The Day

In the heart of Jakarta, Senayan is a short drive for many and offers a great course, limited to par 69 by its geography, but full of challenging holes and tricky greens.  It is target golf so rewards those in good form and punishes mercilessly those off their game.  Great facilities and a day free from rain interruption, despite some threatening clouds.

Fairly boggy fairways means that we will introduce the rainy season local rule of lift,clean and place from now on.  It was not in place on Sunday but people used their common sense and took relief if plugged or in casual water.

Welcome to Jim for the first time and great to see Manoj and Pekka back after extended absences.  Again we had an impressive turnout of ladies with Puteri coming back to Tee Set after 8 weeks away.

The Play

More detailed player by player results here and more photos of another great day on the Tee Set gallery here.

The scoring department was working overtime and had to call in seasoned adjudicator Ric to separate ties in a number of categories.  Where there is a tie in the net categories, there is a count back, with the best back nine result being awarded the winner. So Leona and Daniel were unlucky this week being pipped at the post by Mick and Santi in the C Grade Net and A grade Net categories.  I’m sure we will see them back in the prizes very soon.  Daniel is now well established in the A Grade and about to make the transition to white tees!

Joining Santi and Mick, was Pieter winning B Grade Net with the round of the day of 66, including two birdies.  Low Gross was a tie between Santi, Stuart and Rasmus but Stuart had first sandy par on hole 7 (pictured below) so Rasmus was deemed winner only to be declared OB.  So the honours remained shared and the Treasurer keeps the 100,000 Rp.

The Treasurer was less happy with the first birdie awards which, because of Pieter not being eligible for his birdie on hole 1, went to 3 deserving winners: Barbora, Murcho and Simon.

Malty and Bas won for the second week in a row with Low Putts and First Par Over 30 handicap, Bas again starting well.  The Singing President was very happy for the protection of the 100K Rps.  Ivan, rewarded for his comedic contribution last week, took out Most Improved with an 11 shot improvement….what a first nine it was!

And now, for the booby prizes….a large harvest of 12 skirts again returned the smile to the Treasurer.

Jaroslav was next door enjoying some great Japanese food so we had to photo him separately, and son Daniel, who is unlikely to ever qualify for a skirt, had to join in the fun.

Most Strokes was shared between Mel and Pekka and Monster Putter went to Puteri with 46 strokes.

2016 Tee Set Matchplay

30 already signed up for this year’s Matchplay but you still have a week to register if you haven’t done so already before the draw at Imperial next Sunday to decide the first round match-ups, the results of which determine whether you go on to the Gold (winners) or Bronze (Losers) bracket. And don’t worry too much if you lose your first round – plenty of past Tee Set Matchplay Champions have come from there 🙂

You might want to check that you are already registered here:

Monthly Medal Shield

Last seen at the Tee Set Championship, it’s now gone AWOL and there is a small reward for anyone providing information leading to its arrest and subsequent conviction. So if you know anything then please advise Detective Chief Superintendent Ewers, we are getting desperate 😦

Next Up

Monthly Medal at Imperial Golf Klub, 11.48 tee off, prices have not been lifted yet from 750,000 but will go up in March.  Beer prices will also go up but frozen margaritas will come down to match the price of a beer.  Register here.  Remember the UB40 tickets will be awarded to the winner!

The results of the 2nd round of the Tee Set Eclectic will be announced – don’t want to spoil the suspense but just make sure you are there, Pieter, Fernando and Pascal (not in any order).