The Day
Despite following the Tee Set Championship last Sunday, the HOGS event the previous day and indeed the promise of rain, 33 Tee Setters turned up and found themselves blessed with a course in excellent condition, an early start, fast golf and brilliant weather.
Amongst those 33 stalwarts was just one Newcomer in Ales Rozmanity and 6 Welcome Backs headed up by young Nicky Moir who is clearly not averse to getting away from the ice-cold conditions of Aberdeen to see his old mates in Jakarta.
Welcome to Tee Set Ales, enjoy your golf with us – and don’t forget to register with us here.
Tee Set scheduler, Wina “Just in Time” Nugraha, was bamboozled by that early start and was only to catch up her playing partners, Daniel and Yangjin, on the 12th – before going back to finish the 10th and 11th on her tod.
The day was rounded off by a very solid after-match turn out on the long table and the début of our Singing President, who apart from reading prizes in the wrong order, managed to survive the heckling.
Despite strong encouragement from the floor, the Singing President refused to sing, singling out (sic) the lack of a back up band. Poor excuse that.
Noticeably quiet during the closing proceedings were the Roos’ and Shenmans who it was clear had “over-celebrated” at the King’s Birthday party at the Thai Embassy the night before.
All enjoyed the early finish and light traffic, with even the usual last-to-leaves getting home before dark to be greeted by some very shocked wives.
Great day.
The Play
The course proved a fair test to all but newly crowned Club Champion, Jaco Zaayman, who showed the value of lessons and hard work with a blistering Low Net 59 (yep, 59) that will ensure the Tee Set handicapper will be on his case with some relish. Not since the great Mel Meeds record equalling round of some years ago has there been such a display of burglary.
Neil Mullins, with his new putter in play and no obvious signs of self-harm from the Championship, came through with a classy 80 to take Low Gross.
Neil was to share some glory with his playing partners, the fast improving Jason Vanderlinden, who out-putted Neil, and Martin Blobner who, for the first time ever at Tee Set, avoided a skirt at the 4th attempt – well done Martin!!
Despite very many other sub-30 efforts, Chris Lever took Low Putts with an impressively low 24 blows with the flat one, while Leona and Jan proved inseparable again, managing to share First par for >= 30 handicappers on the very same hole to ensure they doubled their usual weekly take from the category.
Ales Rozmanity celebrated joining us by securing himself a Skirt, Noemi celebrated surviving the King’s birthday bash with 44 putts, despite her new glasses, to take Monster Putter while Chris Chan and Rick Zanker triumphed against some strong competition to earn “Most Strokes” for themselves with an only moderately impressive 11 apiece.
Fuller, player by player results can be found here while more photos of the day can be found on our gallery.
Next up:
The first up to register each week is almost invariably Meeds, M; he of the ready and astringent wit, the big if occasionally wayward drive and lover of a beer, or sometimes three if his arm is twisted far enough up his back.
A very active member since 2006, Mel is almost part of the furniture at Tee Set and it is with no little sadness that we have to report that he is moving back to his beloved Sydney (?) where he will be looking after the petunias, frightening the neighbours and taking divots out of the fairways on a more regular basis than for the last 9 years.
Regular player, Interleaguer, veteran sponsor through his company, Quest, and invariably first to volunteer if we are short of someone to sort out the the flights, Mel will be missed by all, and not least by some for his often misplaced propensity for taking on a wager.
Next Sunday is Mel’s last game with us and, to make sure that he is appropriately dispatched, we are moving our next round from Palm Hill to Pangkalan Jati so that we can celebrate appropriately in his honour – and indeed shift some of those “surplus” refreshments left over from the Championship at the same time.
Tee off at PJ will be 11:00 from the usual tee boxes when green fees will be 500,000 including shared buggy with a walking option of some 100,000 less. Sign up here as usual to join in what should be a day of no little enjoyment.
See ya at PJ ….. Tee Set
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