The Day

Easter Sunday saw us take the very short trip to Senayan Nasional in the centre of Jakarta, a far cry from the tales of 6+ hours travelling incurred by some of the Tee Setters who joined the annual pilgrimage to the ever popular Bandung Bash, hosted by our own Geoff Thwaites.

Despite being the school holidays and the aforementioned Bandung Bash, we had a very healthy turnout of 32 players boosted by another great turnout of 9 new comers: some just joining us for this week as they were visiting Jakarta over Easter and others longer term residents. Nevertheless all were given a very warm Tee Set welcome as it was our pleasure to welcome Olivia Thelma, Sistha Anindya, Daniel Watts, Eric and Catherine Four, Tim Henssen, Roy Widosuwito, Jannes Tjaden and Rena Overberg.

We also had the longest welcome back in quite some time as Epi Rohaeti joined us again (with husband Jeff Landau) after an incredible 316 weeks. More modestly we also welcomed back Moritz Kleine-Brockhoff and Jochen Overberg after 30 and 27 weeks, respectively. We hope to see all of you out again soon.

Our arrival and tee off was in very good weather; however 4 holes in for our first groups, a thunderstorm arrived very quickly and with the siren blowing we all headed for the safety of the halfway house or Clubhouse, depending on which was nearer. The 20 minute deluge resulted in a few players opting to take their rain check but most of us sat it out and were able to continue fairly soon after the thunder passed overhead. Although the rain left the fairways a little wet and softened the greens, it did not slow the green speeds down very much and putting remained a challenge for almost all the players.

In the absence of our usual secretarial support, registration and results on the day were done by President Roger Finnie, ably assisted by our Tee Set Champion Santi Miller so thank you to all the players for their added patience as they sorted everything out after also completing their rounds. Photos from the prize giving will be uploaded later in the week.

The Play

Although not the longest course, Senayan still represents a good challenge for all levels of golfers and we had 4 skirts recorded on the day with Matt McGowan, newcomer Daniel Watts, Moritz Kleine-Brockhoff and regular skirt aficionado Rudie Basson all getting to wear the Tee Set dress-up outfit. Thank you to Daniel for being a good sport and keeping the all the other winners company for both the photos.

With Rudie already fined for his skirt, Most Strokes on a hole went to a possibly rusty Epi Rohaeti for her 11 on a hole whilst the Top of the Putts went to newcomer Sistha Anindya for her 47 strokes on the greens. Sistha was however able to offset her fine for also taking home Most Improved for coming back 11 strokes better.

On the skill prizes, Low Putts went to another of our new comers, Jannes Tjaden, for his 29 putts, our only sub-30 putting effort of the day. First Birdie went to Ken Runyon for his effort on hole 6 and First Sandy to Lim Jonghwa for his effort on hole 8.

Our Low Gross on the day went to Jeff Landau, another strong round to record an impressive 72 gross on the day. Low Net of the day went to Chris Lever who recorded a net 65 to win B Grade where he was joined by Roger Finnie for A Grade with a net 67 and Kathy Scalabre who won Low Net C Grade with her 71 despite borrowing clubs for the day.

Congratulations to all our winners and detailed results of the day can be found here.

Next Up: Imperial Golf Klub Sunday 8th April 2018 12pm

This Sunday sees us return to Imperial for our 2nd visit of the year.

Imperial’s layout is always a strong golfing challenge and the Club House has excellent views over the course to enjoy along with the good service and refreshments.

Tee time is 12.00pm and the price Rp950,000 with carts. We will need to provide names to the course on Saturday morning latest so please sign up as soon as you can to help us with the administration with Imperial. Those that can join us please sign up here if you are able to join us.

Jagorawi Golf Membership for Sale

Please see the details in our Classified section along with other items for sale or offers for our members.

SPE

One of the most popular events on the Jakarta calendar, the 30th Annual SPE tournament is open for registrations and places are filling up fast. Details on the event which will be held on 20th April 2018 and how to register are here.