Plenty stayed for the apres golf fun ….
The Day
A great turnout of 53 Tee Setters showed up in plenty of time for the 19th Tee Set Monthly Medal at Matoa on a very hot and sunny day that was thankfully to see us playing in cloudier and therefore cooler conditions before the end. Still no sign of rain though 🙂
There was in fact one major exception to the “plenty of time” observation as the Wiener family driver managed to get himself into the middle of the Jakarta Marathon amongst a number of other missteps – and ended up delivering his boss and family to the course nearly an hour after the first groups had teed off. “Good job we love him” said the tolerant Mitch. Quite.
yes, we made it 🙂
For most, this was the last chance to get a good look at the course which will host the Tee Set Championship a little later in the year, when all will have observed that there is no lack of investment being thrown at the course, what with the renovated changing rooms, major new cart tracking and starting again almost from the start with the artificial lakes.
In truth they would have been better throwing at least some of that money at many of the fairway edges which have been in a scrubby condition for some years now. The Matoa greens on the other hand have always been the course highlight and remain in great nick.
A welcome innovation by management was the refreshment cart driven around the course by a couple of lovelies from the restaurant. Rp43K for a Bintang can was judged very reasonable compared to some other courses around Jakarta.
With a big DOGS group going out before us as well as our own healthy 53 souls we were all pretty happy with the 5 hours or less that it took us to get around, and with compulsory carts rule now in operation being favoured by most. Interesting to note that by 18:00 the DOGS group were already homeward bound with the exception of a handful who crossed over to join Tee Set – and that come 19:30 quite a number of Tee Setters were still around helping to finish off Bill Lloyds’ last bottle of red.
A couple of Newcomers to report in Glenn Plumber visiting from the UK, and Tim Jeffrey – hope you enjoyed your first taste of golf the Tee Set way, guys!
Up until tee off Tim actually thought he was playing with DOGS 🙂
Frank and Anna Wilson, returning to Jakarta for their annual pilgrimage, also from the UK, top a rather long Welcome Back list of 33 players, with the Weiner family a little behind on 30 weeks.
Welcome back all – and where have you been!!
Anna had a few words to Brenda over her new single digit handicap of 8 who, after checking, found that one of Anna’s PJ rounds had been entered as 26 instead of 106 and then after correction the handicap became a rather more modest 26. It pays to check you handicap occasionally.
In what was turning out to be an incident packed day for the Wilson family, Frank whacked one of his drives into a white tee marker when his ball somehow stayed on course and ended up 100 meters down the middle of the fairway. Despite then duffing his second shot, he ended up parring the hole. Go figure.
Some great performances on the day with the stand-out being a new record 47 (yes, forty-seven!) Stableford points and what we are pretty sure is a new record Low Net of 61 to go with it. The Handicap Committee is going to be busy.
Another fine Tee Set Sunday.
The Play
Yes, a week of records as 21 Handicapper Chris Smith, fueled by Santi’s Premium Pies, rocketed to an 82 off the stick and an alarming 47 Stableford points to take the Monthly Medal. Chris’s was, amazingly, matched by another Tee Setter, Ed “YHOG Bandit” Bender Jr who took the red one for his Low Net 61 !
Richard Mau made another of his occasional returns to Tee Set and brought his “A” game with him this time in shooting a five over par 77 to take Low Gross while Low Putts went to Craig Binks with just 25 blows with the flat one. Craig also gets 6 of Santi’s Pies as reward for his labours, though he doesn’t know it yet.
Amongst the minor prizes, Norman Bunter’s startling 2nd shot from 130 metres out at a par four was to find the hole and secure him the rarely awarded 1st Eagle. Most people around the course could hear the roar that went up.
Only a couple of skirts to show from a big field on a course that admittedly does not hugely advantage the ladies, but Shane’s performance as we tried to get the thing and a wig on him more than made up for that!
Lots more photos of an outstanding day on our Gallery (eventually) while you can find fuller, player by player, results here
2014 Tee Set Championship
The great majority of regulars and sponsors are now registered and ready to go, leaving around 20 slots still available for the 2014 Tee Set on Sunday the 30th November. A fantastic day of competitive golf is assured to go with some fantastic catering arrangements, enough drinks to sink a battleship, a new and unique “designer” Tee Set Shirt and trophies and prizes galore in our 17 prize categories!
If you have not already then sign up now for the Jakarta golfing event of the year for just 1 juta.
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Yayasan HOG Texas Scramble – 6th December 2014
Without doubt, the Tee Set’s favourite charity is the Yayasan HOG, an organisation that works tirelessly to raise funds for disadvantaged Indonesian youngsters, especially targeting those born with cleft palate and harelip conditions, conditions which condemn them to a quite miserable life in this country without treatment.
This year alone, YHOG is on track to fund 130 operations on these kids; it really is the most worthy of causes and we would be thrilled to see a good turnout from Tee Set in supporting an event which is 1,500,000 rupiah for what will be a fantastic day based ENTIRELY at the Sentul Highlands course. So sign up for yourself or get a group of four together and name you own team (nb Tee Set Tossers is already taken!).
With all the day’s cost covered by sponsors, you can enjoy the golf and the fun while safe in the knowledge that every single one of those one and a half million rupiah are going directly to helping those kids. Let’s do it!!
Next Up
Gading Raya out in West Jakarta is an outstanding course and a little more accessible these days since the last time we played there in December 2012. Simon Reynold has secured the deal at an attractive 675,000 for this quality of course and with an 11:00 pm tee off from 1 and 10. Well done, Simon.
Sign up here for what should be another great Tee Set Sunday on a testing course.
See ya at Gading!! …. Tee Set
PS with one thing and another we have not seen much of the President of Some Things recently what with marriage and 50th Birthday celebrations getting in the way, which we we can certainly excuse.
Peter has now been forced “against his will” to join a group of avid fisherman and thus miss his weekly golfing fix. Nevertheless he continued to fly the Tee Set flag by being appropriately attired during his days at sea.
See ya soon, suckers!!
PPS LOST AND FOUND
If you think you might have lost these at Matoa on Sunday then drop Ric a line before he auctions them off for the benefit of Tee Set funds 🙂
A final reminder to be at the course absolutely no later than 6.30 on Sunday Morning as there is stuff to be done like paying your green fees, getting your goodie bag and changing into you spanking new 2014 Tee Set Championship shirt (compulsory btw) – and we have the traditional massive “team photo” opportunity at 7am before disappearing in our carts to our respective tees for the 07:15 Shotgun Start from 13 tee boxes.
Just one Newcomer to report in Paul Mercer who you may see in the reports as Peter Mercer thanks to Presidential nominee Craig Ewers; sharpen up Craig 🙂
