The Day

We had another very popular day at Cengkareng, where a few last minute cancellations were to be outweighed by late registrations resulting in a healthy 56 Tee Setters playing. Even though a thunderstorm briefly halted play for our early starters and slightly delayed our late ones, once it blew over we were treated to great weather and course, as except for the temporary green on hole #6 Cengkareng managed to limit the impacts of their big redesign of holes 4 to 6.

We had only one Newcomer, Soren Pedersen from Denmark, who joined our increasing Danish contingent, from which I think I managed to convince the remaining hardcore members of their Devil’s Rejects club to join us regularly, especially since they took a liking to my pastis, and might even be able to muster a Red & White team for our Tee Set World Cup in October.

We had some serious Welcome Backs lead by Chris Cromarty and Shawn Berg, each after a massive 242 weeks – yes almost 5 years, followed by David Kettle after 103 weeks, Kristian Toivio after 102 weeks and Zeno after 88 weeks, we were all happy to see them back and hope to see again rather sooner next time!

The Play

In-form Axel Hertzke had a fantastic game with a gross 80 to win Low Net A Grade with his net 67, at the same time leaving his Inter-league Pocksia opponents helpless. Andre Tait, who told me he had a bad game, won Low Net B Grade with his net 71, leaving me to wonder what he calls a good game. While Debbie Minicola won Low Net C Grade for her 70, greatly contributing to her Inter-league victory for Pocksia.

 

 

Simon Reynolds had the game of his life to win Low Gross for his amazing 75 off the stick, even though as you will see below he still managed to get a skirt – though still managed to par the hole!

 

 

 

 

 

Mike Harling negotiated the Cengkareng greens admirably to win Low Putts with only 25.

 

 

 

 

 

The returning Chris Cromarty won First Birdie on very his 1^st hole.

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Sandy Par was awarded to Craig Binks for his effort on his 1^st hole.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now regular winner Lis Wymer won First Par Over 30 on her 12^th hole.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to the one prize rule, Newcomer Soren Pedersen was awarded Most Improved for shaving 10 shots on his back nine, even though Lis Wymer had managed to shave 12 off hers.

 

 

 

 

Thanks to the one booby prize rule, Most Strokes was not awarded this week since all 3 who tied for it with 12 shots on a hole, Jan Gramm on his first hole he followed by a birdie, President Pastis Pascal Bekaert on his last hole ruining what had been a good game for him until then, and Dirk Kruip who had a bad game today, all also recorded skirts.

Our Tee Set Monkey who had been on vacation lately finally came out the bag, and for no less than a surprising winner in  our own Santi “Mrs. Pie” Miller, who won the less coveted Monster Putter for her 42 blows with flatstick. Santi was baffled at so many putts  especially when the rest of her game was obviously on fire – shooting 44 with 22 putts on hee front 9, and happily still managed to win her Inter-league match!

As usual, Cengkareng produced a hefty 13 skirts for: Andre Tait, Craig Ewers, Dirk Kruip, Jan Gramm, John Suermondt, Jon Pipe, Kongkiat Chaisri, Michael Seabrook, Pascal Bekaert, Ronald Lim, Simon Reynolds, Steven Pettis and Torben Olsen. This represents more than 25% of the men who played, and the list not only includes regulars like yours truly who continued his record breaking streak of 9 straight skirts, but also some good players including our Low Gross and Low Net B Grade winners on the day, which I have to say makes me feel much better!

In case you are wondering, the Las Vegas and Tee Set bookmakers are hard at work devising a system that will allow people to bet on when I will end my amazing streak.

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

Other News

Inter-league

Our busy Sunday also included accommodating the first Inter-League match of the season, to compensate for the round cancelled on 19^th February, where our Tee Set Too team managed to record a narrow 6-4 win over the Pocksie team.

Next Sunday will see the second round of the Inter-league resume its activities at its home at the Jagorawi New Course.

For more details on yesterday’s results or more information please consult our Inter-league page.

Tee Set Match Play

Yesterday also saw the first completed match of our 2017 Match Play competition, where Kongkiat Chaisri won by coin toss over Jon Pipe, as they were all tied on the course.

For those of you who registered for this year Match Play competition, you are encouraged to arrange your first game with your opponent ASAP, as this round must be completed by April 2. For more details please consult our Match Play page.

29th Annual SPE Golf Tournament

On Friday April 21, 2017 the Jagorawi Old Course will host the 29^th Texas Scramble Charity tournament for the SPE Java Section Scholarship Fund, so if you are interested you can find more details on our “Classifieds” page.

Next Up

Next Sunday we have 2 parallel events:

• At the Jagorawi New Course at 1,100,000 Rp with a tee off time of 9:30 that will include the Inter-league but is also open to any Tee Setter who wishes to play there
• At Pangkalan Jati at 675,000 Rp with cart, or 565,000 Rp without, with a tee off time of 12:00 but a little earlier very likely so don’t be late.

Please register here as usual, but don’t forget to select your Course preference as shown below, many Tee Setters have already agreed to play in he two Tee Set Interleague teams, if so then please be sure to choose Jagorawi.: