The Day
Sunday was the second of our rearranged weeks this month and the value of signing up early and reading carefully the Tee Set blogs was demonstrated by some plaintive cries from Riverside where a couple of our members had headed in error only to find we were not there this week. Nevertheless, 29 Tee Setters turned up at Gading Raya to enjoy a relaxed round and were well looked after as usual by the team there.
Overall the course was in good nick, especially the greens where some of our fringe dwellers were to enjoy a good day with their putting stats! Kudos to Richard Mau who joined us after a morning round and thank you Mike Webb & Shawn Berg who brought along a couple of newcomers and help sell some Tee Set shirts. Thank you also to Bill LLoyd and Geoff Thwaites who coordinated to help us supply a left handed set of clubs to one of our newcomers.
4 newcomers this week and a warm Tee Set welcome to Jay Kim, Djamel Derguini, Markus Karonen and Matthew Makarenko. Back for their annual visit and therefore 50 weeks between rounds were Anna and Frank Wilson and we had another warm welcome back to Cory Packard after 20 weeks.
Many thanks to Jens Roestel and Lis Wymer for assisting VP Ric Wymer with the scoring and presentations. Photos of the day are here.
The Play
With the greens in good condition there was no Monster Putter on the day but despite the fast fairways, a couple of players did manage to pull up on their drives before the red tees meaning we welcomed Mike Webb and Cory Packard up for the Skirt photo. Cory did get his revenge with an eagle on his 1oth hole whilst the Treasurer had a field day with a 4-way tie for Most Strokes of 9 shared between Albert Arcenas, Zander Watt, Arnold Castillon and Bill Lloyd.
First Par for Handicaps =>30 went to Timo Karonen, whilst Ezra Alexander was our Most Improved and newcomer, Djamel Derguini won First Sandy. First Birdie went to Marcelo De Jesus.
Paul Daud took home Low Putts whilst our Low Gross was the returning Frank Wilson with an excellent 82 off the stick. Low Net winners saw Michal Lubasik up for the second week in a row where he was joined by Jens Roestel and Jochen Overberg.
Congratulations to all our winners and detailed results are here: Gading Raya Results131019
Next Up: Jagorawi New Course Sunday 20th September 2019 12.30pm
With JIL having moved to Riverside this season, we have not had a visit to Jagorawi in recent months. This week we get to change this and look forward to playing the excellent but tricky golfing challenge of the New Course where you really need to think through many of your shots, particularly off the tee.
Tee time is 12.30pm officially but we are expecting to get off a little earlier and possibly with a shot-gun start so we ask all of you to be at the course before 12pm please.
We will play white tees this week for men and if you are interested to join us please sign up here. Price is Rp950k with carts.
Tee Set Championships Sunday 24th November 2019
Sponsors Needed
Tee Set is able to run its key events thanks to the generosity of our sponsors. Thank you to our 2018/19 sponsors: Asian Tigers, Asia Serv, Hot-Hed, JS Luwansa Hotel, Kojo, Loesche, San Miguel, Schenck Process, Bintang Sub-sea, Samson Tiara, Mayapada Hospitals and Fugro; we hope you can come on board again for 2019/20.
However, we are always in need of some extra sponsors as we seek to upgrade the quality of the Championship and if you are able to offer some financial help to fund the Championship or other Tee Set events please contact Ric Wymer or Roger Finnie directly.
Election of the President: Candidates required
The Tee Set President is appointed by a vote of attendees each Championship and serves to the conclusion of the following year’s event. With current President Roger Finnie having served 2 1/2 years already, the Committee are seeking candidates for President for 2019/20.
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!
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 40% of the available places have been reserved for 2019 and to check we have your name registered please see here: Sign Up tracking 2019 . For those who wish to make their groups and did not do so already, please also let us know.
For those not yet registered, to secure your place, please sign up here as soon as possible: 2019-tee-set-championship-registration/.
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