Going to be a great day …. Jess and newcomer Aaron ..
The Day
A nice early start to Sunday morning golf was made even more pleasurable by a drive from Kemang to Jagorawi that took a total of just 20 minutes.
18 joined up to play on the day, with 8 joining Interleague for Tee Set and another ten playing regular Tee Set Sunday.
The Reigning President of Some Things started his day with a bang in making sure that George, Ian and Ric were all awake by backing his Kijang into a concrete wall while navigating a 3 point turn at the bottom of the Immediate Past President of Everything’s road. No golf clubs damaged, so no problem there then 🙂
After that exciting start, play commenced in very warm, extremely muggy weather and play was slow going. The course however was in great condition and there was even some run on the fairways, remember run on the fairways? …. well it will be back full time soon. We hope.
Debbie shows how versatile she can be …
The weather improved as the game wore on however and, happily, the speed of play increased in tandem. By the 15th hole cloud cover and the odd spit of rain was making for perfect golfing conditions.
In what is the only real meeting of Jakarta golf societies it was possible to see quite a number of regular Tee Setters wearing “foreign” uniforms and playing for other teams, however, to even things up we had members of other teams join the regular Tee Set event, so great to have you with us again Brad and Debbie!
Just one newcomer on the day, Aaron Prato, so a big Tee Set welcome to him, come back often Aaron!
Most importantly, everyone greatly enjoyed their day amongst the general mayhem that is an Interleague Sunday.
The Play
Interleague
Simon Reynolds could also do with backing up into a concrete wall to get him going in the morning apparently, the alarm on his BB failed to fire resulting in a late showing and a missed opportunity to play in the Tee Set Interleague team.
Happily, past President and Tee Set Interleague stalwart Geoff Thwaites was on hand to come off the bench to take Simon’s spot!
Disappointingly, the Tee Set went down 4 and 6 to a Mad Dogs team who played to their potential with most shooting their handicap or better 😦
Sam Westen won an epic singles battle with Iris Rothenberg where, despite Sam shooting a round that included 7 birdies and 72 off the stick, it took a lengthy putt on the last hole to win the match.
George Bevege had a rare off-day and was well beaten by regular Tee setter Craig Binks (did anyone check his handicap!) in the other singles match 5 and 4. George last seen taking solace in Bir Bintang!
The pairing of Peter Reichlmeier and Mike Garwood had no answer to a very hot and in-form Oddvar and Arvid and went down 4 and 3
Mel Meeds and Geoff Thwaites came up against the Mad Dogs pocket rockets in Yati and Sue Jones and were no match for a couple of very in-form ladies, going down 2 and 1.
Chris Murchison and Nicky Moir saved some Tee set respectability by winning their match against Geoff Thomson and AN Other while further consolation was gained by Chris Murchison who took Nearest the Pin on that relatively short but always treacherous 11th hole over the water – 2 metres from the hole and sank the putt, well done, Chris!
Regular Tee Set
In a refreshing reminder that Sunday golf is all about fun, Aaron shot 137 and just could not get the grin of his face, best fun you can have with your clothes on he told us … he will be back!!
The Interleaguers must have been very busy filling in their cards between holes as they joined in the regular Tee Set Sunday stuff too as well as their matchplay against Mad Dogs.
Sombrero Sam’s 72 off the stick was of course good enough to bring him back into the winners circle after an unprecedented week’s absence while an amazing 5 players shot a Low Net 70 including Sam who was however barred from sharing in that prize too.
In the absence of our new computer and the time saving bespoke Tee Set score cards, all the other prizes and booby prizes were left unawarded for once.
The usual detailed, player by player results, can be found here.
Matchplay
Just one result to report today, from Pangkalan Jati, where Graham McGeady held off a strong challenge from Cucu Chandra to move into Bracket Emas bracket with a 3 and 2 win.
Culture Corner
Tee Setters are known throughout the land to be people of culture and refinement and as such will be keen to learn that a quite fantastic Czech violinist, Pavel Sporcl, is coming to town and will be playing at the Gedung Kesenian on Wednesday 26th March at 8.pm. Find more details here.
Next up
Old Tee Set hands seem pretty convinced that Tee Set has played Sentul Highlands before, but are rather hazier on just when that might have been in our 30+ year history. The Immediate Past President of Everything relates that the course was in fact a regular Tee Set haunt before they got over-ambitious with the setting of their green fees a few (?) years ago.
No matter, we play the course next Sunday in, at the very least, the first time in a long time as the good news now is that Wina has been able to negotiate a rate which, while hardly bargain basement, puts it in our range at 735,000 roops all in – no walking option.
Less good is that the agreed start time will be a something less than optimal 12:30 – but with an indication that we may very well get away a little earlier. So plan to get their at 11:30 latest in order to enjoy their posh new clubhouse – and for us to get the flights organised.
Sign up to join in the fun on a great course on a ground breaking day for Tee Set. With Royale, Senayan, Rancamaya and Bogor Raya also on the 2014 schedule, can it be long before Pondok Indah et al succumb to the charms of our feisty little Schedule Meister?
See yah at Sentul! … Tee Set
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