and the winner is ……

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Tee Set

A not uncommon “discussion” on Tee Set Sundays and other occasions where Tee Setters meet is the question of what is the best course we play – or rather, what’s your favourite course?

The factors involved in “favourite” when it comes to courses are of course many fold and include the quality of greens and fairways and indeed the width of those fairways,  the views and general ambiance, the price of drinks, the cuteness of the caddies and of course how easy it is to get to from where you live – amongst many others!

Our poll of Tee Setters did not ask anyone to explain their own decision making criteria, just to tell us their 5 favourites and no more – and here are the unvarnished results:

Favorite coursesWe suspect everyone will find something of interest there and generally something that supports their own views or confirms the craziness of the views of others!

We see the field split into the great, the very good and the merely good, though will continue to visit them all (with the exception of Lido Lakes which is being totally re-modeled) as we attempt to visit as broad a cross section of Jakarta area courses as we can in the course of the year.

The great will be checked to make sure that we have them in the 2015 schedule enough – and we intend to use the 4 Ramadan weekends this year to go for the very best courses, courses that are generally out of our target price range at other times of the year eg Cenkareng, Royale Jakarta and Bogor Raya.

A particular surprise in the results is the low, low ranking of Senayan given it was a huge hit attendance-wise in 2014, we guess its rather cramped par 69 format did not help – or their bar prices.

For once, we would positively encourage any comments you may have!!!

 

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Monthly Medal, Matoa, Sunday 28th December

Posted on December 25, 2014 by Tee Set

xmasgMerry Xmas to all Tee Setters from all of us at Tee Set Towers; we hope you got something that will make them go further and straighter; unless you got a putter. Ho, ho, bloody ho

Monthly Medal at Matoa up next of course with the usual glittering array of awards and prizes and the chance of getting yourself immortalised on our brilliant new Monthly Medal shield.

Kick off at 11am from 1 & 10 with green fees of 600,000 roops including compulsory shared cart – sign up here if you haven’t already, and don’t be late!

While you are waiting for the turkey to digest you might want to make some use of the time by completing the poll below and indicating your five favorite Tee Set courses out of the eighteen we have played in 2014.

The Irish saying goes that you should “vote early, and vote often”, the software has a go at preventing this, well the vote often bit anyway.

See ya at Matoa! … Tee Set

 

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Imperial Golf Klub. Sunday 21st December 2014

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Tee Set

Group wavingThe day

A wonderful stress free 25 minute journey from South Jakarta to the delightful Imperial Golf Klub with a K served to get the day off to a great start. It must be said, however, that while the completion of the JORR’s missing Western link has transformed journey times to that side of the city, its surfacing is of a quality sufficiently awful to leave more coffee on your correspondent’s Tee Set shirt front than down his neck by the end of the section.

Our very own registration table, reserved restaurant area and attentive service from waitresses possessed of an ability to maintain individual bills efficiently certainly distinguishes Imperial from the common herd.

We have Imperial down for 3 rounds in 2015, maybe that should be increased; it was difficult if not impossible to find a Tee Setter not enamored of the course and the facilities and service that go with it. Really top course.

Own space

Welcome backs

Just one Newcomer to report in Todd Roesler from Australia, enjoy your golf with us Todd.

More than half our 31 players today were Welcome Backs this week though the longest absentee was Tarun Agarwal at “only” 18 weeks, Welcome Back to all!

With planes recently full of departing Tee Setters,  31 players was a very decent turnout for the pre-Xmas game and compares well with last year’s 21 at Riverside when, in stark contrast to today’s glorious weather conditions, it rained the entire round 🙂

The play

Skill

The first week of our new prize structure, which recognises and rewards low net across the Handicap grades A, B & C, caused rather less than expected confusion.

Mark FOverall Low Net Winner was Mark Fiorello with a fine 79-11-68 while our very excellent policy of nobody being able to win more than one prize meant Anlo took A Grade with a net 72 , that wily old fox Geoff Thwaites took B Grade with 71, though was to be otherwise engaged as the prizes were being given out – while Carolyn Taylor won C Grade by a convincing 3 strokes.

The recently installed Vice President of Good Course Discounts, standing up for  the first time at Tee Set, was a little bemused by all VPthese new developments but was happy to discover he had to give himself a red one for Low Gross off the stick, helped in this by the non-appearance of Sam “Kelly” Westen despite his having signed up. Maybe next week, Sam??

That rare bird, the eagle, made a welcome reappearance with the Grumpy Pirate holing out for three on the green at the long par 5 6th to secure 1st Eagle while Messrs. Murchison and Garwood didn’t hang about so long, taking 1st Birdie and 1st Sandy respectively at their very first hole played.

Newcomer Todd Roesler got used to his hire clubs quickly enough to improve by 8 strokes on his back nine to share Most Improved with Paul Taylor while King Tirto’s par on the 5th was soon enough to take 1st Par HC >=30 – and make him a very happy man.

Boobies

SkirtsA quite outstanding 10 Skirts today was undoubtedly a function of how far forward the red tees were on a significant number of holes, though that factor was definitely not in play as Jess Kindler hit his drive 10 metres left at right angles to the tee box on the 11th. The ball dropped, rather unkindly one felt, just behind one of those large circular concrete bins with sand in.

Undaunted, our hero decided to play it where it lay, only to send his ball, with the help of the concrete bin thing, 30 metres behind the tee box where he was unable to find his ball and dropped another one to find himself lying three and still well behind the tee box. That was also to give Jess a very promising start to securing Most Strokes on a hole with 12 – but maintained a smile throughout the experience. Tee Set spirit it’s called, well done Jess!!

For the second week in a row, just 40 Putts was enough to secure Monster Putter, this time for Tettie, bad luck Tettie.

Fuller player by player details here while more photos of a very fine day will be found on the Tee Set gallery eventually.

Next up

The Web Guy was clearly suffering from a surfeit of “Xmas spirit” in announcing next Sunday as being at Riverside as, of course, it is the last round of the year and the last round of the month and therefore Monthly Medal time at Matoa.

An 11am tee off from 1 and 10 as usual with green fees of just 600,000 including the compulsory shared cart.

With so many out of the country, this gives the stay behinds a much improved chance of glory and getting their name etched onto our beautiful new Monthly Medal Shield – so come and celebrate with us as we close a great year and raise our glasses to the sunlit uplands of Tee Set’s 2015!

Sign up here as usual to join in the fun.

See ya at Matoa! … Tee Set

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Next up: Imperial Golf Klub, Sunday 21st December 2014

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Tee Set

IGC 2An early Xmas present for Tee Setters this week in the shape of Tee Set Sunday at the splendid Imperial Golf Klub with a K out at Lippo Karawaci on the Merak Tol – a relative hop, skip and a jump these days from South Jakarta with the completion of the Western side of the Outer Ring Road (JORR).

Last time out at Imperial in October in the days before Jaco and his new swing coach won Low Net every week, someone who was to become the Singing President took the Blue Ribbon with a net 65 while our new, non-singing vice-President took Low Gross with a 79 off the stick. Coincidence? .. we don’t think so.

Out of respect for the Yuletide spirit, we will providing a Santa hat to the first 30 Tee Setters to show their face at the Klub on the day. Please note that failure to wear your hat at any time during the round wins you an automatic two-shot penalty and probably a fine. Small reward for “snitches” 🙂

The Former President of Almost Everything is out-of country but his spirit lingers on as his parting shot was a stern reminder for everyone to return their hats to Brenda at the end of the day; he said we’re not made of money and can use them again next year. That’s why he is the Treasurer we guess.

Tee off from 1 & 10 will be at the engagingly precise 11:47 after having paid your green fees etc of 675,000 including cart, for the refreshingly easy on the dompet sum of 675,000 roops, and of course partaken of a hearty breakfast.

If you haven’t done so already then sign up here as usual for what promises to be a great day on a great course. Ho, ho, ho.

Prizes

A search of the Tee Set Towers attic the other day revealed a file with the label, “Prizes”. Covered in a good half an inch of dust, the dust itself and indeed the contents of the file reminded us that we had changed exactly nothing on the prize list since the radical introduction of Most Improved back in 1873.

To prove we are a dynamic, radical, change oriented bunch on the committee, we have decided to change the prize structure just a tad, bringing in additional Low Net prizes every week for each of Grade A, B and C players. This will cost us an extra 300,000 roops a week but, in view of the bigger fields we have these days, we were eventually able to convince the invariably tight-fisted Treasurer that it was a fair thing. Took a while.

To give you a better idea of what we mean, this is how things would have looked if we had implemented  the thing a week earlier, at PJ.

Net winners - grades

Under the new scheme, the Grumpy Pirate, Norman Bunter and Steve Hulbert would all have been awarded prizes for Low Net instead of just Jaco. Bad luck, you three 🙂

What’s a Grade? … excellent question, thank you for asking. You may not have known it but each Tee Setter is put into one of three “Grades” A, B and C roughly according to where their home course handicap (Matoa for these purposes) falls in the following ranges:

Grades

We have to say that the Grades are pretty rough, at least at the margins, and, having much better things to do with our time, we have absolutely no intention of keeping them up-to-date every week so don’t bother complaining if you are a 16 handicap at a difficult course this week and argue that should be in B and not A – as we will ignore you.

If however you think that your Grade is significantly out of whack, then let a member of the Committee know and it will be sorted. In future (well, when the Web Guy gets around to changing the report anyway) your Grade will be on the confirmation e-mail we send out to registered players each Saturday morning

Please note that on the matter of Grades and even more so, Handicaps, you really must not bring up any related issues with the Secretary, it is NOT her job or within her knowledge set, and most certainly not what we pay her for; you must talk to a committee member.

Failure to observe this requirement results in one of those automatic 2-shot penalty things and very likely a row from the FPoAE. We have a golden asset in our secretary who does it more for the love than the money and would most certainly not wish to lose her as a result of being upset by lack of civility and/or ignorance of her limited responsibilities.

You may have noted that the table only indicates an upper limit of 36 and this is for the very good reason that the new brooms have decided it will be so – ie the maximum handicap, for both men and ladies, will in future be restricted to 36.

Anyway we are about fun and not rules, even though they are a necessary evil, so let’s just do it – and see ya at Imperial!!! ….. Tee Set

IGC 1

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Pangkalan Jati, Sunday December 14 2014

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Tee Set

No photos today as a result of missing files, operating system failures, intercontinental travel and the new Maritime Axis.

Maybe we will catch up with a few on Thursday 🙂 

The day An easy journey to the course for most on a very fine morning, only to find an overflowing car park due to a tournament in the morning, and the knock on effect of the congestion caused a slightly late getaway – and a relatively slow round of 5 hours.

Two Newcomers to report this week in Cyril Blyth and Don Williams, welcome both, enjoy your golf with Tee Set. Welcome backs

The Welcome Backs were not terribly numerous either as most of our number had at least played the Championship a couple of weeks ago and Laurie O’Connor was to convincingly take the honours with loose change short of two years. Welcome back all!

A slow round can generally be lived with, at least with the aid of a sociable can or two with your mates, however, beers of any kind were not to be found in any of the on-course kiosks today.

The club management really needs to get its act together if they want us back on a regular basis; some things can be forgiven but depleted beer stocks is not amongst their number.

Fortunately, and in stark contrast, copious amounts of the amber neck fluid were available after the game from the post-Tee Set Championship stock as part of the send off for long standing member Mel Meeds.

Mel is of course returning to Brisbane shortly to help the Queensland rugby league team win back the State of Origin from the despicable NSW cockroaches. With Australian Customs & Excise forbidding him from importing more then two bottles of grog, Tee Set was implored to help finish off the remnants of his liquor cabinet and being ever helpful sorts, Tee Setters being real helpful sort of folks did the needful – and there may very well be a few sore heads in the office on Monday as a result.

Last round for George Bevege also as he leaves us to return to Australia. Apparently his company had to cut back on staff after their pie baking business took a hit from new local competition (and that may very well be Ric’s last joke).

George’s resilience in the face of abuse and adversity will be sorely missed – while his propensity for winning golfing bets on his own game may not be, at least by some!

Bill Lloyd of Tee Set Gold Sponsor, Asian Tigers Mobility, is interviewed in the December issue of Indonesia Expat and his views of, and experiences in, Indonesia over the last 12 years makes for an interesting  and entertaining read, and this even though he disloyally failed to mention Tee Set even once!! Check it out here.

Finally, and in a word to the wise, Taylor Made outlets in Jakarta are selling off R11 and R1 drivers at the give away price of Rp990K. Both the Former President of Most Things and Geoff Thompson bought the R1 and smoked plenty of drives last Sunday.

The advertisement in the Jakarta Post mentioned outlets selling them are at Bintaro Jaya X Change Mall, Mall Kota Kasablanca, Gading Mas driving range Kelapa Gading, Sports Warehouse Poins Square and Kuningan City, and Pasar Raya in Blok M.

The play

Winners Jaco Zaayman scorched the field for the third week in a row to secure Low Net for the third Sunday, this time  with”only” a six under handicap 66. It is clear that the handicap committee is falling down on the job here, come on guys, do the thing you get paid the big bucks for!!

Having to get up before ten in the morning appears to have done no harm at all to Neil Mullins game as he shot 79 off the stick to take Low Gross again, though he can expect more competition for the nest one next week as you will read below.

Most of note amongst the minor prizes was 22-week Welcome Back Christian Engstrom managing to shake off the rust on his back 9 with a stunning 48-37-85 to take Most Improved with 11.

Boobies Newcomer Cyril Blyth wasted no time in getting acquainted with the feel of our Skirt and wig while Nicky Moir was delighted to get re-acquainted with his old friend the skirt during the last Sunday of his brief visit from the frozen wastelands of Aberdeen.

40 putts on a Sunday will normally see you well out of Monster Putter range and in fact just one lower has been known to be forgiven by your beneficent Treasurer in the past. Bad luck, Jess!

Magnificent revenue generating 5-way tie for Most Strokes, again just a humble 10 which you would you getting away with most weeks in the hunt for the coveted Most Strokes. many thanks to all for your contributions.

Fuller, player by player results here.

A Yuletide Message from the Immediate Past President of Some Things

Tee Setters,

Unfortunately my schedule has not allowed me to make a Sunday since the Championship, and it looks like I will not make one until 4th Jan.

I would like to thank Ric, Keith, Brenda and Wina for all their work during the year and especially on Championship day. It was a truly successful and very enjoyable day.

Congratulations to Jaco, the 2014 Tee Set Champion. All the best to the incoming Presidential team, President Craig and Vice President Simon for the 2015 Tee Set year.

Here is wishing all a great Christmas and a very happy and successful new year.

Peter

Next up

A great early Xmas treat is in store for those who haven’t departed for Xmas “di luar kota” this year – a round at the superb Imperial Golf Klub with a K which, to add to all its other charms, is now a fast and pleasant 30-40 minute Sunday morning drive from the south using the now complete Jakarta Outer Ring Road  or JORR.

It was from this course on our last visit that Michael Seabrook astonished many with an amazing feat of mis-navigation that rendered half the Tee Set field that day bewildered and scattered over parts of Western Tangerang that are undoubtedly best left unvisited – and was to make him undisputed winner of this year’s Vasco da Garma trophy.

Should Michael offer to show you a “quick way home” on Sunday you might be best advised to protest a prior engagement in the Pluit or Ancol areas or somewhere North like that. Just don’t tell us you were not warned.

“Has any one here seen Kelly?” is an old music hall favourite and was recently applied to top Tee Set golfer Sam “Kelly” Westen as he disappeared off the face of the earth for months, with hide nor hair see of him since 21st September when he shot a fine 37-37-74 at Jagorawi of all places, before doing the disappearing act that engendered his new moniker.

Happy to report now that the Singing President has exchanged SMSs with Sam in the last few days and “Kelly” is likely to return to Tee Set action at Imperial when we hope to discover what he has been up to 🙂

Green fees including shared cart, a Santa Klaus hat and an autographed photo of Sam for the fist 30 to register will set you back just 675,000 roops which, as anyone who has played there will tell you, is outstanding value for a course of such a high standard as Imperial.

Tee time will at the unbelievably precise time, for Jakarta, of 11:47 – when we will launch from 2 tee boxes. Get signed up here to join in the fun of what is certain to be another great Tee Set Sunday.

See ya at Imperial! … Tee Set

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Next up: Pangkalan Jati, Sunday 14th December 2014

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Tee Set

Pangkalan JatiBack to our old home course on Sunday, Pangkalan Jati, where on our last visit in October, at Idul Adha, we got off early and around in 3.5 hours or less. No promises for this time of course but we would certainly not recommend cutting your arrival time too finely, Wina.

For reasons that were not clear then, and are even less clear now, our October visit saw an unusually large crop of skirts, eight in total. Don’t say you have not been warned.

An 11:00 am scheduled start off two tee boxes as ever, and green fees of 500,000 with shared buggy or 100,000 less if you are walking.

Nearly 30 already signed up so it is looking like a lot of people are anxious to see Mel “Cockroach” Meeds off the premises, with the added encouragement of the Former Past President of Everything promising to bring some of the significant stocks of liquid refreshment left over from the Championship for our enjoyment after the game – but no Margaritas unfortunately.

Sign up here to join the fun if you haven’t already.

See ya at PJ!! …. Tee Set

PS your new committee met for the first time on Tuesday evening and, before being thrown out late on for rowdy behaviour, made some important decisions about the shape of things to come in 2015.

We didn’t try to fix what is clearly not broken but there will be some  significant “fine tuning” as a result of listening to the vox populi – and we will be relaying them just as we have sorted out the details.

PPS The man with more farewells than Frank Sinatra, George “Pulpy” Bevege, will also be playing what he describes as “the last for some time, mate”, so Ric has doubled the beer order for Su

 

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Pondok Cabe, Sunday 7th November 2014

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Tee Set

The Day

Despite following the Tee Set Championship last Sunday, the HOGS event the previous day and indeed the promise of rain, 33 Tee Setters turned up and found themselves blessed with a course in excellent condition, an early start, fast golf and brilliant weather.

Welcome backs

Amongst  those 33 stalwarts was just one Newcomer in Ales Rozmanity and 6 Welcome Backs headed up by young Nicky Moir who is clearly not averse to getting away from the ice-cold conditions of Aberdeen to see his old mates in Jakarta.

Welcome to Tee Set Ales, enjoy your golf with us – and don’t forget  to register with us here.

Tee Set scheduler, Wina “Just in Time” Nugraha, was bamboozled by that early start and was only to catch up her playing partners, Daniel and Yangjin, on the 12th  – before going back to finish the 10th and 11th on her tod.

Long tablesThe day was rounded off by a very solid after-match turn out on the long table and the début of our Singing President, who apart from reading prizes in the wrong order, managed to survive the heckling.

Who game me this song sheet
Despite strong encouragement from the floor, the Singing President refused to sing, singling out (sic) the lack of a back up band. Poor excuse  that.

Noticeably quiet during the closing proceedings were the Roos’ and Shenmans who it was clear had “over-celebrated” at the King’s Birthday party at the Thai Embassy the night before.

All enjoyed the early finish and light traffic, with even the usual last-to-leaves getting home before dark to be greeted by some very shocked wives.

Great day.

The Play

Winners

The course proved a fair test to all but newly crowned  Club Champion, Jaco Zaayman, who showed the value of lessons and hard work with a blistering Low Net 59 (yep, 59) that will ensure the Tee Set handicapper will be on his case with some relish.  Not since the great Mel Meeds record equalling round of some years ago has there been such a display of burglary.

NeilNeil Mullins, with his new putter in play and no obvious signs of self-harm from the Championship, came through with a classy 80 to take Low Gross.

Neil was to share some glory with his playing partners, the fast improving Jason Vanderlinden, who out-putted Neil, and Martin Blobner who, for the first time ever at Tee Set, avoided a skirt at the 4th attempt – well done Martin!!

Love birdsDespite very many other sub-30 efforts, Chris Lever took Low Putts with an impressively low 24 blows with the flat one, while Leona and Jan proved inseparable again, managing to share First par for >= 30 handicappers on the very same hole to ensure they doubled their usual weekly take from the category.

Boobies

Monster PutterAles Rozmanity celebrated joining us by securing himself a Skirt, Noemi celebrated surviving the King’s birthday bash with 44 putts, despite her new glasses, to take Monster Putter while Chris Chan and Rick Zanker triumphed against some strong competition to earn “Most Strokes” for themselves with an only moderately impressive 11 apiece.

Fuller, player by player results can be found here while more photos of the day can be found on our gallery.

Next up:

The first up to register each week is almost invariably Meeds, M; he of the ready and astringent wit, the big if occasionally wayward drive and lover of a beer, or sometimes three if his arm is twisted far enough up his back.

A very active member since 2006, Mel is almost part of the furniture at Tee Set and it is with no little sadness that we have to report that he is moving back to his beloved Sydney (?)  where he will be looking after the petunias, frightening the neighbours and taking divots out of the fairways on a more regular basis than for the last 9 years.

Regular player, Interleaguer, veteran sponsor through his company, Quest, and invariably first to volunteer if we are short of someone to sort out the the flights,  Mel will be missed by all, and not least by some for his often misplaced propensity for taking on a wager.

Next Sunday is Mel’s last game with us and, to make sure that he is appropriately dispatched, we are moving our next round from Palm Hill to Pangkalan Jati so that we can celebrate appropriately in his honour – and indeed shift some of those “surplus” refreshments left over from the Championship at the same time.

Tee off at PJ will be 11:00 from the usual tee boxes when green fees will be 500,000 including shared buggy with a walking option of some 100,000 less. Sign up here as usual to join in what should be a day of no little enjoyment.

See ya at PJ ….. Tee Set

 

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Next Up: Pondok Cabe, Sunday 7th December 2014

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Tee Set

The Tee Set Championship is something of a hard act to follow of course but somebody has to take us back to the bread and butter – and that somebody is Pondok Cabe this year.

PC is something of an unsung hero when it comes to courses in Jakarta but is in fact quite a little gem and possessed of many own virtues of its own including a very decent course which has seen significant investment over the last couple of years with true greens, the most reasonable green fees and beer prices in Jakarta and good food – all served up by most agreeable clubhouse staff – and they have even started hiring caddies who put lipstick on in the morning while their “tempat pijat” is legendary and comes highly regarded by many Tee Setters of the old school.

A pretty hard to resist combo so, sign up here as usual for what should be another fine Tee Set Sunday. Green fees are a very modest 400,000 including buggy, or 75,000 less if you fancy using Shank’s pony – 11am tee off from 1 & 10 – and don’t be late as we sometimes get away early.

See ya at PC!!! …. Tee Set

PS if you were unfortunate enough to miss the big day then don’t despair, you can still get the new, very high quality Tee Set Championship shirt for a song at just 300,000 – and with the Tee Set Championship hat, Tee Set towel and a pair of Tee Set socks thrown in for good measure.

Don’t know how we do it – drop Ric a line if you wish to be properly dressed for Tee Set in future.

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2014 Tee Set Championship, 30th November 2014

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Tee Set

A full houseThe Day

In spite of the disgustingly early start called for, we had in attendance today and indeed playing, all of the current Tee Set President, Vice President, one future President and Vice President, two former Presidents and one former Vice President. Also present were three ex-Tee Set Champions and three ex-Match Play Champions.

In total we had a record 98 players managing to obey Tee Set Rule #1 in teeing off unassisted at the moment of the shot-gun start at 07:15. Well done to all, you won’t have to get up so early on a Sunday for another year!

Bet I have more HotHed umbrealls than you

I bet I have more Hot-Hed umbrellas than you!

Pleased to report that administratively the whole day went smoothly, with the investment in getting all the goody bags ready the previous day in particular leading to an early morning air of calm that has not been a characteristic of previous Championships.

The weather was fabulous, the course was in great shape and the Matoa staff looked after us extremely well. A very fitting swan song to the 2013/14 season.

After the golf was all done and dusted there was a tremendous spread of food put on by the Matoa F&B staff  augmented with fresh yabbies from Tucker Box, sausage rolls from Cecilia’s Café and mini pies from Santi’s Premium Pies. Nobody went home hungry.

The Kilkenny barrel from Murphy’s was consumed in record time and then we were into Mixologist Jamail’s famous frozen Margaritas whipped up on the brand new Tee Set heavy-duty blender asset while there were enough refreshments in the esky boxes to sink an Italian cruise liner – a non-golf playing visitor from outer space would have been intrigued to witness the pouring of players into their cars at the end of the day. Nobody went home thirsty.

We were to use our full allotment of 25 flights off 13 tee boxes for the shot gun start. That it all took slightly longer then the normal round of around 4 hours was obviously due to the numerous distractions to be found around the course such as Jack Calcote’s notorious smoothies, the vodka orange hole, eskies full of beer, hot dogs and pies. If anybody noticed the slower than usual round then, for sure, nobody cared.

Newcomers and welcome backsA warm Tee Set Welcome to Andie Djohor, Dick Slaney and Mark Potter but, guys, please don’t imagine it is like this every week!

Andie was responsible for the excellent new Championship shirts, banners, trophies and much else besides. Good job, Andie.

Dick is known to most and is of course the much appreciated main sponsor of our Monthly Medal events while Mark is son of that Jakarta legend, Keith Potter. Welcome all!!!

Despite Tee Set playing some of the best courses around Jakarta there are still permanent residents who find it difficult to find the time to play a regular round. Tim Supple 122 weeks, Bob Shearer 114 weeks, Sam Thwaites 105 weeks. Come on guys let’s not let those clubs go rusty in the garage between rounds.

Not dissimilar to the Bali Classic, our season-ending event pulls in Tee Setters now living outside Indonesia with Secretary Stealer Mike Taylor flying in all the way from Houston, Mel Cantarella from Melbourne and George “Pulpy” Bevege from Manila, just for the event.

Mel took 8 hours to fly in from Melbourne and 4 hours to go by taxi to his hotel. Welcome back to Jakarta, Mel 🙂

reggae Bill 2The Tee Set Championship has acquired a few traditions as the years have rolled by and one of them is the appearance of the Band from Bandung and, of course, some of our number joining them for our entertainment. Thanks once again to Geoff Thwaites for getting them down from Bandung.

This year saw the inevitable and hugely appreciated reggae from our Gold Sponsor Billy Lloyd, some classic Rolling Stones from “Malty” Suermondt, C&W and other from Mike Taylor and of course some quality crooning from our President to be at that time, the inimitable Craig Ewers.

THe president's SpeechWell done to them all and any others we have failed to mention, there were many who got up there; Tee Set has Talent!

In spite of the legendary quantities of alcohol of all varieties consumed on the course there was still some excellent play with not a lot separating the A and B gross winner with Pulpy George hitting 79 in the A grade and Jan Janda not so far behind with 85 in B.

KK also not far further back with 92 in the C grade while Matt Fairey received his new Ping driver the same day as the event and used it to good effect in smashing his ball 265m for longest drive. A pretty good advertisement for the driver you might say. Nenden out-drove many of the guys with her 200m effort to take Longest Drive – Ladies .

Mullins in particularly ineffective attempt to hide identityMany will have noticed the pervasive photographer (345 photos on the day) and took his presence in good part, however, Neil Mullins wasn’t so keen on having his identity revealed.

As you will see in the photo opposite Neil was not particularly successful in his attempts to hide his identity from whoever it is that he is trying to hide it from 🙂

Another popular feature of the day is of course the Lucky Draw, with every players name going into the hat for some splendid prizes courtesy of our many sponsors. There were so many this year that we put them into bundles so that we could all get away before dark.

Door prizes
Lucky door prizes

Closing out the presentations the outgoing President of Some Things confirmed the new President and Vice President for 2015. Craig Ewers will be in charge for next year ably assisted by Simon Reynolds. We wish them every success in their roles and expect them to take Tee Set to new heights of golfing enjoyment in the coming year!

Outstanding Contributions

Tee Set events generally run with few SNAFUs and of course this doesn’t happen by random chance and a little pocket pissing wouldn’t go astray here so, let’s thank the committee of Peter, Ric and Keith for their efforts during the year.

Ric is of course  the living, beating heart of Tee Set Golf and is not pithily known as the Immediate Past President of Almost Everything for nothing.

Keith’s tireless work on the web site and the database provides a wealth of information, a sense of community, and is a genuine magnet for new members.

The Match Play competition ran smoothly and ahead of schedule thanks to the efforts of Fernando Gaggino.

Having a pre-defined 6 month schedule has proved its worth and that’s down to Wina Nugraha’s hard work in creating the schedule and advance booking the courses.

Where’s Brenda? becomes a repeated cry on the rare occasions our secretary is not present on any given Sunday, so we are very thankful to have had her around for the great majority of events this year – and not least at Matoa where she did an excellent job inputting 98 score cards to determine the correct winners in a timely manner.

Many thanks to all those many others who chipped in with their help during the year. It all goes towards making Tee Set the best-loved golfing group in Jakarta.

The Prize winners

Prize Winners

Tee Set Champion

2014 Tee Set Champion Jaco Zaayman getting his just rewards

Long Drive ladies

Ladies Long Drive winner, Nenden

And our new Tee Set Champion is of course Jaco Zaayman who shot a massive 10 under his handicap of 36 to win the gold ribbon award. Well done him, just reward for a year of significant progress in his game from very low levels!

Matchplay winner, David Baglivo

Matchplay winner, David Baglivo

The usual more detailed, player by player results, can be found here while we hope to have uploaded the massive 345 photos of the day taken by our photographer during the day to the Tee Set gallery only by the end of the week – they will take some time to upload given that each of the photos are more than 5 megabytes.

And so it’s goodbye from them ….

The demographics of Tee Set means that apart from what might be called the hard-core, people tend to come and go within 2-4 years. This means that today was the last supper for both George “Pulpy” Bevege and Greg Fields who are both headed for pastures new in the Philippines and Aussie/Dubai respectively, and we wish them well as they leave as “Members in Good Standing“.

Enjoy your golf guys and do let us have a contribution to “News from afar” when you have had a decent period of settling in you new locations; many promise a contribution but distance seems to have an effect on the memory and the will!

Next Up

Pondok Cabe has the poisoned chalice of following the Championship but it will be a lot of fun so sign up here as usual for what should be another fine Tee Set Sunday. Green fees are a very modest 400,000 including buggy, or 75,000 less if you fancy using Shank’s pony – 11am tee off from 1 & 10 – and don’t be late as we sometimes get away early.

See ya at PC!!! …. Tee Set

PS if you were unfortunate enough to miss the big day then don’t despair, you can still get the new, very high quality Tee Set Championship shirt for a song at 300,000 – and with the Tee Set Championship hat, the official Tee Set golf towel and a pair of Tee Set socks thrown in for good measure.

Don’t know how we do it – drop Ric a line if you wish to be properly dressed for Tee Set in future.

PPS we have already had our first order for the shirt bundle – from Bill Seyers in Canada 🙂

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Congratulations to Ivan and Leni Byriel!!

Posted on November 29, 2014 by Tee Set

JamesCongratulations to Ivan and Leni Byriel on the birth of James Brandon yesterday, the newest addition to the Tee Set family.

Mum and babe both doing well. Timing excellent of course and allows Ivan to join us for the Championship tomorrow when many of you will have a chance to congratulate him personally, and maybe even learn why the timing was so “fortuitous”!!

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