The Day

Padang Golf Modern reinforced our decision to establish it as our Monthly Medal home for 2017 by treating our 47 Tee Setters to the usual welcome drink, on time start and a challenging course producing only 1 under-par net round on the day, and good service and food including the Fish & Chips I highly recommend.

Maybe the biggest surprise of the day was the weather, given the recent heavy rains and the deluge the night before we all kind of expected at least some rain, but on the contrary as the day progressed so did the sun, resulting in a hot summer day, which even pushed our Web Guy to retire after 9 holes to instead enjoy the spa and sauna facilities.

We had 4 Newcomers (pictured below): my good friend Des Wright making a rare return to his old hometown of Jakarta, the very nice Eric Cherrett (Matthew’s Dad) who said he greatly enjoyed his day and will come back as soon as he can, and our new U.S. Embassy friends Joe Callahan and Mike Duprez, to whom we wish a warm Tee Set welcome.

We also had a few Welcome Backs worth mentioning, lead by Rick Zanker after 38 weeks, followed by Kongkiat Chaisri after 26 weeks and Peter Bosterli after 23 weeks.

The Play

Divya Prakash Ahuja won Low Net A Grade for his net 74, since Ronald Lim who would have won it on a count-back was OB. The Singing ex-President marked his return to competition by winning Low Net B Grade with 72, showing his recent heart operation was not only successful but made him stronger than before, including for his consistent long drives I had the chance to witness all day. Mike Riley continued his good form of late by winning Low Net C Grade for his net 74.

Stuart Wigley was awarded Low Gross for his excellent 81 off the stick, even though he called it a “disappointing round”.

Chris Lever won Low Putts with 27.

Roger Finnie won First Birdie on his 1^st hole.

First Sandy Par was awarded to Joseph d’Cruz for his effort on his 10^th hole.

First Par Over 30 was not awarded this week, as Mike Riley who recorded one on his 2^nd hole had already won another prize and Pekka Kivioja who would have therefore won it was OB.

From time to time we see some quite heroic improvements in a player’s back 9 compared with their front 9 and yesterday we had Peter Bush scoring 61-38-99 for a colossal improvement of 23 strokes to win Most Improved, which I said yesterday was probably a record, which was confirmed by our Web Guy extraordinaire.

A quick check of the statistics below reveals that we indeed have a new record holder as Peter pipped the 22 strokes improvement previously recorded by Koen Verhayen and Fernando El Guapo Gaggino. Well done Bushy!!

The Most Improved prize was created many years ago as a measure of how “socially active” players had been on the Saturday night – and indeed of their powers of recovery! Not always a 100% correlation of course but it does appear Bushy had a great Saturday night – and Sunday morning perhaps?

In the Monthly Medal only awards, Kongkiat Chaisri won Longest Drive with 215 meters and Divya Prakash Ahuja won Closest to the Pin with 1.06 meter.

And the biggest prize of them all, the Monthly Medal, was awarded to our own Caddy Whisperer Geoff Thwaites for his 37 Stableford points accumulated during the only under-par net round today with his 71. For his performance Geoff will get his name engraved on our Monthly Medal Shield and received a medal and a 1,000,000 Rp voucher for Grand Slam Golf merchandise (paid in half by GSG and half by Tee Set).

Once more our Monster Putter Monkey stayed in the bag, as nobody deserved a picture with it, as everybody had a good day on the greens given the highest number of putts was a respectable 37.

Most Strokes went to James Ross for his 12 shots on a hole.

And finally Modern produced 7 skirts: pictured below Nick Thomas, Mike Riley, Keith Miller trying to hide under the wig the fact he managed to do so while only playing 9 holes, Peter Bosterli and of course President Pastis Pascal Bekaert who continued his roll for now 8 consecutive skirts, and John Suermondt and Pekka Kivioja who avoided the photo:

You can enjoy more pictures of the day here and consult the player by player results here.

Note that the pictures above were taken beside our new Monthly Medal banner that includes our new sponsor of the event Grand Slam Golf who we thank for sharing half of the costs of the banner and the winner’s voucher with Tee Set.

Other News

Tee Set Match Play competition

Yesterday our Match Play El Supremo James Ross performed the draw for the 2017 competition you can consult on our Match Play page. Players who have registered will receive an email explaining in details the competition and rules, but if you had registered and for some reason would now be unable to compete, please let us know ASAP.

Tee Set Eclectic

Yesterday’s round was also the second round of Cycle 5 of the Tee Set Eclectic, after which the leader board is as follows:

not surprisingly lead by our last two Monthly Medal winners Arthur and Geoff, last winner Jaturaporn and the diminutive Craig Edwards mounting a charge. You can find more details including all the players results on our Tee Set Eclectic page.