The Day
We are pleased to report that Simon Reynolds can breathe again as Bumi Serpong Damai was to prove an awesome course in peerless condition on a day virtually untroubled by rain. The greens just amazing, in beautiful condition and playing just fast enough; and with enough undulations to lend credence to the President of Everything’s theory that course designer Jack Nicklaus has buried elephants under every green.
Supplementing the course’s perfection was that the Serpong Tol was to be a joy both ways – and the usual Jagorawi Tol snarl-ups just an unpleasant memory, for now at least.
Add in very cute caddies, magnificent changing room facilities including sauna and Jacuzzi, and a start 20 minutes earlier than advertised – and you can understand why there was significant bar talk after the round about how we can increase our exposure to the place! Be assured that your committee is working on this.
Just one downside, the F&B was on the expensive side and their system apparently incapable of accumulating one bill per person for settlement when all was done, instead demanding cash settlement for every single transaction. Even a moderate consumer’s counting fingers could get very tired after all that.
Five Newcomers to report this week, so a warm Tee Set welcome to them all, though it would be fair to warn that the Tee Set’s chosen courses aren’t always quite as good as today’s.
A goodly showing of Welcome Backs also, most notably RJ Kilner who hadn’t played with us for a couple of years and it showed as he got a skirt with his very first swing of the day, and also managed to get Most Strokes with an 11 on the very same hole. Welcome back RJ!!
The Play
The undoubted highlight of the day was an out of this world 5 under par 31 on the back nine from Sam Westen, including four birdies in a row to finish 40-31-71!
Well done Sam and it hardly goes without saying that you got Low Gross. Sam would also have got Low Net and Low Putts also but nobody gets more than one prize around here so Low Net went to George Bevege with a 74 while Craig Binks took Low Putts – and in common with a number of other prize winners was OB when the time came around to hand out the prizes.
This also makes the Treasurer very happy of course – and he was to declare the Tee Set kitty for the upcoming Championship fully funded!
Keith Miller and Chris Smith were lucky to get their birdies in early before the Westen birdie blitz to share 1st Birdie while Alastair Livingston took first Sandy and Mark Kilner was to take 9 holes to shake off the rust from a break period in finishing with an extraordinary 55-41-96 to take Most Improved.
You should play more often Mark.
A course that gave significant distance advantage to the Ladies was also to advantage Tee Set funds by bringing home a bumper crop of skirts with 6 players failing to bridge the gap today; three of them Newcomers. Way to go, guys 🙂
More detailed, player by player results can be found here.
More photos of the day here
Matchplay
In the Tee Set Matchplay, Fernando Gaggino beat Bob Fleishmann 2 and 1 to earn himself the right to play Joseph Peries in the Kuningan Bracket semi-final, while Matt Fairey beat Wina Nugroho one up at Matoa to progress to the Matchplay Final itself on Tee Set Championship Day. In that Final, Matt will play the winner of the Alistair Livingston/Peries or Gaggino Emas Bracket Final. Got that?
Yayasan HOG Charity Golf Tournament
A reminder that the above takes place on Saturday 7th December. We already have 6 Tee Setters registered for the event but would like to see even more support an organisation that provides life changing help to Indonesian kids born with cleft lip and cleft palate conditions. Take a look and sign up here for a day of fun – and the knowledge that your participation will directly change a youngster’s life.
Next Week
The Interleague boys have upped their performance this season and left last year’s wooden spoon fiasco well behind and we can surely, with all the new talent we have, look forward with some optimism to challenging for the very top next year.
In the interim there is the traditional end of season scramble and prize giving to look forward to next Sunday at Jagorawi – when stuffing one in the jungle, not the most difficult of task at Jags, really doesn’t matter nearly as much as usual when you have three mates to give it a go too 🙂
Either send Keith an e-mail with your full team of four – or just register in the usual way here and we will sort you out into a nice compatible team.
Shotgun start at 12:30 and with green fees at a concessionary 800,000 roops for a fun day of golf on a very fine course with BBQ and drinks afterwards, no Tee Set fees – and a bottle of wine for each member of the highest finishing Tee Set team – so don’t miss it!
See yah Sunday! … Tee Set
