Next Up: Cengkareng Monthly Medal and Eclectic XI Final Round Sunday 15th December 2019 12pm tee off

Posted on December 12, 2019 by rogerfinnie

This Sunday we head back to one of Jakarta’s finest courses and one of Tee Set’s most popular venues, Cengkareng, home for Tee Set’s Monthly Medal for 2019.

In addition to being the final Monthly Medal of 2019, this week will also be the 4th and final round of Cycle XI of the Tee Set Eclectic. With Cycle X winner, Matthew Powell, having departed Jakarta, we will definitely have a new winner: will it be another new name on the Trophy or will one of our past Champions rise to the occasion again.? Details of the current standings are here.

Whilst there is a lot to attract players for this week, we also welcome those who just wish to enjoy a pleasant trip across the rolling fairways, guided round by Cengkareng’s well trained caddies and then to sit and enjoy one of its famous Margaritas to cool you down afterwards.

If you are able to join us for a very reasonable Rp850,000 walking please sign up here. Tee time is 12pm as usual.

Reminder: For those who would prefer not to walk, in addition to the hover boards to glide across the rolling fairways, Cengkareng has available a limited number of golf carts. If you wish to reserve one please contact the Golf reservations staff at Cengkareng directly. As the carts are limited in number and we do not have visibility to those already booked on the day, your Tee Set Committee is not involved to the reservation of the carts

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Sunday 8th December 2019 Jagorawi New

Posted on December 9, 2019 by rogerfinnie

The Day & The Play

A flurry of late call offs culled our already smallish group in half on Sunday morning which resulted in only 10 Tee Setters turning out on Sunday at the beautiful but challenging Jagorawi New Course. GM Arron Cole and his team were on hand to look after us well with an early start time and caddies all lined up ready for when we had all had a pre-round bite to eat and catch-up.

The course was in great shape with the rains having freshened up the grass and the greens were running smoothly as always. The challenge of the course was reflected in everyone scoring at least a 7 on one hole. Our two 3 balls got round in great time, just beating the rain which caught our 4-ball but they still managed to finish in good time after the short shower.

With only 10 players, everyone got a mention in the results one way or another and being Matt Otto’s last round before heading out to Mexico for his next assignment, we decided to forego the usual presentations and put all the funds towards a couple of jugs of beer to wish Matt Bon Voyage and best wishes in his next assignment.

Next Up: Cengkareng Monthly Medal and Rd IV Eclectic XI Sunday 15th December 2019

This Sunday we head back to one of Jakarta’s finest courses and one of Tee Set’s most popular venues, Cengkareng, home for Tee Set’s Monthly Medal for 2019.

In addition to being the final Monthly Medal of 2019, this week will also be the 4th and final round of Cycle XI of the Tee Set Eclectic. With Cycle X winner, Matthew Powell, having departed Jakarta, we will definitely have a new winner: will it be another new name on the Trophy or will one of our past Champions rise to the occasion again.? Details of the current standings are here.

Whilst there is a lot to attract players for this week, we also welcome those who just wish to enjoy a pleasant trip across the rolling fairways, guided round by Cengkareng’s well trained caddies and then to sit and enjoy one of its famous Margaritas to cool you down afterwards.

If you are able to join us for a very reasonable Rp850,000 walking please sign up here. Tee time is 12pm as usual.

Reminder: For those who would prefer not to walk, in addition to the hover boards to glide across the rolling fairways, Cengkareng has available a limited number of golf carts. If you wish to reserve one please contact the Golf reservations staff at Cengkareng directly. As the carts are limited in number and we do not have visibility to those already booked on the day, your Tee Set Committee is not involved to the reservation of the carts

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Next Up: Sunday 8th December Jagorawi New Course

Posted on December 5, 2019 by rogerfinnie

With JIL having moved to Riverside this season, we only have a limited number of visits to Jagorawi in 2019; this week being only our second visit of the year. We look forward to playing the excellent but tricky golfing challenge of the New Course where you really need to think through many of your shots, particularly off the tee.

Tee time is 12.30pm officially but 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 12pm please.

We will play white tees this week for men and if you are interested to join us please sign up here. Price is Rp999k with carts.

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Sunday 1st December 2019 Gading Raya

Posted on December 3, 2019 by rogerfinnie

The Day

The week after the Championships can be a quieter week for Tee Set but Gading Raya is a popular venue and so placing it on the calendar as our first week of the new season helps to ensure a healthy turnout. This week 34 Tee Setters and their guests joined us for an enjoyable day on this well looked after course with only the rather unscheduled, and recent coring, taking away from a great day out. Gading were apologetic for not informing us ahead of time and kindly provided some green fee vouchers to be shared amongst the group in compensation.

Not necessarily possessing swings for the purests, Tee Setters all share a love of the game and a few refreshments were enjoyed as usual afterwards; a good day out had by all!!

A warm Tee Set welcome to newcomers Tim Eldred and Damian Kelford and a warm welcome backs to  Stefan Skibinski, Adam Leigh-Smith, Michael Seabrook and Tony Cowan.

Many thanks to VPs Ric Wymer and Bill Lloyd for looking after the day as the President was absent nursing his post St Andrew’s Ball hangover. The results are here:  Gading 20191201 Results and photos of the day here

The Play

Whilst refreshed from the recent rains, the course was still running relatively well and so the small number of skirts was not too unexpected; Mike Webb, Oliver Fritz and Michael Seabrook all getting themselves an early marker in for our Cross Dresser of the Year award.  Most Strokes went to Kathy Scalabre and the difficult green condition challenged some of our golfers on the day, none more so than our Monster Putter, Tapio Jarvenenpaa. Michael was to get his money back sharing Most Improved with Alastair Livingston and newcomer Damian Kelford whilst Timo Karonen has rather made First Par handicaps >= 30 his own in recent weeks. Our First Eagle for the year was secured by Craig Binks.

First Birdie was shared by Jens Roestel and Adam Leigh-Smith and Low Putts by Jeff Landau who was beaten by Tim Knight for Low Gross after a count-back. Our Low Net winners for the week were Axel Hertzke, Ric Wymer and Tan Chee Hua.

Congratulations to all our winners on the day.

Next Up: Jagorawi Sunday 8th December 2019

With JIL having moved to Riverside this season, we only have a limited number of visits to Jagorawi in 2019; this week being only our second visit of the year. We look forward to playing the excellent but tricky golfing challenge of the New Course where you really need to think through many of your shots, particularly off the tee.

Tee time is 12.30pm officially but 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 12pm please.

We will play white tees this week for men and if you are interested to join us please sign up here. Price is Rp999k with carts.

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Next Up: Gading Raya 11.30am Sunday 1st December

Posted on November 28, 2019 by rogerfinnie

With the photos now uploaded, the Tee Set scribe is now completing the Championships report albeit slowly…..However, as ever, we move on with our regular events with this week seeing us kick-off the new Tee Set year at Gading Raya. One of our more popular courses, close to many Tee Setters and where the team make a good effort to look after us well.

Tee times off 1 & 10 at 11.30am have been confirmed along with the attractive pricing of Rp815,000 with carts. If you are able to join us please sign up here and we look forward to seeing all who can make it on Sunday

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Tee Set Championships Sunday 24th November 2019

Posted on November 25, 2019 by rogerfinnie

The Day

This is the day when our golfing year comes to the fore in Tee Set calendar with all of the year’s winners and contributors being recognized, our sponsors and committee thanked, our champions crowned and most importantly, a great party shared as we celebrate another year of camaraderie and friendship. Thanks to those Tee Setters who had signed up for the Championships but could not make it informing us in time to accommodate our waiting list, we had 109 players signed up on Saturday night…. and we had 109 players turn up on Sunday morning which was a record turn out for any Tee Set event; much to the satisfaction of everyone who had put so much effort into organizing it.

As usual VP Ric Wymer and his team of helpers had been at Matoa for most of Saturday afternoon making sure everything was ready for the dawn arrival of all the players. Once bags were dropped and registration confirmed, players were able to choose their shirt colour, a new adaptation since the committee couldn’t agree on a single colour this year(!), take a short medical check up kindly provided by Mayapada Healthcare and enjoy breakfast whilst catching up. Around the room was displayed all the statistics of the year, put together as usual by our web-guy Keith Miller.

 

With everyone expected turning up, there were very few movements in the pre-determined flights meaning we were able to head out onto the course in good time for our group photo and the shot-gun start at 7am.

Our day was blessed with great weather and so despite the high turn-out we were able to move round relatively smoothly. For those in need of sustenance, the Star Deli girls were roving the course with the drinks cart and Hot-Hed Hot Dogs were being served at the Clubhouse through out the round.

After the round, Keith and Brenda collected all the scores whilst everyone changed and got ready for lunch and the prize-giving.

Proceedings commenced as usual with our Commissioner of Elections, Keith Miller calling for a vote of thanks to out-going President Roger Finnie and all the Committee. Keith also advised the room that he had not been inundated with a rush of new candidates for the coming year and so by a show of hands, Roger would be dobbed in to serve for another year. The motion passed with a solitary objection, Roger’s partner!! VP’s Ric Wymer and Bill Lloyd then recognized our sponsors: Asian Tigers, Asia Serv, Hot-Hed, JS Luwansa Hotel, Kojo, San Miguel, Schenck Process, LF Logistics, Bina Nusantara Perkasa, Bintang Sub-sea, Samson Tiara, Mayapada Hospitals and Fugro as well as all the Matoa staff for their hard efforts on the day. With the week being Keith’s birthday, he was then asked to blow out the candles on the celebratory cake provided by Richard Mau and his team at JS Luwansa.

We had 4 newcomers on the day and  Tribhuvan Singh, Steve Vette, Nick Mclean and Marvin Abao were all given a warm Tee Set welcome. The welcome backs were numerous and several well over 2 years so in the interests of proceedings we welcomed them all back en masse. Our long term members in attendance were then called up and those with 20+ years presented with a bottle of wine as a thank you: Anthony King, Mick Mongold, Joe Alchi, Manoj Mishra and Alistair Livingston. 

Our average winners for the year’s play were then recognized with Low Gross Tim Knight, Low Average Putts Richard Mau and Low Average Net Roger Finnie all being given a bottle of wine. A photo call was then made for the Tee Set Inter-league team, our Eclectic and Monthly Medal winners to recognize their success during the year.

We conducted our door prize draw before the first major trophy was awarded by Ric Wymer to the Match Play Champion of the year, Roger Finnie, and the runner’s-up prize to Simon Oxley.

The results of the day were then presented as below and with official proceedings closed, the party kicked off.  A few hardy souls made it to dark with former President Pascal Bekaert and Web-guy Keith Miller last seen tucking into some cheese and wine.

Thank you to everyone who made the day run so smoothly and the many, many photos of the day are here.

The Play

Being a regular Sunday we had our regular call up for skirts and so whilst they were spared a fine, Brad Burness, King Tirto, Mark Johnson and Paul Daud all got to parade in front of the assembled masses. Most Improved on the day went to James Ross and First Par Handicaps >=30 went to Timo Karonen. Anthony King took Low Putts and fellow playing partner Kees de Korver First Sandy whilst Doug McQuater and Emil Marcelo shared First Birdie.

Defending Tee Set Champion Richard Mau shot an excellent 73 gross to win the Low Gross Championship and the George Bevege Trophy. A snafu saw Jari Antikainen awarded the Tee Set Champions Trophy but after he grciously pointed out the mistake, the scorers were left with a 3-way tie for the Championship. The count-back went all the way down to the last 3 holes (as played) and finally Mike Riley emerged as the winner just pipping Laruie O’Connor and Eric Mary in the runners-up spots.

Congratulations to all our winners on the day and detailed results are here: TSC 2019 Full results listing for those wishing to check out all the scores.

Next Up: Gading Raya 11.30am Sunday 1st December

 

Collating all the photos and reports on the day takes a little longer than normal so this will be shared later in the week. However, as ever, we move on with our regular events with this week seeing us kick-off the new Tee Set year at Gading Raya. One of our more popular courses, close to many Tee Setters and where the team make a good effort to look after us well.

Tee times off 1 & 10 at 11.30am have been confirmed along with the attractive pricing of Rp815,000 with carts. If you are able to join us please sign up here and we look forward to seeing all who can make it on Sunday

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Tee Set Championships: 2 spots just opened up

Posted on November 23, 2019 by rogerfinnie

Less than 24 hours to go to our golfing party of the year. Thank you to the 5 players who kindly advised they could not make tomorrow; we have been able to offer the spaces to those on our waiting list last night and now have 2 slots remaining if anyone else wishes to join: please just sign up here:  2019-tee-set-championship-registration and we will confirm the arrangements during the course of the day… it may not be instantly as we are down at Matoa setting everything up.

To everyone coming, see you tomorrow bright and early.

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News flash: 2019 Tee Set Championships are Full

Posted on November 20, 2019 by rogerfinnie

Thank you all for supporting the 2019 Tee Set Championships to be held this Sunday, 24th November at Matoa Nasional Golf Course.

We now have 112 confirmed registrations and therefore we have a full field for the day. Any further registrations will go onto a waiting list and we will slot players in should there be any drop outs between now and Saturday evening.

If you have signed up but now cannot make it please let us know so we do not miss the opportunity to add players who signed up late.

To check you are on the list please see the confirmed list of players we have captured.

If you think your name should be here but isn’t (or is and it shouldn’t be!), please contact Roger Finnie ASAP. Also please advise if any changes to your shirt sizing.

Further details on the day will be sent to registered players by Saturday morning.

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Sunday 17th November 2019 Riverside

Posted on November 19, 2019 by rogerfinnie

The Day

The last round of the Jakarta Inter-league 2019 Season saw 68 golfers turn out at Riverside on what was a beautiful golfing day; 34 of them joining the Tee Set regular event. The course was playing in perfect condition, still running fairly fast but freshened up with a little rain over the past week.

The day kicked off with Bloody Mary’s and other refreshments put on by the JIL Committee thanks to the coordination and sponsorship of Asia Serv and Jack Calcote. After the round, we had our usual end of season BBQ kindly coordinated by Tin Cups’ Captain Iris Rothenberg. A warm thank you to both of them for the arrangements.

In addition to the 3 matches being played with JIL, we had a further 5 flights of golfers. Unfortunately, play was a little slow as we were teeing off after a morning competition but we were all finished in good time to enjoy the end of season BBQ, recognize the Tee Set winners of the day and the overall winners of the JIL competition.

A warm Tee Set welcome back to Phil Mckean (who predated the data-base and therefore fell into the newcomers bracket), and both Christain Engstrom (254 weeks) and Jess Kindler (84 weeks) who are just a little more regular!. This week was also the last week of the current visit for Mike Taylor and we wish him a safe return home – see you all again soon.

 

Many thanks to VP Ric Wymer for taking care of the scoring and presentations as well as to Jens Roestel and Simon Oxley who assisted with the administration on the day.

The Play

A few misunderstandings from the reporting on the score sheets as we had no skirt on the day, nor any eagles…. and as our Most Strokes and Monster Putter winner, Oliver Fritz, had already departed, our Treasurer was to finish the day empty handed. On his last round before heading home, Mike Taylor put in a sterling effort on his back nine to win Most Improved. Lis Wymer and Graham Parsonage shared First Birdie whilst Jari Antikainen had Low Putts and Brett Shields 1st Sandy.

Continuing a run of form, Roger Finnie took home Low Gross whilst our Low Net winners on the day were Santi Miller, Jens Roestel and Timo Karonen.

Congratulations to our winners and the detailed results are here: Riverside Results 17-11-19

In the JIL presentations, a warm vote of thanks was given to Peng Siong and his team at Riverside as well as to all the Team Captains and Committee who ensured the season went smoothly. A further warm appreciation to Iris and Jack for ensuring everyone was well fed and watered during the party.

Tee Set under the leadership of Captain Simon Oxley had a much improved JIL season, ultimately finishing 2nd on the table after last year’s wooden spoon. The mantle of the wooden spoon was taken up by Sandbaggers whilst Tin Cups again proved too strong and retained the Cup won in 2018 – metaphorically at least as the actual cup seems to have gone walk-about and we had to use a model-double for the occasion.

2019 Tee Set Championships: Matoa Sunday 24th November

 

Next up…

…it’s the biggest golfing party of the Tee Set year, our annual Championship which as usual, is being held at Matoa Nasional. Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, and no small amount of work by your Tee Set Championship Committee members, we are all set to have a great day of golf, camaraderie, prize giving and an excellent party to close out the Tee Set year.

A brief run down on the day:

From 6am:

  • Registrations open, check starting hole, collect locker key and goodie bag
  • Free mini Medical Check by Mayapada Hospital
  • Election voting for 2019/20 Tee Set President
  • Breakfast served
  • Group photo

Shot-gun start from 7am with the Hot Head BBQ, smoothies from Asia Serv and San Miguel beers all available on the course to keep you energized. We will have the usual skill prizes with hole on one prizes sponsored on hole 4 by Mayapada Hospital and on hole 12 by Matoa Nasional as well as the Long Drive on 9.

Post round after handing in score cards, shower and change for lunch the from 12.30pm:

  • Lunch and refreshments in the function room
  • The Singing President Craig Ewers and his band will be providing the entertainment
  • Announcement of the election results
  • Speeches, acknowledgements and Prize-giving
  • Party until dusk

During the day we will have our photographer roving the course along with the Web-guy Keith Miller and his drone to capture all the fun of the Championships. Don’t be shy as you will be able to access all the photos and footage for free on the web-site after we have loaded them all up.

There is of course so much more detail to the day and this will be sent out separately to all those who have signed up later this week.

So far we have 107 110  111 playing sign-ups and so there are just 5  2 1 spot left for those who are undecided. Please sign up here as soon as possible if you wish to join – note whilst we can manage a few who show up on the day, we cannot be prepared with goodie bags etc.. for you if we do know by Thursday night. The all in fee for the day is Rp1.3j per player with members of Matoa being charged Rp775k.

If you have already signed up and wish to check we captured you then please check here. Please advise Roger Finnie asap if you feel your name is missing from the list…

The Championships are such a great event, in no small part thanks to all our sponsors. So far Asian Tigers, Asia Serv, Hot-Hed, JS Luwansa Hotel, Kojo, LF Logistics, San Miguel, Schenck Process, Bintang Sub-sea, Samson Tiara, Fugro, Bina Nusantara Perkasa and Mayapada Hospitals have all confirmed their support for 2019’s event as Sponsors and our sincere appreciation to all of them.

Lastly, there is a lot of effort needed on Saturday to get everything ready, if you are able to lend a hand for a few hours at Matoa on Saturday afternoon, please contact VP Ric Wymer.

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Next Up: Riverside and JIL end of Season Party Sunday 17th November 11.30am shot-gun

Posted on November 14, 2019 by rogerfinnie
Riverside

This Sunday we take the short trip down to Junction 19 on the Jagorawi toll to visit the excellent Riverside course. The Greg Norman designed Riverside is always one of the most interesting challenges on the Tee Set schedule with the Shark’s trademark optical illusions regularly fooling the unwary.

In addition to our weekly schedule, this Sunday sees the final round of the 2019 Jakarta Inter-League season as Tee Set’s team, currently sitting in 2nd place, looks to try and overall haul defending champions and current leaders, Tin Cups. As its the final round, we will follow the game with a prize presentation buffet in the function room upstairs. Food and some beers have been arranged for all players and will be included in the fee collected before play (Rp250k this week to cover F&B) but players are welcome to bring other refreshments to wash down the dinner as corkage has been kindly waived for the post-game celebration.

As usual, for those Tee Set players participating in JIL (whether for Tee Set or otherwise), please also sign up as normal for the weekly competition so we can capture you for both events.

To join us for the fun of one of Jakarta’s finest courses on Sunday just sign up here as usual. Green fees of Rp850,000 including a shared cart and some free range balls with a tee time of 11.30pm: please be there before 10.30am as we will have a shot-gun start so it takes a little more time to get bags/players organized and out to the respective holes

Tee Set Championships: Last call – 13 spots remaining!

The 2019 Tee Set Championships will be held on Sunday 24th November 2019 at Matoa Nasional, just 10 days from today!!. As of yesterday, we have 97 players signed up already so it will be another bumper event and we expect to have a full field.

Thank you to all the players who have registered so far and the list of sign-ups we have recorded to date is here: Sign Up tracking 20191113

If you do not see your name here but feel you have registered already, please contact President Roger Finnie directly. Also, some groups have been requested and or collated based on requests to date – please check the groupings and advise Roger directly if some changes are needed. It will be final by next Monday as we need to go for printing etc… so advise us now or this will become the final arrangement….

If you have yet to sign up: to secure your place, please sign up here as soon as possible: 2019-tee-set-championship-registration.

Election of the President: Nominations close 17th Nov.

The Tee Set President is appointed by a vote of attendees each Championship and serves to the conclusion of the following year’s event. With current President Roger Finnie having served 2 1/2 years already, the Committee are seeking candidates for President for 2019/20.

We would therefore like ask for nominations for the position of President for 2019/20 and also any expressions of interest to join the Committee. Please send your nominations to our master of the electoral process, Keith Miller at:  keith.steuart.miller@gmail.com

Nominations will close 1 week before the Championships (17th November) to enable us to  prepare the necessary voting slips and thank you to Keith for again assisting the Committee in coordinating the nominations and voting.

Finally, and as always, if nominating some-one other than yourself, please ensure the nominee is willing to stand!

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