The Day
No newcomers this week but a healthy turnout of 34 Tee Setters to BSD for what is always a popular venue; a good test of golf on a top golf course and the opportunity for some after event socialization at Casa De La Mexicana for those making a full evening of it. With the weather being mild and the rain staying away for most of the round, we enjoyed a pleasant round on a somewhat quiet course.
As usual, the undulating greens of BSD provide one of our more difficult putting tests of the year and Sunday was no exception with several pins tucked near slopes to challenge our prowess on the greens. We have had a few weeks of long carries from Blue to Red tees but with us playing off the white tees this week, we had the usual sight on hole 11 of the ladies teeing off behind the men due to the placement of the tee boxes.
Welcome backs of note to Grant Lutz after 80 weeks and Dennis Kloeth after 30 weeks. A thank you also to Dennis Kloeth without whom we would not be able to secure the favourable arrangements and access to BSD each year and to Ric Wymer for managing the scoring and presentations on the day. Pictures of the day are here.
The Play
Showing that BSD respects no-man, not even its members, Dennis Kloeth took home the trifecta of booby prizes for the sole skirt of the day, Most Strokes and Monster Putter. Fortunately, Jari Anitkainen & Zander Watt for Most Strokes of 10 and Harry Lopez for Monster Putter of 43 were there to keep Dennis company.
Dennis however was to have the last laugh winning Most Improved and recovering his fine on the day. First Sandy on the day went to Richard Mau for his effort hole 6 whilst Chris Lever birdied his first to win First Birdie. Low Putts went to Aljosja Van Dorssen for his effort of 28 putts on the day whilst the best round of the day was by Tim Knight for his 75 gross and 68 net.
After a week’s hiatus, the Wymer clan were back dominating C Grade results again this week with Ric Wymer claiming the honours for his net 70. Pieter Nielen-Groen was Low Net B whilst Arne Tjaden surprised the scorer with his card and was awarded Low Net A although a later recap had Axel Hertzke as the A grade winner.
Congratulations to all our winners and detailed results are here.
Next Up: Riverside 24th March 2019
This Sunday we take the short trip down to Junction 19 on the Jagorawi toll to visit the excellent Riverside course. 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.
In addition to our weekly schedule, this Sunday sees the kick-off of the 2019 Jakarta Inter-League season which moves location to Riverside after several years of being hosted at Jagorawi. As usual, for those Tee Set players participating in JIL (whether for Tee Set or otherwise), please also sign up as normal for the weekly competition so we can capture you for both events.
To join us for the fun of one of Jakarta’s finest courses on Sunday just sign up here as usual. Green fees of Rp850,000 including a shared cart and some free range balls with a tee time of 11.30pm: please be there before 11.00am as we will have a shot-gun start so it takes a little more time to get bags/players organized and out to the respective holes
Schedule Change: Rancamaya Tee Set versus D.O.G.S.
Whilst the schedule page needs to be updated, we wish to inform everyone that our popular event with D.O.G.S. at Rancamaya has been moved back a week to the week-end of 25th/26th May. As usual, we will be making arrangements with the hotel to secure accommodation for the week-end as well as hosting a BBQ party on Saturday evening. Mark Johnson is kindly coordinating with the hotel and once the rates are confirmed we will be sending out the information and booking arrangements to both societies.
The reason for the change in date is due to the heavy coring which will take place at Cengkareng from 20th May and thanks to their advance notice of this, we are able to move our Monthly Medal up 1 week and accommodate both events.
Tee Set 