Golf is a passion, not some cold hearted, spreadsheet dominated rational exercise.
 
On a Friday, you want irrational reaction. You want emotion to trump reason.
 
What you really want is idiotic hysteria.
 
You’ve come to the right place as we run down the World Cup, the day that was.

115 players ventured into the lovely golf club at Riverside 24 players went home with tin grins after picking up a trophy for doing better than the losers. Many more golfers won lucky draw prizes which if that was all that they won was a true measure of their golfing abilities. Other golfers won pure arse skill prizes for once in a lifetime shots at a thin rope, a long drive, or being very close to the hole. The biggest scam of the day was best dressed taken out by the Australian Team, it pays to be President.

The day started early for the President and even earlier for the Club Secretary, Adhe. The President was there early getting the beer on ice and the water cooled down before the event started. It seems everyone got at least one visit from the beer vans. As the evening went on the President discovered groups of beer hoarders had been at work during the round. The idea was take one drink and let the cart move on, but no that was too difficult for some greedy golfers out there. Anyway once again it was good to be President, but not a greedy President. Beer being supplied during the round needs some thinking to ensure that we get it right next time.

Over 20 nations were represented in this years Cup spread over 19 teams leading it to be the biggest World Cup yet. A big thank you to Riverside for herding 115 stray teeset cats onto the course at the prescribed time. The morning golfers were a bit slow, so after a short delay sorting caddies and we were away. The course was in great condition and the greens had a few tricky pin placements. The President felt some of the tree placements were also a bit dodgy and some of the ravines could have been moved. Reports were coming in that eagles were being scored with gay abandon (please note the original meaning of gay as an adjective), birdies were coming thick and fast and swearing by the President subdued due to being in the presence of a lady. Golfers pretty much got around in regulation time and the format was a winner.

The presentations/lucky draw were started so we could get home earlyish or in some cases get seriously hammered. It was noted that there were several tables that were there for the booze more so than the golf. Seriously hammered tables included the Rosie/Sarah table any table Hitoshi visited, Min/David table and definitely the Philippines were drinking for the country’s pride. The Italians couldn’t handle the pressure and went home. The French slow wilted under pressure and lost team members. The Finns had heaps and were off to Loewys to have heaps more. Back to the prizes the President’s cries for more beer went unnoticed so frequent stops were needed to keep the president hydrated. But eventually we got there. See the Team winners for Best Net and Best Gross below

A huge thanks to Craig and Roger who spent ages inputting the team scores. Its people doing these thankless tasks that make events such as these so successful. Thanks fellas. Looks like they were well nourished and watered.

Adrian Brink a keen Teesetter whilst in Indonesia is moving on to Portugal. So if you happen to be in the Lisbon area look him up. He was handing back wine in favour of balls during the prize giving. Wine’s cheap there. Also great thanks to Peng and Amel at Riverside for once again making thing go as smoothly as possible during the day.

There were a couple of bottles of wine left on the presentation table, one being the Presidents, which mysteriously disappeared. No matter security footage has been handed over to be Brimob for closer assessment who will be handling the issue from here. Also a couple of TeeSetters forgot to pay their bills on leaving this is a gentle reminder to pay them or Brimob may be visiting you also.

So from the fog of war a hero emerges from an alcoholic fog emerges this late, poorly construed and grammatically challenged report.

See you next Sunday at Jagorawi for our game also playing alongside JIL. Team TeeSet is still looking for a couple of players please contact Dean Merriless, myself or Adhe if you can helpout.

More photos from last Sunday will be posted on the WhatsApp group tomorrow as the President is a busy man.

Finally a huge thanks to our Sponsors Johannes from Wavin, Rosita from MB Logistics and the team at JIIB Financial. I believe we have a new sponsor wanting to join this group. Great job.

Adios

The President (24 weeks)