The Day

The temptation to sample Rainbow Hills magnificent charms today was more than our better judgment was able to overcome – and this despite the potential for traffic chaos on the Jagorawi toll with the return of the second wave of Mudik pilgrims.

It has been some time since Tee Set played fast greens and the Rainbow greens were just brutal and, to compound the fun, pin placements could only be described as sadistic with more than a hint of luck needed to stick one close.

Playing the course was a fantastic experience from every point of view, however, the more than 2 hour crawl home in the Jagorawi Tol traffic was to temper the afterglow somewhat. Thanks to Wina for organizing such a great deal – keep it up!! We need to return to this course again before the end of the year.

A very decent turnout of 45 Tee Setters with the return of many expats from the Idul Fitri break and traffic on the way to the course in the morning was in fact bearable though the opening of Jungle World or whatever made for long queues and a wait to pay a dollar at the Sentul exit toll booth

More Newcomers today than we have seen for some time with a total of six newly minted Tee Setters joining us for the first time. Welcome to them all, enjoy your golf with Tee Set.

A heavy preponderance of Welcome Backs at fully 18 of them, with joint top position occupied by the Kilners, Mark and RJ, father and son.

The Kilners did not actually finish as they were last to start and were the only ones to unluckily find some unseasonal end of day lightning. As they had both played 18 at Palm Hills immediately before their round we can forgive them their tardiness!!

Notable returnees also in John Suermondt and Bob Fleischmann at 19 and 16 weeks respectively, the former after a three-month motor-home tour of Europe, amusing stories of which were to be shared to all unwise enough to come within ten meters of him during the day!

Brenda was on family duties today so web master and part-time scribe Keith Miller stepped up to the plate to record the scores and take everyone’s registration money.

The pressure was clearly telling  however and, without Santi in the wings as goalkeeper, the potential for error was always there – and the Immediate Past President of Lots of Stuff has been duly tasked with recovering our hero’s clubs that somehow got left behind in the fog of confusion that generally surrounds him.

Finally, it was Dan Richards last game with Tee Set after almost exactly a year and 21 rounds when some of the group’s oldest and (un?) wisest birds made sure he had a suitably liquid send off by gaming the traffic in not leaving Sentul until after 8pm. Come back visit us some time, Dan!

The Play

A fine net 7 under par 65 was enough to see Leona take Low Net on a day when a total of 8 Tee Setters were to laugh in the face of their handicap. Well done Leona.

Another Low Gross win for Simon Reynolds who really has improved significantly this year, with Newcomer Tim Knight coming in second with a commendable 80.

Another Newcomer, Mark Baker, failed to fully appreciate just how difficult the greens were and took Low Putts with a fine 29 blows with the flat one while David Baglivo made sure that the trickiness of those greens were not to be an issue on his first hole as played by sticking it to within 1cm for a tap in and taking 1st Birdie.

In the other minor prizes Craig Ewers took 1st Sandy on 3, the President Most Improved with an improvement of 11 while Jan Jelinek joined wife Leona in the winners circle with 1st Par for a high handicapper on his third hole played.

A healthy crop of six skirts and something of a surprise winner of Monster Putter with Grumpy Pirate Graham McGeady, pictured here and clearly getting a lot of sympathy from Pulpy Beverage, taking the honours on his own with 42 putts.

Newcomer Craig Edwatds and Hossam shared the pleasure of Most Strokes with 11 – to the relief of a whole bunch behind them on 10 strokes it has to be said,

More detailed results of the day can be found here and some more photos of the day can be found on the Tee Set Gallery as ever.

2014 Tee Set Match Play Championship

Continued good progress seen today with three results from the matchplay where David Baglivo got a hot start with his birdie on the 1st though John Suermondt shot close to handicap and it took Dave another 15 holes to finally put John away 3 and 2.

Peter Reichlmeier and Mark Bekkering contested the seconf match play with Peter prevailing on the last green after being behind for most of the game, while Bruscve Hector saw off Chazz Hassig 4 and 3 in Chazz’s first game since return from a long leave – should have got a few games in first Chzz!!

Next Week

A return after three months to former Tee Set HQ at Pangkalan Jati next week with a tee time of 11:00 and green fees of just 460,00 including cart – or just 360,000 if walking.

Well known to most Tee Setters, PJ is a decent course with attractive fees and a much wider variety of challenges than can be found on most course hereabouts.

The event will be followed by the long anticipated Presidential BBQ at Peter’s house down Kemang way – with partners very welcome of course, when you will have the chance of some decent and suitably burned meat, beers and Margaritas as well as the incomparable companionship of your fellow Tee setters.

The BBQ may also be your last opportunity to wish Peter well on his impending nuptials!

Maps on how to get to the BBQ venue will be available at PJ.

Sign up as usual to reserve your place – and let us know if you intend joining in the fun at the Presidential Barbie at the same time.

See ya’ll at PJ …… Tee Set

Some great staff at Rainbow – on and off the course. We’ll be back.