The Day

Once again the resilient spirit of Tee Set was on show and the 2020 Championships charged ahead successfully at the Cengkareng Golf Club on Saturday; many thanks to Kurt, Olivia and the Cengkareng team for their effort in making our day so enjoyable.

 

In total, 107 players competed, teeing off in a shot-gun start from different tee boxes. Jamal’s pre-game Bloody Mary’s and Screwdrivers were a hit as usual and the yearly photo above (masks on this year!) presented its usual chaos.

 

The club did a great job with precautions and Tee Set players respected social distancing, even during some exuberant dancing near the end of the night, impossible to avoid when Pascal’s classic disco mix comes on.

The event is made possible through your registration fees and fines building up through the year and being spent at this and other special events, through generous sponsors, hard working helpers and your dedicated committee – Roger, Ric, Bill and exiled web guy, Keith Miller.

Jack Calcote and AsiaServ, as always, provided their ever popular smoothies and margarita machines, and Aisha did a great job as official photographer. Bob Fleischmann and the Hot Hed team provided sponsorship and the awesome hot dogs. Andy Coop’s LF Logistics and Mick Dodsworth’s Schenck Process sponsored cash and prizes, Dan Javier’s PT Delta provided cash and Anker and San Miguel product, which mysteriously evaporated over the day, Bill Lloyd and Asia Tigers as always with cash and prize hampers, the King of Hospitality, Richard Mau, provided smiles and low scores and JS Luwansa provided voucher prizes and the magnificent cake, Roger Finnie and Mayapada Group for cash support, medical check ups and the standby ambulance – which we are happy to say was not to be needed, Michael Seabrook and JIIB Financials for their sponsorship, Geoff Thwaites and Kojo as always for sponsoring the monthly medal throughout the year, Lis Wymer and Tupperware for the drink bottles in the goodie bags and Sumo Caddy for the very handy handuk (towels) in the goodie bags and very cool door prizes. Thanks to Stefan Thiele and Rooftop West, the safest live music venue in Jakarta – just above Museum Macan – for supplying more of the liquid ingredients that made the day flow.

Our appreciation too for our special helpers from Star Kemang – Wulan, Kephy and Rini – this for packing the goodie bags and ferrying refreshments around the course. And a big shout out to Beby for entering scorecards and managing handicaps throughout the season.

A big welcome to 9 newcomers to Tee Set (see below) and a big welcome back for many Tee Setters, but especially for Tuti after 366 weeks. Tuti also won most strokes on a hole, enjoying it so much she took 12 strokes to finish.

And a very special thanks to outgoing Tee Set President, Roger Finnie, after 3 1/2 years. Roger, with others, helped further integrate the Tee Set, DOGS and JAWS groups in Jakarta so we can move freely between them on one handicap system and regularly participated in all of them. He also enjoys playing with Pocksia and has been a huge supporter of Jakarta Interleague. He put together as accurate a history of Tee Set as is possible with the fading memories of the brains trust and he put a mountain of work into managing the society. Roger has handed over to a committee of 3 former Presidents, Ric Wymer, Geoff Thwaites and Craig Ewers, and 2 Tee Set legends, Dave Baglivo and Bill Lloyd. The Committee will assign roles, including a chair.

If you want to be represented in the running of Tee Set, then please volunteer for the Committee, you will be most welcome and there will be a role for you.

The Play

The course was in great shape and the weather was ideal. No excuses for those of us who had shocking starts, except perhaps that we could then relax and enjoy the smoothies, secure in being out of contention. For those still in it, there was suspense, skill with 2 (possibly 3) eagles, lots of tee shots very close to the pin and an impressive 290m (317 yard) drive to win longest drive (see below). But let’s get straight to it!!!!

2020 Champion – Cucu Chandra

At the end of the round, the golfers staggered in with one clear winner; our 2020 Tee Set Champion is Cucu Chandra for shooting a remarkable nett 61 which included 8 pars and a birdie, even overcoming a 9 on the par 4 hole 10th!

Cucu has been a regular part of Tee Set for many years, participating in many trips away and special events. She ranks this as the highlight of her life in Tee Set, perhaps even on a par with meeting Tom! Ever the gracious playing partner and gentleman Tom was the first to call for a handicap adjustment after Cucu’s round. Our champions over the years have come from all grades, reinforcing the fact that Tee Set is a nett golf society, and Cucu made every C Grader proud today!

 

2020 Low Gross Champion – Richard Mau maintained his brilliant Championship performances of the last few years by winning the George Bevage memorial trophy for Low Gross again, shooting 76, 7 under his handicap to narrowly edge out Tim Knight on 77, who is always in the hunt and created his chance with a fine eagle on the 18th hole.

Some other great rounds were good enough for prizes – Dave (Bags) Baglivo trumping other contenders to win A Grade with a fine nett 66; Sami leading the B Graders home with a nett 64 and Diana winning C Grade with a net 64, all very happy winners shooting great rounds on the right day. Not sure they got out with all their prizes, perhaps due to that mysteriously evaporating beer!

Dave Prosser traded power for finesse to take the first sandy par on his second hole played, Emiliano was the first of 28 birdies for the day on his first hole played and Aleksi either read the greens well or spent a lot of time chipping from the fringes for his winning 28 low putts.

Mike Riley carded the first par among the Over 30 handicappers, always a tough competition and Philip Schaferdieck came home strong, 14 strokes better than he went out in. Philip also won Nearest to the Pin on the 4th, Gaurav Shirke won NTP on both 8 and 17, Imran Harum was closest on 12. Longest hitters were Emiliano Marcelo with a monster 290 metres and Diana Budiarti, both on the second hole.

Here is the day’s scoring summary, full results are here.

 

Annual Competitions

As well as the Championship awards, we also recognise the winners of events that have been held through the Tee Set year.

2020 Matchplay Champion – Arnold Castillon – and Runner Up – Mark Johnson

Thanks again to Matchplay Supremo, James Ross, for organising the competition through the year, always tricky with scheduling.

 

 

2020 Eclectic Winners – Tom Grace and Jari Antikaenin

The eclectic competition was started in 2015, held on monthly medal rounds. Tom and Jari may be the last winners as we plan to discontinue this format next year.

It’s been fun but now that we are more integrated with other groups, we feel that the DOGS group have a great eclectic event every week and we want to give priority to the monthly medal when it is held.

Monthly Medal winners for the year were also honoured again and Geoff Thwaites and Kojo were thanked for providing the trophies each month.

A full range of statistics were provided, thanks as usual to our mysterious Web Guy for his painstaking adherence to data integrity, and these allowed us to award prizes for Lowest Average Gross over the Year – Simon Reynolds – with 23 rounds played for an average gross score of 80.7, Lowest Average Nett over the Year – Roger Finnie – with 36 rounds played for an average nett score of 73.3. Roger also took out lowest average puts with 28.7 per round. As usual, our stalwart Ric Wymer won the Iron Man with the most rounds played, 47, lower than his usual because of a bout of dengue fever.

The Fun

Photos of the day can be found in the link here.

Out of respect to all who had a great time and don’t deserve to be judged for it, we have decided to be discreet and not feature event photos on the blog this year. What we would like to say is thank you all for your relative restraint , your respect for others in this difficult time, and your commitment to this fantastic society. Tee Set is an incredibly diverse mix of great men and women now from all around the world, and Saturday once again showed the camaraderie among golfers, some who have now known each other through Jakarta golf for well over 20 years.

And just to let you know we live and play in a jungle.…

Sharing the event on the ninth hole was this cobra, no doubt from the same family as the one who decided to give Craig Edwards a love bite earlier in the year.

The offending snake that time died after some handy club work by Santi Miller, but Craig is a true Aussie battler and survived.

Fortunately Craig was not in the group on Saturday that stumbled across this beauty or he may very well have jumped onto his caddy’s back and bolted.

 

 

 

 

Next up

So a truly great day and it’s all over for another year; many thanks to all for your participation in the Championship and we hope to see you regularly throughout the 2020/21 Tee Set year, starting next week at Jagorawi when we play the New Course when the fees will be 950,000 roops including cart and with a midday tee off. Sign up here to join the fun.