The Day

Despite the rainy season having arrived over the past week or so, we were not to be troubled by any rain this Sunday as we enjoyed another excellent visit to Cengkareng for our October monthly medal.

This week saw another bumper turnout of 50 players, in no small part thanks to the efforts of many Tee Setters to bring along friends and colleagues to join the Group.

It was a pleasure to welcome 9 newcomers in Siong Wong, Rendra Lembong, Paul McPhillimy, Nazlee Rosul, Hafiz Ibrahim, Jim Jesse, Brendon Skinner, Barry Widjaja and Amar Patel. A warm welcome to Tee Set and a warm welcome back to Emil Marcelo after 122 weeks and Nick Thomas, on a flying visit, after 47 weeks.

A thank you to everyone for turning up a in good time and heeding the call to be on the tee boxes early so that we could respect the support given to Tee Set by Cengkareng’s management; this visit went off much more smoothly and was appreciated by the starter. With such a great turnout, our Secretary Beby and VP Ric Wymer were kept busy with the scoring so a big thank you to them and to Craig Edwards who assisted the President beforehand in managing the registrations and pairings on the day. Photos of the day are here.

The Play

This week saw no less than 16 players record scores at or below their handicaps and some very good gross scores were also returned on the day. However, the bite in tail off the Blue tees was also able to catch-out a couple of our winners who were amongst the healthy return of 9 skirts. Featured with the skirt were James Ross, Jim Jesse, Laurie O’Connor, Matthew Powell, Panchaud Francois, Simon Oxley, Siong Wong and Tony Franco.

Monster Putter on the day was Eric Mary with 42 and Most Strokes, newcomer Jim Jessie with 11 on a hole. On the plus side, Pascal was able to recover his fine as he recorded First Par for Handicaps >=30 on his hole 3 whilst Ian Butcher put a slow start behind him to record Most Improved with 11.

Jon Pipe won First Birdie for his effort on hole 5 whilst 1st Sandy Par went to Craig Ewers and Santi Miller for their joint efforts on hole 4. Marcelo was to be recognized afterwards when he realized he had reported his second hole sandy par incorrectly… A 4 way tie for Low Putts was resolved by absent winners leaving VP Ric Wymer to collect the proceeds of his excellent 28 strokes on the greens.

A 3 way tie on 77 strokes for Low Gross was split by a Committee adjudication which saw President Roger Finnie take home Low Gross whilst playing partner, Simon Oxley took home Low Net A. Net 67’s were also recorded by Audie Kaunang and Lis Wymer as they took home the low net honours in B and C grades, respectively.

On the monthly skill prizes, newcomer Barry Widjaja took home Long Drive Men’s and Wina Nugraha Long Drive Women’s whilst Laurie O’Connor also won back his money for his Nearest the Pin effort of 190cm.

A superb round and best of the day Gross 73 saw Joshua Alexander record 44 points to take home of October Monthly Medal. Congratulations to Joshua and to all the winners and detailed results of the day can be found here.