NTU EMBA Golf Club's major annual event, the President Cup Tournament 2015, as well as the inauguration ceremony of the 17th term of the Club's new staff, took place at the Tung-Hua Golf Course on June 7 with 130 members and guests. The organizing staff had dreaded about the forecasted rain in northern Taiwan, and torrential rain did pour on the event in Taipei, resulting flood in certain areas. However, the Heavenly Almighty had spared NTU Golf Club on the event day and granted the members mild weather, with some sunshine, too, under which the golf game could go on and members could savor cold beer, a perfect ending for the 16th term of Golf Club staff.

With mild weather and solid condition of the golf course, the competition wen on tenaciously. It could be the beer, seeing old friends, or incentive of the prizes, our golfers had put their skills beyond their extremes. Jian Kun-Zhong claimed the title of Golf King of NTU and the champ in male group with an amazing gross score of 69. Lin Xiu-Ru, of Class 2013, claimed the title of Queen with 84. All top 10 under handicapping system had scored under par. Huang Fu-Yu, of Class 2014, won the net score champion with gross 74 and net 61. Net score runner-up was Hu Shao-Zhong, of Class 2008, with gross 78 and net 63.2, The third place was Wang Dan-Ru, of Class 2013, with gross 82 and net 63.7. These scores had proven that NTU EMBA Golf Club is a force to be reckoned with. 

According to Weng Mei-Hui, the 16th term Club President, "It's good to see members bonding with Golf games; we owe a debt of gratitude to the Club's Vice-President Chen Jin-Shen and the staff for their commitment". "I'm happy that the 16th term staff getting members back. We have more prizes than players and one after another great games," said Li Cun-Xiu, the permanent spiritual leader of the Gold Club. The key person to the 16th term staff that is responsible for all the great events was Chen Jin-Shen, of Class 2013, who is also the newly elected 17th term of the Club's president said in emotion: "Thanks to all fellow students of Class 2013; it is them who have been supporting the Golf Club in the past year with their efforts and funding. I hope this momentum will continue." Other honorable guests at the event included Jian Jun-Zhong, Chen Yan-Hao, Assistant Executive, NTU EMBA, Huang Jian-Wen, President of the EMBA Students Association, Lin Yu-Ren, President of Golf Club of Chengchi University's EMBA program, and Liang You-Wei, President of Gold Club of Taiwan University of Science and Technology.

Another focal point of the Eve of President Club was the inauguration of the 17th term staff. Chen Jin-Shen, of Class 2013, the newly elected 17th term of the Club's president presented a " Palmprint Tree" signed by all staff of the event to Cai Weng Mei-Hui, the 16th term president, as a token of appreciation from all members for Cai Weng 's outstanding leadership and service to the Club in the past year. The 17th staff pledged to carry on Cai Weng 's great performance and further develop the Golf Club. At the same time, the 16th term staff was presented on the stage to receive awards and appreciations for their full year's enthusiastic services. President Chen also presented to all members the 17th term's new standing president, Wang Yu-Feng, of Class 2014, secretary-general, Xie Pei-Cen, and other new staff members, and asked the club members to extend their supports for the new staff.

"The 16th term has done great jobs, so much so that we can feel pressure. We will carry forward their legacy and try even more creative ways, such as re-scheduling some monthly games to weekdays, and try to meet the members' expectations," said the new standing president, Wang Yu-Feng. The recruit for 17th term new members would soon begin, and the first monthly golf game had been scheduled on July 19, Sunday, at Taoyuan Golf Course. Continuous support from the members would be highly appreciated. 

In additions to participation souvenirs for everyone, NT$ 4000-plus a piece, there were Hole-in-One prizes sponsored by President Hu Zheng-Yang, of Class 2006, President Cai Weng Mei-Hui, of Class 2012, and President Chen Jin-Sheng, of Class 2013. There were also, of course, game prizes, skill prizes, and lucky draw. There were more prizes than players, and the total value of the prizes exceeded NT$ 2 million. These prizes included all sorts of high-end golf supplies, E&D electronic locks. Ming-Jueh personal care products, Benq vacuum machine, HP Office-Jet, Zara gift voucher, Rimowa aluminum luggage, Dyson cordless vacuum machine, Sharp air cleaner/dehumidifier, Sisley premium personal care products, and Nescafe coffee machine. Total more than 100 prizes were offered. Thanks to the senior students' support and sponsors' generosity, all members at the event returned homes with over-loaded bags.

Looking back on the year of the 16th term, we have been through 6 monthly games, 1 nonlocal game, 1 4-university home game, 3 4-university away games, 1 national tournament, 1 Cross-Strait game in China, and 1 President Cup. All of which had been organized diligently in consistence with NTU-standard heritage. The staff had sacrificed their time out of their already busy schedules and lost opportunities to spend weekends with their families. Every club event was hard-earned; we hope that we didn’t let the members of the Golf Club down, and that they would be proud to be members of our Club. 

The aftermath of the 16th term club staff's achievements in one year:

1)     Member size doubled to 300 strong.

2)     Real-time communication channels among members (LINE, FB, Email, and EMBA Weekly News)

3)    Novice awards offered to encourage beginners to take on challenges.

4)     An elite team formed to consolidate our full potentials

5)     Handicap/New Peoria dual system adopted to satisfy the needs of competition and friendly match.

6)     Transparent, open screening of teamsters for 4-university match and national tournament.

7)     Promoting a fair 4321-point system for 4-university match.

8)     Better meals and even more prizes provided.

9)     Professional photographers introduced to capture the great moments of each game.

We have not 10 but 9 listed because we were not as good as 10-point good. As the visual backdrop of the President Cup says, the better is yet to come, the 17th term club staff will take over from now and more wonderful things are coming our way. Let us carry on with our good spirit. Please extend your support to the 17th term staff and let us work as a team. The better is yet to come.