The Day

As trailered, 52 Tee Setters including a healthy turn out of ladies once again, were to get away a little early at Riverside in glorious weather – and in a mini-shotgun formation from holes 1-6, a great initiative by the club to get us around in good time.

The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft awry of course and with just the lead flights home we were to “enjoy” a lightning show of impressive proportions, a show that was to bring about a temporary stop to proceedings for the others.

Having been severely beaten up by a very challenging course, and with only a hole or two to play, most turned that temporary stop into a permanent one and withdrew to the Riverside’s attractive lounge for some comforting food and beverage. A few subsequently went out to complete their rounds while the rest were rewarded for their sloth by having their missing holes filled in with a bogey or double bogey depending upon handicap.

In the absence of both the Singing President and the VP of Nearly Everything, VP for Lady Enlargement, Mel Cantarella was in charge while Brenda did everything as usual.

As a thank you for our big turnout today, the club gave us 4 vouchers for free midweek green fees. The Web Guy decided that the winners of these would be chosen by a simple draw of names from the hat and, in a clear fix, saw Mel pull his name out of the hat to win two of them for himself, with the other two going to Maya Till.

A healthy 6 Newcomers to report today so, welcome to Tee Set all, enjoy your golf with us and, if you haven’t already got yourself one, please purchase a Tee Set shirt next time out, we really expect you to have a Tee Set shirt.

Despite the size of the field, the longest Welcome Back was a rather unimpressive 17 weeks by Rick Zanker – and with only Rick and Sudhir in double figures.

The Course the Shark built is arguably the toughest challenge of all in the Jakarta area with its length being just one of its daunting “attractions”, most players having to use fairway woods for their second shots in to tricky undulating greens (another “attraction”) on the par 4s – and usually coming up short 😦

With just four players out of the entire field of 52 Tee Setters achieving net par or better there appears to be a strong case for the whole field playing off white tees at Riverside. Doubtless your indefatigable committee will consider this next time and perhaps give us all a break 🙂

We have been steadily reducing our exposure to courses on the Jags Tol, with the appalling traffic to be found there on a Sunday afternoon and evening being the reason and not the quality of the courses. Caused by returning Puncak weekend visitors, the journey home is perfectly capable of turning a great day into a bad one, however, today was relatively benign with the journey back to South Jakarta of 45 minutes being the norm for once. Riverside is of course relatively blessed, with entry onto the Jags Tol being after the notorious Cimanggis Gate where it is possible to spend an hour to spend a dollar.

The Play

With Stuart Wigley taking Low Gross with 81 off  the stick, Santi got Low Net A-Grade with a 72 while Andrew Waite and Cucu took the money for B and C grade respectively.

On greens as tough as anywhere, Jaco Zaayman’s 28 blows with the flat blade to take Low Putts was we suspect the equivalent of 24/25 putts almost anywhere else.

The distance between Riverside’s blue and red tees are rather less heroic than those of Cengkarang and the skirt count was therefore to drop sharply from last week’s monstrous all time record of 17 to a mere 4 this time out, much to the disappointment of the absent Treasurer one imagines.

Well done to Newcomer Andrew McKelvie for losing his Monkey virginity with a 47 that was to only just beat the field. Best to get that particular Monkey off your back ASAP Andrew!!

An outstanding but far from record 14 strokes on a hole was to leave Chris Till minus 50,000 roops in his pocket but he was to take some consolation in wife Maya winning a couple of the free Riverside green fee vouchers!

More detailed, player by player results here while lots more photos of a fine day can be found on the Tee Set gallery as ever.

Tee Set Matchplay

Just one result from the matchplay today with Santi Miller playing well, including a remarkable 38 on the front 9, in overcoming an out-of-sorts Axel by 5 and 4.

Tee Set membership cards

Those who live in a smartphone centric world have been confounded by their inability to register for a membership card while those for whom a PC or laptop is a feature of life were to have no such issue.

To get things on the road we have therefore added everyone who has played 2 or more rounds since the Championship to the membership card list, a list which you will see attached here. If you want to see your name as displayed on the card to be other than that as presented on that list then you will have to let us know immediately if you have not done so already.

Next up

With the Interleague team away doing battle at Jagorawi we also offer the alternative of the always popular Senayan in the city centre next Sunday when green fees will be a remarkable 495,000 roops walking. and this on a course as friendly to that activity as any to be found in these parts, or another 250,000 if you want the comfort of a cart. 12:30 start from 1 & 10 with participation limited to a maximum of 48 Tee Setters – so get registered early is the message on this one, you can register for Jags or Senayan as appropriate here.

Green fees at Jags including shared cart are 1,050,00 roops with a 9:30 shotgun start. Captain Ric will be in touch with those selected.

Sampai Minggu!! ….. Tee Set