The Day

Sunday saw us up before dawn for our one early start of the year as we headed to Matoa Nasional for the 2017 Tee Set Championships. After registration, the early arrivals were able to enjoy a quiet breakfast washed down by a bloody mary from the bar and, if brave enough, go and get a mini-health check up from the Mayapada Hospital team before the round and partying to come.

At 6.45am we headed to the front for our event photo, then out to the carts for a 7am shot gun start via a short stop to pick up a smoothy or two and a hot dog supplied by our sponsors Asia Serv and Hot Hed, respectively.

With the shot-gun start we were all off together across holes 1-13 and were able to get round without any interruptions from the rain despite some brief showers threatening at various points during the morning. Players were kept refreshed by our enthusiastic volunteers on the day who brought a regular supply of smoothies and drinks around to all the holes.

Keith Miller had his drone out and about on the course during the day and together with our roving photographers, they captured a huge amount of the action. We have well over a thousand photos to go through as well as the drone video footage so posting all of them will take some time. The first selection of photos from the start of the day are here and the rest will be loaded over time so do not forget to go back and check occasionally to see all the action and winners photos from the day.

After submitting the scores and showering, we headed upstairs to the function room to enjoy lunch, recognize the winners on the day as well as our prize winners of the year and afterwards, to party the rest of the afternoon away to the Singing President’s dulcet tones whilst the bar and margarita machine kept everyone refreshed.

As usual, we also had the Tee Set’s Got Talent session and you can check out a selection of the abilities behind the microphone and on the dance floor here; well worth a few minutes over coffee. The last stragglers left Matoa as dark fell with a few hardy souls kicking on thanks to the Shangri-la and Jaco Zaayman ensuring the most was made of the day.

The Play and After Play

After lunch Keith Miller opened proceedings with the election of the President for 2017/18 year and with Roger Finnie having only taken over during the year he was voted in for a full term unopposed by a rowdy cheer of affirmation. The President then thanked the members for their support for the day and during the year and round of appreciation was given to all the Committee members who make Tee Set run smoothly: VP’s Ric Wymer and Bill Lloyd, Web-Guy Keith Miller, Fixture Secretary Wina Nugraha and Secretary Brenda Mayland supported by Beby and Aisha.

Ric Wymer then recognized the essential support of our sponsors and a rousing cheer was given to each in appreciation of their support to Tee Set over the year and to success of the Championships: Asian Tigers, Kojo, Samson Tiara, Hotel Luwansa, Asia Serv, Hot-Hed and Schenck Process, Fugro, Ben Lines, Bintang Subsea, San Miguel, Grand Slam Golf and Mayapada Hospitals. We also thanked all the Matoa staff and management for again hosting the Championships.

Our longest serving member present, former President and regular stalwart Geoff Thwaites was called upon to give a toast to the success of Tee Set during which he also reminded us that Tee Set had come a long way from just the 4 members in 2006 to the well over 90 players and volunteers who turned up today and the 347 different players who have turned out over the year.

After conducting the door prize draws we then turned to recognizing the main prize winners of the year and the iron-man/woman efforts of those who had played during the year. All of the year’s statistics were around the room and over lunch everyone was able to see the summary of the year’s golf in Tee Set. Our winners over the year’s play were Low Average Gross Score Simon Reynolds (in absentia), Low Average Net Score David Baglivo and Low Putts Mark Johnson.

Match-play Champion Jari Antikainen and runner up Tony Howarth were presented with their Trophies by Match-play Supremo James Ross and the Monthly Medal Winners and Eclectic Winners for the year were called up for a photo session. A big thank you to James for running the match-play so smoothly again this year and to Keith Miller for putting together all the statistics of the year which can be found here: Tee Set 2016-17 Results

We then recognized our winners on the day with Brad Burness winning nearest to the pin on Hole 12 and Reni Riley and Ryan Shepherd winning the Long Drive prizes for women and men, respectively, on Hole 9. Low Gross Champion on the day was won by Ameer Fitrat for his excellent 77 on the day.

The victorious Tee Set World Cup winners then made a clean sweep of Championship podium with 3rd place Cucu Chandra and runner-up Maya Till joining 2017 Champion Santi Miller in collecting their trophies. Congratulations to Santi for her excellent round of Gross 76 and net 63 to take home the main prize on the day. A summary of the all the winners is below and all the detailed results on the day here: TSC Championship Results.

Another successful year for Tee Set and a big thank you to Ric, Keith and all the committee, sponsors and volunteers who made the Championships run smoothly. Of course Tee Set never sleeps nor misses a week-end so we are on to the new year…..

Next Up: Senayan National 3rd December 2017

With next week-end being a long holiday week-end, we begin the 2017/18 Tee Set Calendar with a very short trip to the excellent but tricky Senayan National golf course in the heart of Jakarta. Although shorter than the other courses we play, Senayan tests all the clubs in the bag and has the ability to catch out the unwary.

However the pleasant walk  and shorter course usually makes for a quicker round and with traffic lighter over the holiday week-end, we can all expect to be finished in good time to enjoy a longer beverage after the round and still get home early. If you are interested to join please sign up here.

Cost is Rp800,000 walking and carts are available at Rp500,000 per cart so please team up if you wish to share the cost.