This course is always a treat to play.

Green fees are 1 million Rp with carts. Tee off is 11.35am with men off the white tees; you’ll see why.

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Bits and Pieces

A big thank you from Bags and James to everyone for arranging to play the first practice round of matchplay by the deadline of 28 March as requested. The remaining matches have been delayed for good reason and will be decided in time.

Again, we are trying to encourage people to speed up play. Some of our flights don’t tee off until 1245 so in order to finish well before dark, we need to be aiming for maximum 4 and a half hour rounds, pushing if we can for 4 hour rounds, which would be awesome. We are currently tracking at over 5 hours per round; so we can only improve this if everyone cares about it and we change our ways. Our first flight normally finishes within 4 and a half hours, so it is not too much to ask.

So, the key tips consistent with the Rules of Golf are:

1. You have 40 seconds to play your shot, from the time it is your turn. Choose your clubs, walk to your ball, get your distance, before your turn. If you are not ready, invite your playing partner to play, but try to be ready and don’t blame your caddy if you’re not – that one does not fly sorry!
2. Keep up with the group in front, not the group behind.
3. Ready golf – tee off when ready, not in order; have your glove on (or off for putting); do your scoring in a way that does not delay your tee off; no need to play in turn, except in matchplay where you need permission to play out of turn.
4. Play a provisional if you are not sure your ball will be found; this will save time returning to the tee box or to the place of your wayward shot. You only have 3 minutes to find your ball.
5. Putting and chipping – read your shots on the way to your ball, before it is your turn. Keep your pre-shot routine short. You will find you get better results.
6. Gimmies – if your playing partner’s ball is within a normal grip length from the hole, concede the putt to your playing partner.
7. Pick up – now this is new for Tee Set – for stableford rounds like Cengkareng, pick up when you can no longer score on the hole and mark an X (you will not be eligible for Low Putts) – note, this is normal practice across the world for stableford rounds and that’s why it is such a common format; for strokeplay rounds, pick up once you reach 10, you’ve had enough by then! Your handicap is not affected in either case.

None of us want to police slow play, so please do it yourself! Our aim is to get below the four and half hour round target, so we will be monitoring this across flights and letting you know our progress each week. If you enjoy more time in the sun, the chance to stop and chat, or, the lower cost per hour of longer rounds, midweek on a suburban course is a fantastic time to play golf.

Finally…… while the courses are still a bit heavy, we are applying a local rule of preferred lies – lift, clean and place – but only on the fairways and closely mown areas. It does not apply to a ball in the rough. Cengkareng for example has punishing rough for a reason – to punish us– so you must play the ball as it lies, or, you can take a drop (one shot penalty) from the knee (not a place) for an unplayable lie; it is your right to determine what is unplayable for you. You are not permitted to sit your ball up without penalty so you can hit a sweet 5 wood or hybrid to get out of trouble.