The Day

Pondok Cabe was once again to come up trumps with probably the best weather of the year so far, certainly the hottest; wallet friendly beer pricing and fairways in pretty lush condition. The greens left a little to be desired in truth, though an overall average of 33.8 putts shows that they were in fact to the taste of most Tee Setters, being pretty flat and true in the main.

We don’t keep details of Tee Setters’ dates of birth, however, we guess the average age would be somewhat north of 45, so it is always good to see fresh young blood joining us to bring down the average. Here is our latest recruit, pictured in a rather windscreen affected photo between Mum and Dad!

Regrettable late withdrawal by an Ivan Byriel afflicted with a bad dose of “Sukarno’s Revenge” – get better soon Ivan!!

The Play

Sam Westen’s golfing experience continued to broaden with his first round at Pondok Cabe where unfamiliarity with the course led to “only” a six over par 78 – but still good enough to take Low Gross. Keith Miller’s first round for a month due to shoulder issues was richly rewarded with a net 71 to take Low Net.

Sam gets his just rewards ….

For reasons that remain unclear, the President of Everything, freshly returned from witnessing the Baggys being trashed by the Poms in the UK, decided to award Keith an “Ashes” cricket ball to go with his 100,000 roops.

… while Miller gets his cherry

As we have commented before, the infamous skirt has lost some of its original terror and Mike Sperry was positively anxious  to get the pink thing and its accompanying wig on, when he was  to fully enter  the spirit of an hilarious prize awards session by adopting a number of most attractive poses; we can only believe that there is an opening (sic) for you in Blok M, Mike.

Good number of Newcomers this week, with all of Anlo du Pisani, Craig Ewers, Giles Taarland, Mike Sperry and Muhammad Alhamami making promising starts – a warm Tee Set welcome to them all!

A very happy Mike Webb took his first ever 1st Birdie while Graham McGready took 1st Sandy on the 3rd for heaven’s sake. Keith Miller was actually in both fairway and greenside bunkers on his way to a par – but on his 16th hole as played.

More detailed, player by player, results can be found here.

In a quite unprecedented piece of lateral thinking, your committee has decided that each winner of the Monthly Medal will receive, wait for it ………. a medal!! The only previous winner of the Monthly Medal present, Mustafa – who took the first event in February – duly got his.

Finally well done to Cucu Chandra who was to beat Ric Wyman in the latest installment of the Tee Set Match Play drama; the President of Everything was somewhat reluctant to provide further detail at the time but voluble crowd encouragement finally elicited the result as a 7 and 6 beating, a development that was to draw the loudest cheer of  the day. Ric was to take little consolation in his Most Improved prize and rather unsportingly complained that Cucu “got a stroke on nearly every bloody hole!”. Hee hee, that’s Match Play, Ric!

The BBQ

Great food at the Miller’s BBQ where about 16 turned up after the round to enjoy the Grumpy Pirate’s superlative BBQ-ing skills performed on some excellent beef, chicken and some heavenly pork, and Santi’s wide array of stuff to go with them, address world hunger issues, play some pool (the evening’s champion was Fernando who played alarmingly well and commented that it was better than his golf ) – and generally have a lot of fun. We are anxious to find a volunteer for the next one, so let us know!!

A couple of minor rents in the Lebak Bulus space-time continuum were discovered by John S as he left, with the one under the pembantu‘s chair in the garage being as unfortunate as it was amusing in its result to others, while the second nearly crushed to death our gracious hostess for the evening, who, happily, was to emerge relatively unscathed. Well done to John also for the slab of excellent Bintang donated to keep the party going.

Next Week

Tee Set’s all time record attendance for a regular Sunday event is held by Rancamaya with 68 Tee Setters spoiling themselves rotten earlier this year by making the journey to Ciawi to enjoy what, in the opinion of many – including your humble scribe -, is the finest course in Indonesia.

Get yourself registered at “Yes, I’m Playing” as usual, when, courtesy of Blue Bird, you will also have the opportunity to book yourself on the “Tee Set Express” which will whisk you from Hero Supermarket in Kemang directly to the course.

Cost is just 150,000 roops and guaranteed to be a lot of fun, especially on the way back when, legend has it, the hospitality levels are even higher than at the clubhouse itself. We have the opportunity to take a 9 or 14 seater coach and would appreciate earlier than usual registration this week so that we can make a decision and secure the appropriate vehicle.