In what has become a tradition up there with Secret Santa gifts and egg nog, the Christmas Blind Pairs event will be held off the white tees at Riverside next Sunday.
Pairs will be drawn from a Christmas hat, which will then be given to pairs to wear. The format will be stableford scoring, two ball better ball. This means you write down stableford points for each of you then, on each hole, you write in the best score for that hole as your team score. Bottles of wine will go to the winning teams.
We want your opinion on this. Tee Set Championships and Monthly Medals will continue to be played off the blue tees for men, but we are considering shifting other weeks to the white tees. Please have your say here.
Handicaps
We are working to speed up the updating of handicaps. We will continue to receive cards submitted on Sundays or you can email details of your non-Tee Set rounds to teesetcards@gmail.com, including:
Name, Date, Course Played, Tee Box, Gross Score, Adjusted Gross Score (no need for your card).
To calculate your adjusted gross score, you adjust your worst holes to the maximum score for your handicap, according to this table from USGA, and re-tally your score.
For example, I play off 16 handicap and I shoot 88 with an 8 and a 9. These scores get adjusted to 7 and my adjusted gross score becomes 85. Richard plays off 9 and he shoots 79 with a triple bogey, well that gets adjusted to a double bogey and his adjusted gross score becomes 78. Pascal playing off 32, shoots 102 with one 10 and one 11, these are adjusted to 9 and his adjusted gross score is 99.
As DOGS are moving their handicapping and scoring online, from 1 January we will have different handicapping sytems again, so Tee Setters who play DOGS will need to submit details of their DOGS rounds to maintain their Tee Set, USGA handicap.
Everything else you need to know about handicaps can be found here.
Juju defends her title, carrying over the monthly medal between Tee Set Golf years, most probably a first.
The Day
Cengkareng continue to provide a safe and well managed day of golf and 50 Tee Setters took advantage of a rain free day to shoot some good scores and enjoy excellent company. For the first time, prizes were doubled to 200K, so lots of happy golfers. Lots of birdies too, including one not so fortunate swallow on the 15th, laid to rest after being collected by one of Ric’s more potent shots. The Javanese dove that Stefan was chasing down the 18th managed to get away. Long drive winner and avid bird watcher, Simon Reynolds, was no doubt also cataloguing some rare breeds in between practice swings. Labouring the birdie theme, the singing and whispering Presidents went head to head, starting with birdies, with Geoff carding his best ever nine hole score of 39 (24 points) and Craig not too far behind with 41 (22 points). They both eventually fell off the perch.
A big welcome back to Hari after 368 weeks and a big welcome back to the JAWS guys after 1 week, great guys, great golfers. Welcome back also to our Secretary Beby after staying safe for the last few months and welcome Steven Shih.
The Play
Well done Juju for continuing great recent form and defending the Monthly Medal. Juju was also among four tied for the lead for the eclectic competition, played over four monthly medal rounds, together with Craig, Arnold and Jude (not in the photo).
Now, this was going to be our last Tee Set eclectic round. Reason being, DOGS have a great eclectic event as their standard format and the calculations require some brains. However, with a four way tie, we needed a way to find one winner, so decided there will be a playoff at the next monthly medal at Cengkareng at the end of January. All four winners will be paired together in the pressure cooker that will be the Eclectic Playoff. If there is still a tie, the winner will be decided on low net for the day, and if still tied, will be decided by the normal competition countback process.
Taking out net prizes were Sami (A grade), Lis (B grade) and Malcolm (C Grade). Malcolm (in green here) has come in and out of Indonesia and played with Tee Set regularly over the last 7 years, and is goin home to the UK, so we wish you well mate. You know where to find a game if you are back. Tim Knight won low gross, after another four way tie, but Ric unleashed the krakoen and determined a winner. Tim, you should have been awarded 200k and you will be next week when we see you.
But before we go, we all like a good skirt photo and there were many not reaching the ladies tee today….including three committee members, a Club Champion, a Runner Up, a Big Dog and a dove chaser….
Four Way Inter Society Competition – Matoa, Saturday 12th December.
To co-incide with DOGS penultimate eclectic round and POCKSIA and SMOGS’ final events for the year, a competition was staged involving these three, and Tee Set because they heard there would be drinks afterwards….and there were.
At stake was honour, glory and (very limited) bragging rights. The format was far too interesting to be described accurately here and involved ranking of stableford scores on each hole, awarding points based on rank and totalling points at the end of the round. With so much overlap between the societies, it was just as hard to choose sides as it was to choose a winner, but it was done and Tee Set came through with 22 1/2 points. Thanks to DOGS, Pocksia and SMOGS for a terrific day.
Next Up – Sunday 20th December 2020, Riverside Christmas “Blind Pairs” Event
In what has become a tradition up there with Secret Santa gifts and egg nog, the Christmas Blind Pairs event will be held off the white tees at Riverside next Sunday.
Pairs will be drawn from a Christmas hat, which will then be given to pairs to wear. The format will be stableford scoring, two ball better ball. This means you write down stableford points for each of you then, on each hole, you write in the best score for that hole as your team score. Bottles of wine will go to the winning teams.
The first Monthly Medal round of the new golf year will be held at Cengkareng. The Monthly Medal is the premium monthly competition played off the blue tees (men) and red tees (women) in the stableford format. Everyone welcome.
Tee off is at 12 noon off Tee Box 1 and 10.
To sign up for the Monthly Medal, please click here.
UPDATE ON TEE SET COMMITTEE
At the Tee Set Championships, a Committee consisting of Bill Lloyd, David (Bags) Baglivo and former Presidents Geoff Thwaites, Ric Wymer and Craig Ewers was nominated and endorsed by the membership to manage Tee Set for the next year, assign roles between them, recruit other members as required and nominate a Chair. After two meetings, the Committee has agreed that Bill Lloyd is Commitee Chair.
The Committee will share responsibility for roles within Tee Set, with Ric continuing to co-ordinate Sunday competitions, Bags co-ordinating the matchplay, Craig publishing the blog and Bill and Geoff dividing other duties and opening participation up to others. A big thanks to outgoing President Roger Finnie and Craig Edwards too for agreeing to help out as needed, and to Keith Miller for all his work in maintaining our website and databases.
It’s all too big a job for one person and we wanted a more open sharing of workload. Co-ordinators will be nominated for certain special events. A professional secretary will be recruited and paid from the contributions you make each week and from other societies who pay for Tee Set to administer handicapping under the USGA system. This will allow us all to enjoy what Tee Set offers: great golf, great courses, great prices, awesome people.
In other decisions, the Committee has increased the weekly prizes to 200,000 Rp. Winners must be present to collect the prize, or it stays in the pool. In the case of a tie, there will only be a countback if players involved are still there for the presentation ceremony, otherwise the prize will be awarded to the player who is present.
We are considering a few other changes and will ask you about them before we move ahead. The 2021 schedule will be announced in the next fortnight.
Inaugural Tee Set vs JAWS Team Matchplay Challenge
We’ll start with this because it really was the highlight of the day and a great first event to have for the new (golf) year, which included 29 of the 38 players registered by Tee Set on the day. Terrific job by both captains, Simon and Tralok, for scraping their teams together, given a few last minute no-shows. And, in a sign of the times, it provided no shortage of post-result drama….
Teeset players are always up for a challenge, so when the new kids on the block JAWS threw down the gauntlet, the offer was too exciting a prospect to decline, game on. To be fair it was more like a family pillow fight, with lots of overlap between the two societies.
Teeset Captain Simon Reynolds and JAWS Captain Tarlok Singh went about their business to select their 20 best (and available), golfing members to fly their societies’ flags into battle with pride amongst the jungles of Jagorawi New Course and the question was: Would it be the JAWS Sharks or Teeset Team swimming to victory down the Cikeas River after 18 holes of matchplay golf?
Match 1: Wait, more later…..
Match 2: Saw big hitter Mike Evangelista (14) and consistent Sunday performer Emil Marcelo (16) take on JAWS Captain Tarlok Singh (13) and Taufik Boenardi (21). The power and distance of Emil and the accuracy and short game guile of Mike was a winning competition with great balance.
TeeSet Win 3 & 2 (2 points)
Match 3: Team GB of Andy Coop (9) and David Prosser (10) vs JAWS Vice Captain Gaurav Shrike (10) and Nick Goodwin (15). Nick and David were booming 300 m drives but more of Nick’s found the fairway, and Team GB sruggled to get going and find any momentum, as Gaurav accurate as ever was throwing darts at the greens.
JAWS Win 5 & 4 (2 Points)
Match 4: The never ending contending Tim Knight (7) and James Bristow (12) took on Bayu (5) and Srivinas Murthy (14). With four quality golfers in one flight, the quality of golf was very high as the match swung from side to side and the match ended up all square as rain stopped play after 14 holes.
Match Drawn (1 Point a piece)
Match 5: Tee Set showed JAWS we had Finns of our own with Sami Kekkonen (15) and Jari (20) taking on Chris Lever (18) and Pras Sutowo (20). Sami fresh on form from a 64 nett in the championships played second fiddle to the veteran matchplayer Jari, whose many years as a JIL player with Sandbaggers proving pivitol as he navigated his wayward partner around the 18 holes of the Jagorawi’s jungle keeping his team ball in play.
TeeSet Win 2 & 1 (2 points)
Match 6: Teesetters Robert Watt (14) and hardy veteran and ex-President Geoff Thwaites (20) took on Interleague legend Iris Rothenburg (12) and Willi G (18). Robert and Geoff had their hands full playing two very experienced golfers in Iris and Willi. Iris knows every nook and cranny of the New Course, played solid as ever and Willi chipped in consistently. The match was won on Iris’s last putt.
JAWS Win 1 Up (2 points)
Match 7: Teeset Matchplay supremos David Baglivio (12) and Arnold Castillon (16) took on the JAWS players Bobby (11) and Parman (14). On paper, the Tee Set team looked strong but they met their match in two very crafty and skilful JAWS players.
JAWS Win 3 & 2 (2 points)
Match 8: Saw Douglas McQuater (14) and Fernando Gaggino (14) take on Yudi Laskito (15) and Avnish Patankar (24). Albeit giving a fair amount of strokes to the JAWS opposition, The course knowledge of long term Jagorawi member and JIL veteran El Guapo proved to canny for the JAWS Sharks who made one mistake too many.
TeeSet Win 3 & 2 (2 points)
Match 9: Teeset 2020 interleague Singles Stalwart and smooth swinging Swede Richard Berg (6) and the gritty and hardy Samret Raungit (11) were a great combination against JAWS organiser in chief, Divya (15) and Vijay (16). T
TeeSet Win 3 & 1 (2 points)
Match 10: Teeset Interleague Captain, Simon Reynolds (7) teamed up with Supachai (15) vs Randy Albert (10) and Arif (15) from JAWS. The game was played in great spirits even in the rain with laughs shared between lost balls and drops from the surrounding jungle. The Teeset Captain and straight shooter Supachai were uncharacterstically wayward off the tee and failed to capitalise from opponents mistakes when given with several missed putts costing them the match to the two sharp shooting Sharks.
And now back to Match 1……
Good friends and Teeset regulars Jude Alexander(19) and Dan Javier (20) took on JAWS players Imran (8) and Diana Budiarti (28). This was a high quality match with Diana maintaining strong form from the Tee Set championships, but, on review, the match was found to have not been in line with the competitition rules and was, by agreement of the societies, declared void.
FINAL RESULT: TeeSet 9 – 9 JAWS
A big thanks to the JAWs team for promoting and creating this new event, and for the integrity displayed on review of the match one result. A draw can be celebrated by both teams as good for Jakarta golf, and a lesson was learnt about being fully aware of the competition rules before play starts. Thanks and best wishes to all!!!!
Standard Competition
Played in parallel to the matches was the standard net strokeplay competition, with 38 players registered. Lots of newcomers – welcome to the Jaws family – and a big welcome back to Peter after 26 weeks away. All photos of the day here.
As usual for Jagorawi, tight scores and not a lot of birdies. Congratulations to net winners – A Grade – Fenando 71, B Grade – the evergreen Geoff Thwaites with 73, and Taufik (no Jaws is not his surname) in C Grade with 73. Randy (no… JAWS is not his real surname either) took low gross of 83. Congratulations to Ric for eventually earning most improved, before later disqualifying himself, recorded here as 9 strokes better score on his second nine but perhaps jumbled by the shotgun start and the stress of organising. All appreciated, Ric!!!!
Next Sunday 13 December 2020, 12 noon – Cengkareng – Monthly Medal
The first Monthly Medal round of the new golf year will be held at Cengkareng. The Monthly Medal is the premium monthly competition played off the blue tees (men) and red tees (women) in the stableford format. Everyone welcome.
Tee off is at 12 noon off Tee Box 1 and 10.
The Monthly Medal and Perpetual Trophy are donated by Geoff Thwaites and Kojo, and we thank them for their support over many years.
Please take notice of this Thursday’s reminder post, where we will update you on the status of the Tee Set leadership and advise next steps. Your committee has been meeting and we will have a resolution to bring to the members on Sunday.
To sign up for the Monthly Medal, please click here.
This week we visit the excellent Jagorawi Golf and Country Club and, in addition to being our usual weekly game, we will have the Tee Set team taking on JAWS in an inaugural match-up between the 2 Societies. A challenge shield has been invested in for the match and so we will be looking forward to a smiling Captain Simon Reynolds holding the trophy in Monday’s blog as he has put together a great line up to represent Tee Set.
The day will be played on the New Course and although tee time is 12.00pm officially, we are expecting to get off a little earlier and possibly with a shot-gun start so we ask all of you to be at the course before 11.00am please. We will play white tees this week for men/red for ladies and if you are interested to join us please sign up here. Price is Rp950k with carts.
Once again the resilient spirit of Tee Set was on show and the 2020 Championships charged ahead successfully at the Cengkareng Golf Club on Saturday; many thanks to Kurt, Olivia and the Cengkareng team for their effort in making our day so enjoyable.
In total, 107 players competed, teeing off in a shot-gun start from different tee boxes. Jamal’s pre-game Bloody Mary’s and Screwdrivers were a hit as usual and the yearly photo above (masks on this year!) presented its usual chaos.
The club did a great job with precautions and Tee Set players respected social distancing, even during some exuberant dancing near the end of the night, impossible to avoid when Pascal’s classic disco mix comes on.
The event is made possible through your registration fees and fines building up through the year and being spent at this and other special events, through generous sponsors, hard working helpers and your dedicated committee – Roger, Ric, Bill and exiled web guy, Keith Miller.
Jack Calcote and AsiaServ, as always, provided their ever popular smoothies and margarita machines, and Aisha did a great job as official photographer. Bob Fleischmann and the Hot Hed team provided sponsorship and the awesome hot dogs. Andy Coop’s LF Logistics and Mick Dodsworth’s Schenck Process sponsored cash and prizes, Dan Javier’s PT Delta provided cash and Anker and San Miguel product, which mysteriously evaporated over the day, Bill Lloyd and Asia Tigers as always with cash and prize hampers, the King of Hospitality, Richard Mau, provided smiles and low scores and JS Luwansa provided voucher prizes and the magnificent cake, Roger Finnie and Mayapada Group for cash support, medical check ups and the standby ambulance – which we are happy to say was not to be needed, Michael Seabrook and JIIB Financials for their sponsorship, Geoff Thwaites and Kojo as always for sponsoring the monthly medal throughout the year, Lis Wymer and Tupperware for the drink bottles in the goodie bags and Sumo Caddy for the very handy handuk (towels) in the goodie bags and very cool door prizes. Thanks to Stefan Thiele and Rooftop West, the safest live music venue in Jakarta – just above Museum Macan – for supplying more of the liquid ingredients that made the day flow.
Our appreciation too for our special helpers from Star Kemang – Wulan, Kephy and Rini – this for packing the goodie bags and ferrying refreshments around the course. And a big shout out to Beby for entering scorecards and managing handicaps throughout the season.
A big welcome to 9 newcomers to Tee Set (see below) and a big welcome back for many Tee Setters, but especially for Tuti after 366 weeks. Tuti also won most strokes on a hole, enjoying it so much she took 12 strokes to finish.
And a very special thanks to outgoing Tee Set President, Roger Finnie, after 3 1/2 years. Roger, with others, helped further integrate the Tee Set, DOGS and JAWS groups in Jakarta so we can move freely between them on one handicap system and regularly participated in all of them. He also enjoys playing with Pocksia and has been a huge supporter of Jakarta Interleague. He put together as accurate a history of Tee Set as is possible with the fading memories of the brains trust and he put a mountain of work into managing the society. Roger has handed over to a committee of 3 former Presidents, Ric Wymer, Geoff Thwaites and Craig Ewers, and 2 Tee Set legends, Dave Baglivo and Bill Lloyd. The Committee will assign roles, including a chair.
If you want to be represented in the running of Tee Set, then please volunteer for the Committee, you will be most welcome and there will be a role for you.
The Play
The course was in great shape and the weather was ideal. No excuses for those of us who had shocking starts, except perhaps that we could then relax and enjoy the smoothies, secure in being out of contention. For those still in it, there was suspense, skill with 2 (possibly 3) eagles, lots of tee shots very close to the pin and an impressive 290m (317 yard) drive to win longest drive (see below). But let’s get straight to it!!!!
2020 Champion – Cucu Chandra
At the end of the round, the golfers staggered in with one clear winner; our 2020 Tee Set Champion is Cucu Chandra for shooting a remarkable nett 61 which included 8 pars and a birdie, even overcoming a 9 on the par 4 hole 10th!
Cucu has been a regular part of Tee Set for many years, participating in many trips away and special events. She ranks this as the highlight of her life in Tee Set, perhaps even on a par with meeting Tom! Ever the gracious playing partner and gentleman Tom was the first to call for a handicap adjustment after Cucu’s round. Our champions over the years have come from all grades, reinforcing the fact that Tee Set is a nett golf society, and Cucu made every C Grader proud today!
2020 Low Gross Champion – Richard Mau maintained his brilliant Championship performances of the last few years by winning the George Bevage memorial trophy for Low Gross again, shooting 76, 7 under his handicap to narrowly edge out Tim Knight on 77, who is always in the hunt and created his chance with a fine eagle on the 18th hole.
Some other great rounds were good enough for prizes – Dave (Bags) Baglivo trumping other contenders to win A Grade with a fine nett 66; Sami leading the B Graders home with a nett 64 and Diana winning C Grade with a net 64, all very happy winners shooting great rounds on the right day. Not sure they got out with all their prizes, perhaps due to that mysteriously evaporating beer!
Dave Prosser traded power for finesse to take the first sandy par on his second hole played, Emiliano was the first of 28 birdies for the day on his first hole played and Aleksi either read the greens well or spent a lot of time chipping from the fringes for his winning 28 low putts.
Mike Riley carded the first par among the Over 30 handicappers, always a tough competition and Philip Schaferdieck came home strong, 14 strokes better than he went out in. Philip also won Nearest to the Pin on the 4th, Gaurav Shirke won NTP on both 8 and 17, Imran Harum was closest on 12. Longest hitters were Emiliano Marcelo with a monster 290 metres and Diana Budiarti, both on the second hole.
Here is the day’s scoring summary, full results are here.
Annual Competitions
As well as the Championship awards, we also recognise the winners of events that have been held through the Tee Set year.
Presented with the Ric Wymer Matchplay trophy by the man himself – Arnold Castillon, with his worthy opponent, Mark Johnson.
2020 Matchplay Champion – Arnold Castillon – and Runner Up – Mark Johnson
Thanks again to Matchplay Supremo, James Ross, for organising the competition through the year, always tricky with scheduling.
2020 Eclectic Winners – Tom Grace and Jari Antikaenin
The eclectic competition was started in 2015, held on monthly medal rounds. Tom and Jari may be the last winners as we plan to discontinue this format next year.
It’s been fun but now that we are more integrated with other groups, we feel that the DOGS group have a great eclectic event every week and we want to give priority to the monthly medal when it is held.
Monthly Medal winners for the year were also honoured again and Geoff Thwaites and Kojo were thanked for providing the trophies each month.
A full range of statistics were provided, thanks as usual to our mysterious Web Guy for his painstaking adherence to data integrity, and these allowed us to award prizes for Lowest Average Gross over the Year – Simon Reynolds – with 23 rounds played for an average gross score of 80.7, Lowest Average Nett over the Year – Roger Finnie – with 36 rounds played for an average nett score of 73.3. Roger also took out lowest average puts with 28.7 per round. As usual, our stalwart Ric Wymer won the Iron Man with the most rounds played, 47, lower than his usual because of a bout of dengue fever.
Out of respect to all who had a great time and don’t deserve to be judged for it, we have decided to be discreet and not feature event photos on the blog this year. What we would like to say is thank you all for your relative restraint , your respect for others in this difficult time, and your commitment to this fantastic society. Tee Set is an incredibly diverse mix of great men and women now from all around the world, and Saturday once again showed the camaraderie among golfers, some who have now known each other through Jakarta golf for well over 20 years.
And just to let you know we live and play in a jungle.…
Cengkareng Cobra (photo Geoff Thwaites)
Sharing the event on the ninth hole was this cobra, no doubt from the same family as the one who decided to give Craig Edwards a love bite earlier in the year.
The offending snake that time died after some handy club work by Santi Miller, but Craig is a true Aussie battler and survived.
Fortunately Craig was not in the group on Saturday that stumbled across this beauty or he may very well have jumped onto his caddy’s back and bolted.
Next up
So a truly great day and it’s all over for another year; many thanks to all for your participation in the Championship and we hope to see you regularly throughout the 2020/21 Tee Set year, starting next week at Jagorawi when we play the New Course when the fees will be 950,000 roops including cart and with a midday tee off. Sign up here to join the fun.
Although a mixture of events and a major accident on the toll conspired to prevent a dozen of the registered players from being able to play yesterday, 106 Tee Setters turned out on what was a fantastic day all round. I will not steal the thunder from the scribe of the report but just a couple of messages to share to all those following Tee Set.
President Roger Finnie officially stepped down as of the close of the event and the members present yesterday voted to confirm a new committee structure to manage Tee Set for the coming year including its core members Bill Lloyd, Craig Ewers, David Baglivo, Geoff Thwaites and Ric Wymer. The Committee is still looking for a few volunteers to assist either officially or for events so please contact one of the above if you are willing to help.
A big thank you again to all our sponsors who made the day possible, to the committee members who put in a lot of work to organize the day, to the Cengkareng management and staff who ensured it went smoothly and to DJ Pascal who kept us enjoying the evening with his special selection of music for the day.
Lastly, as I sign off for now, thank you to all the Tee Setters who contributed to the excellent gifts handed out to the committee and myself personally. I shall certainly enjoy the bottles in the coming weeks and look at the pictures as part of many fond memories of my time as President.
We look forward to the Championships and as of writing, we have just 1 spot open should anyone be interested. Please sign up here: 2020-tee-set-championship-registration/ and will confirm by return with all the details of the day. For all those signed up, you should have received a welcome note and all the details for the day. If not or if you are unable to now join, please let us know asap.
Not to forget that for those missing a Sunday round at Matoa on the last Sunday of November, our friends from D.O.G.S will be having their weekly event the next day having kindly exchanged playing days with us this week to accommodate our arrangements. Your immediate past President will be out supporting them and would be pleased to see many Tee Setters doing the same.
Election of President at Championship: Update
As was previously announced, I’ll be stepping down as of this Saturday as President. We did a call out for members interested and willing to step forward into the role for the coming year but there was nobody ready at this time to take up the mantle. Subsequently, 2 of our former Presidents therefore kindly stepped forward and volunteered to “hold the fort” pending identifying a new recruit to the position. After some discussions as a group, including the current and potential new committee members, we are proposing rather than having a beauty contest on Saturday for the role of President, that we move back to a flatter structure with more committee positions and members sharing the work load of running the Society and making decisions collectively as a group.
We will therefore be proposing this structure to the membership on Saturday with the initial slate of committee members. So far, Craig Ewers, Geoff Thwaites, Ric Wymer, Bill Lloyd and David Baglivo have agreed to form the nucleus of the new committee but we would also like to add a few more members to cover roles which we feel could usefully be filled. Please let Roger, Ric or Bill know by return if you are interested to join the committee so we can add you to the slate on Saturday; if there are still positions open after Saturday, and assuming the membership concurs with the proposal, the new committee will be looking to tap a few of you on the shoulder to help out.
Other Events & Activities
BWA Charity Auction: In light of the social restrictions and cancellation of events, BWA are running an on-line auction for the SeaTrek sailing adventure to help raise funds for their charities. Please see the Classified’s Page for more details and the link for bidding.
ISCO Charity Event: The next event will be on 4th December at Riverside. Please see the Classified Page on how to sign up if you are interested.
Officially the last event of the Tee Set calendar for the current presidential year as the statistics for the Championships go into the next year and it was good to see a healthy turn-out of regulars join us for the day. We kicked off the day with the presentation of October’s Monthly Medal to Juju Juhairiah having finally got her, the shield and the medal all in one place. September’s winner, Mark Johnson was on hand to pass it over…. with the out-going president not armed with the Tee Set camera, no other shots of the day were taken but we are grateful one which was sent over for the post …
We arrived under sunny skies but sat at the first tee waiting our turn, the heavens opened and we were subjected to a heavy deluge and some thunder. Sensible precautions were taken by all and the course closed down for 40 minutes whilst the storm passed, following which we were able to get out and enjoy a relatively smooth round. Having got to the starter hut 20 minutes early, the delay did not affect our ability to be around well before dark and enjoy some refreshments as we dried off in the clubhouse afterwards.
Welcome backs to Patrick Wasler, Stefan Thiele and Manfred Borer… and a warm thank you to Mark Johnson and Bill Lloyd for their assistance with the administration and presentations on the day.
The Play
The softer greens after the rains ensured that we had no Monster Putter this week but this was more than made up by the 6 way tie for Most Strokes involving Dimitri Burge, Fred Papachristidis-Bove, Patrick Wasler, Stefan Thiele, Timo Karonen and Tom Grace. A modest return of 2 skirts also kept the Treasurer happy too, thanks to Detlef Bluemke and Philip Shaferdieck.
First Sandy went to Mark Johnson and First Birdie to Richard Mau whilst Roger Finnie had a shocking day tee to “not quite the green” and so cleaned up on Low Putts to complete the skills prizes of the day. Low Gross went to Dave Prosser.
Our Low Net winners were Andy Coop, Bill Lloyd and on a count-back from Vanco Pop-Petrovski, Philip Shaferdieck.
Congratulations to all our winners and thanks again to Gading Raya management for their arrangements on the day. Detailed results are here: Gading Raya results 2211
Tee Set Championships: Saturday this weeknot Sunday!
Despite many messages that we thought would have provided relative clarity including most recently, an email to all confirmed participants, that we had moved the Championships to Saturday this year, various players signed up for the event have been noted organizing their Saturday games for this week…. we trust its clear now – its on Saturday … also the event is full with a waiting list so if anyone does decide to make other arrangements or cannot play, please let us know asap by replying to the welcome mailer sent out yesterday.
Not to forget that for those missing a Sunday round at Matoa on the last Sunday of November, our friends from D.O.G.S will be having their weekly event the next day having kindly exchanged playing days with us this week to accommodate our arrangements. Your immediate past President will be out supporting them and would be pleased to see many Tee Setters doing the same.
Other Events & Activities
Thanksgiving Golf Event: In the absence of the traditional AMCHAM event this year, a Thanksgiving Golf event is being arranged at Jagorawi New Course on Thursday 26th November with a 9.00am tee off followed by an optional lunch. Cost for golf is Rp600k in a shared cart and if enough people opt for lunch, then a turkey lunch will be ordered in for an additional Rp300k. Anybody interested please contact Bill Lloyd at bill.lloyd@asiantigers-indonesia.com
BWA Charity Auction: In light of the social restrictions and cancellation of events, BWA are running an on-line auction for the SeaTrek sailing adventure to help raise funds for their charities. Please see the Classified’s Page for more details and the link for bidding.
ISCO Charity Event: The next event will be on 4th December at Riverside. Please see the Classified Page on how to sign up if you are interested.
To All Tee Setters, Sponsors, Committee Members and Supporters
You are receiving this as I am starting to play my last round as Tee Set President, weather permitting, after an enjoyable and rewarding 3 1/2 years. We now have at least one nomination for the role of President in 2020/21, the appointment of which will be formally anointed by the players present at the Championships next Saturday; I look forward thereafter to stepping back into the playing ranks as our new President and his/her Committee takes Tee Set forward to its next chapter.
It has been a pleasure to meet so many keen fellow golfers, to welcome new arrivals to Jakarta on behalf of the Society and to enjoy good golf with good people, on great courses at great prices. It never ceases to amaze me how far and wide the Tee Set legend has spread and that so many people already have us on their “to do” list by the time they arrive in Jakarta.
It has also been an honour to have been entrusted for these last few years to be a part of Tee Set’s enduring legacy. A couple of highlights of this time for me are the strengthening of our connections with the wider golfing fraternity here in Jakarta, including helping make handicaps more consistent across several of the week-end and mid-week golfing groups, and to have finally set down a fairly accurate version of Tee Set’s history on the website: click here if you have not yet read it https://teesetgolf.wordpress.com/tee-set-history/ ….. the rest I will leave to you all to gossip about….
There are a great number of people who step up to make Tee Set tick and they are a regular source of inspiration. A heartfelt and huge thank you to all the committee members, our fantastic and ever supportive sponsors, the golf course managers, the members who step in week to week to help with on-course administration and our band of secretaries who help out behind the scenes – it all happens due to your support and I am very appreciative of the contributions you have all made to make Tee Set run so smoothly. I would also like to thank the former Tee Set Presidents who have all made themselves available for guidance and to share ideas with so that we keep true to the spirit of the Society as the baton is passed from one period to the next.
I am not going anywhere, although I may be spending a few more Sundays with my family in the coming months as Jane has supported me, and therefore all of you, in allowing me the latitude and not inconsiderable time it takes to run Tee Set. I look forward to another grand event at our Championships next week and to rejoining the back benches thereafter…
