The Day

With the Tee Set Committee reverting to the previous practice of preparing sign-ups and cards on a Friday evening, the recent habit of many Tee Setters to sign up late was to create some scrambling as we ran out of the extra blank scoring cards and the course needed to push back another group to allow our extra flights beyond those advised based on the sign-ups.

However, Tee Set is nothing but accommodating and welcoming to all who turn-up and with the course also helping out the VP in sorting out the extra tee times with the main group, we got everybody out and round without any issues.

No eagles, a few birdies and plenty of geese on the course to keep us company as we enjoyed a perfect golfing day under blue skies, a far cry from the previous Sunday at Riverside.

One newcomer today, Rennie Putri who was given a warm Tee Set welcome and a couple of notable welcome backs with Geary Bowles joining us after 80 weeks and Tim Knight after 50 weeks. We hope to see you all back soon.

In the absence of the President, VP Ric Wymer took the reins and was ably assisted by Mark Johnson, Rennie Putri and Santi Miller to ensure the registrations and prize giving went as smoothly as possible. Many thanks to them all and to Beby who ensured we could all play off our updated handicaps after updating a months worth of cards. Photos of the day are here.

The Play

No shortage of fines this week with 6 players tied for Most Strokes and 6 enjoying the thrill of searching through the Tee Set dress up bag for their Skirt photo. Although some cards were missing, the recorded Most Strokes was shared between Bill Bigelow, Detlef Blumke, Laurie O’Connor, Matt McGowan, Ric Wymer and Rosie Putri whilst our skirt “winners” were Detlef, Ian Butcher, Jongchun Kim, Richard Green, Dirk Kruip and Simon Oxley. Less crowded was the Monster Putter leaderboard with Hana Ariestya out on top with her 42 strokes on the greens.

Richard Green won his money back with Most Improved of 7 whilst Laurie O’Connor was also in the black again after taking the money from a 4 way tie of Low Putts on 30 also including Don Duttlinger, Ric Wymer and Mark Fiorello. First Birdie went to Gary Mond for his effort on hole 5.

First Sandy on Hole 1 was shared between Andrew Waite and Santi Miller whilst Jeff Landau took home Low Gross after his round of 80.

Low Gross Winners on the day in the respective grades were Ken Runyon (70), VP Ric Wymer (68) and Dirk Kruip (77). Ken’s alter ego Mark Johnson collecting his prize as we had a snafu in managing the late registrations … another good reason to sign up early; we trust Mark and Ken will work out the prize giving side between them on a future week.

Congratulations to all our winners and detailed results of the day are here.

Tee Set Match-Play

Our first semi-final was completed on Sunday with Jens Roestel and Matthew Powell enjoying a very close match in which no less than 12 holes were halved. In the end Jens won the 18th hole and the match 1up to go through from the Kuning bracket to face the Emas winner for the Ric Wymer Match Play Trophy. Santi Miller and Matt Otto will play out the Emas bracket match in a couple of weeks so we will then know our 2 finalists.

Next Up: Padang Modern 16th September 12pm Rp795k

After a couple of cancellations due to competing tournaments, this Sunday sees us back at Padang Modern where we are always well looked after and have an enjoyable round. Tee time is 12.00pm and the cost, including cart, is Rp795,000.

If you are interested to join us please sign up here to register

Special Shirt and Belts Offers to golfers

With a change in ownership but not business model, our good sponsor Grand Slam Golf is having a flash sale to clear old stocks. Check out the great offers here and here and contact Richard Bittner at richardmbittner@gmail.com if you are interested in any of them.