Sunday 16th August 2020 Bogor Raya

The Day

An excellent turnout of 46 Tee Setters for this popular course on what was at the start of the day, a bright, warm sunny day. With a few late sign-ups, the course advanced our tee time by 30 minutes to ensure we all got off on time and so with groups completed and submitted to the starter at 11am as requested, we headed down to the practice area with keen anticipation of an excellent day.

Sadly, the early promise of a smooth day evaporated fairly quickly as the starter staff and management failed to coordinate such that the team loading carts had no clue on the pairings when we descended en-mass to start. After some confusion rained, groups were finally connected together and sent out to start on the 2 nines close to our original start time. Having held back other bookings to enable us to start as booked, the starter then proceeded to throw the waiting groups out in front of us which only served to concertina everyone together with only the first groups getting a relatively clean round. All would have OK but the rains then descended on the course at around 5.15pm and when they finally opened and pushed us off the course, most groups still had 2 or 3 holes to play, some 5 1/2 hours after we started. Chaos continued to beset us but enough on all of that for now…. feedback has been provided to Bogor Raya who offer their apologies…..

A warm Tee Set welcome to 3 newcomers on the day, Terrance Martin, Paul Sweeney and Sebastian Braun. Thank you for coming out and joining us and we hope to see you back soon. A warm welcome back to Chakkapong Yingwatt after an impressive 168 weeks and to Aaron Davies after a more modest 21 weeks.

Thank you to Mark Johnson and Craig Edwards for their support on registrations and to Mark for helping out with the scoring input and calculations of the equitable adjustments required for those who could not complete the round.

The Play No skirts on the day but newcomer Sebastian Braun managed a trifecta of awards in adding 1st Par for Handicaps >=30 to his Most Strokes and Monster Putter. Feeling curious, another of our new comers, Paul Sweeney decided to get a practice pose in with the monkey…. much to the delight of Michael Seabrook.

First Sandy was shared between Alastair Livingston and Mark Johnson whilst First Birdie went to Brett Shields and Low Putts to David Baglivo.

Richard Mau won Low Gross and our Low Net winners were Roger Finnie, Matthew Makarenko and Holger Molendyk.

Thank to everyone for their patience on the day and apologies again for the less than smooth arrangements. Congratulations to our winners and detailed results of the day are here: Bogor Ray 1608 Results

Tee Set Match-play

One match decided on the day with our only 2-time winner David Baglivo defeating Tee Set Captain Simon Reynolds 4&2.

Next-Up: Riverside Sunday 23rd August 2020

This Sunday we again take the short trip back down to Junction 19 on the Jagorawi toll as we 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 is also the 3rd round of the 2020 Jakarta Inter-League (JIL) season as Tee Set’s team, under the leadership of this year’s Captain Simon Reynolds, seeks to regain the crown last won in 2015. For those interested in more details of JIL please see the website page here.

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.

Notes:

(1) please be registered before 11.00am as we will have a shot-gun start and it takes a little more time to get bags/players organized out to the respective holes

(2) as JIL will be played off the white tees for men, we will play the white tees for Tee Set too. Ladies remain on the red tees.