The Day

It’s been some years since Tee Set played Sentul Highlands due to overly exorbitant green fees there but the view of the 37 Tee Setters who played it today under a special discount negotiated by Wina was, wow, great course!! So great in fact that we will ask Wina to work in another visit or two later in the year. Thanks Wina for making this happen.

A tough but fair course, well laid out with a variety of challenging holes, great food and attentive and polite staff – and all this surrounded by terrific mountain scenery.

A significant amount of money has been spent recently on amenity upgrades and the changing rooms were impressive, as long as you remembered to bring the score card wallet to open the locker’s electronic hand shake.

The caddies looked as if they had wandered in from a nearby beauty contest but the club’s pursuit of eye candy has meant that more time is paid to freshening the make-up than learning about how a putt might break – and with predictable consequences. Wina’s request for a senior caddie scored her a veteran campaigner, all of 23 years of age.

Four Newcomers today in Chris Chan, Kevin Glenton, Tetty Artatie and Tim Wallace all joining us for the first time, although the President of Somethings reckoned Tetty was in fact a firm candidate for the biggest Welcome Back of all time, something Tetty was not to deny. In any event, welcome to you all and we hope you enjoy your golf with Tee Set!

Despite a 12:30 tee off, the bonus of a shotgun start from 8 holes meant that everyone was able to finish before dark though it was touch and go for some as the rounds were a little slow with the fastest being 5 hours. Too many of us spending too much time enjoying the scenery and the jungle?

Overcast all day, the rain gods poked a little fun at us with 10 minutes of semi-serious rain as soon a we teed off before relenting and providing us with perfect overcast golfing conditions for the rest of the day.

10 Welcome Backs with most notable being former President of Quite a Lot of Things Dave Tarcy’s quick visit after 21 weeks away and of course Ivan Byriel who has been part of  the Tee Set furniture for some years but been missing since the Tee Set Championships; we trust that you will get more than the occasional weekend off from the jungle in future, Ivan!

Despite a 12:30 tee off, the bonus of a shotgun start from 8 holes meant that everyone was able to finish before dark though it was touch and go for some as the rounds were a little slow with the fastest being just under 5 hours.

Overcast all day, the rain gods poked a little fun at us with 10 minutes of semi-serious rain as soon as we had teed off – before relenting and providing us with perfect overcast golfing conditions for the rest of the day.

The Play

Retuning former President Dave Tarcy made it a happy day by taking Low Net with a two under to take the Blue Ribbon Low Net while, on a course we guess he hadn’t seen before, Sombrero Sam still managed Low Gross with a nine over par 81 off the stick.

On a course possessed of some devilish greens, Nicky Moir’s 28 blows with the putter was the only round with under 30 to give hime\ Low Putts athough, sadly, Nicky was OB when it came to prize giving having promised to be back in Jakarta early to taste a new home grown recipe for Soto Ayam cooked up by a friend.

Newcomer Chris Chan made his mark with a 1st Sandy on the 4th, one of only two on the day. Might have been his new Tee Set attire that got him in the right mood for winning.

Terrific to see Ivan Byriel back and taking the weekly prize he sees as his right, first Par for >= 30 Handicappers.

With the Ladies Tee on several holes at Sentul being more than 100 meters ahead of the blues, the Treasurer was confident of some significant additions to his coffers on the day and his optimism in this respect was not out of place as a handsome crop of 9 skirts was to prove him right. The Treasurer was seen to breath an audible sigh of relief on the very last tee box where he managed to just squeeze past the red tees for a gross zero skirts for the day.

That rare bird, an Eagle, for Mike Spencer on his third hole as played in what was a remarkable day for this 15 week Welcome Back as he also managed an “unimprovement” on his back 9 of 21 and took Monster Putter with 43. Welcome back, Mike!

Fuller, player by player details here, while more action from the day can be found on the Tee Set’s photo website.

Footnote:

The 6 hardy golfers that took on Gunung Geulis the day before rate a mention for their dedication to fun. Best score was a 99 from Evaldo and the worst was an 108 from David Shenman but the scores were poor proxies for the day’s fun value. After waiting an hour for the Puncak road to open again at 7pm it was off to the Swiss Embassy Villa located at the very top of the Pass. Steaks, sausages, salads, fried rice etc etc all washed down with wine, beer and plenty of whisky. As a result there were a couple of us who nearly could not stand unassisted for Sunday’s tee off. Many thanks to Evaldo Roos for all his generosity in making the event a memorable blast.

Tee Set Matchplay Championship

Three results from Sentul Highland.

Tom Alcedo beat Santi Miller 5/4 – Tom played solidy with his 30 handicap to leave Santi up against it – her birdie on an early par 5 was answered by Tom with a par 5 to make it a push – leaving the lady wondering just what she had to do to win a hole!!

Craig Ewers beat Peter Reichlmeier 1 up – with reckless disregard for his future, Craig beat the President of Some Things by playing less awfully than the latter – in Peter’s own words.

Peter Bush beat Wina 1 up – but only after having been 5 (6?) up at one stage when Wina staged a hell of a comeback to leave the result on a knife edge. In golf it’s never over until it’s over. Just ask Adam Scott.

Next up

Last Sunday of the month of course, so it back to Senayan National, our luxurious new base in the heart of the city, for the March Monthly Medal. Usual 500,000 V Door voucher awaiting the highest Stableford points winner and the 500,000 Slaney’s Meats voucher for Low Net, while we have another regular 150,000 prize from Cecilia’s cafe for home made meat pies and freshly brewed coffee. All these, most of the regular prize categories, Long drive and Nearest to the Pin, mean there is plenty to go for at Senayan.

The Long Drive and Nearest to the pin Tee Set banners are now safely stored at Senayan so, if we remember to tell the course to put spotters on the appropriate holes, we have every hope of actually awarding these prizes this time.

First groups will be teeing off from 1 and 10 at 11:00 having paid their 500,000 roops for walking this distinctly flat course, to which you will have to add 250,000 per pax if you want to take a (shared) buggy.

A couple of reminders, firstly that there have been a number of occasions in the last year where golfers have lost valuables left in their locker at Senaya. You are strongly advised to make alternative arrangements for your family jewels if you choose to bring them along for some reason.

Secondly, we have a deal with Senayan for Tee Setters to get a discounted price of 40,000 net on cans of Bintang. Last time they were only available at this price from the vending point just outside the Pro shop. We are trying to resolve the issue but, to be safe, you might restrict your purchasing activity to just that location.

We have 56 places reserved for next week which should be enough but in the event of this not being the case then it will be first come first served, so you might consider signing up a little earlier than usual this week to make sure you get to join in what promises to be a great day.

See yah, Sunday! … Tee Set

And it’s goodbye from them too ………