2020 Tee Set Charity Drive

In 2019 Tee Set members donated over 160kg of unwanted clothes which went to support the relief efforts in Palu and Lombok helping those affected by the earthquakes which badly hit those regions. For the current year, we would like to launch a new effort, appropriately named Tee Set Vision 20/20.

Like your President, I am sure many of you have old glasses and/or outdated prescriptions which are lying in your drawers at home. We will be happy to collect these from you over the next few months and once we have a sizable collection, we will distribute them amongst the poor and needy where they can make a difference to the quality of life for many. Please bring them along to any Tee Set game and pass them to any committee members to add to the collection. If you know the actual prescription please put a small note in the glasses box or on the frames – if not we’ll sort it out! Thank you in advance for your contributions to this worthy effort.

Australia Day Charity Event

Please check out the Classified’s page as this popular event makes a comeback from the outback on 24th January 2020 at Senayan.

Handicaps: New E-mail Address for Scorecards

In 2019 we merged our handicap process with D.O.G.S. and this has been a positive development in getting more rounds played by the respective memberships entered into a single handicap system thanks to the efforts of the Committees of both Societies. We have also seen an uptick in the number of scorecards being submitted, as they all should be, for games played outside of the regular events hosted by the 2 societies. Thank you all for this effort to ensure we have the most accurate and update handicaps available for both sets of members.

It has of course also meant an increase in the number of emails being received to the regular Tee Set email account. To better manage those related solely to scorecards being submitted, we have set up a dedicated email for this purpose: teesetcards@gmail.com.

Please can future scorecards you are sending be submitted to this account going forward. Scorecards submitted to the Tee Set account or handed over to the Secretary/Committee on a Sunday afternoon will still be processed but it may not be as quick.

Whilst on the subject of handicaps…. As many of you are aware, the new global handicap system is being rolled out in 2020. It is not a one-shot exercise but a progressive roll-out where-by those unions, USGA and Australia Golf notably, which are already broadly in line with the new system will change over early in 2020 and those for which it is a more extensive process of change, notably the UK unions under the current CONGU system, will change over later in the year – around November from the latest announcements by the R&A.

Our handicap system provider, under the USGA system, has advised that the 2020 module will be compliant to the World Handicap System and so when we roll over to the new module, usually January each year, our handicaps will be recalculated under this new rules. The only major change which will be notable for us is that the handicap will become the average of the best 8 cards versus best 10 presently (for those with 20 counting cards) and handicaps will tighten slightly as a result.

There are also administrative caps on how quickly a handicap can rise and adjustments on the daily playing conditions which may impact the overall results of the group on a particular day versus the standard ratings for the course. These will be handled within the system and therefore require no additional work on our part. We do not know when other Societies and Clubs will change over but we expect it to be sooner rather than later since all largely follow the USGA process for which the January transition is slated.