The day’s fun at Matoa for the inaugural monthly medal got off to a great start courtesy of Mike Garwood who, with perhaps just a little help from his “koki”, provided us with a fine brew of hot chili beans ‘n beef that went down extremely well and, washed down with a few jugs of ice cold Bintang courtesy of President Thwaites, saw the many who participated off to a turbo charged start.
With a remarkable 45 joining in our first monthly medal, competition was fierce with honours eventually going to the wily Mustafa Baabad with 40 Stableford points; Mustafa thereby taking bragging rights until the March event, a tray of meat donated by Slaney’s Butchery and a bottle of Gentleman Jack.
Mustafa, God bless him was, immediately and very generously, to donate the bottle of Gentleman Jack back to the troops who polished it off in just one circuit of the table. If ever there was any doubt, then this was proof positive that Tee Set has thirsty troops.
The course was wet and not terribly conducive to the use of carts and it was to turn into something rather more like a motor cross scramble than anything else. In truth, however, the course played remarkably well otherwise, and this despite the rivers of rainwater on the fairways after the 4th hole for a while.
Our Pawang Hujan‘s absence in India has clearly had an effect on his concentration but, apparently, after a consultation with his Indian Naga Sadhus, he managed to restore some of his reputation as play continued in perfect conditions after a couple more holes.
The 9th green was playing a little fast for some, so Tee Set secretary Tuti decided to slow it down a bit by walking the full length of the green in her high heel shoes. They won’t need to core the green for at least a month.
A short delay occurred in working out the scores at the end of play due to cards being nearly unreadable when filled with the results of four players. So, for future Stableford events, there will be a maximum of two players on any one card!
No skirt fines on the day was a rare event and not one the Tee Set treasurer would wish to see repeated. Mel Cantarella, where were you?
No monster putter this week but nevertheless our little monkey mascot inexplicably jumped on Abe Borden’s back for having just 11 Stableford points for the round.
Joseph Peries failed to win low gross for the first time this year but that may be because we didn’t have the prize to win. Instead, he won first birdie on hole #1 played. Well done, him.
Check out the detailed results by clicking on the graphic you see to the right.
Welcome to new players Ben Kidd, Bruce Hector, Phil Miller, Mike Webb and Mark Forward; we hope you enjoy all your golf with Tee Set!
EVENTS:
BANDUNG BASH at Giri Gahana 29 to 31 March.
Reservations are now closed and the course and hotel advised of final numbers.
If you would like to be put on the stand-by list please contact Mrs. Endang <endang@kojo.co.id> and she will put you on the list.
MATCHPLAY
We have a pretty full slate of participants for the 2013 Tee Set Matchplay already, however, you have until 18:00 tomorrow, 28th February, to register yourself by completing the the form here in order to experience the joy of Tee Set matchplay.
LEGENDS IV GOLF DAY
That great supporter of youngsters cricket and rugby in Jakarta, the TOPI Foundation, is holding their 4th Legends IV golf day at Palm Hill on Friday 8th March. The whole event regularly garners personal support from a number of sporting legends and this year you can expect to get up very close to that great Aussie fastie, Jeff Thompson, and Andy Haden who played lock forward for the All Blacks on 42 occasions. You will find details of the day here.
NEXT ROUND
Sunday March 3rd will see us at JABABEKA for an 11:30 first tee off. Rp.800,000 inclusive of cart. Remember to keep left on the toll at KP28 to enable access to the Cikarang exit; you will not believe how important this is until you miss it.
LAST INTERLEAGUE REPORT
Tee Set saw no little success in the opening two man Interleague scramble so enjoy reading about it, and much else about the Interleague situation, here.
Regards
Geoff (Thwaites)
0811 706 237
PS: Please go to “Yes, I’m playing” to confirm your spot for next week (applies for each week going forward.)
PPS Evaldo finally got his overdue prize of a bottle of wine for something or other – and here is the proof
Tee Set 
