The Day and the Play
Yes, as usual Monthly Medal day is about the play, so congratulations up front to Michael, our Monthly Medalist for March, with 44 stableford points. Michael adds this to his Big Dog and other recent victories. He threatens to play himself out of C Grade at this rate. Michael is a lot of fun on and off the course and was a very popular winner!
He outplayed and out survived the rest of our field of 42 on what was one of the hottest days we have had for a while.
Our call to speed up play was on everyone’s mind: groups that started on hole 10 had a longer wait between nines through no fault of their own, but generally groups moved well with the faster group being 4 hours 43 minutes and the slowest being 5 hours and 5 minutes, but they finished directly behind the groups in front of them. For a walking course in that heat, we’re ok with that for now, well done!.
Welcome to newcomer Zach, pictured in wig below, and big welcomes back to the Greens, Cindy and Adam, Tapio, Marvin and Jeremy, who is pictured below with the smile of the week.
A big call out, or should I say a big whisper, to Geoff and his company, Kojo, for sponsoring the Monthly Medal, as they have done for many years!
The after match was enjoyable as usual, the processing of results was fast thanks to Beby and Ric, the food and service excellent, and the presentations entertaining, with Bill donning his DOGS tee shirt out of brotherly love and to remind everyone of our DOGS – Tee Set weekend at Rancamaya on 8-9 May. Details here – so be snappy, book your rooms now with MJ before the best ones go.
Talking of snappy, there were some great threads on display today. Bill’s shorts get an honourable mention and Colourful Christine as always was among the trendsetters, but hubby Arnold, outshone Christine today in this brave ensemble of purple, hot pink and sparkled belt, with matching mask. Christine, instead, featured in winners’ photos below. Suave Gurav and Fancy Pants Bristow were missing today and have some catching up to do. As always, our skirt photo brings out some colour and movement, and newcomer Zach joined Bill and Diarmuid to show off the gear.
There were lots of winners today, a slightly changed prize system to align with stableford scoring, so net and gross stroke scores are no longer considered, but left in here to recognise some great rounds. As announced last week, we have done away with Monster Putter and Most Strokes fines, so they are blocked completely with apologies to Jari who did his best to get noticed with a 13, despite the pick up rule. Here is the summary of results, redacted until we reprogram our system to match the decisions of the Committee.
In matchplay, Sami won his first ever matchplay singles match of his golfing life, 5 and 4 in an absolute spanking. He invented the term “delayed back spin” after landing an approach shot on a slope, and watching it, several seconds later roll towards the hole. There were other great lines about his win but this is a family blog so they will remain on the course and your scribe would rather forget about it.
So now for the other winners, some of them double winners. I’ll have to talk you through the photos because it’s complicated….starting with the skill prizes, (1) TPS shared closest to the pin with Rika – more on her later, (2) our youngest golfer Kayla smashed a 200m bomb to win Longest Drive ladies , (3) Richard had a miserly, fringe dwelling 23 putts, (4) Sami had first sandy par on Hole 1, and (5) Rika, Jeremy, Juju and Axel shared the love but kept the money after all having First Birdie on Hole 1. Rika also shared Nearest to the Pin and Jeremy also had longest drive for Men with 237m. No wonder he was smiling like this!! Axel was also runner up for the Monthly Medal and (6) Christine, now changed out of her colourful gear into winner’s attire, was third, great rounds from both players. Clear as mud? Well done all!!!!!
More photos here and complete scores of the day here.
Next Up: Sunday 4 April, First Round of Annual Eclectic, Imperial Golf Klub (with a K), 11.55am 995k with carts
Yes we are back to Imperial Golf Klub with a “K”, for the first round of the eclectic, which this year is a four round event held during the rounds at Imperial. James “I’ll give it a go” Bristow has kindly volunteered to manage the eclectic comp for us, which will start this week, and continue on 11th July and 1st August, finishing up on 14th November.
Men, and women who dare, will be playing off the white tees . The standard Tee Set prizes will also operate for each of the 4 rounds .
This event was previously combined with the monthly medal at Cengkareng but will now be more visible with the full scores and leaderboard published the week after each round to allow players to track their position and which holes they need to make improvements on .
There’s lots happening over the Easter weekend, including Geoff’s Bandung Bash – see here – but for those wanting to get off to a good start in the eclectic comp, most likely with reduced numbers this weekend, here’s your chance! Sign in here.
I’m not sure if we can call it a tradition yet after one time, but players are invited to Gimmy’s Climaxxx bar nearby the course, for great food, drinks and music after play. If they keep having us back, this will also be the venue for the presentation of the Eclectic Comp after its crescendo, grand finale, big finish…um, climax…on 14 November.
Tee Set 