Tee Set

Greg and Mark sharing the duties – and sensibly use Brenda as a distraction ….

The Day

We didn’t play Imperial from it opening for more than twenty years until late in August when we lost our virginity for the first time (eh?-ED) and are back again less than two months later – and will play again in the round before Xmas. Hard to know why we left it so long, we love the whole set up there and they love us – a marriage made in heaven – and 43 Tee Setters thought so today.

There were plenty of reports of 20-30 minutes to get to the course from various parts of South Jakarta using the JORR’s recently opened “missing link” and some brilliant weather kept the pessimists at bay (“isn’t it supposed to be rainy season already?”) while the course was a dream, with a galaxy of cute caddies to join in that dream together with a clubhouse and staff that were faultless.

OK, some of our play was on the roapy side but you can’t have everything for heaven’s sake.

Just one Newcomer to report in Tony Amato who proved he is no slouch off the stick with a 43-40-83 – and can expect a knock on the door from the Immediate Past President of Nearly Everything with his Interleague Captain’s hat on. Welcome to Tee Set, Tony.

Couple of impressive Welcome Backs in Bill Tevruchte, who finally found his way back to Jakarta from a far distant kampung, to break bread with a few old mates – and Nenden Fleischmann, reigning Club Champion who unfortunately fell victim to Sukarno’s Revenge around the turn. Don’t worry, she will be back to defend on the 30th November!

The most notable Welcome Back, though you will not find her in the table above was, in your ‘umble scribe’s opinion, the return of Brenda after a two-week working “holiday” which coincided with the absence of the grown-ups and left him with far too little time to pay proper attention to the blandishments of Mr Walker (J.). So a rather heartfelt Welcome Back to her too.

The Play

With Handicaps not having been updated for some weeks due to the absence of our Secretary, the fast improving Craig Ewers took advantage, to loud and near universal derision, to shoot Low Net with a 65. With Brenda back in the saddle, Craig can expect a radical update to his handicap in the very near future 🙂

Jorge Gonzalez shot an astonishing 14 less on his back 9 to take Most Improved while John Suermondt’s return from family duties in Ozz made sure the Jelinek family hegemony over 1st Par for HC>=30 was broken!

Simon Reynolds took Low Gross with a 79 off the stick to take full advantage of the absence of Pulpy and the Boy Wonder while Chris Lever showed he is learning Tee Set ways with his Low Putts total of just 26.

Greg Fields didn’t take too long to secure 1st Sandy, coming out from the beach and one putting on the very first hole he played.

A pretty good skirt return as might be expected from a course where the red tee can be up to 80 yards in front of the blue equivalent – with 6 Tee Setters falling to the curse – and Jeremy Aniere making it a double with Monster Putter to go with it.

A very fine win by some margin in Most Strokes for Tom Grace with a magnificent 14 on one hole to leave Tetty in the clear on 11 – and a veritable throng breathing a collective sigh of relief on 10.

Tee Set Championship

Everything coming together very nicely for the Championship with three gold Sponsors signed up, leaving space for one more if you or yours are interested; drop Ric a line if so.

Tee Setters who had played the requisite minimum number of games from the last Championship until some date a couple or so weeks ago have signed up in abundance for the Championship as you will see here. If you thought you had signed up by replying to the e-mail you should have received, but your name doesn’t appear here, then drop us a strong e-mail of complaint here.

With Tee Setters already registered, and the slots we reserve for our generous sponsors, that really doesn’t leave too many spaces left – so don’t hang about if you want to play in the Tee Set event of the year by getting your details down here.

The remaining places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis so we really do recommend not dawdling – no tears if you do.

Next Up

Sunday sees us at Jagorawi for all the usual fun plus the final round of the Interleague competition.

For this Sunday’s Interleague event, it’s the moment of truth for the at least 4 teams still in the running to take out the season’s top award – with Tee Set being one of these teams.

Just think, one wayward drive or missed putt could be the difference between finishing top of the pile or a few places down the ladder. The front-runners are preparing their strategies but their opponents will not give in without a good fight. Does it get any better than this? Golfing folklore in the making.

The Interleague shot-gun start is 09:30 while Tee Setters playing the normal stroke play will hit off immediately after.

Come support your Interleague team and in the process enjoy one of the premier courses of Jakarta. Should you need additional motivation then at the 19^th hole there is draft San Miguel on tap at around Rp35K a glass .

Green fees with cart will be Rp955K and 50% of your Tee Set registration fee goes towards the Interleague B-B-Q organized for November 23^rd – the week before the Tee Set Championship.

Get yourself signed up here for what could be an historic day.

See ya at Jags!!

Next Up

The Imperial Golf Club out at Lippo Karawaci has just about everything you could want from a course, including not least, excellent administration and cute caddies, so we will be teeing off from 1 & 10 at exactly 11:47 on Sunday.

Imperial was most certainly one of the highlights of the year so far when we were last out there in August, as anyone who was there on the day will tell you – and Sunday should be just as good and something of a bargain with green fees at just 675,000 for a top class set-up.

Sign up here if you haven’t already is our very sincere advice!

Call for nominations for Tee Set President 2014/2015

We have had a strong response to our call for nominations. Something we should have mentioned on the page from the start is that none of the current committee of Peter, Rick and Keith are available for nomination, though the two latter are both willing to continue to support whoever is elected President.

If you nominated any of the three of them then we don’t want to see your nomination wasted as you only have one bullet- so if you indeed nominated one of them then you can can have your bullet back – and nominate any other candidate you see on the list if you so wish.

Registering for the Tee Set Championship

Finally and perhaps even most importantly, tomorrow is your final chance to preferentially sign up for the Tee Set Championship on the 30th November – and receive the discounted rate of 900,00 roops which is the bargain of the year for what is going to be the best ever!

All those who qualified for these preferences, ie who have played 6 or more Tee Set Sundays since the last Championship, received an e-mail with a link to the registration page last week and, of the 89 qualifying Tee Setters, 55 have already registered. We know some of you have left the country but for the rest, we don’t want you to miss your chance so take action now. If you have “lost” the e-mail with the link then let us know.

From the 11th October, the remaining slots, after an allocation to our sponsors of course, will be made available to Joe Public.

See ya at Imperial!! … Tee Set

PS Tom Alcedo is offering some high class new/barely used equipment in the Classifieds this week, while there is a junior set also available from Hal Hayne if you have a budding Tee Setter under 6 in the house.

PPS we have expanded what is available under “Handicaps” to provide background on what they are for, how they are calculated and hopefully reduce the frequency of questions and complaints about them from Tee Setters, not least Newcomers!!

The main message is that your handicap is aspirational and most certainly not the arithmetical average of what you score every week!!

most of today’s large crop of cross-dressers, though the reason for Michael Seabrook’s curious choice of headgear remains unclear 🙂

The Day

A bad day for our 4-legged friends meant a good day for Tee Setters with the journey to the Pangkalan Jati course achieved in record time in super light traffic for the turnout of the healthy number of Tee Setters showing up, 37 – and a car park, clubhouse  and course nearly as empty to go with it.

Regular Monthly Medal “Neary” Sponsor, Santi’s Premium Pies, got many of us off to a fine start with samples of her latest creation, the Beef Rendang Pie, a pie to which even Master Baker Pulpy George was to give exceptionally high marks. Many thanks to the eponymous Santi!

Already allocated an early tee off at 10:30, the starter needed little persuasion to get the first groups off from 1 and 10 at 10am – unprecedented, and the pace on the course was also good, with most groups coming in at around three and a half hours.

Just one Newcomer to report this week, Dave Collecott, so a warm welcome to him. Dave registered for play at 8.59, just 61 minutes before tee off so well done him, just a little earlier next time though Dave when you will get your own scorecard!

14  Welcome Backs with Wally Walters heading the list with an impressive 172 weeks since last played though he does have a good excuse having left Indonesia back in 2011 and just being on a business visit this time. Well done for remembering and re-joining us, Wally.

The day was also notable for the near total absence of Tee Set officials with Ric and Peter away on yet more marriage related duties one presumes, while Brenda is tied up with Financial year-end accounting matters in her day job.

All this meant that the Web Guy had to do more or less everything, though Mel Meeds stepped into the breech to sort out flights while Santi, despite not being able to play today, did a flawless job extracting money from all and sundry – and managing to take some photos while she was about it. Many thanks to them all.

Also worth a mention for Jess Kindler who registered on Friday with the following:

Comment: I have to buy the wife a dog on Saturday afternoon so as long as that happens I’ll be there, so please print me a scorecard…

With dog duly bought Jess turned up in plenty of time, and was the central figure in one of the day’s highlights as he took his third shot from BEHIND the Ladies’ Tee but somehow still managed to avoid a skirt. You will have to ask him yourself!

All in all a great day at our former home course, with the course in good nick, the weather glorious if a little hot and the beer cheap and plentiful. And, as a final bonus, the early start, fast pace of play and record-breaking results recording etc. meant the shouting was all over by 4:30, allowing the many who wanted to watch various major sporting events to both support the day and get home in time to watch their favourites on the box.

The Play

A day to warm the cockles of the absent Treasurer’s heart as, to go with a healthy crop of 8 Skirt fines, we had a 6 way tie for Most Strokes and even a two-way tie for Monster Putter for a total of 800,000 roops in fines going to Tee Set funds – and what must surely be a record for one event.

Thanks to all for your generosity this week!

Shome, mishtake, shurely?

Good job we had all that money coming in from fines as there were also an unseemly number of ties for the skills prizes as well, with three Tee Setters sharing Low Gross, 2 sharing 1st Birdie and even 1st Par >=30 being going to two of our number for achieving that on the third hole, the latter cementing the iron grip the Jelinek family has recently established over that particular prize 🙂

The day’s major prize on the other hand , Low Net, went to but a single first time winner, Craig Edwards, who took full advantage of his handicap and more to come in with a net 65. Well done Craig, expect a significant adverse move in your handicap as soon as Brenda returns to action 😦

Fuller results of the day can be found here while what photos of the day that were taken can be seen on the Tee Set Gallery as ever.

2014 Matchplay Championship

Just one of the few remaining games played today and it really couldn’t have been any closer with 7 handicapper Pulpy Bevege only squeezing out 29 handicapper Tom Alcedo on the putting green after finishing even after 18 holes. Great stuff guys!

Your committee has, in its wisdom, decided that given the (comparatively) excellent progress made this year under hard-man Fernando “El Guapo” Gaggino, that the Matchplay Final will be played ahead of Tee Set Championship Day, thereby allowing the finalists to fully enjoy the fun of our biggest day of the year.

2014 Tee Set Championship

51 of the 89 Tee Setters who have played 6 or more times since the last Championship have been invited by e-mail and have confirmed their participation in this year’s event on the 30th November.

Together with Sponsor allocations this means that there are just 25 or so slots left to fill. If you received our e-mail inviting you to play but haven’t yet confirmed your intention to participate in the Championship then you have just five more days left to do so – and receive the preferential rate of 900,000 roops and indeed participation, as the remaining places will be thrown open to all on a first-come first served basis on the 11th October at a somewhat less advantageous rate. Do it, and do it now to avoid disappointment and tears.

Next Up

Without doubt, one of the very finest days of the Tee Set year was our first ever round at the Imperial Golf Klub back in late August.

Thanks to the efforts of our tireless course scheduler, Wina, we have a very welcome early return to a fine club in every respect, a club moreover that made us really very welcome to boot so don’t miss the opportunity of joining in the fun and get yourself signed up as soon as possible for what should be another fabulous day. 11:47 tee off from 1 and 10 – and green fees of a bargain 675,000 roops.

To add to its attractions, access to Imperial, out at Lippo Karawaci on the western flatlands and just off the Merak Tol, has been made much easier for South Jakartans by the completion of the last section of the Outer Ring Road.

Selamat jalan and see ya at Imperial !!! …. Tee Set