verticutter made in Australia.

Club house at Shek-O Country Club used by the Japanese during WW II as a post of operation since the entrance to Hong Kong harbor was visible from here.

View across water at Shek-O County Club in Hong Kong.

Red Shirt Demonstrators main stage under railway system in Bangkok day after grenade attack killed 8 and injured 62.

Red Shirt protesters camp in Bangkok.

China Golf Show - Beijing April 2010

2010 China Golf Show was held at the 2008 Olympic Village Expo Hall.

G-Sports Sales Team opening the 2010 Golf Show.

Sun Ying of Greenman spending a little time with me during the show.

Toro knock-off from China manufacture.

Great John Deere Gator Chinese Knock-off.

Time for a quick lunch and back to finish the Golf Show set-up.

Eric Phua of AT & Besqup of Singapore working the True-Surface booth.

Red gets a lesson on driving a Segway.

Christine Li taking a cruise around the golf show on one of the company Segways.

I think it will be fish head soup for dinner tonight!

Greenmans' Headquarters and Factory outside of Beijing.

Greenmans' Banquet Night at the Golf Show.

Please be nice to the grass and stay off as the grass is being nice to you and smiling at you.

Thailand March 2010

Gathering for the first stop of three during field day for Sustainable Turfgrass Management in Asia 2010 conference in Pattaya, Thailand.

Think they have enough trolleys? And look at the rainbow of colors.

I think I had a company vehicle that looked like this during one of my jobs.

Lake aerifiers used in Asia.

Dr. Matt Roche from the Queensland Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation discussing test plots.

Darren Moore, Golf Course Superintendent at Shadow Creek Golf Club in Beijing, China discussing turf test plots.

Caddie at Siam Country Club.

Dr. Micah Woods, Research Director at Asian Turfgrass Center discussing turf test plots on driving range at Siam Country Club.

Nice landscaping at pitch and putt nine hole course in Pattaya.

Part of the entertainment during dinner.

Part of the caddie crew that took care of the golf tournament players.

Toi Tankuranun, Product Manager for John Deere Asia during our outing to a floating market in Bangkok, Thailand.

Buddhist monk giving blessings at the floating market.

Beautifully hand carved spirit house in Bangkok.