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Golfer Michelle Grilli's Notes from Asia
July 04, 2009 | Women's Golf
Rising senior golfer Michelle Grilli is part of the 2009 Collegiate All-Star Golf team playing in Asia and arriving back in the U.S. on July 14. The 10-member team consists of golfers from across Division I. After playing an event in Palos Verdes, Calif., the team flew from Los Angeles to Tokyo on June 26 and will see Korea and Hong Kong during the tour.
Here is Grilli's first installment from the trip:
We arrived in Asia last Saturday in Japan. We stayed on an American military base for two nights and played golf twice on Camp Zama golf course on a different base. The first day was with military personnel and the second day was with Japanese. We had a blast. On Sunday we took the train into Tokyo and did a little sightseeing. We went to a Buddhist temple and then to Ginza, which is like the Times Square/5th Avenue of NYC and also the most expensive real estate in the world. It was really awesome to see. We tried to find a place to eat dinner while we were there so the 10 of us girls went on a search. Most of the restaurants were really expensive because of the area and ultimately we ended up at a Japanese restaurant where the waitress only knew how to say "drink" and "tea". To say the least, none of us had any idea what we ordered and half of us ended up with a bowl of cold noodles with a dipping sauce in front of us. It wasn't so bad, and definitely an experience.
We flew to Seoul, Korea on Monday night and now we are in a hotel in an area called Itaewan with a lot of shopping. On Tuesday we played at Nanboo golf course, which is where we are playing again today. It is the most expensive golf club to join in Korea and it was very nice and well-maintained, although not necessarily up to the difficulty standards that Americans have. We stopped after the 5th, 9th, and 13th hole at a little "restaurant" where we had a drink and a little snack. The first snack I had was a little sandwich made out of two pancake-type things with mushed red bean inside, which was sweet and delicious. All of the distances were in meters instead of yards, so we had to do a little bit of converting in our heads to know how far to hit the ball. The golf carts fit five people, including a female caddie who drove it and also had a remote control so that the cart would travel along the path by a magnetic strip when we were somewhere else. It was very cool and afterwards we had a dinner with Korean food which was delicious. So far it has been an awesome trip and the girls are awesome.
Here is Grilli's first installment from the trip:
We arrived in Asia last Saturday in Japan. We stayed on an American military base for two nights and played golf twice on Camp Zama golf course on a different base. The first day was with military personnel and the second day was with Japanese. We had a blast. On Sunday we took the train into Tokyo and did a little sightseeing. We went to a Buddhist temple and then to Ginza, which is like the Times Square/5th Avenue of NYC and also the most expensive real estate in the world. It was really awesome to see. We tried to find a place to eat dinner while we were there so the 10 of us girls went on a search. Most of the restaurants were really expensive because of the area and ultimately we ended up at a Japanese restaurant where the waitress only knew how to say "drink" and "tea". To say the least, none of us had any idea what we ordered and half of us ended up with a bowl of cold noodles with a dipping sauce in front of us. It wasn't so bad, and definitely an experience.
We flew to Seoul, Korea on Monday night and now we are in a hotel in an area called Itaewan with a lot of shopping. On Tuesday we played at Nanboo golf course, which is where we are playing again today. It is the most expensive golf club to join in Korea and it was very nice and well-maintained, although not necessarily up to the difficulty standards that Americans have. We stopped after the 5th, 9th, and 13th hole at a little "restaurant" where we had a drink and a little snack. The first snack I had was a little sandwich made out of two pancake-type things with mushed red bean inside, which was sweet and delicious. All of the distances were in meters instead of yards, so we had to do a little bit of converting in our heads to know how far to hit the ball. The golf carts fit five people, including a female caddie who drove it and also had a remote control so that the cart would travel along the path by a magnetic strip when we were somewhere else. It was very cool and afterwards we had a dinner with Korean food which was delicious. So far it has been an awesome trip and the girls are awesome.
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