The Day

Falling on the week-end at the end of Ramadan it was to expected that our turnout this week would be a little lighter than normal and so it was pleasing to see 26 Tee Setters head down to Rainbow Hills for the final week-end in our Bogor trilogy this month. Whilst traffic on the toll was as light as expected, the final drive to the Club House passes through a number of villages and so those coming a little later were to encounter large families on single motor bikes making passing precarious and delaying arrival for some.

Usually it is a time for greens to be cored but we also faced the added experience of the Club House being under renovation as well; just as well we not in larger numbers as we took up almost all of the available seating on the deck outside the Pro Shop.

A warm Tee Set welcome to our 2 newcomers this week: Rob Mauer and Bernard Chevalier. We also had many welcome backs including Patrick Wasler, Cucu Chandra and Juju Juhairiah who all had more than 20 weeks since their last Tee Set outing. We hope to see you all again soon.

As always the staff and caddies were very friendly which along with the fine weather, made for a pleasant round although some of the caddies were clearly being blooded over the holiday thus giving several of us the opportunity to practice reading our own putts. A straw poll of those present led to a decision to play the more picturesque Forest/Mountain combination but those not able to keep it straight to avoid the penal rough and/or get to grips with the very undulating greens were quickly running up some large scores.

With no Secretary present for the day and with VP Ric Wymer one of those grappling with the motor-bikes in the road, Mark Johnson and Laurie O’Connor kindly took over the organization of the registrations and flights so a thank you to them and Ric who did all the scoring at the end of the round having now mastered the database so we have a back up to the back ups!. Photos of the day can be found here.

The Play

As last week, we had the trifecta of booby prizes, albeit with only one fine, with new comer Bernard Chevalier making sure we had plenty of photos of him for the Tee Set gallery. This week however there was more company with Juju Jujairiah and Rob Nicholls joining him for Most Strokes (11) and Pekka Kivioja, Rob Nicholls again and William Daniel all joining for the skirt photo. Despite Rob and Pekka trying hard, Bernard was the sole honouree of the Monkey for his 44 putt efforts.

Both Rob and Juju were able to recover their fines however, for First Par for Handicaps >=30 (hole 3) and Most Improved (14), respectively. First Birdie went to Tom Grace for his effort on hole 2 whilst Geoff Thwaites was our green master of the day for his low putts of 30.

Low Net honours went to Mark Johnson in A Grade (76), Manfred Borer in B Grade for his best net of the day 66 after a best gross of 83 and to Pekka Kivioja in C Grade for his net 70. David Baglivo was awarded our Low Gross for his 86 after coming home in 39 but somehow the presentation was not made before wrapping up – David please see VP Ric next week to collect your prize.

Congratulations to all our winners and detailed scores can be found here.

Next Up: Cengkareng Sunday 24th June 2018 @ 12.00pm: Monthly Medal and Tee Set Eclectic VIII Round 3