The Day

A big thumbs up from Mick for Gading Raya and the best after match Margaritas we’ve had, especially when laced with a little extra Grand Marnier…thanks Bags!

At 750,000 Rp including carts, Gading Raya represented real value and produced some excellent rounds.  While flat and reasonably forgiving of wayward drives, the rough around the greens can have players either flying chips through the green or chunking them a foot in front.

After a slow start to registrations we ended up with a healthy (well…) turnout of 36 Tee Setters.  This tested the starters who were working on an earlier booking of only 5 flights, but they managed to squeeze us in and we all finished well before the dark and the rain. Welcome for the first time to Lars and welcome back after a few years to Peter (182 weeks) and Chris (158 weeks).

The Play

A very healthy harvest of 8 skirts boosted the coffers early, Mike choosing both skirt and wig, joined by a few familiar faces…although Malty uncharacteristically is out of shot at the back. In his first week on official duties, Mel became the Vice President of Most Photos, featured here and below….

Yep, Mel also picked up First Par for Over 30 handicap and won Low Net C Grade with one of his best Tee Set rounds of 63…although on review a handicap of 43 may have helped…back to Committee to check the maximum handicap rules. Neil had back to back Low Net A grade wins with 67 and Mark again put on a fine display of golf to win Low Gross with 78, which could have been much lower after a 35 on the front nine.  The round of the day though was from Glenn with a blistering 60…great effort!

Former President and Bandung Bash El Supremo Geoff won Low Putts with 25, helped no doubt by his choice of caddy…excellent green reader.  Bill fought off the front nine demons….and topped up his blood stream…for a most improved back nine. Chris Till and Chris Burley won their money back with first birdie and sandy par.

Mick pictured above had 10 strokes to take the honesty award for Most Strokes and Chris Till was Monster Putter with 41, but we stuffed up and made Stuart and Bill keep him company…well we had 3 monkey masks so why not for the photo….refunds due next time we see you Stuart and Bill!

Next Up – Dogs versus Tee Set –  Charity Team Event for HOGS, Modern Golf Club, 11.30am

Just in case you haven’t had enough fun for the year, we decided to get together with our friends at DOGS  on Sunday to play the inaugural DOGS versus Tee Set Charity Team Event for HOGS.

It will be a Ryder Cup style event – four ball match play.  2 Tee Setters versus 2 DOGS (or HOGS to make up numbers) in each match. Opposing captains will nominate teams in a Ryder Cup style draw ceremony before the start of play.

Four ball is NOT alternate shot – that is Foursomes.

In a four ball match, handicaps are adjusted to 3/4 of the difference between your normal handicap and that of the lowest handicap player in the four ball.  The lowest handicap player gets no strokes and everyone else gets strokes on the hardest holes up to their adjusted four ball handicap.

For example, the four ball has John (8), Barbora (9), Mark (13) and Craig (18)….the adjusted handicaps will have John getting no strokes, Barbora (1), Mark (4) and Craig (8)…noting that handicaps are rounded up or down to the nearest whole number and up to the higher number if 0.5 (in the example above Craig has 3/4 of the difference of 10 strokes from John, so 10 x 3/4 = 7.5 which is rounded up to 8).

On each hole, a pair counts the best net score of the two players.  The pair with the lowest net score wins the hole. The pair which wins the most holes wins the match.  If pairs are “all square” then that is how the result will be recorded – there is no need for a putt off. At the end of the day, we will count up the matches and the group with the most matches will be awarded the perpetual trophy.

At the same time as playing match play, each pair will record on their score card their best ball (net score) on each hole based on their normal handicap.  At the end of the day, pairs will submit their score card with their total best ball score for 18 holes. Prizes will be awarded to the three pairs who have the Lowest Net Best Ball scores.

So if we don’t have even numbers with DOGS, then remaining pairs will play against each other for bragging rights and will still be eligible for prizes.

We know it’s a recipe for mass confusion…but team events are always great fun…and there should be enough golfers out there among you who can work it out!

Register here as usual and if you would like to nominate a playing partner for your pair, please indicate that in the comments field.  Ideally pairs should be within 8 strokes handicap of each other.