Tee Set

Dear All,

The location was Matoa National Golf club and the time was 6:50 am, 10 minutes before the shot gun start of the 2012 Tee Set Championship. The situation was chaotic as golfers searched around looking for their playing partners and which cart had their golf clubs. The drinks cooler boxes needed filling and the servers from Mad Dogs and Murphy’s Pub had no transport out to their respective drinks kiosks. Little wonder the author shot a triple bogey on the very first hole played. Well if it was going to be like this all day then bring it on. But hey, the next hole was only a bogey and the day started to get better.

Brian and Tuti in the drinks buggy caught up with our group and thus armed with a smoothie and a cold Anchor, index #1 hole was tamed. It continued to get better throughout the day up until 11:15 am when the heavens opened up and all sensible golfers made their way back to the club house to sit out the storm.

A few groups stayed out, however, and managed to finish their remaining two or three holes despite the flooded greens. Even the winner of the 2012 Match Play final was decided on a flooded green with Dave Baglivo prevailing over Mike Garwood on the last hole.

A great effort from Mike to even make the final since at 06:00 that morning he was still one hole down with one to play against Dean Kurt from the day before uncompleted match. To cut a long story short Mike marched through to the final after a sudden death putt off. By 11:50 we were back out to finish the round but the weather turned bad again to make the conditions very difficult.

From the 97 players that started, 91 managed to finish their rounds. What came next was round two of organized chaos, getting everyone changed, into Matoa’s upstairs function room, fed and suitably intoxicated while Tuti and the Tee Set committee attempted to work out who had won what.

The most important result to announce was Su Jones becoming Tee Set Champion for 2012 with the best nett result of 67. Congratulations to Su who also won the Rp1M meat voucher donated by Slaney’s Meats.

Other awards are listed below.

Full score sheet is attached in pdf together with the stats sheet compiled by our chief statistician, Keith Miller.

Thanks to Keith also for running the Match Play event during the year despite all the other demands on his time.

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1. Tee Set Champion 2012 – Lowest nett – Su Jones (nett 67)
2. Runner up – Ric Wymer (nett 67)
3. A grade low gross – Joseph Peries 74
4. B grade low gross – Jesse Shaw 87
5. C grade low gross – John Suermondt 99
6. Lowest putts – Malcolm Liewellyn 25
7. 1st Birdie – Tim Davis (revised result)
8. 1st Sandy – Reka Romango and Oddvar Knardal
9. 1st par > 30 handicappers – Ivan Byriel and Shawn Millen
10. Longest drive Men – Kees De Korver (214m)
11. Longest drive Women – Cucu (177m)
12. Nearest to the Pin – Mark Rae (2m)
13. Money list winner for 2012 –  Geoff ‘burglar’ Thwaites
14. Match Play Champion 2012 – David Baglivo
15. Match Play runner up – Mike Garwood

Once all the trophies and lucky door prizes had been given out, the remaining task prior to sending everyone packing was to choose the new president for 2013. I use the word ‘choose’ rather then ‘elect’ because the first to put up his hand was ex-president Geoff Thwaites and nominations were closed immediately thereafter. Exactly 4 years ago the same ‘election’ process was used on the writer. Déjà vu working in reverse. Congratulations Geoff – you can count on plenty of support from the troops in the coming year. Geoff’s first task will be to get all the photos from the event onto the web page.

There are a number of people who contributed greatly to the success of this event and I’ll start by first mentioning Peter Reichlmeier who organized the trophies, Pin High shirts and Titleist caps, goodie bags, prizes, score sheets and gave advice when needed. Bob Fleischmann who provided his trailer B-B-Q and the hot links/hot dogs, buns that kept us from starving before lunch. Jack Calcote for getting us all fired up in the morning via Bloody Marys and throughout the day via his famous Smoothies. Octa did a great job getting all the goodie bags filled during registration and helping out with the trophy presentations. Brian Wilson and Den Rogers organized the ice boxes and drove the drinks carts throughout the day ably assisted by Tuti and Ulan from Star Deli.

We also had two girls from Murphy’s Pub and two from Mad Dogs to run the drinks kiosks on the course. Lis, Rahma, Dita, Lady, Baby and Lis’s dad all helped with organizing ice boxes, serving the drinks and general support. Tee Set secretary Tuti worked tirelessly making sure the registrations were correct and entering the scores into the results spread sheet.

Lastly but most importantly I’d like to thank the sponsors that made this event happen. They are as follows:

Gold Sponsors: Hot-Hed, PT International Paint Indonesia, Samson Tiara

Silver Sponsors: Quest Geophysical, PT Fugro Indonesia

Bronze Sponsors: Seascape Surveys, Peter Reichlmeier, Kojo, Star Deli

Those donating prizes or other support: Bob Fleischmann, Roland Fong, Murphy’s Irish Pub, Jack Calcote, Mad Dogs, Grand Slam Golf, Raymond Leong, Ivan Byriel, Dick Slaney, Stephane Mauger, Mike Garwood, Peter Reichlmeier, Brendan Green, Ed Bender Snr, Evaldo Roos, Ian Barr, Nick Grant, Anthony Sinclair, Mrs Sisi, Kristal Hotel, Risti and Now Jakarta. Ricky Cunningham gave a sample taste of his new hobby, raising Australian Yabbies in Indonesia. They were delicious, mate.

Pak Reza and his staff at Matoa National were fantastic in their support of our event and contributed greatly to its success. Recommend we book Matoa for next year’s event and to return on a regular basis throughout next year.

Tee Set’s 2013 season kicks off this Sunday December 2nd with a visit to a rarely played course, Karawang International. Tee off is 12:30PM but be early in case we can push the starter to get us off earlier. Take the Cikampek toll and exist just after Km 46. Travel time is about 55 minutes from Kemang. Car pooling available if required.

Don’t forget Yayasan HOGS 3rd annual Ibu Arti golf scramble on Saturday Dec 1, 2012 at the Sawangan golf course. Further details can be found via the attachment.

Finally I’d like to thank all those that supported Tee Set during my tenure as President. Especially to the committee loosely made up of Peter, Geoff, Keith, Santi, Graham and Octa. Has been a great ride and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the comradeship of the Jakarta golfing fraternity. It’s a great group and we can boast having in our membership many different nationalities and people from all walks of life. The common denominator is the love of chasing that silly white ball around the beautiful golf courses of Indonesia and having a good yarn together after the game.

Cheers and happy golfing,
Ric

PS Apologies if I’ve left something off this newsletter I should have mentioned – or forgotten to thank someone. It’s been a long day.