The President getting his feet well under the table now after a slow start!!

Despite the absence of both our Pawang Hujan AND the immediate past President of Everything’s lucky black 2011 Tee Set shirt, we were to be graced with a blissfully rain free day at Pangkalan Jati for the first Medal event of the year – and on Australia Day. While some reported a short duration light rain not long after the start, we judge that more likely to have been the spray from the over-enthusiastic opening of cans of Bintang than anything else.

As predicted we were to get the first groups away significantly earlier than the 11:30 we had been allocated and 35 Tee Setters enjoyed perfect conditions, with much in the way of blue skies for most of the round.

Rather slow going on the front 9 but everything eventually sorted itself out and a quick back 9 was the order of the day. The fairways were in pretty good nick though the greens were a little messed up after a busy weekend of golf. Didn’t stop some excellent putting performances as you will see below.

In something of a disturbing development, the Warung  Co-Op on the course was to run out of beer after a couple of hours, however, the clubhouse had plentiful stocks of cold ones to hand.

Many Tee Setters disappeared shortly after prize giving to join Australia day parties and/or watch the Australian Open Men’s Tennis final. The President wishes to express his personal thanks to the English cricket team for losing their final game of the series in Australia on Australia Day, to cap a very fine day of Aussie celebration as you will discover below.

One Newcomer to report in Russ Lecroy, a warm welcome to Russ, we hope you enjoyed your first round with us  – and that you will be back regularly.

The Play

Congratulations to the USA’s very own Bill Lloyd who hit a first ever hole-in-one during the week!

Get your next one at Tee Set, Bill, we should all be delighted to be able to drink to your good fortune 🙂

Slaneys Butchery Low Net Winner Mo Maharam and the V Door Monthly Medal winner George Bevege.

A man who did produce the goods was Aussie (what else on Australia day) George Bevege who rather swept the board with the most Stableford points to win the V Door Monthly Medal, Low Net and a nearly unbelievably low 24 swipes with the flat blade to take Low Putts – good job the rules forbids us from awarding him more than one prize and winner of the Slaneys Butchery Low Net Award was therefore Mo Maharam

One major prize that was to elude George was Low Gross which is of course the near exclusive preserve of young Sam Westen these days, this time with a 73 off the stick and just 1 over par.

Mo also secured 1st Birdie at the very first hole, the same place that Sofree Abdul claimed 1st Sandy while Most Improved went to John Suermondt with an alarming 12 shot numeric decline on his back nine, admittedly from a very large number on the front.

Closest to the pin at less than 3 meters goes to David Shenman while Same Westen his a monster of a drive to hit the 300 meter mark for Longest Drive. Such an extraordinary shot that the rules were relaxed to allow him a second prize award.

Who actually received prizes for all the above is loosely related to the above – and subjected in particular to the “spreading the prizes about” rules that are beyond even the computing talents of James Ross to incorporate into our results spreadsheet.

On the booby prize front, Mark Bekkering hardly deserved the Monkey with a rather low winning 39 putts, while a very pleasing 6 Tee Setters found themselves queueing up to pay their 50,000 for failing to reach the red tee during their round. Jess Kindler planned on leaving early and was most insistent on paying his fine and getting his photo taken before leaving – his reward is this photo which rather makes us wonder why!

Fuller, player by player stats here while more photos of  the day can be found here.

2014 Tee Set Matchplay Championship

Yes, it is that time again, time to register for the 2014 Matchplay Championship, where the format will be the same as for the last couple of years, ie a first round which sorts out the players into two brackets and knock out after that leading to the two bracket winners who play off on Tee Set Championship Day in November.

Rules are the same as the 2013 event with the following exceptions:

1) entry is limited to players who have participated in at least 5 tee set events since January 1 2013 or have been tee set members for at least 3 years and

2) deadlines will be strictly enforced and winners decided by a coin flip at the deadline date.

Those rules are intended to ensure that people dedicated to getting their game completed enter the competition – and that a log jam of matches will not have to played in the last 3 weeks as in 2013.

The competition has an entry fee of just 100,000 roops, due upon registration; please make your payment to our Secretary Brenda next time you play Tee Set.

The draw for the first round will be made after play, and before prize giving, on Sunday 22nd February at Sentul Highlands, when names will be randomly picked out of the hat.

Please register to join the competition here:

2014 Schedule

Our Schedule Meister has been busy setting up the 2014 programme over the past few weeks and the first half year is now pretty much set up. From the schedule, you will see that we continue to go for a rich variety of courses to keep your interest, some new to us like Sentul Highlands but also with many of the old favourites – and all fitting around the backbone of the Monthly Medal at the splendid Senayan. Many thanks to Wina for all that hard work!

Next Sunday

Kedaton, out on the Merak Tol, is our next port of call, a delightful course where water is ubiquitous and really not for you if you have even the mildest hydrophobia. The recent floods had their effect on the course there last  week with a rubber dinghy needed to complete a round.

Hopefully, the abatement in rain intensity we have seen over the last few days will continue and we will execute as planned, however, Kedaton regular Wina is keeping a close eye on things and we will advise if it looks like going pear shaped and need to tell you of a Plan B.

An 11:30 start from two tee boxes, green fees etc including shared cart of 660,000 roops or 550,000 walking – sign up here as usual if you plan on joining in the fun.

See yah Sunday! … Tee Set