Jarkarta Interleague, that time of the month when you really find out where people’s loyalties lie. TeeSet a club coming up to 40 years of active golf activities, an email list in the thousands (most have moved or died but hey we have a list). TeeSet who organises weekly golf games for the local and expatriate community every Sunday come rain, hail or religious holiday, never asking for anything just happy to serve that’s TeeSet. Solid as Borobudur, reliable as a Kijang, but come Interleague Sunday and we watch as the rats leave the ship. The bastard teams that TeeSet have spawned, teams such as the Tin Lids, Sharks, Sand Castles and Chihuahuas all basically made up of golfers who cut their international golfing teeth with the mighty TeeSet. These aforementioned bastards all sit atop TeeSet in the League. TeeSeters you need to look deep into your black Sand Castle heart and ask yourself does it feel right representing this mob when I could be helping the pure strain of golf society that is TeeSet. Wearing the TeeSet shirt, young men stand aside, women admire, and respect is universal. A shirt that has a tin lid on it somehow or another does not garner as much respect. Sitting here at the keyboard I feel a bit like Jay Monahan when the Camel Jockeys rode into town and took his stars away. TeeSet does not have the money of the PGAT or LIV but we have Spirit. We play golf in the true spirit of the game we will never shirk a battle, we will never concede a hole, we will play fair and we will prevail. So when Dean asks for numbers at the next Interleague competition I expect his Whatsapp account to be swamped with keen TeeSetters willing to go that extra mile for the club and don the club colours and venture forth onto the golf links of Jakarta for the greater glory of TeeSet. Hoorick hoorah TeeSet TeeSet rah rah rah. (Unfortunately I like Cameron Smith sold my soul, not to LIV but Pocksia)

Pondok Cabe a course on the rise, vast improvements since the dark days of covid. Sand in the bunkers, greens improved (still a bit hard on some of them) club house with a new coat of paint and they sent the towels to the laundry earlier this year. Cheap beers on the golf course, caddies in all shapes and sizes and golf carts with no brakes. This is a course on the rise in the eyes of many Jakarta golfers. It was great to see a strong turnout amongst TeeSetters not playing in the interleague. We got off to a semi shotgun start and went straight into a traffic jam of biblical proportions but this gave Riccardo and Diarmuid that extra father/son time on the golf course with Simon and Sean. Great to see families getting out there and enjoying a pleasant Sunday on the golf track. Conditions were ideal and heavy smokers and drinkers could get a couple in on each hole as play was slow for the first 9 holes. The cry of FORE was frequently heard but most targets were fortunately missed. An Indonesian caddie will yell fore at anything pretty much, to the point that golfers are numb to the call and no evasive action is ever taken. Any way I digress, one of my strong points.

Perfect conditions for golf after 2 holes in the heat it clouded over nicely and golfers were left to handle the great challenges that this course offers. Bunkers, doglegs, water and trees. From checking the scores most seemed to play close to their handicaps but putts were a bit on the high side. There is a bit of speed in a few of these greens and bounce.

Pondok Cabe will host TeeSet’s big Birthday Bash on the 10th of September so now is a good time to start organising your Texas Scramble teams(Ambrose to the Antipodean Colonials). We will have the whole course for a shotgun start no jam ups guaranteed so next week we will put out the registration forms and first in first served, bound to be a sellout. Great prizes (including free tickets to the 2025 Comm Games) great after golf activities.

Captain Dean takes best Stableford with 39. Send this man your commitment for next interleague.

Hitoshi takes a low gross win due to an early departure by Richard.

First birdie to Axel on hole 13 but that could be anywhere as it was a shotgun start. Well done.

The low putt twins Viboon and Seabrook due to a few people being OB and/or winning other prizes.

Roger took first Sandy but the camera never made it to the Pocksia table. The Pocksia table at the end was made up of the TeeSet hardcore liquor lads. We might be holding up the ladder in Interleague but we sit ahead of the pack in the drinking stakes, in a league of our own.

Next Sunday is Gunung Geulis tee off to be confirmed but normally before 12. So sign up and enjoy one of Jakarta/Bogor’s premier mountain courses. Use MyGolf2U. See you Sunday

Cheers and may your god smile upon you

Mr President (Impeach, impeach)