The Day

Tee Set numbers continue to grow, with 61 (9 ladies) enjoying a great day at Imperial, the home of the Monthly Medal.  We were blessed with fine weather until the heavens opened on the last two flights.

Welcome to David for his first round and welcome back to Aditya after 65 weeks, Erik after 35 weeks, Ed after 26 and Marco after 26 weeks.

The Play

There were plenty of reasons to play well at Imperial – the monthly medal, the first round of the third eclectic cycle, two free tickets to UB40 (which I forgot to award – speak to you later Andrew!) – and there was plenty of fine golf mixed in with some shockers of course!

This month was a landmark in that the previous Monthly Medal Shield covering three year’s of winners was full and Geoff and Kojo were kind enough to sponsor a new one.  Take away medals were also made and awarded for the first time.  The winner this month was Andrew Waite with 42 points.

Andrew, a promising junior golfing in his childhood and blessed with a full Monty-esque swing and a very handy short game, recently returned to golf to fill his time in Jakarta and has been steadily improving.

Daniel continued his fine form, coming directly from soccer to golf, and topped the tables in a number of categories (Low Gross, First Birdie, Low Putts), but was awarded the prestigious Low Net A Grade with a net 66 (80 gross).  Simon therefore won the Low Gross with 81.

With Andrew taking the medal, Craig was rewarded for his solid round to win Low Net B Grade and Bas was again in the prizes with Low Net C Grade.

Mark Johnson and Mike Sperry joined Daniel as having Lowest Putts and made a fine pair in this photo, while a mixed bag of renogades shared the other skill prizes – Pascal for first par over 30 handicap, Neil with first birdie (and celebrating his 100th tee set round since record keeping commenced in 2012), Aditya for first sandy and Malty and Stuart sharing Most Improved after sluggish starts and blistering finishes. Ricardo left early so missed out on recouping his fine money, but is featured gloriously below.

Others who have passed 100 rounds since 2012 are Ric (138), Geoff (124), Graham “Grumpy” (120), Wina (119) and Mel Meeds (112)…with others close to the milestone. Special bag medallions will be issued to 100 round veterans over the next few weeks.

And now for the fun stuff….. plenty of skirts, 9 in all, with Ricardo doing the honourable thing and getting his photo taken before heading off early.

Mike was the best sport of the day, sharing Most Strokes with James and reuniting with his little buddy to take Monster Putter with 47 strokes….it gets better Mike!

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

2016 Tee Set Matchplay Championship

A fairly chaotic but ultimately effective draw took place and the following first round matches were scheduled as the initial non-elimination round.  Matchplay El Supremo James will be in touch and will stay in touch via the Matchplay page on the website

Tee Set Eclectic – Winner of Second Cycle

The trophy for the Tee Set eclectic has been nicknamed “the coffin” and Vice President of Almost Everything again went above and beyond the call of duty in transporting it to Imperial.

It had been given pride of place by first winner Jan since the Championships and will be updated with successive winners during the year, who will be awarded prizes at the Championships in November.

For now, it had to be at least symbolically awarded to the Second Cycle Winner, El Guapo Fernando Gaggino, who won narrowly from Pastis Pascal and Pieter (Dont call me Pete) Nielen-Groen.  Pascal was still not quite ready to accept the result.

The next cycle will be played over the next 5 months.

Next Up

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