The Day

A relatively quiet day at the end of a 3-day week-end festival of golf which saw the most adventurous of our group play 81 holes of golf after walking the 45-Holes Asian Tigers event hosted by VP Bill Lloyd on Friday and participating in the Thompson Cup on Saturday before coming back to Cengkareng the next day for a gentle 18 holes as we held our regular monthly medal. A couple of weary bodies beforehand but otherwise a great spirit and much joviality around the club-house as we sorted out registrations with President Roger Finnie still in his Scotland kit from the previous day….

With The D.O.G.S. also having their event on Sunday this week, a smaller than usual turnout of 34 players (the data-base missing 1 card not turned in) enjoyed a another fantastic golfing day with the course in great condition and the sunshine and friendly caddies & staff at Cengkareng keeping us all happy.

2 newcomers on the day and a warm Tee Set welcome was given to John Dotch and Prabhu who joined us for the first time. We also welcomed back the Gaisler family after 14 weeks which gave us the opportunity to finally present Jana with her Monthly Medal from April 2018.

Lots of good stories on the day to share in the clubhouse afterwards including a “Barnes Wallace” effort from Joshua Alexander who managed to skip his iron shot twice across the lake on hole 5 and see it pop out the other end.

We also enjoyed sharing Audie’s Hole in One success from last week with the jugs of beer he kindly purchased for us all to consume after the round.

In the continuing absence of our secretarial assistance, a big thank you to Pascal Bekaert who ensured we got plenty of quality pictures this week and to VP Ric Wymer who again stepped up to manage the scoring on the day. The many photos of the day can be found here.

The Play

As usual, Cengkareng proved a very competitive course for our monthly medal with many good scores at or just under net par providing the scorer with a small headache as he sorted out the several count-backs needed to resolve the winners as well as determine the owners of a couple of cards which were turned in without their names on them!.

Of less debate were the fines with newcomer Prabhu being joined by skirt regular Pascal Bekaert and Jaroslav Gaisler for a delve into the Tee Set dress up bag. Still wearing her April monthly medal, Jana Gaislerova was called up to be photographed with the Monkey for her Monster Putter effort of 40 strokes on the greens; Eric Park having gone home as had our Most Strokes “winner” Michael Reading who had 13 on a hole.

Unusually for Cengkareng, First Birdie held out until hole 7 where 4 players all finally scored one with Ian Butcher and Amol Singhal remaining to collect their prize. Most Improved was awarded to Geoff Thwaites who got to grips with his golf game in the back nine to improve by 10 strokes whilst playing partners Joshua Alexander and Roger Finnie followed each other in on hole 4 to share First Sandy. Audie Kaunang showed that even if he cannot get a hole in one every week, his putter was in fine form too as he took home Low Putts with 28 strokes on the green.

Daniel Gaisler won Low Net A on a 4 way count-back of the players on net 72’s and Efsi Hayati Low Net B after her best net of the day 67. Low Gross went to Len Ogembo after another count-back on 82 gross.

On the monthly skill prizes, Nearest the Pin was won by Gary Mond and Long Drives by Santi Miller and Amol Singhal. The big winner on the day and finally the holder of a Monthly Medal was Pascal “Pastis” Bekaert who scored 41 points and prevailed on a count-back from Efsi Hayati who had to be content with a runners-up spot for a second month in a row.

Pascal was a very happy gentleman and in addition to posing for the Monthly Medal award, he came back and had a second photo to reflect all his winnings on the day having also got a skirt and been the only >=30 handicapper thus securing those prizes too…. but for the one prize rule of course…

Congratulations to all our winners on the day and the detailed scoring can be found here.

Tee Set Match-Play

Sunday was also the last day of the bracket semi-final round for the Tee Match Play and we had our final 2 matches played out.

In the Emas bracket, Santi Miller beat Wina Nugraha 4&3 whilst in the Kuning bracket Matthew Powell beat Geoff Thwaites 5&4. Both progress to the bracket finals where they will face Matt Otto and Jens Roestel, respectively. The matches are due to be completed by 30th September.

Next Up: Riverside Sunday 2nd September 12pm Rp750k

The Greg Norman designed Riverside is always one of the most interesting challenges on the Tee Set schedule with the Shark’s trademark optical illusions regularly fooling the unwary.

This week we will be mixing up the format of our games by holding a Russian Stableford event. Played in 2 man teams, your stableford scores will be counted together for a team score but with a twist. Whilst on 12 holes your two scores will be added together, on holes 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18 they will be multiplied together to give us that Russian twist….. ie., if your team scores on a hole are 2 points and 4 points you will score a team 6 points (2+4) on the regular holes whilst on the special holes above your team will get 8 points (2*4). Obviously a player scoring 0 on those special holes will wipe the team score as 0 times anything is still 0! Prizes for the best 3 teams will be awarded on the day.

Find yourself a partner and come and join in the fun – tell us in the comments section who your partner is. Don’t have a partner?; still come along and we will pair you up on the day. Confused about the scoring? President Roger Finnie will manage all the queries on the day.

To join us for the fun of this unique format and the challenge of one of Jakarta’s finest courses on Sunday just sign up here as usual. Green fees of Rp750,000 including a shared cart with a tee time of 12.00pm.