The Day

Tee Setters are relatively unaccustomed to the “crack of dawn” 9:30 start that Jagorawi provides us with on one Sunday a month during the Interleague season but, while 29 managed it today, former Tee Set Vice President Lucas Sheard thought he was still in the 90’s when tee off was usually 10:30 at Pangkalan Jati though, happily, both he and the equally late coming Tetty managed to get to the first tee box in time to find a group.

The New Course was in great shape, the greens a little slow but easy to get adjusted to. The longish rough around the greens was the downfall of many, with comments such as “they getting ready for an international tournament or what?” being heard; there is of course only sure fire remedy for long rough … don’t go in there.

Heavy rain interrupted proceedings on the back 9 but luckily this happened around the 15^th tee box with its strategically placed and well stocked drinks kiosk . Nevertheless not all groups hung in there so only 15 completed cards were to make it back to the scorer.

A rich crop of Newcomers this week with Anirudh Jain (pictured), David Beenie, Imran Marzuki, Mike Arnold and Steve Sutton all playing their first round with Tee Set. A big Tee Set welcome to them all

Huge Welcome Back of course to one time Tee Set vice president and current Bali Classic Champion, Lucas Sheard. The Immediate Past President of Everything had seen Lucas play in the Classic and immediately cut his handicap by two strokes but that was not enough to stop Lucas tying for Low Nett.

Many, many more Welcome Backs but the stand-out was surely Harvey Hayman, absent for fully a year!

The Play

Low gross went to Steve Wood with 83.

Low nett was shared between Geoff Thwaites and Lucas Sheard with 75.

First birdie on #1 was Ric Wymer.

First Sandy Mel Meeds at #16.

Most Improved was Jess Kindler with 13.

Most strokes was Tetty with 11.

Skirts? …  only one recorded although that may very well mean that only Tom Grace was man enough to come forward.

Interleague

As usual the team looked strong on paper, however, as per the first round, our opponents, Jakarta Loose Impediments played some very good golf, to their handicaps and proved hard to beat and the mtch ended in a 5 and 5 tie.

Sam Westen continued his unbeaten Interleague streak winning 2 and 1. Simon Reynolds was unlucky, at 1 up with 2 to play when the rain interrupted, and the gentlemanly thing to do was call it all square and seek the refuge of the clubhouse.

The battle hardened team of Peter Reichlmeier and Geoff Thwaites were reunited for the day and got the job done with a 5 and 4 win. Chris Murchison and Steve Wood battled hard all day but were always one or 2 holes down and the match concluded that way. Nice to see big Steve playing some regular golf again and his game coming back into line. 38 on the front 9 with a double bogey adequate proof but as stated not good enough to win the match.

Mike Garwood and Mel Meeds met a rampaging opposing team that could not be tamed and were well beaten 5 and 4. Something of a mixed weekend for Mike therefore having won his Tee Set Matchplay against David Baglivo 4 and 3 the previous day. Apparently Dave struggled on the twice around Jags Z-9 cunningly demanded by Mike!

Next Up There was a time when Pangkalan Jati saw a whole lot more of Tee Set than they do nowadays, when a rather more varied diet of the many fine courses in the Jakarta area is the order of the day. So it is that nearly three months have passed since our last visit which saw Tee Set playing the first Monthly Medal of the year there, this in the hiatus between Matoa and Senayan National.

The charms of the course are undoubted, however, with a wider variety of holes available than on any other course in Jakarta with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 11th, 17th and 18th all presenting their own unusual  if not unique challenges.

A man who certainly found Pangkalan Jati’s charms to his taste last time out was George Bevege who swept the board in the major prize categories with the most Stableford points (40) to win the V Door Monthly Medal, Low Net and Low Putts with a nearly unbelievable 24 swipes with the flat blade. Not that he actually got more than one prize of course 🙂

Adding to the course’s charms are good food and beer at reasonable prices though, on the downside, the age and gender profile of the caddies are not to the taste of all. Green fees including shared cart of 460,000 roops, or 360,000 walking, can only be described as wallet-lite and, unless you are particularly unlucky then access is not too much of an issue either.

Tee off will be from both 1 and 10 at 11:30 though we are limited to 8 flights or 32 players so do register early if you want to join in the fun.

See yah Sunday! ….. Tee Set

PS Geoff Thwaites tells us that there are still a few spare slots for the Bandung Bash coming up this weekend so do give him a call on 0811 706 237 if you fancy some golf and socialising in the mountains!