The Day

Dreary skies and early morning rain put off some, but a pretty healthy 36 Tee Setters took advantage of the fine weather that had arrived by 10 o’clock – when a quiet course meant that 5 groups were already away by 11:00 against an advertised starting time of 11:30.  The Starter got a deserved tip – and that is something that hasn’t happened too often recently.

A couple of minor short-lived rain periods as the round wore on did nothing to slow down anyone, far less stop them, though it was to get heavier and more troublesome for the groups out late on their last hole or two. Overall most of the round played in overcast and cool conditions, thereby approximating to a fine English Summer’s day 🙂

A small hardcore went to on to the Web Guy’s man cave for coffee and hot pies in order to discuss Tee Set past and future and solve a large number of the world’s current issues besides.

Proof, if proof be needed, of the coffee drinking nature of the gathering here as Laurie O’Threeput downs a cappuccino around 11pm.

Most issues were resolved amicably however nobody took notes and all the solutions are therefore, and regrettably, consigned to the dustbin of history 😦

The Play

Biggest highlight perhaps was Billy Lloyd being lucky not to be disqualified by the committee for shooting 9 under his handicap to win Low Net – B Grade with a 63! … what is even more surprising is that he would allow himself to shoot such a score two weeks before the Championship!

It is clear that Bill has failed to take on the important concept of handicap retention – and we are pleased to confirm that Bill’s card has already been uploaded for serious handicap adjustment 🙂

Ken Runyon and Stuart Wigley competed for excellence at the top of A-Grade with Ken taking Low Net with a 69 while Stuart shot the same 78 as Ken off the stick to take Low Gross instead.

Low Net winners were completed by John Suermondt in C-Grade, a man who has the happy knack of generally shooting at or close to his large handicap!

For the first time in a very long time we had just one Skirt to award at Matoa, traditionally not a course where the Treasure gathers in too much in the way of Skirt fines so well done to Steven Pattis who had the privilege of getting to wear our full suite of Skirt paraphernalia all on his own.

As you will see opposite, Matoa does not feature in the all-time Top 20 skirt league table. Interestingly however ALL 5 of the top 5 Skirt revenue generating events took place in 2016!

Monster Putter was not “awarded” this week by Vice-Presidential decree. Some whisperings about KKN but we were reminded by former president Geoff Thwaite’s wise dictum of some years back that “Tee Set is not a democracy.”

Fuller details of rounds by player can be found here.

More photos of the day on the Tee Set Gallery.

2016 Tee Set Matchplay Championship

Sunday at Matoa also saw Wina living up to her nickname of “just in time” by arriving for her Match Play final against James Ross with just 10 minutes to spare before official tee time!!

There was murmurings that this was a bit of gamesmanship to unsettle a James Ross seen to be sweating rather more than usual; nerves perhaps? Nevertheless the ploy backfired as Wini’s putting prowess deserted her and as a result was down 5 holes at the turn.

Hard to come back from such a deficit of course and the game was decided on the 15^th with a win to James 4 and 3. Congratulations to James on becoming Tee Set Matchplay Champion 2016 and to Wina for reaching the final for the first time.

James enjoyed running the competition so much that he’s volunteered to run it again next year. Well done James – and many thanks for a job well done and we all look forward to some fiercely contested match play rounds next year, with Wina already seen practicing to go one better in 2017.

Tee Set Championship

All looking good for the 27th at Matoa with preparations for everything well advanced. The overall format will be the same as in recent years and the schedule approximately as follows:

05:30 check-in starts

05:30 voting for officials starts

05:45 breakfast available

06:30 voting ends

06:45 event photos and drone video

07:00 shotgun start from 13 holes

12:30 lunch is served and the band begins to play

14:30 door prizes

14:45 championship and 2016/2017 season prize awards

15:25 announcement of elected officials for the 2016/17 season

15:30 the band begins to play, again

??:?? go home

The player list for the Championship is long closed, however, we do have a waiting list if you want to go on it and take your chances, drop us an e-mail if so.

Election of officials

An important issue to be resolved at the Championship is of course the election of officials, ie President and Vice-Presidents, for the 2016/2017 Season. Should you wish to nominate a President or a Vice-President (up to 3) then that is not more difficult than e-mailing us your nomination(s).

It is important to make sure that your nomination(s) are ok with the nominee beforehand.

Next up

End of Interleague Season bash at Jags next Sunday with Tee Set playing their last match of the season against Pocksia. Everyone else is welcome to join what should be a great day with a BBQ and 2 barrels of Heineken thrown in at the end.

Tee off is at a rain beating 09:30 for the Interleague team and closely followed by the rest of us. ALL participating players to register here as usual please. Longest drive (men’s & ladies) and nearest to the pin awards are open to all.

1,100,00 roops including shared cart plus Rp150K registration to cover the bbq, beer and awards.

See yah for the fun at Jags! ….. Tee Set