The day

With the Interleague team and some supporters away at Jags, just 22 Tee Setters were to be blessed with clear blue skies and searing  heat once again, this time at Pondok Cabe. Around half of those Tee Setters were to arrive within 15 minutes or less of the advertised tee time and a few even after it. With the Starter getting us away 10 minutes early this generated intense confusion as we tried haplessly to assemble complete flights where there weren’t any. As ever it all sorted itself out, however, it made for more excitement than is welcome – PLEASE  try to get to our venue at least 30 minutes before  the scheduled tee time.

A couple of Newcomers to report in Matt Otto and Michael Montgomery and Matt Otto; welcome guys and enjoy your golf with Tee Set.

Leading the Welcome Backs by a long, long way at 125 weeks was Axel Hertzke who was to protest that he had never played with us before – until he finally remembered getting a free shirt at the Tee Set Championship at Matoa in 2012!

That searing heat was thankfully only to last a few holes as we got rescued by cloud cover and, with few holes to go, thunder and lightning was to set in though far enough away for play to continue though a few were to drop out – while the 2 final groups were to get one over their heads on the 18th before scampering for the safety of the cold and low conductivity Bintang in the clubhouse. It is a scientifically proven fact that you will never be struck by lightning while you have a cold Bintang in your hand. Bear in mind.

The play

Outstanding performance from 30-handicapper Jan Jelinek with a 52-39-91 and a net 63 to take Low Net for Grade C players – and Harold Hayne too full advantage of the white tees, as is his right, to come in with a net 69 to take the Grade B honours while Sofree’s rather more sedate net 74 was good enough to take Grade A.

We don’t see too many eagles at Tee Set but Matt Kaempf brought one home today in a day of mixed fortunes for him while our Newcomers were to make an impression on the scoreboard with Jochen Sautter’s 26 blows with the flat blade winning him Low Putts – and a birdie on his sixth hole as played allowing Michael Montgomery to take home a red one. Won’t happen every week guys!

Can’t remember the last time it happened but there were NO SKIRTS to report this week and, to add to the Treasurers woes, Chris Till, who hadn’t put in his card having abandoned play due to the lightning, owned up to 12 strokes on a hole to let four others on 10 strokes off the Most Strokes “award” – while high putts on the day were below the 40 mark which meant that Matt Kaempf, on a very mixed day for him, was to keep the blue one in his pocket.

Interleague

Our non-playing captain and Former President of Nearly Everything reports a fine 8-2 win over POCKSIA to leave our heroes firmly at the top of the Interleague with three wins from 3 matches – and having dropped a scant 4 points in the process. Full details to follow on Thursday.

While chicken counting can be saved for another day, having beaten the favourites and a couple of the stronger teams, Tee Set are now well placed to take the Interleague Championship this year for the first time ever.

Next up

With an 11:48 start, the light shouldn’t be this bad as we finish ……

Yep, the Tee Set Monthly Medal is back in its rightful slot on the last Sunday of the month, 26th April, at Imperial Golf Klub with a K. We will have all the usual prizes plus a Slaneys voucher for 500,000 roops and 6 of Santi’s finest pies – together with the long absent Nearest to the Pin and Long Drive awards. Should we foul up the latter again this month then every Tee Setter gets a beer on the house.

Attractively priced green fees of just 750,000 roops for this top drawer course – including shared cart – and an 11:48 start from 1 & 10.

The Monthly Medal is not the round to be missed unless you are under the doctor, so sign up here to join the fun.

See ya at Imperial!