Luau Party By The Pool

Desaru Golden Beach Hotel's pool was turned into a Hawaiian Luau Party to celebrate the participants of our Srixon Desaru Classic '09 Grand Final on August 15, 2009. It was truly a stupendous night full of galore and celebration and everyone went home with lots of beautiful memories to cherish until the next Srixon Desaru Classic 2010.

Srixon Desaru Classic took over the spirit of Saske Cup and it is the only tournament using stroke play format based on 20 legs of tournament around Malaysia and Singapore from March 2009 until its grand final held at Desaru Golf and Golf Country Club on August 15, 2009. Every State in Malaysia (except for Trengganu and Sarawak) and Singapore had hosted the 19 legs where 2,000 amateur golfers had partaked. And five qualifiers from each leg were chosen to proceed to the grand final in Desaru and this year's tournament saw about 100 finalists and some invited golfers who had joined in the spirit of Srixon Desaru Classic as well.

The main purpose of this tournament was to search and scout for young talents, to groom them, and turn them into professional golfers to represent Malaysia in international tournaments. The champion of Srixon Desaru Classic '09, Mr Chan Soo Keong from Black Forest Golf Country Club in Kedah, proudly won a place at the Asian Qualifying School to play in professional tournaments.

There were lots of prizes that were won on that night and the prize giving ceremony went on and on as there were 40 prizes plus 30 Lucky Draw prizes that had to be given away! Practically almost, well, many golfers had gone home carrying lots of loots with them! Already the participants were given goodies worth RM600 each that included a backpack, two teeshirts, a cap, a pair of socks, vitamins and a few more. That alone was a galore that had carved many smiles on the faces of the participants.

There are plans in the pipeline to include senior and ladies golfers in next year's tournament to promote sports tourism through golfing as it is a healthy sport for all ages due to the natural setting and verdant green environment which the sport is played on. And that is not all! There are bigger plans in store as the Organizers wish to expand this tournament in the near future (maybe as early as next year) to cover more areas like having one or two legs each in Indonesia, Brunei and Thailand. This is going to be great way of experiencing other golf courses in the nearby region as well as engaging in the exchanging of arts and culture amongst us.

The Hawaiian Luau Party by the pool with a huge spread of BBQ and food galore ended with a loud bang after the guests cheered on the specially-brought in belly dancer from overseas and Latin performances on the stage. Interested golfers who wish to partake in our Srixon Desaru Classic 2010, stay tune to our website at http://www.desaruresort.com/ or http://www.desaruresort.blogspot.com/ to get the first-hand information.

Desaru Golden Beach Hotel can tailor make any thematic private events or corporate functions specially for you. Please call our Sales Department at (607) 822 1100/1101/1102 or Marketing Communications Department at (607) 822 3378 for further details. And we will deliver to you an eventful occasion for you to remember and to take home.