Excitement quite intense prevails amongst the TeeSet golfers when it comes to Interleague day. Captain Dean had assembled a pretty strong team on paper for the battle of the Zimmer Frames taking on Pocksia. How our brave captain’s heart must have skipped a beat as he watched Patrick ‘Dead Eye’ Chaundy, Diarmuid Flanagan aka The Kneecapper and Bill ‘Committeeman’ Lloyd all pulling up chairs and nestling in with Jack’s Tin Cups. But lo, worse was to come for today’s opponents Pocksia contained 2 ex-TeeSet presidents and worse, the current president. Shame, shame, shame.

Moresly sitting at another table were the DOGS deep into their cups also scanning the roomful of treacherous golfers. It all resembled an early scene out of MacBeth, “double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble,” as once loyal allies started turning up in enemy camps. And to make all worse, there was Axel who late in life has become a golfing gigolo, will play for pay. So the TeeSetters and DOGS the golf societies that spawned most of these teams are now looking on like disappointed parents, a prodigal son like moment.

Now you may be wondering about the photos above this blurb. Well these are some of history’s better known traitors. A bottle of wine from the president to the TeeSetter who can identify these 5 fine fellows and pair them with the correct treacherous TeeSetters. Answers via the Whatsapp group before Sunday. Winner will be announced at The Monthly Medal. This should be interesting and maybe even mildly insulting, let’s see. 🙂

A semi shotgun start saw golfers heading off to their allocated teebox. And before the first ball had even been hit, treachery was afoot. Pocksia’s Craig Edwards had taken up residence in TeeSetter Albert’s cart. What were these two up to. The President arrived at Teebox 4 to jeering and heckling from the TeeSetters and promptly slapped his ball into the trees never to be seen again. The battle had commenced and 64 players went to work, winning, losing and halving holes. The game was slow, very slow but the stakes were high and the tension was higher. After the 3rd hole the treacherous teeset President slipped up and gave up a 7 shot advantage he held over the TeeSet low handicapper Albert. Some Presidents are not as bright as others, this may have been the Trumpian moment of his term. The final moment happened on the final hole with the final shot of the round, The president needing to sink a four footer to win managed to miss it and halved the match with TeeSet. It was a great game played in good spirit with all golfers having their moment to help win back the lead or halve a difficult hole. Matchplay is a great competitive way to play social golf and we always need to remember we are a social golf society. Some might think that the president after that round maybe not so treacherous but Captain Dean knows different. So does the Green Keeper who blasted the old bastard with 5 sprinklers on the way back to the clubhouse.

Well done to the TeeSet Matchplay team on a round where matches were still being discussed days latter over beers and gins. The warm down after the game was great with plenty of mixing between the teams and some tall tales of golfing heroics being recounted. A big thanks to the TeeSetters who showed up to play the regular TeeSet game. No TeeSet Sunday would be complete without a winner and Sunday’s winner was

Roberto with 35 points on the challenging new course at Jagorawi, well done.

The Championship.

The committee is currently working hard to get this year’s championship organised. Courses are being scrutinised, menus sampled, beer temperatures tested, polo shirt designs and patterns pondered and goody bags items sourced. This all takes time and effort which the committee is doing. It also takes money and due to a fiscally irresponsible president, who has been handing out booze, tin cups and cash like there was no tomorrow for near on a year, we probably need a bit more in sponsorship. Cash is great but stuff for the goody bag or a few bottles for the lucky draw would also work. Let us know if you can help. The Championship event is always a very memorable game and evening.

The TeeSet Matchplay

We are getting down to the pointy end of the season so please get your matches organised. We would prefer that you play them on a Teeset Sunday after all it is our competition. There are some very interesting pairings and we all are anxiously awaiting the outcome. Well I am.

Monthly Medal

This Sunday at the glorious Cengkerang Golf Club we play for the medal. Stroke play men off blue the ladies off the red tees. Sign up on MyGolf2U and be part of the fun.

On On to the golf course

El Presidente (8 more weeks whoa)