Back to the bread and butter that is Pondok Cabe this week after the cordon bleau offerings of Senayan and indeed Modern.

The last time we were there, Chis Smith found his driver head separated from its shaft by a rather greater distance than is usual at one point; which reminds us to ask him if he ever got it welded back on.

Second division for sure but still a very a decent course – and PC also offers rates that reflect a certain uncharacteristic benevolence on the part of its owner, the Indonesian National Oil Company, Pertamina. Just 375,000 roops if you take Shank’s Pony on an eminently walkable course – or 450,00 including shared cart.

A very small proportion of our number might also be interested to know that PC offers the cheapest big bottles of Anker and Bintang to be found on a Jakarta golf course these days.

We are always given an 11:30 tee off at PC but more often than not get away a little earlier. We will be providing personal scorecards this week for the first time, but only if you register by Friday lunchtime, so don’t leave it until the last minute this week or into the future – unless you really have to that is.

One of our minor sponsors has put up a list of his current offerings in the first entry to trouble the classifieds section in a while. Walaka Boats, in the person of Stephane Mauger,  offers a wide variety of fine foodstuffs and wines that you will find nowhere else in Indonesia – and delivered reliably to your door in Jakarta.

Useful reminder perhaps that any Tee Setter or Sponsor can avail themselves of the classifieds section free of charge, just drop us a line, maybe with a photo or two.

Finally, we put in a reference to a small tutorial from regular Tee Setter Ken Runyon in our last post – and then cleverly failed to put in a link so, find it here now, it’s well worth reading if you would like to achieve a higher success rate at getting out of bunkers.

See yah, Sunday!! … Tee Set

PS Mel Meeds is on his first and final warning for “Monkey Abuse”.

Mel is a pretty reasonable putter, averaging 32.72 over the last couple of years, but rather lost the plot at Senayan with an inspired 40 blows with the blade to take the coveted Monster Putter Monkey for the first time ever – and then, in a shameful display of ire, landed a similar number of blows to the cute and totally innocent Monkey itself.

Poor show, Mel!!