The Day

Today saw Tee Set take the “long and winding road” to Matoa Nasional, however, traffic was strangely quiet and all pretty much arrived in good time. The booking was for 11.30 am however, and most happily, course management informed us we could tee off from tee boxes 1 and 10 from 11am and, as a result, we had all 12 flights on the course by 11.30. Good result.

Rounds were played in a fairly standard 4 1/2 hours, however, the pace was fantastic, everyone moving at the same speed with no waits or hold ups at all.  Thanks to all for their diligence in keeping the game moving and respecting players behind then. Thanks to all for cooperating with the President of Some Things impassioned plea, before the start of play, to get those score cards coming in quickly after the round, and before shower/massage/whatever. The cards were also pretty much mathematically correct on the whole and we were able to get to prize giving before almost anyone had left for home. This is how it should be, so let’s keep it up 🙂

Another healthy crop of Newcomers with Rod Ritson (of whom more later) introducing two of them while Mark Johnson also continued his one man recruitment campaign. Well done both.

Fantastic to see young Ghavy Puzey joining his Grandmother (yes, hard to believe!!), Nuri, and Matt Fairey at Tee Set for the very first time and enjoying himself so much. We all look forward to seeing you progress, Ghavy 🙂

Rumour has it that this was not only Davin Kort’s first Tee Set but also the first time he has moved from the driving range to the green grass of a golf course. Joining a single handicapper group including Sam Westen and Simon Reynolds must have been something of a baptism of fire but by all accounts he did well and kept pace with the “guns” while scoring a really not bad first effort of 119 off the stick.

A warm welcome to all five Newcomers, enjoy your golf with Tee Set! “Just” 9 Welcome Backs, after the tidal wave of them we saw at Senayan last week, most notably Geary Bowles who returned after 17 weeks to tell us that “work is a bitch at the moment”,  but we were in any event to get a very healthy turnout of 45 Tee Setters on the day to celebrate the return to our former HQ at Matoa Nasional.

Pleased to report that the new Matoa changing rooms are outstanding, as are the new top quality carts. While the course does continue to improve from last year’s dubious condition, there are still many bare spots and tight lies on the sides of the fairways and around the greens and tee boxes. The greens themselves however were  in pretty good nick we are happy to say, with the strongest evidence for this being the highest putts recorded of just 37 ….. by 5 Tee Setters!

The staff, service and food at Matoa are good – and their management of each person’s bill an object lesson to many other courses. Santi Miller’s Steak Pie samples before the round were to be universally well received, though George Bevege suggested they have more pepper in, to which the never slow Santi replied “bring your own pepper, George”!! Santi’s Premium Pies website is currently under construction and will be available shortly for making orders. Subdued traffic on the way home completed another very fine day for the 45 Tee Setters present. The Play

Rod gets his just rewards ..

Having recently played his fifth game with Tee Set and acquired a handicap, Rod Ritson wasted no time making use of it with a sparkling Low Net of 66 to pip Geoff Thwaites’ fine 67. Well done, Rod, and expect attention from the handicap committee in the very near future 🙂

Sam Westen wins Low Gross so often that he is required to put it on his tax return, however, Simon Reynolds, who has been running him closer and closer in recent weeks, finally got there with a fine 75 off the stick to shade Sombrero Sam by a stroke.

Congratulations to Simon – keep it up, Sam needs the competition.

Craig Binks “stole” Low Putts from Keith Miller by just 1 blow with the flat blade in taking 26 while Chris Murchison wasted no time in taking 1st Birdie at the very first hole though Chris Smith had to wait until the 6th hole to take 1st Sandy.

Peter Bush had a massive improvement of 11 strokes on his back 9 to secure Most Improved though was required to give back half his winnings for winning Most Strokes on a Hole with 11.

As we mentioned above, fully five players qualified for Monster Putter with 37 putts – a total so low that the President of Some Things, in an uncharacteristically kind hearted moment, decided that there would be no fines in the category this week.

But a single Skirt owned up to this week, so well done Jess, we need the money 🙂 More detailed player by player results here and all the photos taken on day can be found on our photo gallery.

2014 Matchplay Championship More excellent progress today in the Matchplay with 4 matches completed – and most of them going down to the line.

George Bevege beat Dan Richards 5 and 4

Paul Evison beat Jess Kindler 2 and 1

Craig Binks beat Chris Smith 2 and 1

Neil Mullins beat Alistair Livingston on the putting green after they were all square after 18 holes!

The first round match between the Marks,  Howell and Bekkering has passed the 30th April deadline without being played so it has been decided that the former goes into Bracket Emas and the latter into Bracket Kuningan. Interesting to note that both Winner and Runner up from 2013 are now out!!

2014 HOGFest

As previously advised, one of Jakarta’s outstanding events, the HOGFest, will take place next Saturday night at Senayan. A fantastic night of varied fun with tickets at just 700,000 roops including food, beers and soft drinks – and with proceeds going 100% to supporting Indonesian kids, most especially those born with the curse of cleft lip/palate – and also a number of orphanages.

Drop Ibu Rio a line if you want to reserve and pay for tickets or pick them up at the Satu Lagi Bar after 7pm on Thursday night and, if there are still tickets left, then you will be able to pay at the door on the night itself. Be there or be square.

Next Up Round 3 of Interleague next Sunday (and NOT Permata Sentul as previously scheduled) when all are invited to join even if you are not in the Tee Set Interleague team. Everyone, including those participating in the Interleague will also join in  the usual Tee Set format.

Green Fees of 955,000 including shared cart and a mini-shot gun start at 9:30 for the Interleague, and others at around 10am. Register here as usual. See yah Sunday! …. Tee Set