The Day
Although sign-ups were quiet through Friday, a late flurry of players joining saw 36 Tee Setters arrive at a sunny and very dry Matoa this Sunday. With the course being relatively quiet and the weather remaining very kind for this time of year, we were treated to an excellent day of golf and a quick round. Many of us were finished before 4pm and able to enjoy some late afternoon refreshments without being too late getting home.
As always, we were well looked after by the Matoa team with the caddies looking much more professional in their new uniforms and the course playing well in the dry conditions; only a lack of rakes, and therefore raking in bunkers, detracting for some from an otherwise enjoyable experience.
A warm Tee Set welcome to our 4 newcomers on the day: Sean Hill, Seth Peller, Shendy Walters and Prama Destiardi. We also had some long welcome backs to Wally Walters after 209 weeks and Andrew & Octa Abram after 57 weeks. We look forward to seeing you all again soon.
Many thanks to VP Ric Wymer for doing the presentations and to Beby for arranging the scoring. Photos of the day are here.
The Play
The good course conditions led to some excellent scoring with just over 25% of all players being at or below handicap. With such good scores there were little in the way of fines on the day leaving the Treasurer working hard to market the Tee Set golf shirts to top up our funds on the day. Fortunately the number of newcomers made for some brisk sales.
No skirts, not an unusual occurrence at Matoa, left only Monster Putter Renni Puri and Most Strokes “winner” Rene Jansen contributing their fines to the Tee Set coffers this week. Having “missed out” on the Most Strokes fine, Matt McGowan doubled down on his good fortune to take home Most Improved of 15 shots.
First Sandy went to Fernando Gaggino for his effort on hole 3 whilst First Birdie went to Jens Roestel who ensured he would win this by birdieing his opening hole. Low Putts went to Craig Binks for his effort of 27 putts whilst First Par for Handicaps >=30 was secured by Octa Abram for her par on hole 15.
An excellent 76 off the stick saw Fitrat Ameer win Low Gross whilst some excellent scoring of net 65, 66 and 67 saw Roger Finnie, Rudie Basson and Lis Wymer take home Low Net honours for the day in A, B & C grades, respectively.
Congratulations to all our winners and detailed results are here.
Tee Set Match-Play
This year’s competition is now in full swing with 6 first round matches already held. A result from last week not reported in the post saw Gary Mond defeat Chris Lever. This week, Rudie Basson beat Fernando Gaggino 6&5 whilst Matt McGowan won 2up over Mike Webb. Of course everyone is still in the competition as the first round results only define which bracket you fall into.
A reminder for the remaining players to please complete their first round matches by 3rd March and for all players to submit your match score by email to James Ross to officially record the result.
Tee Set Schedule & Handicapping Update
On the scheduling front, the Jakarta Inter-League committee has decided to move the venue of 2019’s matches to Riverside and so the schedule is updated accordingly with some ensuing changes to other weeks. It means, for now, that Jagorawi disappears from our schedule but we are working with their management to find a couple of suitable dates to include it as a regular Sunday visit. Please visit the schedule page for the updated plans albeit understanding that this is always subject to change….
Regarding handicaps, with the high overlap of players between DOGs and Tee Set, together with the DOGs Committee, we have decided to simplify the keeping and posting of handicaps for the benefit of both sets of members by merging our handicap systems effective from next week. All DOGS and Tee Set weekly events will automatically be posted by our Secretary once reported meaning only rounds played by members outside of these 2 schedules need to be separately reported to us to maintain your handicaps at the correct index.
We have therefore renamed the database “Jakartagolf” and updated the connections in the website. For those who had an automatic connection set up for your personal handicap report you will need to update the connection to continue to link to your up to date information… please see Roger Finnie at a Sunday event if you need help with this.
Next up: Kedaton Sunday 17th February 2019
Sunday sees us visit one of those courses which Tee Set tends to go to only once a year, Kedaton Golf & Country Club. Although a little further down the Tangerang -Merak Toll road at KM 31, it is set amongst a nice development and is usually in great condition.
Some wide fairways allow you to open your arms with the driver but there are also canals down the side of many holes to catch errant drives; adding up to us seeing that a net score around Par will usually put you in contention based on past results. On our last visit the pro shop was sparsely stocked so make sure you bring enough ammunition….
Thanks to Wina Nugraha, our fixture Secretary, we have secured an excellent rate which is also lower than last year: Rp750,000 including cart.
Our start time is at 11.30AM so we can be finished and off home in good time. Sign up here to join to fun this week and then read on.
***** IMPORTANT WARNING AND ADVICE *****
The one tricky thing about getting to Kedaton is making sure that you take the correct turn off from the Merak Tol heading West, with the bleached bones of those who miss it generally only found several days after their mistake.
Be prepared to take the far left toll booth, and ONLY the far left toll booth at Km 31, otherwise you WILL NOT be able to get across the toll to Kedaton but instead will be doomed to wander the Western Badlands for eternity.
If you are taxi-ing then keep a close eye on your driver and guide him as necessary. They are likely not to know this detail and are best served by you paying for the additional 20km to the next U-turn and back
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