The Day

The excellent hospitality, cold margaritas and the opportunity to play one of Jakarta’s nicest and friendliest courses made for an attractive offer this week as we headed out as usual to Cengkareng on the last Sunday of the month. A few late cancellations saw 32 Tee Setters arrive for our Monthly Medal, round 2 of Cycle XI of the Eclectic, to witness the presentation of the Tee Set Match-Play Championship and generally to enjoy a round with friends under bright sunny skies with a gentle breeze blowing to keep things interesting.

2017 Match-Play Champion Jari Antikainen took the opportunity to lay his hands on the Ric Wymer Cup one more time capturing a great photo in front the 18th green before the round.

4 newcomers this week with a warm Tee Set welcome to Wayne Rideout, Dave Barnes, Michael Ha and Jeremy Halma. Some long welcome backs also headed by Weera Limjirakajorn after 66 weeks followed not too far behind for Minoj Mishra and Chris Cromarty who were 1 year between games.

Many thanks to our Secretary on the day, Brenda Mayland and VP Ric Wymer for managing all the registrations and scoring.

Lots of photos this week too so check them out here.

The Play

After a pre-match photo with VP Ric Wymer and his eponymous Cup , our finalists Simon Oxley and Roger Finnie were unable to separate themselves over 18 holes in the Tee Set Match-Play final. Neither managed to get more than 1 hole up and the lead changed on 12 occasions as both players put aside a nervy start to shoot back 9’s of 38 strokes to finish all square. With 6 weeks to go before the final winner must be determined, they have decided to to do it all again over 18 holes at the next Tee Set event.

Whilst our protagonists were reliving the final, we carried on with the rest of the presentations which as usual started with the skirts; 3 on the day with Amol Singhal, Shawn Berg and Andrew Shaw all being called up for the photo. Weera Limjirakajorn was our Monster Putter and Richard D’Cruz had Most Strokes in our other fines on the day.

A tie for First Par Handicaps >=30 saw Timo Karonen and Indar Dhaliwal both awarded the prize with Matt Otto taking Most Improved. Low Putts also resulted in a tie with Mark Johnson and Joseph D’Cruz being our awardees on the day.

First Birdie went to Chris Cromarty, First Sandy Andy Briston and Low Gross to Wayne Rideout.

Our net winners on the day were Chris Cromarty, Matt McGowan and Andrew Shaw (Matt Otto losing on a count-back but standing up to collect on his behalf..)

On the Monthly Medal prizes, Long Drive went to Manoj Mishra and Nearest the Pin to Matt Otto.

Our Monthly Medalist for September with an excellent 43 points despite wiping the last was Tom Grace.

Congratulations to all our winners on the day and detailed scores are here: Form_ Current Results for CGK 29 Sep 19

Next Up: Riverside Sunday 6th October 2019 12.00pm 

A change to our advertised schedule has been forced upon us as Emeralda are unable to confirm a tee time for us next Sunday due to a large competition on that morning. With Inter-League also being postponed the following week, we have therefore decided to head a week early back to Riverside to enjoy this excellent but challenging Greg Norman design.

Visually stunning off the tee boxes, the trademark optical illusions of the Shark’s designs can fool the unwary but the good service and facilities ensure we can all have a nice day out.

To join us for the excellent value of Rp775,000 with a 2 tee start at 12.00pm please sign up here.

Tee Set Championships Registrations now open

The 2019 Tee Set Championships will be held on Sunday 24th November 2019 at Matoa Nasional, just under 2 months away!!.

The report of last year’s Championship is here and the outline for the day here so you can read all about the event which is the highlight of the Tee Set calendar. Although 2019’s program is still under planning, we do not expect much in the way of changes from 2018.

2018 saw a full field of over 100 players join and after the great turn-out recently for our World Cup and Anniversary Scramble events, we expect to reach our maximum limit of players again. Already 30 players have signed up for 2019 and we will confirm the list of registrations in the next post.

In the meantime, to secure your place, please sign up here as soon as possible: 2019-tee-set-championship-registration/.

Election of the President

The Tee Set President is appointed by a vote of attendees each Championship and serves to the conclusion of the following year’s event. Whilst there is no term limit as to how long the President can remain in office for, so long as they keep being re-elected each year, having some new faces on the Committee and new ideas in the running of Tee Set ensures we keep the Society relevant and fresh for the members.

We would therefore like ask for nominations for the position of President for 2019/20 and also any expressions of interest to join the Committee. Please send your nominations to our master of the electoral process, Keith Miller at:  keith.steuart.miller@gmail.com

Nominations will close 1 week before the Championships (17th November) to enable us to  prepare the necessary voting slips and thank you to Keith for again assisting the Committee in coordinating the nominations and voting.

Finally, and as always, if nominating some-one other than yourself, please ensure the nominee is willing to stand!