Sunday saw us at JABABEKA for the first time this year with an easy drive from Kemang taking just 50 minutes and with, for once, nobody in the group owning up to missing the turn off.

The course itself was singificantly overbooked, which is what might hardly be described as newsworthy for JABABEKA, so our 27 players stoically battled their way around the course in a marathon five and a half hours. One group got caught in very heavy traffic, however, taking over 3 hours to complete the first nine when they made a decision to “scoot”.

The rest finished with no significant complaints about the course, however the greens were surprisingly fast and caught some out on the first few holes. James Ross was able to read the first green perfectly, however, and after a great escape from a bunker carded the first “sandy”. Richard Newcombe made a great up and down on the same hole later and was probably in the very same bunker as James.

Other than only having one tee box for 7 groups, which is not what we expected or paid for, other aspects were better with the beer being very reasonably priced at 35,000 roops a can and management put on a very acceptable buffet meal after the game, while the Great Tee Set Escape (Category – Weather) was to happen yet again. No delays, although Koen and Johannes sat out a passing electrical storm for fear on being fried in their backswings.

To the visible anguish of our Treasurer, no skirt fines were paid for the second week in succession although Peter Boyd may want to put the record straight on this being strictly correct!

Cucu started the day by dropping a full and outsized cup of iced coffee onto the carpet in the pro shop. Should do this every week as she then went on to overperform by scoring 4 pars and taking low nett with 66. Another notable was Richard Newcombe trying to out class the caddies by wearing purple.

Full marks to the management with their new caddy uniform of tight purple tops and white curve hugging Lycra slacks. I doubt the girls parents would approve . Richard refuses to wear the slacks.

A big welcome back to Frank Musgrove who we haven’t seen for some while, though Norman Bunter must surely take the all-time welcome back record as his last round with Tee Set was back in 1999!!!

Longest Drive went to Evaldo Roos with 254m

Nearest to the Pin won by Chris Murchinson with 87cm.

Low Gross to Craig Binks on a count back with 88.

Full category results were as follows:

Click on the little graphic to get the detailed player by player results.

Someone has to win it – well done, Mike Webb!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

MATCHPLAY – registration for the match play competition has closed and we have over 40 players signed up. Details of the roster and first round pairings will be posted shortly by Jesse Baker who is in charge of this year’s competition.

BANDUNG BASH at Giri Gahana 29 to 31 March – reservations here are also now closed and the course and hotel advised of numbers. If you would like to be put on the stand-by list please contact Ibu Endang  and she will try and get you in.

NEXT SUNDAY – will see us returning to the attractive and popular Palm Hill course off the Jagorawi Tol where we will starting from 2 tees at 12PM. Rp.588,000 inclusive of compulsory cart, something of a bargain.

Take the Sental Sirkuit exit, turn left then right and drive for 1km until you see the sign telling you to turn left to the course.

Regards,  Geoff (Thwaites)

0811 706 237

PS: Please go to web page “Yes, I’m playing” to confirm your spot for next week (and each week going forward.)