Note the glorious blue sky. The blue gave way to a light cloud covering with a gentle mountain breeze all adding up to a superb day to be playing golf in the Bogor hills. Teeset suffered a few morning cancellations due to fear of weather as suffered by the DOGS the previous afternoon or just too much booze on a Saturday night.

who did trust in the weather always shining favourably upon TeeSet was made up of Vishal, Holger, Jens, Tom Shinta, Rosita & me. Split into 2 flights. Lift, clean and place was announced based on the deluge from the day before, and except for the very first hole there was not a damp spot on the course. A few water hazards withstanding. We teed off exactly on time as Gunung Geulis are excellent at arranging tee times. It seemed the line of play was follow the President, never a good idea and Holger and Vishal soon gave up on tha line of play as The President opened with a well managed double par on the first, and this was on one of the easier holes. Trouble lay ahead.

We soon caught the group in front of us where one of the players was having an on course lesson, but there speed of play was reasonable and as were were a 3 ball we should be close to them through the front 9 which was actually the back 9, if you know what I mean. The standard of play was improving as we worked our way around the course with Holger missing a very good score due to being a little bit short of juice on 4 or 5 putts that just stopped at the lip of the hole. The greens at Gunung Geulis have terrified many a golfer over the years but Jens managed a well controlled 31 putts, alas Shinta was a bit wayward and Tom wildly wayward, whereas Rosita was banging them in from 8 metres away.

The second 9 we are standing at the signature par 4 hole and the caddy is telling me that you can cut the corner and being a lazy short cutting bastard I took her advice and cut the corner. Well not really hooked it deep into the Pinus trees and had to stand on the penalty drop box of shame by myself. Vishal and Holger having taken the sensible path to the hole. Another penalty after a dodgy bounce saw a lovely triple to start the back 9, which was 1 stroke better than the opening hole. Things maybe improving. A marshal was pleading with us to cut cross country to avoid being stuck by the slow moving group in front of us. From the par 3 following hole, we could see no one in front so ignored him, after telling him it was his job to tell that group to get a hurry on.

Meanwhile Jens, Tom, Shinta and Rosita took the advice on board and zigzagged across the mountainside avoiding roadblocks but basically completing the round in the same time if they had followed us. We finally caught this “slow” moving group on the 3rd last hole. It wasn’t a 3 ball, it wasn’t a 4 ball it was a 5 ball. They looked important and they obviously were important as why else would they be allowed to play as 5 on a Sunday. We believe there may have been some gambling involved but the police were not contacted. Round done and dusted in just over 4 hours a lovely day on the mountainside.

The winners

Good contact on a sprinkler head resulted in a par for the President as he bumbled his way around the course for 40 Stableford points. He also grabbed the only sandy par. President also took best on beer with 3 large bottles in the after golf warm down.

Low gross 86 to Jens who beat Holger by handicap. Jens also took low putts 31

Holger gets first birdie on 16. A few too many short putts left the bird count at 1, and missed the low gross. Too the practise putting area, I may join you.

Summary

Well that’s the 4th time we’ve been to GG in the last couple of years and we struggle to get 20 players. Reasons being is that the DOGS are playing there, the traffic is bad on Sundays. Well the traffic was fine, a bit of an hour home. The Dogs have played the hill for the last 11 weeks. With JIL and Monthly Medal and the rainy season hemming in what TeeSet can do there are few opportunities to play courses such as this. The golfers who have made the trip the last 4 or 5 times have been presented with ideal playing conditions everytime. We don’t need to hear complaints about changing the course a week out as most bookings are done months in advance and are on the app. Maybe TeeSetters just need to remember the fantastic rounds that we have had here over the last 2 years and beyond and make an effort.

Jakarta Interleague at Pondok Cabe 13th of October

TeeSetters take on the second place Tin Cups this Sunday in an effort to grab second place for ourselves. Captain Sam is putting together a strong team. Tin Cups have a strong team on paper but luckily this game is played at Pondok Cabe a course where the Glorious TeeSetters have been dominate, over the last few outings.

If you are not playing in the Interleague pleas still come along and join the day. There will be an interleague end of season bbq after the event.

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