The Day

Decent course, great price, walk if you want to, cheap beer, great Soto Ayam and good service – and they even have a few lady caddies these days, so what’s not to like about Pondok Cabe?

Classic description from our web master who by the way was a no-show (due to a surfeit of celebration after captaining his team to the Jakarta Pool League title).

So, what is not to like….. well the traffic going down Cirendeu Raya was bumper to bumper so that was no fun! Best advice for getting to Pondok Cabe these days is take the old Ciputat Raya road (old Bogor road) and take a left into Cabe Raya which brings you to the course access road at the end of the airport runway. On the cheap beer front, large bottle of Bintang Rp45K…great, small can of Bintang Rp40K…not so great but we were quick learners.

Sunday was Graham Stallworthy’s last game with Tee Set before returning to Oz. Since first joining in September last year, Graham has been one of our true regulars and was a solid performer in the Interleague comp.

It’s been great having you Graham and we wish you every success in your future endeavors. Davis, Jeff, Andrew and Scott all up from Oz just for the week to join Graham’s farewell were our new players as were John Lennon and Richard Large. So with 25 regulars, 11 welcome backers and 6 new players it was a great turn out with 42 Tee Setter old and new.

Some interesting scores and match play results. Ric Wymer beat Graham Barker 7 & 6, Koen Verhayen beat Evaldo Roos 5 and 3, Nori Puzey beat James Ross one up. Nine players shot their handicap or under with immediate past president Ric Wymer approaching disqualification territory after coming in 9 under his handicap while Koen was not that far off suffering the same fate with 7 under.

The course was really playing friendly by the way.

Quality golfers can now be found within the group as proved by Andrew Hansen’s gross 76 and Sam Westen’s 80. Closest to the pin was Deddy Baktyo who showed all the low handicappers how it’s done. Longest drive went to Mel Meeds who managed to get plenty of ‘bat’ on the ball like many on the day, but still managed to keep it on the fairway. Mel left early without collecting his prize and then sat in traffic for a couple of hours while the rest of us enjoyed the complementary beer put on for Graham’s farewell. Also missing out on the beer was birthday boy, Jeff Moy, although he was happily occupied elsewhere.

Prize awards

Full, player by player statistics, can be found here.

Next Sunday

Tee off is 12:10 at the lovely Karawang International course km post 46 on the Cikampek Toll. Price is Rp660K all up. Hope to see you all there.