After a long time trying, George finally breaks his Low Gross duck with a fine 79 off the stick!!

The Day

First up are big thanks to Juergen Degert for once again not only getting us access on favourable terms to Tee Set’s favourite course but also securing cans of beer at an equally favourable 40,000 roops. We were happy that though Juergen was unable to join us for play, he was able to join in some vigorous apres golf!

Another big turnout at Rancamaya with 45 Tee Setters joining in the fun on the peerless Rancamaya course in fine condition despite months of rain, though the greens were slower than usual.

Numbers needing transport from Kemang were so large that the specially hired Tee Set Charabanc was inadequate to carry them all and we had to take up Thurmond Borden’s kind offer to carry the overload in his own bus. Well done and many thanks to Thurmond!

Three Newcomers this week in Joseph d’Cruz, Scott Huffman and Samret Raungrit, a warm Tee Set welcome to them all.

10 Welcome Backs in all with the longest absence being that of Aljosja van Dorssen at 19 weeks followed by Ed Tarog who hadn’t been seen since the Tee Set Championship and Ziad Khalaf for whom this was probably a Tee Set swan song before he leaves for a particularly nasty place elsewhere.

The starter putting a number of Korean flights between our flights was a red rag to the bull and he was to take a real ear full from Juergen who forbade our making the usual contribution to the Starter’s Benevolent Fund.

There was a bit of traffic on the way back due to an accident and the usual Sunday return to Jakarta ASAP madness which wasn’t even noticed by the bus passengers. Some Aussie bashing was well handled by outnumbered Aussie pair Graham Barbour and John Berry to the point that by the end of the trip the karaoke crooning was in full swing from all nationalities and the beer esky empty apart from one pulpy orange bought specially for George “Pulpy” Bevege who we understand loves the stuff. All that was missing to make the bus trip complete was some of John Suermondt’s tales of his past love life and brushes with the medical profession.

To the added chagrin of a winless Sam, Evaldo gets best dressed award this week. Obviously receiving his wardrobe advice on how to be cool from his daughter, Noemi, who was yet again to fail to get out of bed in time for Tee Set this morning.

The Play

Nicky gets the bawbees.

Top billing to Nicky Moir for his Low Net of 68 and his first ever major prize while George Bevege shot a fine Low Gross of 79 to finally lose his perennial bridesmaid label in that category. With George rewarded elsewhere, Newcomer Scott Huffman took Low Putts to get his money back and is clearly providing some further competition for Sam in the Caddy Magnet stakes.

Newcomer Scott Huffner

All of this meant that Sam Westen failed to recoup his Tee Set fee for the first time in longer than we can remember. We don’t expect this to recur for a while.

Some extraordinary competition this week for 1st Birdie with 14 birdies by 14 different players in total on the day, including one on every one of the first 5 holes, however Graham Barber’s on the 1st took the prize while Oddvar and Mark Johnson shared 1st Sandy on the 5th.

Aljosja vanDorssen took time to get used to his new Tee Set shirt but improved by 9 strokes on the back nine when he discovered how to break it in – by dribbling some beer down the front if it.  This improvement presented the Immediate Past President of Everything with an amusing pronunciation challenge which with the help of another (sort of) Dutchman, John Suermondt; he was by common consent reckoned to have made a decent fist of it.

Christian Molau had an up and down round when in his first 9 he shot well under his handicap with the help of 1st Par for a player with handicap over 30 on the very 1st hole,  a birdie on his third and a Sandy Par on his sixth. On his back 9 and with a deterioration of 12 shots he would surely have won “Most Unimproved” should there have been such a thing.

Jess Kindler had a bad day at the office for as well as losing his Matchplay, he also took Monster Putter and Most Strokes on a hole. No worries Jess, there will be better days again!

Money business for Jess

Special mention this week for Mel Meeds who, on the 4th, put his drive well right when his ball hit a tree, bounced back onto the cart path and continued bouncing back for a total of more than 50 meters, finally landing 1 metre from where it started and behind the blue marker. With refreshing disregard for human sensibilities this led to a total collapse into fits of laughter by all present, even Mel – though better than OB we guess.

Mel chose to leave early to avoid the shame of wearing a skirt traffic.

Fuller player by player results here and more photos of the day on our photo website.

2014 Tee Set Matchplay

Another two matches played at Rancamaya today:

David Shenman beat Alistair Livingstone 4 and 3

James Ross beat Jess Kindler 5 and 4 (approximately)

Classifieds

Been a while since we have seen any activity here but today Kiat is offering a top quality golf set – and you can give them a trial at Pondok Indah driving range.

Next Week

Another round of Interleague at Jagorawi on Sunday 16th March – anyone who would like to be considered for the team should contact Ric Wymer as soon as possible so he can get his team sorted. All are very welcome to join the team at Jagorawi where green fees etc will be 1 million roops and tee off will be at the usual 9:30 for the teams and 10:00 for others.

Please sign up here as usual if you intend playing Jagorawi in any capacity.

See yah Sunday, Tee Set