The Day
With the summer break over, the Jakarta Inter-League kicked off again at Jagorawi Country Club on Sunday so it was an earlier start than usual as we took the short trip down the toll for our 9.30am shotgun start. Overall 68 players gathered for the league matches and/or just enjoy a round on one of the more challenging courses in our calendar and with Tee Set represented in many of the teams playing, we had a healthy sign-up for the Tee Set competition too with 33 players – after eliminating one duplicate entry to our database.
No newcomers this week but some healthy welcome backs to Mick Mongold, Shawn Berg, Jiro Kamigatakuchi and Tim Hessen. We look forward to seeing you all out again sooner rather than later.
With additional holes provided by the course management for the shot-gun and no-body ahead of the front groups, we got around in great time under perfect skies. All of this meant we gave ourselves plenty of time to enjoy the Bandung Band, the BQQ and a few refreshments in celebration of the main event of the day, Geoff Thwaites’ 75th Birthday bash.
A lot of fun was had by those who stayed and enjoyed the afternoon in celebration with Geoff and a special thank you to Richard Mau for providing the birthday cake which we all enjoyed after a rousing Happy Birthday. Photos of the day are here.
The Play
With the celebration of Geoff’s party dominating the proceedings, the awards for play on the day were managed in short order by VP Ric Wymer during a break in proceedings. The timing was ably helped by the fact that some winners had gone home already, so there are only a few photos of the winners today, and that we had no fines taken on the day due to the JIL going on in parallel.
Most improved on the day was Matthew Powell with 8 and First Sandy went to Jaco Zaayman who it was great to see back out playing golf again with us and who got off to a flying start with his prize on his first hole. First Birdie went to David Prosser who Birdied his second whilst Low Gross went to Len Ogembo who shot an excellent 82 off the stick.
A trio of likely lads tied for Low Putts and with no putting awards being offered, they had to be content with the photo together; however this did not stop VP Bill Lloyd, David Baglivo and President Roger Finnie enjoying the moment.
Our Low Net A, B, & C winners on the day were Shawn Berg (70), Jaco Zaayman (72) and Cucu Chandra (87). Details of the results are here and many thanks to Ric for managing all the registrations and scoring on the day.
Whilst we all had a good day, there was not much to cheer again on the JIL front as we went down in 3 of the 4 close games and fell to an overall 2-8 defeat to a very delighted and competitive Sandbaggers. With the wooden spoon secure, we can upset league leaders Cloggies next month for pride.
World Cup of Golf 6th & 7th October 2018
2018’s edition of the Tee Set World Cup of Golf will take place at Cengkareng on 6th and 7th October 2018. Following feedback from many of the participants, we have made the event over 1 week-end and will be playing on both Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
As usual, Teams will be made up of 4 players who will be connected by their nationalities and we hope to see many teams out there hoping to wrestle the trophy off the Indonesian ladies who have won it for the last 2 years.
Please get together and start to form your teams and registrations are now on the website here.
Next Up: 30th September 2018 Cengkareng 12pm Rp800,000 Monthly Medal and Eclectic Cycle IX Round 1
Being the last week-end of the month, this Sunday we head back to one of Jakarta’s finest courses and one of Tee Set’s most popular venues, Cengkareng, home for Tee Set’s 2018’s Monthly Medal.
Thanks to the sponsorship of Ken Runyon and his teams at Accel Golf and Golf & Special Events Management we will recognizing the Low Gross and Low A, B & C winners with a trophy in addition to presentation of the Monthly Medal to the overall winner.
This week will also be the first round of Cycle IX of the Tee Set Eclectic and an opportunity for you to down a first marker in the hope to wrestle the trophy from current holder, Amol Singhal. For the eagled eyed, you will note that this round was supposed to start in August but due to an administrative hiccup (they do happen occasionally), the scorecards from August were inadvertently lost before being entered to the Eclectic so we will need to begin the current round in September.
Whilst there is a lot to attract players for this week, we also welcome those who just wish to enjoy a pleasant trip across the rolling fairways, guided round by Cengkareng’s well trained caddies and then to sit and enjoy one of its famous Margaritas to cool you down afterwards.
If you are able to join us for a very reasonable Rp800,000 walking please sign up here. Tee time is 12pm as usual.
News Flash: For those who would prefer not to walk, in addition to the hover boards to glide across the rolling fairways, Cengkareng management have recently purchased 8 golf carts. These are priced at Rp55ok a cart so if you wish to reserve one please contact the Golf reservations staff at Cengakreng directly. As the carts are limited in number and we do not have visibility to those already booked on the day, your Tee Set Committee is not involved to the reservation of the carts.
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