Sunday 30th August 2020 Cengkareng

The Day

Sunday was the end of a long week-end of golf with the ever popular Asian Tigers 45 Hole tournament played on Friday, regular society games on Saturday and Tee Set’s monthly medal played on Sunday… fully 81 holes of golf for the most hardy or foolhardy! of us over 3 days. It may account for the late drop out of several players but with some last minute sign-ups we had a reasonable turnout of 43 players this week.

The weather was perfect for golf and we got round in reasonable time, although some groups got a little detached and found themselves behind one or two new groups who filled the gap… a reminder to everyone to try and keep up the pace of play please. The course was in good conditions with the greens playing a bit faster this week and the gentle breeze was enough to keep everyone thinking about club selection.

A warm Tee Set welcome to Pete Masters and a warm welcome back to Alyric Merriott after 52 weeks, Andy Briston (12 weeks), Manfred Borer (107 weeks), Paul Franklin (124 weeks) and Ronan O’Neill (61 weeks).

A big thank you to Craig Edwards for his assistance with registrations and to VP Ric Wymer for being the master of ceremonies and managing the scoring after the round. Having completed his operation, your President is now counting down the weeks to November when he hopes to be back in action….

A note of congratulations to VP Bill Lloyd on the success of his Asian Tigers 45 holes Challenge event on Friday. With 65 players taking on the 45 hole challenge and 29 players turning out for the more relaxed 18 hole version, the event had its largest turnout ever. Congratulations to regular Tee Setters Paul Daud and Lis Wymer who won Best Gross and Best Net on the 18 hole tournament. Gavin Webb and James Huang, respectively, took the prizes on the 45 Hole Challenge.

The Play

A SNAFU on the management of the database means we are unable to recover the results sheet for the usually excellent results summary. Apologies for any mistakes…but matching the scoring to the photos was slightly complicated by some winners going early after a long week-end of golf.

A trifecta of prizes for Dmitri Burge with his Most Strokes and Monster Putter being offset financially by Most Improved. Tom Grace joining Dmitri for Monster Putter and newcomer, Pete Masters sharing the Most Improved prize too. Michael Mueller and Timo Karonen were our only 2 skirts on the day, a rather low return for Cengkareng. Saving the family coffers, Cucu Chandra secured First Sandy along with Alastair Livingston.

Low Putter on the day was Craig Edwards and Low Gross Richard Mau whilst our Low Net prizes were secured by Santi Miller, Juju Juhaeriah and Graeme Bain.

James Bristow and Rosie Tjaden were our Long Drivers and Graeme Bain and Lis Wymer the Near Pins in the monthly medal skill prize categories.

Cleaning up however on the Monthly Medal was David Baglivo who returned 42 points to win by 1 point from Graeme Bain.

Congratulations to all our winners and detailed results are here: Cengkareng 3008 Results

Tee Set Eclectic Cycle XII

Congratulations to Jari Antikainen who took home the honours in the first completed cycle in 2020. Our 12th different winner so we still await the first 2-time winner as we enter Cycle XIII

Next Up: Jagorawi Sunday 6th September 2020

With JIL having moved to Riverside, we have not had as many visits to Jagorawi as in past years. This week we make our second visit of the year 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. Note we have requested the Old Course but due to maintenance on it this week the condition may not be a good as usual. However if the course is in reasonable condition we will make a late switch to the Old Course.

Tee time is 12.00pm 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 11.00am 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.