The Day

A great run to the course and a surprisingly quick run back, contrary to the estimations on Maps of a 2 hour return.  All and all a great day.  The course is improving as it becomes more established and the facilities continue to be improved. Sure, it’s tough, but so were the players today, and all enjoyed the challenge.

A very different mix of Tee Setters fronted up this week but soon got to know each other, thanks to the course’s initiative of pairing players as they came in, relieving us of that task.  Welcome back to John after 81 weeks and Mark after 19 and welcome to a range of newcomers. Good to see some overlap with our friends from the DOGS – note that we need 5 cards (from any course) to process a Tee Set handicap for you.

Great service, great course, no complaints, reasonable traffic….happy with that.

The Play

The tough course meant that there were no sub-par rounds but there were still plenty of birdies, the first coming from Mo on the first hole.  Mo had to leave early, so Mark was awarded the prize for his birdie on the 2nd.  Anlo and Wang had sandy pars on their first hole as played, we had lost Wang by presentations.  Most Improved was actually awarded to Cucu (not listed here) with 8 strokes as the other “front nine failures” won other prizes.  Cucu’s round was a fine example of perseverance as she battled through a number of tough holes, given confidence of course by playing partner Tom (seen in skirt below), whose own struggle was giving Cucu hope.

Leona and Matt had mixed days – Monster Putter and Low Putts respectively – but then Leona had the First Par Over 30 and Matt had his customary skirt.  It was Matt’s first game back after 11 weeks and it was just as well he had only 26 putts.  This helped keep his score to a respectable 132…a number thanked you Matt for cheering them up after tough rounds themselves.

James stayed in the presentation circle, not for winning, but the blow out award of Most Strokes with a very honest count of 14……not for the first time…. And a rich harvest of skirts as expected, pictured here…what a string (is that the collective noun for skirts?)….

The big winners of the day were Rasmus (Low Net A with 72) – about time after narrowly missing prizes on past weeks – and also the lowest gross round of the day, but that was shared with Marcelo on 81 strokes, and net trumps gross at Tee Set, so Mars was awarded Low Gross.  Chris came in with a blistering 42 to win Low Net B grade with 73 net and Renny had hubby Mike offering to caddy for her on the LPGA after shooting a great net 72.

Big thanks to Keith for standing in for Brenda on scoring, Santi on photos and Cucu on collecting registrations.

Next Up

We are back to Monthly Medal again at Imperial and the 3rd round of the Second Tee Set Eclectic, so sign up here.

Unfortunate news from Gading Raya, a Tee Set favourite, they wont budge from 1.2m green fee, which is a bit steep for Tee Set.  Bogor Raya have offered 1m including dinner and we have great standing offers from our usual suspects.  Interested in comments and will decide later in the week.

Club Championships are now almost 1 month away 29 November at Matoa.  Invitations will come out soon but save the date.  It follows the day after the St.Andrew’s Ball so those Bloody Mary’s will be even more welcome than normal!