The Day

In spite of the disgustingly early start called for, we had in attendance today and indeed playing, all of the current Tee Set President, Vice President, one future President and Vice President, two former Presidents and one former Vice President. Also present were three ex-Tee Set Champions and three ex-Match Play Champions.

In total we had a record 98 players managing to obey Tee Set Rule #1 in teeing off unassisted at the moment of the shot-gun start at 07:15. Well done to all, you won’t have to get up so early on a Sunday for another year!

I bet I have more Hot-Hed umbrellas than you!

Pleased to report that administratively the whole day went smoothly, with the investment in getting all the goody bags ready the previous day in particular leading to an early morning air of calm that has not been a characteristic of previous Championships.

The weather was fabulous, the course was in great shape and the Matoa staff looked after us extremely well. A very fitting swan song to the 2013/14 season.

After the golf was all done and dusted there was a tremendous spread of food put on by the Matoa F&B staff  augmented with fresh yabbies from Tucker Box, sausage rolls from Cecilia’s Café and mini pies from Santi’s Premium Pies. Nobody went home hungry.

The Kilkenny barrel from Murphy’s was consumed in record time and then we were into Mixologist Jamail’s famous frozen Margaritas whipped up on the brand new Tee Set heavy-duty blender asset while there were enough refreshments in the esky boxes to sink an Italian cruise liner – a non-golf playing visitor from outer space would have been intrigued to witness the pouring of players into their cars at the end of the day. Nobody went home thirsty.

We were to use our full allotment of 25 flights off 13 tee boxes for the shot gun start. That it all took slightly longer then the normal round of around 4 hours was obviously due to the numerous distractions to be found around the course such as Jack Calcote’s notorious smoothies, the vodka orange hole, eskies full of beer, hot dogs and pies. If anybody noticed the slower than usual round then, for sure, nobody cared.

A warm Tee Set Welcome to Andie Djohor, Dick Slaney and Mark Potter but, guys, please don’t imagine it is like this every week!

Andie was responsible for the excellent new Championship shirts, banners, trophies and much else besides. Good job, Andie.

Dick is known to most and is of course the much appreciated main sponsor of our Monthly Medal events while Mark is son of that Jakarta legend, Keith Potter. Welcome all!!!

Despite Tee Set playing some of the best courses around Jakarta there are still permanent residents who find it difficult to find the time to play a regular round. Tim Supple 122 weeks, Bob Shearer 114 weeks, Sam Thwaites 105 weeks. Come on guys let’s not let those clubs go rusty in the garage between rounds.

Not dissimilar to the Bali Classic, our season-ending event pulls in Tee Setters now living outside Indonesia with Secretary Stealer Mike Taylor flying in all the way from Houston, Mel Cantarella from Melbourne and George “Pulpy” Bevege from Manila, just for the event.

Mel took 8 hours to fly in from Melbourne and 4 hours to go by taxi to his hotel. Welcome back to Jakarta, Mel 🙂

The Tee Set Championship has acquired a few traditions as the years have rolled by and one of them is the appearance of the Band from Bandung and, of course, some of our number joining them for our entertainment. Thanks once again to Geoff Thwaites for getting them down from Bandung.

This year saw the inevitable and hugely appreciated reggae from our Gold Sponsor Billy Lloyd, some classic Rolling Stones from “Malty” Suermondt, C&W and other from Mike Taylor and of course some quality crooning from our President to be at that time, the inimitable Craig Ewers.

Well done to them all and any others we have failed to mention, there were many who got up there; Tee Set has Talent!

In spite of the legendary quantities of alcohol of all varieties consumed on the course there was still some excellent play with not a lot separating the A and B gross winner with Pulpy George hitting 79 in the A grade and Jan Janda not so far behind with 85 in B.

KK also not far further back with 92 in the C grade while Matt Fairey received his new Ping driver the same day as the event and used it to good effect in smashing his ball 265m for longest drive. A pretty good advertisement for the driver you might say. Nenden out-drove many of the guys with her 200m effort to take Longest Drive – Ladies .

Many will have noticed the pervasive photographer (345 photos on the day) and took his presence in good part, however, Neil Mullins wasn’t so keen on having his identity revealed.

As you will see in the photo opposite Neil was not particularly successful in his attempts to hide his identity from whoever it is that he is trying to hide it from 🙂

Another popular feature of the day is of course the Lucky Draw, with every players name going into the hat for some splendid prizes courtesy of our many sponsors. There were so many this year that we put them into bundles so that we could all get away before dark.

Closing out the presentations the outgoing President of Some Things confirmed the new President and Vice President for 2015. Craig Ewers will be in charge for next year ably assisted by Simon Reynolds. We wish them every success in their roles and expect them to take Tee Set to new heights of golfing enjoyment in the coming year!

Outstanding Contributions

Tee Set events generally run with few SNAFUs and of course this doesn’t happen by random chance and a little pocket pissing wouldn’t go astray here so, let’s thank the committee of Peter, Ric and Keith for their efforts during the year.

Ric is of course  the living, beating heart of Tee Set Golf and is not pithily known as the Immediate Past President of Almost Everything for nothing.

Keith’s tireless work on the web site and the database provides a wealth of information, a sense of community, and is a genuine magnet for new members.

The Match Play competition ran smoothly and ahead of schedule thanks to the efforts of Fernando Gaggino.

Having a pre-defined 6 month schedule has proved its worth and that’s down to Wina Nugraha’s hard work in creating the schedule and advance booking the courses.

Where’s Brenda? becomes a repeated cry on the rare occasions our secretary is not present on any given Sunday, so we are very thankful to have had her around for the great majority of events this year – and not least at Matoa where she did an excellent job inputting 98 score cards to determine the correct winners in a timely manner.

Many thanks to all those many others who chipped in with their help during the year. It all goes towards making Tee Set the best-loved golfing group in Jakarta.

The Prize winners

2014 Tee Set Champion Jaco Zaayman getting his just rewards

Ladies Long Drive winner, Nenden

And our new Tee Set Champion is of course Jaco Zaayman who shot a massive 10 under his handicap of 36 to win the gold ribbon award. Well done him, just reward for a year of significant progress in his game from very low levels!

Matchplay winner, David Baglivo

The usual more detailed, player by player results, can be found here while we hope to have uploaded the massive 345 photos of the day taken by our photographer during the day to the Tee Set gallery only by the end of the week – they will take some time to upload given that each of the photos are more than 5 megabytes.

And so it’s goodbye from them ….

The demographics of Tee Set means that apart from what might be called the hard-core, people tend to come and go within 2-4 years. This means that today was the last supper for both George “Pulpy” Bevege and Greg Fields who are both headed for pastures new in the Philippines and Aussie/Dubai respectively, and we wish them well as they leave as “Members in Good Standing“.

Enjoy your golf guys and do let us have a contribution to “News from afar” when you have had a decent period of settling in you new locations; many promise a contribution but distance seems to have an effect on the memory and the will!

Next Up

Pondok Cabe has the poisoned chalice of following the Championship but it will be a lot of fun so sign up here as usual for what should be another fine Tee Set Sunday. Green fees are a very modest 400,000 including buggy, or 75,000 less if you fancy using Shank’s pony – 11am tee off from 1 & 10 – and don’t be late as we sometimes get away early.

See ya at PC!!! …. Tee Set

PS if you were unfortunate enough to miss the big day then don’t despair, you can still get the new, very high quality Tee Set Championship shirt for a song at 300,000 – and with the Tee Set Championship hat, the official Tee Set golf towel and a pair of Tee Set socks thrown in for good measure.

Don’t know how we do it – drop Ric a line if you wish to be properly dressed for Tee Set in future.

PPS we have already had our first order for the shirt bundle – from Bill Seyers in Canada 🙂