An early Xmas present for Tee Setters this week in the shape of Tee Set Sunday at the splendid Imperial Golf Klub with a K out at Lippo Karawaci on the Merak Tol – a relative hop, skip and a jump these days from South Jakarta with the completion of the Western side of the Outer Ring Road (JORR).

Last time out at Imperial in October in the days before Jaco and his new swing coach won Low Net every week, someone who was to become the Singing President took the Blue Ribbon with a net 65 while our new, non-singing vice-President took Low Gross with a 79 off the stick. Coincidence? .. we don’t think so.

Out of respect for the Yuletide spirit, we will providing a Santa hat to the first 30 Tee Setters to show their face at the Klub on the day. Please note that failure to wear your hat at any time during the round wins you an automatic two-shot penalty and probably a fine. Small reward for “snitches” 🙂

The Former President of Almost Everything is out-of country but his spirit lingers on as his parting shot was a stern reminder for everyone to return their hats to Brenda at the end of the day; he said we’re not made of money and can use them again next year. That’s why he is the Treasurer we guess.

Tee off from 1 & 10 will be at the engagingly precise 11:47 after having paid your green fees etc of 675,000 including cart, for the refreshingly easy on the dompet sum of 675,000 roops, and of course partaken of a hearty breakfast.

If you haven’t done so already then sign up here as usual for what promises to be a great day on a great course. Ho, ho, ho.

Prizes

A search of the Tee Set Towers attic the other day revealed a file with the label, “Prizes”. Covered in a good half an inch of dust, the dust itself and indeed the contents of the file reminded us that we had changed exactly nothing on the prize list since the radical introduction of Most Improved back in 1873.

To prove we are a dynamic, radical, change oriented bunch on the committee, we have decided to change the prize structure just a tad, bringing in additional Low Net prizes every week for each of Grade A, B and C players. This will cost us an extra 300,000 roops a week but, in view of the bigger fields we have these days, we were eventually able to convince the invariably tight-fisted Treasurer that it was a fair thing. Took a while.

To give you a better idea of what we mean, this is how things would have looked if we had implemented  the thing a week earlier, at PJ.

Under the new scheme, the Grumpy Pirate, Norman Bunter and Steve Hulbert would all have been awarded prizes for Low Net instead of just Jaco. Bad luck, you three 🙂

What’s a Grade? … excellent question, thank you for asking. You may not have known it but each Tee Setter is put into one of three “Grades” A, B and C roughly according to where their home course handicap (Matoa for these purposes) falls in the following ranges:

We have to say that the Grades are pretty rough, at least at the margins, and, having much better things to do with our time, we have absolutely no intention of keeping them up-to-date every week so don’t bother complaining if you are a 16 handicap at a difficult course this week and argue that should be in B and not A – as we will ignore you.

If however you think that your Grade is significantly out of whack, then let a member of the Committee know and it will be sorted. In future (well, when the Web Guy gets around to changing the report anyway) your Grade will be on the confirmation e-mail we send out to registered players each Saturday morning

Please note that on the matter of Grades and even more so, Handicaps, you really must not bring up any related issues with the Secretary, it is NOT her job or within her knowledge set, and most certainly not what we pay her for; you must talk to a committee member.

Failure to observe this requirement results in one of those automatic 2-shot penalty things and very likely a row from the FPoAE. We have a golden asset in our secretary who does it more for the love than the money and would most certainly not wish to lose her as a result of being upset by lack of civility and/or ignorance of her limited responsibilities.

You may have noted that the table only indicates an upper limit of 36 and this is for the very good reason that the new brooms have decided it will be so – ie the maximum handicap, for both men and ladies, will in future be restricted to 36.

Anyway we are about fun and not rules, even though they are a necessary evil, so let’s just do it – and see ya at Imperial!!! ….. Tee Set

Looking forward to it???