Gading Raya, 23rd July 2017

The day

As one our favourite courses for its ease of access, good facilities and usually strong scoring opportunities, 38 Tee Setters turned out at Gading Raya on Sunday. Sadly we arrived to discover our usual 2 tee start on 1 and 10 had been cancelled and we were all forced to head out to Tee Box 1 – resulting in a train of 19 carts sitting waiting to tee off at peak.

The frustration of the later starters was palpable, however, the main casualty was the thinner than usual numbers at the prize giving as there was an almost 2 hour gap between the first and last finishers meaning some players had already departed by the time the prizes and announcements for the day were being made. #SAD

All-in-all a pretty disappointing and unacceptable piece of management by Gading and we have cancelled our next planned visit there in September and will instead book a course more likely to keep their promises. Actions have consequences.

At least the weather was kinder as, while somewhat cloudy skies threatened rain early on, none was to materialise.

Keith Gorman, pictured, was given a warm Tee Set welcome as our sole Newcomer on the day – enjoy your golf with Tee Set Keith – and come back often!

Another huge Welcome Back this week in Rosie Putri at 119 weeks (more than 2 years!) and Guntoro and Pekka Kivioja after 24 and 21 weeks, respectively. Not so long next time y’all!

At the end, President Finnie (the Web Guy has yet to land on a suitable moniker) took a few moments out to recognise those stalwarts supporting Tee Set week in and week out.

Ric Wymer is of course our all time (well since records began in 2012) leader with around an 80% attendance record and he was called out with other “150 Events Club” members present on the day, Wina Nugraha and Santi Miller.

Immediate past Singing President Craig Ewers and Mike Webb were also recognized for having reached the 100 Tee Set rounds played mark.

You may recognise this lot, they’ve been round long enough….

The play

The longer than usual rough, particularly around the greens, caught several players out and scoring was a little higher overall than normal for Tee Setters at Gading Raya. Notable mentions for Mike Riley’s amazing 250 yard drive (more below) and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly which characterized the rounds of Fernando Gaggino and Pekka Kivioja which saw both of them both appearing in a wide range of “award” categories and causing mayhem in the working out of prizes and fines, not least due to the one prize rule.

Andrew Waite, Fernando and Juju displaying the well-gotten gains for winning their respective Grades

After much effort sorting out the prizes, Fernando was awarded Low Net A for his roller-coaster 68 while Andrew Waite’s best of the day Net 67 took Low Net B and in Pekka’s absence, Juju Juhairiah’s 77 was enough to take Low Net C.

Pekka had the only par for HC >= 30 so with the 1 prize rule in operation as always, no prize awarded this week for that category.

In the interests of equity and symmetry Pekka’s full house of booby awards as he pulled in Monster Putter, Most Strokes of 11 and a Skirt was to attract only one fine.

Mike Riley’s 250 yard drive mentioned above consisted of 150 yards forward followed by a 100 yard rebound courtesy of a well-placed tree and 10 bounces along the cart path, much to the merriment of his fellow players.

To add to Mike’s indignity was of course added a skirt though happily he was to be far from alone with another 8 players having to cough up for the Treasurer’s Championship Fund – a bare majority of them captured in the photo below.

Not an unexpected winner of Low Gross this week …

Fernando would have also had Most Improved of 11 but for the one prize rule, with the prize awarded instead to a very happy Bill Lloyd who shaved 10 strokes of his front 9 score.

No 1st Sandy awarded as both Andrew and Fernando (again) were already winners.

1st Birdie went to Jaco Zaayman for his effort on hole 3 while the President managed, with the aid of some good chipping, to turn 18 missed greens in regulation into a winning Low Putts total of just 26 putts.

Last but very far from least, Richard Mau had the best round of the day taking Low Gross for his fine round of 80 off the stick.

More detailed player by player results of the day can be seen here while there are plenty more photos on the Tee Set Gallery thanks to secretary Brenda.

2017 Tee Set Matchplay

Two matches completed today with Jari Antikainen edging out the extremely dangerous former two-time winner David Baglivo 2&1 while Santi took out Marcelo 4 and 3.

A reminder to send the results in by email to James Ross – and also that next week is the last of the current round before James makes determinations about who goes forward should that be necessary.

Tee Set’s 34th Birthday Texas Scramble

1983 saw the birth of Tee Set, a rather impressive 34 years ago – before at least some of our younger members were born!

To celebrate this auspicious event, we are returning to Matoa on Sunday 6th Augusr, the scene of last year’s Birthday Scramble and with pretty much the same popular format.

Teams of four will be selected and named by yourselves as far as possible and each team handicapped on the basis of individual handicaps suitably adjusted. Fuller details of the format and rules are here.

This will once again be a FUN event for everybody regardless of skill level! Bring along your friends/wives/girlfriends/boyfriends/jaga to join in; for those of you who haven’t attended our birthday scramble before, it really will be that sort of day.

Tee off will be from 6 tee boxes at 11:30 in a shotgun start. Green fees will be 600,000 including a shared card.

Next Up

Last Sunday of the month so it is Monthly Medal time on Sunday at our invariably fine hosts at the Robert Trent Jones III designed Padang Golf Modern of course.

Tee time of 11:30 from 1 and 10 and green fees of 770,000 roops including shared cart.

Sign up here to join the fun in the sun and take your chance at immortality by getting your name on the Monthly Medal Shield – and receiving the 1 juta Grand Slam Golf voucher that goes with it.

See ya at Modern! …. Tee Set