Always a popular course, and with 35 Tee Setters already registered for play on Sunday. Pondok Cabe is a better course in many respects than it is generally given credit for.

With decent greens (though with a couple of exceptions, not too much borrow), well-kept and mostly generous fairways, the cheapest beer on the Jakarta circuit with the possible exception of Pangkalan Jati and really very decent food, it is a permanent fixture in the Tee Set calendar.

Their cart tracks are just about finished now and given the wet state of the ground at the moment they may even enforce their use this Sunday; or maybe not – and of course Pondok Cabe caddies who carry a handbag to work every morning are notoriously thin on the ground.

Green fees of a wallet-lite 500,000 roops including shared cart – and we think the walking option is possible for around 80,000 less. Tee off from 1 and 10 at 11am so you will have to get out of bed a little earlier on a Sunday than of late. Register here if you haven’t done so already and join in the fun.

Regrettably, it is not too often that we get updates to “News from afar” however Dave Tarcy’s move from the warmth of the Aussie summer to the bitter cold of Northern Europe now features there – though no golf as it will be a month or two before they get the snow off the courses.

As you may have noticed, your Committee came out of a deep Winter slumber a week or so back to announce that players over 65 and Handicap Group C players (essentially those with a Handicap of 26 or over) may elect to play off white tees in future (and receive a slightly lower handicap as the quid pro quo). We will be sending those affected an e-mail shortly offering them the choice to so elect (it is NOT compulsory), an election choice that may be made at any time but once made it is irreversible.

See ya at Pondok Cabe!! … Tee Set