Sunday 8th September 2019 Gading Raya

The Day

A rather smaller than expected 22 Tee Setters headed out this Sunday to what is usually a popular venue for us at Gading Raya. The day itself was overcast but otherwise dry and with the course being quiet around our appointed tee time, we headed out in good time for our 2 tee start and what was looking to be a smooth round. Sadly, we were to experience a delay on one side as additional groups were inserted at the turn and so the quicker finishers were enjoying a rather long wait over refreshments as we had to get all the results in to conduct the prize-giving.

One newcomer on the day and a warm Tee Set welcome to Olivier Herzog, who wasted no time getting in amongst the presentations as can be seen below. A warm welcome back to Mick Mongold after 50 weeks and Mike Harling after 27 weeks. We look forward to welcoming you all back soon.

Many thanks to VP Ric Wymer for managing arrangements on the day in the continued absence of The President and photos of the day are here.

The Play

Unusually for Gading, no Monster Putter this week but contributions for 2 skirts from Olivier Herzog and Steve Bowhill and Most Strokes from Bill Lloyd just about kept the Treasurer happy. Olivier however was to recover his fine securing Most Improved on the day.

First Birdie was presented to Jari Antikainen and Low Gross to the returning Mick Mongold.

2 notable results in the Low Net winners category with Shawn Berg shooting under 80 for the first time to secure Low Net A and Tan Chee Hwa’s incredible net 59 sending the statisticians into the record books to see if this was the lowest ever Tee Set score returned. Not to be outdone, Paul Daud also returned a great score of net 65 to join them.

Congratulations to all our winners on the day and detailed results are here: Form_ Current Results gading 150919

Next Up: Riverside Sunday 15th September 11.30am shotgun

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 3rd round of the 2019 Jakarta Inter-League season as Tee Set’s team looks to build on its solid start to the league. 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 10.30am 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

Other events

Please check out the Classified page on the website for details of the upcoming PNG National Day golf day this Friday and 2 great non-golf events which are being supported by Tee Set sponsors and which you may enjoy: (1) the Australian Rules Grand Final party and (2) San Miguel Oktoberfest party