Vietnam August 2010

Signing of Distribution Agreement with Tran Minh Tri, Director of Mekong Machinery Company.

Statue of Ho Chi Minh in front of City Hall.

Golf Course Maintenance Manager Nguyen Thi Kim Thoa along with Hong Tuyen and Thuy Duong from Mekong Machinery at Vietnam Golf Club.

Crew working on a pile of sod making sprigs to plug manually.

Photo of the VC tank crashing through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in the War Remnants Museum.

The actual tank used to crash the Presidential Palace gates down at the end of the Vietnam War.

Dinner with Mekong Machinerys' Hong Tuyen, Nhat Duong, Quang Minh and Thuy Duong.

Temple built on the grounds of Long Thanh Golf Club.

A large dragon shrub sculpture at Long Thanh Golf Club.

Thuy Duong of Mekong Machinery standing on tee box of very elevated par 3 at Long Thanh Golf Club.

Huge Plant sculptures at Long Thanh Golf Club, Ho Chi Minh City. Dragons, water vessels and tea pots.

Entrance to Vietnam Golf and Country Club.

Enjoying discussions on golf course conditions in Vietnam and general maintenance with Vo Hong Tuyen of Mekong Machinery, Le Truong Quang Truong/Palm-Song Be Golf Course Superintendent, and Director of Palm-Song Bobby Chua.

Entrance to Song Be Golf Course just outside of Ho Chi Minh City.

That is what I call efficient transportation usage! Very Green!

Taiwan II May 2010

Standing in front of a traditional Taiwanese home that was converted to a restaurant by the family.

Time to hunker down and take a break after a hard day of work on the golf course.

Motorized caddie cart with sun protected caddie driving.

Standing on the largest golf green in Taiwan

Removing more material from green complex. Note the material being thrown into the baskets!

Material removed from just one warm season green in Taiwan using the True-Surface Greens Care Collection vacu-cutter.

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.