The day

The combination of Interleague and Tee Set at Jagorawi proved to be too much for many Tee Setters as they opted for a week off.  Those that came either joined Interleague teams or played Tee Set and were to be rewarded with a glorious rain free day and mostly played top golf on the New Course.

Without the normal cash reserves raised on the day due to Tee Set fees being waived and Inteleague fees paid on behalf of everyone, Brenda, presumably on the instructions of our tight fisted Treasurer, informed all and sundry that Tee Set prizes would not be awarded for the day – and bragging rights alone were what you got.  This restricted the Singing President who doesn’t Sing Anymore’s post match duties to buying beer.

Newcomer Kristian

One Newcomer to welcome in the shape of Kristian Toivio, enjoy your golf with us Kristian –  and just two Welcome backs in Tettie who we hadn’t seen for 11 weeks and Jess who has been playing traunt for an unprecedentedly long nearly two months.

At last year’s Interleague Prize giving and BBQ the Former President of Almost Everything (more pedantically, he was actually the Immediate Past President at that time) issued a warning, with the the microphone in his hand, that the-times-they-are-a-changin’ and that Tee Set might be the team to beat in 2015. Prescient or bullshit? … read on!

2014 winners, the Cloggies poo-pooed this of course with rousing cheers of “bring it on, bring it on” to the amusement of the gathered multitude. Today was to be the day of reckoning.

Two extra flights joined the day for stroke play while Jaco joined the JLI to make up numbers in their Interleague match – and did a great job in support, just missing out on playing to his handicap. In fact the majority of players either played close to their handicaps or under. Maybe we’ve finally discovered the way to tame the intimidating layout of the Jagorawi New course. Or maybe not.

Finally, thanks to Brenda for taking over the reins when the entire committee bailed out, mostly to to follow the World Cup cricket final at Fez.

The play

Interleague

Ric getting things going

Pride of place to the Interleague team this week where our guys produced probably the finest result Tee Set has ever had in the competition – an 8-2 hammering of reigning champions, the Cloggies, and Ric’s optimism back at the Interleague prize giving proven solidly based 🙂

The Former President of Almost Everything and current Interleague team captain had a plan, and that plan was to play in-form players regardless of handicap – aided in this by the detailed statistics we keep on every round played by every Tee Setter – and with the result that the team had only two experienced Interleague players while the rest had only one round at best.

Amongst other things, those detailed statistics told Captain and Former President of Almost Everything, Ric Wymer, that he should sit this one out – and he was wisely to do so!

Happily, some plans work to perfection and this one certainly did, with the end result being that we did not lose a single match – with three wins and two all-square giving us that handsome 8 – 2 win.

Simon Reynolds got us off to a great start with his best ever Tee Set round of 73 off the stick to defeat Jagorawi member and 2 handicapper Simon Lawton, 3 and 2, a round which included 5 birdies, including 3 in a row in the last 4 holes.  Joseph d’Cruz, himself a Jagorawi member, shot a net 65 in winning win his singles 3 and 2 also.

Anlo and Divya confirmed their dream team status with yet another 3 and 2 victory, again with Anlo leading the team with another under par performance.

First time to Interleague but certainly no stranger to matchplay, Peter Bush, shot a net 70, despite 6 penalties, to help square a hard fought match after being one down with two to play and in the process ensuring that the Singing President retained his undefeated Interleague record. Bushy squared a number of holes with long putts, much to the frustration of the opposition but the Singing President chipped in (sic) with a net eagle to square the match on the 17th hole.

A remarkable number of Tee Setters playing for opposition teams as ever!!

Fellow Interleague virgins Chris Chan and Chris Lever paired together to make it easy for the opposition to remember their names, also battled it out to an all square result, with Chris Lever also playing under par.

Well done by all and with a record now of having played two and won two – and racking up 18 points for against only two conceded in the process, we head the table and have been newly installed as the bookies favourites to go on to take the Championship!

We all know what can happen to favourites of course (refrains of “bring it on, bring it on” here to remind us should it be needed) so it is essential to stay focussed and keep the momentum going – we will certainly need to do both when we come up against the prickly Pocksia. Exciting times, c’mon Tee Set!!

More detailed, player by player, results here and more photos on our photo gallery.

Next up

With many Tee Setters away at the Bandung Bash, there is Tee Set Easter Sunday for the stay-behinds at Pangkalan Jati, a day which promises to be a lot of fun – and with a special Tee Set prize for the wackiest Easter themed attire!

Tee off at 11:00  from 1 & 10 and with the opportunity to burn off some of that Easter egg chocolate if you forsake the cart and use Shank’s pony.

Please sign up here as usual if you plan on joining us.

See ya at PJ!! … Tee Set