The Day
The last round of the Jakarta Inter-league 2019 Season saw 68 golfers turn out at Riverside on what was a beautiful golfing day; 34 of them joining the Tee Set regular event. The course was playing in perfect condition, still running fairly fast but freshened up with a little rain over the past week.
The day kicked off with Bloody Mary’s and other refreshments put on by the JIL Committee thanks to the coordination and sponsorship of Asia Serv and Jack Calcote. After the round, we had our usual end of season BBQ kindly coordinated by Tin Cups’ Captain Iris Rothenberg. A warm thank you to both of them for the arrangements.
In addition to the 3 matches being played with JIL, we had a further 5 flights of golfers. Unfortunately, play was a little slow as we were teeing off after a morning competition but we were all finished in good time to enjoy the end of season BBQ, recognize the Tee Set winners of the day and the overall winners of the JIL competition.
A warm Tee Set welcome back to Phil Mckean (who predated the data-base and therefore fell into the newcomers bracket), and both Christain Engstrom (254 weeks) and Jess Kindler (84 weeks) who are just a little more regular!. This week was also the last week of the current visit for Mike Taylor and we wish him a safe return home – see you all again soon.
Many thanks to VP Ric Wymer for taking care of the scoring and presentations as well as to Jens Roestel and Simon Oxley who assisted with the administration on the day.
The Play
A few misunderstandings from the reporting on the score sheets as we had no skirt on the day, nor any eagles…. and as our Most Strokes and Monster Putter winner, Oliver Fritz, had already departed, our Treasurer was to finish the day empty handed. On his last round before heading home, Mike Taylor put in a sterling effort on his back nine to win Most Improved. Lis Wymer and Graham Parsonage shared First Birdie whilst Jari Antikainen had Low Putts and Brett Shields 1st Sandy.
Continuing a run of form, Roger Finnie took home Low Gross whilst our Low Net winners on the day were Santi Miller, Jens Roestel and Timo Karonen.
Congratulations to our winners and the detailed results are here: Riverside Results 17-11-19
In the JIL presentations, a warm vote of thanks was given to Peng Siong and his team at Riverside as well as to all the Team Captains and Committee who ensured the season went smoothly. A further warm appreciation to Iris and Jack for ensuring everyone was well fed and watered during the party.
Tee Set under the leadership of Captain Simon Oxley had a much improved JIL season, ultimately finishing 2nd on the table after last year’s wooden spoon. The mantle of the wooden spoon was taken up by Sandbaggers whilst Tin Cups again proved too strong and retained the Cup won in 2018 – metaphorically at least as the actual cup seems to have gone walk-about and we had to use a model-double for the occasion.
2019 Tee Set Championships: Matoa Sunday 24th November
Next up…
…it’s the biggest golfing party of the Tee Set year, our annual Championship which as usual, is being held at Matoa Nasional. Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, and no small amount of work by your Tee Set Championship Committee members, we are all set to have a great day of golf, camaraderie, prize giving and an excellent party to close out the Tee Set year.
A brief run down on the day:
From 6am:
- Registrations open, check starting hole, collect locker key and goodie bag
- Free mini Medical Check by Mayapada Hospital
- Election voting for 2019/20 Tee Set President
- Breakfast served
- Group photo
Shot-gun start from 7am with the Hot Head BBQ, smoothies from Asia Serv and San Miguel beers all available on the course to keep you energized. We will have the usual skill prizes with hole on one prizes sponsored on hole 4 by Mayapada Hospital and on hole 12 by Matoa Nasional as well as the Long Drive on 9.
Post round after handing in score cards, shower and change for lunch the from 12.30pm:
- Lunch and refreshments in the function room
- The Singing President Craig Ewers and his band will be providing the entertainment
- Announcement of the election results
- Speeches, acknowledgements and Prize-giving
- Party until dusk
During the day we will have our photographer roving the course along with the Web-guy Keith Miller and his drone to capture all the fun of the Championships. Don’t be shy as you will be able to access all the photos and footage for free on the web-site after we have loaded them all up.
There is of course so much more detail to the day and this will be sent out separately to all those who have signed up later this week.
So far we have 107 110 111 playing sign-ups and so there are just 5 2 1 spot left for those who are undecided. Please sign up here as soon as possible if you wish to join – note whilst we can manage a few who show up on the day, we cannot be prepared with goodie bags etc.. for you if we do know by Thursday night. The all in fee for the day is Rp1.3j per player with members of Matoa being charged Rp775k.
If you have already signed up and wish to check we captured you then please check here. Please advise Roger Finnie asap if you feel your name is missing from the list…
The Championships are such a great event, in no small part thanks to all our sponsors. So far Asian Tigers, Asia Serv, Hot-Hed, JS Luwansa Hotel, Kojo, LF Logistics, San Miguel, Schenck Process, Bintang Sub-sea, Samson Tiara, Fugro, Bina Nusantara Perkasa and Mayapada Hospitals have all confirmed their support for 2019’s event as Sponsors and our sincere appreciation to all of them.
Lastly, there is a lot of effort needed on Saturday to get everything ready, if you are able to lend a hand for a few hours at Matoa on Saturday afternoon, please contact VP Ric Wymer.
Tee Set 
Roger or Ric, I will bring the pina colada drink as promised , just need someone to serve, and a table to set it up on. I will bring the plastic cups . Cheers
Best Regards ,
Jeff Durham
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CP: +62818185644
Many thanks Jeff