The Day 

With 20+ regular Tee Setters involved in the final round of the Jakarta Inter-League which was being played in parallel, Sunday saw a good turn out of 22 players to tackle Matoa Nasional, the home of the upcoming Tee Set Championship. A few sore heads after the ANZAC Ball were evident in the pre-tee off socializing but perhaps not the reason for a few frantic messages to the President to ensure we knew the Gaisler Family would be there “just in time”. However their late arrival and lack of warm up was not to affect their results as you will read below.

The smooth and relatively quick round was fortunate as a cloudy start gave way to a heavy rain storm resulting in the course being closed just as some of the groups were finishing. This resulted in the VP of Almost Everything Ric Wymer needing to apply an equitable score to any missing holes in order to be able to recognize the winners on the day.

A warm Tee Set welcome to our 1 newcomer on the day, Fitrat Ameer, and perhaps on an annual pilgrimage to Jakarta for the AFL Grand final week-end, after 52 weeks a warm welcome back to Max Strawhorn.  Thank you to Ric Wymer, Lis and Beby for ensuring the day ran smoothly.

The Play

Its not often these prizes get retained week to week but for a second week in a row, Kathy Scalabre won Most Improved for a 12 shot improvement on the back nine and Juju Juhairiah won 1st Par for Handicaps >= 30 for her effort on hole 1. Juju unfortunately had to give back half her winnings for her Most Strokes of 13 on a hole and with no skirts from the Men players, completing the line up of a Ladies only contribution to the Treasurer’s funds was Meta Sari for her Monster Putter effort of 40 putts.

A distinctly family affair amongst the Low Net category winners with both Daniel Gaisler and Jana Gaislerova making light of their late arrivals to take home Low Net A and Low Net B with a net 67 and 68, respectively. Here they were joined by last week’s big winner Laurie O’Connor who shot a more modest net 68 this week to win Low Net C.

Daniel being restricted by the 1 prize rule from taking other categories enabled us to recognize new comer Fitrat Ameer for his Low Gross of 80 shots and James Ross for Low Putts of 29 strokes  on the greens. Similarly, Matthew Cherrett also benefited as we recognized his First Birdie effort on hole 6.

Photos of the day can be found here and the detailed player results here.

Tee Set Eclectic

After completing the scoring, I am pleased to announce Laurie O’Connor as the winner of Eclectic Cycle VI and we will be presenting Laurie with the trophy at an upcoming event shortly. Laurie was one of 4 leading contenders entering into the last round and was pushed hard by Juju Juhairiah’s excellent round in week 4 of the cycle. Laurie however won his second monthly medal in the cycle to improve his score in the final week by 7 strokes and win by 2 shots. A summary of the cycle and the top performers is here.

Inter-League

Sunday was also the last round of the Inter-League and although Tee Set entered the week-end with an outside chance of winning the league, Sentul Swingers’ 8-2 victory over Tee Set Too confirmed them as worthy champions for 2017. Tee Set played out a 5-5 draw against Sandbaggers in what is always a close contest and finished overall in 4th place.

As a society Tee Set stepped up at the last minute to field a second side due to the late withdrawal of 1 team and therefore a huge thank you to all of the approximately 35 Tee Setters who put their hands up and represented our 2 teams over the 7 weeks of the competition. We had some excellent matches, high-lighted by beating the top 2 teams, and look forward to the end of season event on 19th November which will also double as a regular Tee Set week-end with a band and BBQ to follow. A summary of the season and final results and standings are all here.

Next Up: Tee Set World Cup of Golf at Cengkareng on 8th October at 12PM

Tee Set’s second annual World Cup of Golf has arrived!!. Won last year by the Ladies of Indonesia, they will be looking to retain bragging rights and the Trophy at this year’s event to be played over the next two week-ends at Cengkareng on 8th and 15th October. It will also be a first opportunity for us to play the new holes at Cengkareng which opened 5 weeks ago after our last visit.

Teams consist of 4 players and as a reminder these should be built on a geographical basis. We can have more than 1 side representing a country. Indonesia should be joined by at least several Australian sides as well as teams from Czech Republic, South Africa, UK, Germany, perhaps a Viking representation and the USA. Initiatives to create the teams come from yourselves so please get together and decide your captains and team members.

The winners will be calculated over the 2 week-ends. This week each team plays as 2 teams of 2-ball pairs and being scored based on their 2-ball better ball stableford scores. Next week, play will be as 4 singles with the 3 best stableford scores counting towards the results. The winning team will have the highest 5 stableford point scores combined over the 2 weeks so there will be limited prize giving this week.

New to Tee Set or do not have enough for a team? No problems, the Tee Set organizers will put together some “UN” sides from players not otherwise affiliated with other teams at the time of signing up.

Please sign up here as usual and in the comments section add your country and team members if these have been organized. All team members should sign up separately please. Price is the ever reasonable Rp750,000 walking with hover-boards available for an additional charge if you prefer to surf the fairways.