Sunday 7th January 2018: Pondok Cabe

Posted on January 8, 2018 by rogerfinnie

The Day

Our first outing of 2018 was to the friendly and relaxed Pondok Cabe with 19 Tee Setters getting together to wish each other Happy New Year and to enjoy a gentle stroll around the course. Always good value for money, the course was in good shape with the greens playing well and despite all the recent rain, the fairways were firm and dry.

Although the President’s caddie was twitching on a couple of occasions to get the rain cover out, we experienced only a few light drops of rain on the way round, on what was otherwise a warm and slightly overcast day. As usual for Pondok Cabe, we were round in good time despite a short hold-up on the cross over as a match-play went out in front of the first groups as they turned. As a result, we were in the club house and enjoying some well earned refreshments well before 4pm and off home after the prize ceremony not too long afterwards.

One new-comer, Matt McGowan, was welcomed on the day and we had a notable welcome back for Steven Pettis after 34 weeks away. We hope to see you both again shortly at another Tee Set outing.

A thank you to Beby who caught up on 3 weeks of handicap updates as well as managing the registrations and scoring on the day.

The Play

As usual Pondok Cabe was gentle on those playing well with 5 rounds at or under handicap but with some longer carries from the Blue to Red Tees capable of catching errant drives not hit well. 4 gentlemen were therefore caught out with Andrew Abram, Chris Till, Doug McQuarter and Steven Pettis getting the honour of our first skirts of 2018. Steven also stayed up for his photo with the monkey for his Most Strokes on a Hole of 10 shots although saved from any further fines by our 1 fine rule.


 

 

 

 

 

No Monster Putter today as everyone had a good day on the greens best of which as Low Putter of the day was newcomer Matt McGowan for his 27 strokes with the flat stick. Most Improved went to Laurie O’Connor for recording a 7 stroke improvement on his back 9 and Andrew Abram recovered his skirt fine by recording First Sandy for his effort on hole 2.

Richard Green benefited from the 1 prize rule to win first Birdie for his effort on hole 9 and similarly Arne Tjaden was awarded Low Gross for his 83 off the stick.

Low Net honours went to Kim Pham for her net 68 to win C grade, Umaya Till for the best net of the day 66 to win B grade and President Roger Finnie took home A grade for his net 68.

Further photos of the day can be found here and the detailed results here.

Tee Set Match-Play

2017_Matchplay_championThe quest to try and wrestle the Ric Wymer Trophy from 2017’s winner of the Tee Set Match Play, Jari Antikainen, begins in earnest next month. Registration is now open and will remain so until 28th January 2018.

Following the Monthly Medal at Cengkareng on that day, Match-Play Supremo James Ross will arrange a drawing of the initial games to determine the 2 knock-out brackets.

If you are interested to join the match play competition and to read more on how it is organized please sign up here.

Next Up: Padang Modern 14th January 12.00pm

Next Sunday sees us back Padang Modern where we are always well looked after and have an enjoyable round. Tee time is 12.00pm and the cost, including cart, is Rp795,000.

If you are interested to join us please sign up here to register.

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Pondok Cabe 7th January 2018 @ 11.30am

Posted on January 4, 2018 by rogerfinnie

 


Our first game of 2018 is the relatively short drive to Pondok Cabe.

The straight-forward layout and relaxed atmosphere is perfect to ease everyone back into the New Year whether you stayed and partied hard or were away and are getting the sticks out after a couple of weeks off.

Tee time is 11.30am and the price is Rp525,000 walking or Rp637,500 with a shared cart.

Please sign up here if you are interested to join us.

Other Notices

Calling all Tee Set Pool Sharks

Thanks to the sponsorship of BATS bar in the Shangri-La Hotel, we will be entering a Tee Set pool team in the forthcoming season of the Wednesday night Jakarta Pool League. Whilst there is a competitive element to the arrangements for some teams, for us it is mostly about having a lot of fun and a good night out with a few friends. You do not need to commit to play every week as we will run a squad but obviously we would like to have regular players available.

If you are interested in joining please let Keith Miller or Roger Finnie know as soon as possible as we need to register players and have some practice drinking evenings around a pool table as the league starts towards the end of January.

Docks 2nd Annual Scramble

On Friday 19th January Andreas Stokowy and the team at Docks have a scramble tournament at Gading Raya. If you are interested in playing the form and details are here. Andreas would be happy also for sponsors and please contact him directly.

Tee Set 2018: A Message from the President

A Happy New Year to everyone and I hope you had a great holiday season whether you were away seeing family, just enjoying a well earned break or decided to stay in Jakarta to take advantage of quieter roads and everything it has to offer. It was certainly great to see more golfers out over the last 2 weeks than the same weeks 12 months ago as I was in the latter category of holiday makers.

Now most Tee Setters are back in town, I thought it would be useful to give everyone a flavour of the year ahead.

First and foremost the schedule: your Committee is working on the full schedule for 2018 and the tentative draft of the schedule through the end of July is now updated on the Schedule page of the web-site. As always, we are looking to improve the quality of the courses played whilst maintaining a reasonable cost and tee time each week. As such, the schedule remains fluid through-out the year as we deal with last minute course booking clashes, pricing changes and occasionally, some poor course management experiences.

We hope you will find it an attractive selection of courses but we are open to constructive ideas to continually improve it. As we are early in the year, it will be updated regularly so keep looking out for the upcoming events.

Key high-lights from the schedule:

  • With 2018 representing Tee Set’s 35th Anniversary, one of our 2 major events this year will be a Birthday week-end celebration currently being planned at Gunung Geulis. VP Bill Lloyd is coordinating the arrangements for the event be held over the week-end of 21/22 July and which will include 36 holes of golf and a big party on the Saturday night;
  • The other major event, to be held on the last week-end of November, will be the Tee Set Championship, played again at Matoa;
  • Battle Royale Bali week-end (April), DOGS Match/Rancamaya week-end (June) and the World Cup (Oct) are slotted in already and we are looking for a date for a (week-end?) trip to Surabaya to visit Simon Reynolds at Finna Golf Club and play against a team he will arrange there;
  • The Monthly Medal will be at Cengkareng in 2018;
  • Tee Set will enter a team again in the Jakarta Inter-league. JIL will be a shortened season with only 6 teams and following a good negotiation of reduced rates at Jagorawi we will hold concurrent Tee Set events there on the 6 inter-league week-ends; and lastly, as usual
  • The Tee Set Match-Play Championship will be held across the year with the initial drawing of pairings for the first round to matches to be held on 25th January 2018 at our Monthly Medal.

Look out for further information on signing up for the Match Play and all the above events in the forth-coming weekly news blogs or by visiting the Tee Set web-site.

VP’s Ric Wymer and Bill Lloyd will be coordinating the Championship and Tee Set Birthday events, respectively and I am sure they both would be appreciative of additional support in terms of event committees. If you are interested to help please talk to them directly.

We rely heavily on our sponsors to enable us to run these major events successfully and I would like to thank again those sponsors who helped so much in 2017:

  • Gold Sponsors: Asian Tigers, Kojo, Samson Tiara, Hotel Luwansa, Asia Serv, Hot-Hed and Schenck Process
  • Silver Sponsors: Fugro, Ben Lines
  • Bronze Sponsors: Bintang Subsea

If you are able and willing to join our sponsors team for 2018, please contact VP Ric Wymer or myself to let us know. Your support is invaluable to us being able to continue to have such an active and successful society.

On a person note, I would like to thank all the Committee Members for their great support and effort on behalf of all of us to ensure we can enjoy our golf week in and week out with the minimum of effort. Thank you to Ric, Bill, Keith, Wina and Brenda as well as James Ross for his organization of the Match Play event and Aisha and Beby for their week-end Secretarial support as needed.

I hope to see most, if not all of you, during the year and my best wishes for a 2018 of happy golfing, new & renewed friendships and good health.

 

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Sunday 31st December 2017: Riverside

Posted on January 2, 2018 by rogerfinnie

Our last outing of 2017 was a short trip down the Jagorawi Toll to Riverside which turned out to be a smooth ride there and home with both little traffic on the Toll and a significant improvement in the local road between the toll booth and the course entrance gates after the recently finished repairs.

For Sunday’s round we invited our friends from DOGS to join us and in total we had 26 players turn out for some fun and a final game before welcoming in the new year. In order to maintain a relaxed holiday atmosphere for the day we held a 2 Ball Better Ball team event off individual handicaps with teams drawn blind, 1 each from a lower handicap and higher handicap pot of the players who arrived by 11.00am.

After the drawing there was a quick self decision-making on the flight groupings and a quick walk to the first tee for an early get away.

The course was in great condition despite the recent wet weather and played firm with the greens in their usual quick, excellent shape. We were also blessed with a fairly empty course and good weather bar a 2 hole rain-storm which thankfully was not enough to stop play. As a result we were round in just about 4 hours leaving plenty of time to complete the scoring and enjoy a few drinks together to wish each other Happy New Year before heading back to Jakarta well before 6pm.

All the players enjoyed the format of the day and most returned good team scores making it a successful variation to our usual games.

Clear winner on the day was the team Stuart Wigley and Rosie Tjaden who shot an incredible net 51 on the back of Rosie’s best ever round. Heading the best of the rest were the teams of Roger Finnie/Rudie Basson and Richard Mau/Juju Juhairiah with net 62 and 65, respectively. All 3 teams received the same prize of a couple of bottles of wine.

Thank you to John Brown for getting the word out amongst DOGS players as well as organizing the prizes and to Mark Johnson & Laurie O’Connor for assisting with all the arrangements of teams and registrations on the day.

For those who did not see the final write up for Pangkalan Jati on Christmas Eve please see here.

Next Up: Pondok Cabe Sunday 7th January 2018

Our first game of 2018 is the relatively short drive to Pondok Cabe. The relatively straight-forward layout and relaxed atmosphere is perfect to ease everyone back into the New Year whether you stayed and partied hard or were away and are getting the sticks out after a couple of weeks off.

Tee time is 11.30am and the price is Rp525,000 walking or Rp637,500 with a shared cart.

Please sign up here if you are interested to join us.

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New Year’s Eve 2017: Riverside 31st December @11.30am

Posted on December 29, 2017 by rogerfinnie

To close out the schedule for 2017, this Sunday sees us head down to Riverside for the last game of the year.

RiversideThis Greg Norman designed course is always one of the most interesting challenges on the Tee Set schedule with the Shark’s trademark optical illusions regularly fooling the unwary.

This week we have invited our friends from the DOGS to join us and we will be having a fun game together playing in 2 man team pairs. We will conduct a blind draw for teams with the lower handicap half of the field drawing a partner from the higher handicap half of the field. The drawing will be conducted at 11.00 am so we can get the pairings to the starter. Late arrivals will be paired as they come.

Scoring on each hole for the team will be based on the better ball net score off individual handicaps, 3 lowest team scores will win the prizes on offer. All players (Tee Setter or DOGS) with a Tee Set handicap will play that handicap on the day and the remaining DOGS players will play off their DOGS handicap.

Come join us for the fun and challenge of one of Jakarta’s finest courses on Sunday by signing up here as usual. Green fees of Rp735,000 including a shared cart with a tee time of 11.30pm

For those Tee Setters who cannot make it, on behalf of the Committee I wish you a very Happy New Year and look forward to seeing you out on the fairways in 2018.

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Pangkalan Jati 24th December 2017

Posted on December 26, 2017 by rogerfinnie

The Day

Christmas Eve saw a healthy turnout of 24 Tee Setters getting together at Pangkalan Jati for some christmas cheer and a pleasant walk around the rolling fairways to work up an appetite for the following day. Everyone made an effort to come with a Christmas themed selection of golf attire or accessories and to get the holiday spirit flowing, they were all welcomed with a cup of Bloody Mary supplied by President Roger Finnie.

No newcomers this week with Nicki and Stefan having joined the week before at Modern, but 2 notable welcome backs for Muhammad Alhamami and Pierre Tastet after an impressive 94 weeks and 65 weeks, respectively.

With the course being relatively quiet there was a collective decision to pay the slightly higher morning rate and get off earlier than the planned 12pm start so we all headed out around 11.00am. With the weather also being bright and sunny, we were able to finish in just over 4 hours. This allowed us to be off to enjoy the rest of our Christmas Eve festivities by 4.30pm after celebrating the day’s play and wishing each other compliments of the season.

A special mention to Nicki Stuart who came back the next day to play on Christmas Day and scored her first ever Hole in One. Congratulations to Nicki and we look forward to welcoming you back on your next visit to Jakarta.

The Play

Pangkalan Jati is a tricky course and with some longer carries to the red tees we always see a healthy return of skirts. This week was no exception with over a third of eligible players returning a fine for their skirts as captured below: Andrew Abram, Andrew Shaw, Ivan Byriel, Mark Johnson, Muhammad Alhamami, Pierre Tastet and Stefan Skibinski.

No Monster Putter this week with everyone having a good day on the greens and in the spirit of Christmas, the President decided not to levy fines for Most Strokes. Mark Johnson was able to recoup his skirt fine after being awarded the prize for Most Improved. The skill prizes were awarded to Nicki Stuart for First Sandy on hole 3 and Roger Finnie for his Low Putts of 28 – albeit more a reflection of how many greens he missed rather than any particular skill on the day as his playing partners would attest. Low Gross went to Stuart Wigley for his equal best of the day score of 83.

Low Net winners on the day were Axel Hertzke in A Grade for his net 70, our only sub-handicap round of the day, Don Duttlinger in B Grade for his net 77 and Juju Juhairiah in C Grade for her net 73. Detailed results of the day are here.

Next Up Riverside 31st December 2017

This week sees us head down to Riverside for our last game of the year.

RiversideThis Greg Norman designed course is always one of the most interesting challenges on the Tee Set schedule with the Shark’s trademark optical illusions regularly fooling the unwary.

This week we have invited our friends from the DOGS to join us and we will be having a fun game together playing in 2 man team pairs. We will conduct a blind draw for teams with the lower handicap half of the field drawing a partner from the higher handicap half of the field. The drawing will be conducted at 11.00 am so we can get the pairings to the starter. Late arrivals will be paired as they come.

Scoring on each hole for the team will be based on the better ball net score off individual handicaps, 3 lowest team scores will win the prizes on offer. All players (Tee Setter or DOGS) with a Tee Set handicap will play that handicap on the day and the remaining DOGS players will play off their DOGS handicap.

Come join us for the fun and challenge of one of Jakarta’s finest courses on Sunday by signing up here as usual. Green fees of Rp735,000 including a shared cart with a tee time of 11.30pm.

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Pangkalan Jati Sunday 24th December 2017

Posted on December 21, 2017 by rogerfinnie

Tee Set has never missed a week-end in over 34 years and Christmas Eve will be no exception with us heading to our traditional home at Pangkalan Jati for a day as much focused on having fun and celebrating the festive season together as it will be on the golf.

President Roger Finnie will bring some Xmas cheer to warm up proceedings and you are encouraged to come dressed to impress with your best red, green and white golf kit.

Usually a quiet day we can expect to get round quickly and maybe even get off well ahead of our scheduled start time of 12pm so please be a little earlier (11am) if you can – last year we off before 11.30am and all finished by 4.30pm.

Price is Rp550,000 walking and a shared cart is Rp250,00 per cart. If you are staying in Jakarta for Christmas Day  and are looking for some golf instead of shopping then come and join us by signing up here.

For those who missed the Championships and/or played but are looking for a second Tee Set shirt for 2017/18, we have some extra shirts, hats and towels which are available for a heavily subsidized price of Rp300,000 a set. Please note in your sign-up in the comments section if you would like to purchase them, together with your shirt size, and we will bring a set along on the day for you.

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Sunday 17th December 2017: Padang Modern Golf

Posted on December 19, 2017 by rogerfinnie

The Day

The antepenultimate round of the calendar year and our last Monthly Medal for 2017 saw us heading to Padang Modern for the honour of being the holder of the shield at the year end and to enjoy a relaxing day away from the Christmas crowds in the shopping malls of Jakarta.

Heavy rains in the morning and over the previous week resulted in us playing lift, clean & place for the first time in many months but fortunately, despite some light rainfall during the round, there were no interruptions for the weather. We were also fortunate that Modern’s starter pushed us out early ahead of a large grouping so, apart from VP Ric Wymer needing to chase us down the first fairway having got caught in traffic on the way to Modern, we were all finished in good time for us to be heading home well before dark.

With schools already broken up and some players away for the holiday, we still had a healthy turn-out of 34 players on the day. 3 new-comers were given a Tee Set welcome, Nicki Stuart, Stefan Skibnski and Rao Atif. We also had a very long welcome back to an old (or should one say tenured?) Tee Setter, Chuck Jeffrey, who’s last round predated the database so he appears as a new comer. We look forward to welcoming them all back to another event soon.

A thank you to Brenda for managing all the administration and results on the day including all the photos which you can find here.

The Play

Stefan Skibnski continued our recent trend of newcomers getting into the skirt photo with his very first shot in Tee Set pulling up in the long grass just before the Ladies tee on hole number 1. Joining Stefan with the skirt were more seasoned Tee Setters, VP Bill Lloyd and Mick Dodsworth.

With no Monster Putter today, our other fine on the day went to Laurie O’Connor for his 12 strokes on a hole. Spared the blushes of Most Strokes, Mick Dodsworth was however, able to capitalize on his 10 strokes on a hole to record an impressive Most Improved of 14 strokes and recover his skirt fine.

First Sandy was a family affair with Octo and Andrew Abram sandy’s being the only ones recorded on the day but, being absent at the prize giving, we were unable to award the prize to Andrew. Low Putts was won by Chris Lever for his 26 putts on the day and Mike Webb took home first Birdie for his effort on hole 6.

Mark Johnson and Roger Finnie took home Low Gross for their scores of 85 whilst an almost repeat of last week’s results saw Mark Fiorello and Steve Moruzzi with Low Net A and B respectively. Rusty Witwer in his last game with Tee Set before returning to California was however pipped by Mike Harling for Low Net C to prevent the full repeat. Details of all the individual players results are here.

For the Monthly Medal awards, Long Drive winners Glen Menyennett and Wina Nugraha had both departed by time the prizes were being handed out but Jari Rahtu was able to collect his prize as Nearest the Pin winner. A bit of a fisherman’s tale saw this recorded as 3.20 cm but later Jari did say it was more like 3.2m.

Monthly Medal honours went to Vanco Pop-Petrovski adding both a new name and new nationality to our list of Monthly Medal winners. Vanco will receive his medal and voucher at a later event as he was also one of the early departures.

The day was wrapped up by President Roger Finnie wishing Rusty a safe trip home to California and all the Tee Setters unable to make next week’s event, a Merry Christmas and happy holiday season.

Next Up: Pangkalan Jati Sunday 24th December 2017

Tee Set has never missed a week-end in over 34 years and Christmas Eve will be no exception with us heading to our traditional home at Pangkalan Jati for a day as much focused on having fun and celebrating the festive season as it will be on the golf. President Roger Finnie will bring some Xmas cheer to warm up proceedings and you are encouraged to come dressed to impress!.

Usually a quiet day we can expect to get round quickly and maybe even get off well ahead of our scheduled start time of 12pm so please be a little earlier if you can – last year we off before 11.30am and all finished by 4.30pm.

Price is Rp550,000 walking and a shared cart is Rp250,00 per cart. If you are staying in Jakarta for Christmas Day then come and join us by signing up here.

For those who missed the Championships or played but are looking for a second Tee Set shirt for 2017/18, we have some shirts, hats and towels which are available for a heavily subsidized price of Rp300,000 a set. Please note in your sign-up in the comments section if you would like to purchase them and we will bring them along on the day.

 

 

 

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Monthly Medal at Padang Modern Golf: 12.09pm

Posted on December 14, 2017 by rogerfinnie

On Sunday, 17th December, we return to Padang Modern Golf for our December Monthly Medal, so it is your last opportunity to join Arthur Mallari and the rest of  the year’s winners in getting your name engraved on the Monthly Medal shield in 2017.

Modern is always a good round and we are well looked after by the caddies and staff. If you are able to join us please sign up here.

Tee time has been confirmed as 12.09pm and the price is Rp770,000 including cart.

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Sunday 10th December 2017: Cengkareng

Posted on December 11, 2017 by rogerfinnie

The Day

Sunday saw us head to one of Tee Set’s favourite venues as we made our last visit of the year to Cengkareng Golf Course. As usual, the Management and Staff were well organized for our visit and we were able to enjoy a couple of refreshments and some breakfast in the Club House before heading out on time to the first tees.

The 3 new holes have further bedded in since our last visit and so the course overall played in good condition and, despite a few drops falling at different times during the round, we were able to complete our rounds without serious interruption and in good time.

We welcomed Hazlan Hezri as our 1 new-comer for the week and welcomed back Gerard Gesser after 164 weeks, Romeo Salvador after 76 weeks and Ronald Lim after 39 weeks. We look forward to welcoming you all back to another event soon.

 

Also back was our Secretary Brenda Mayland and thank you Brenda for assisting with all the organization on the day. Hazlan, Brenda and several others are seen here as the groups prepared to tee off. More photos from the day and prize giving can be found here.

The Play

Cengkareng’s greens were in their usual good condition and several players mastered their putter and returned a low putting statistic. However the large and undulating greens can catch the unwary and Monster Putter went to Albert  Arcenas for his 41 putts on the day. Most Strokes was shared by Matthew Cherrett and Paul Dowd, both perhaps feeling the effects of the night before and racking up 10 strokes on a hole.


 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul was able to re-coop his losses by being Most Improved for coming home 8 strokes better than his front 9. The skirt gallery is usually a healthy one at Cengkareng and this week was no exception with Andrew Shaw, Glen Menyennett, VP Bill Lloyd, Andrew Waite, Ronald Lim and Rusty Witwer all joining together for the photo.

On the skill prizes, James Ross won first Sandy Par which was also a Birdie on his hole 2 and Roger Finnie took home Low Putts for his 28 strokes with the flat stick.

Low Gross was won by Daniel Gaisler for his excellent 79 strokes on the day. Low Net honours were awarded to Mark Fiorello for his Net 68 in winning A Grade, Steve Moruzzi for his best net of the day 67 to win B Grade and Rusty Witwer for his net 70, with borrowed clubs, to win C Grade.

Congratulations to all the winners and detailed results can be found here. As this was also the first round of the Eclectic Cycle VII, Steve obviously takes an early lead but there is all to play for in the New Year when we return to Cengkareng for the remaining 3 rounds of this cycle.

Next Up: Monthly Medal Padang Modern

Next Sunday sees us head to Padang Modern for the last Monthly Medal of the year, being played earlier in the month so it does not clash with the holidays when many are away or busy with families.

Tee time is 11.30am and the cost Rp770,000 with carts. Please sign up here if you would like to join us.

 

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Cengkareng & Eclectic VII Round 1: Sunday 10th December 12pm

Posted on December 7, 2017 by rogerfinnie

 

Sunday sees us returning to one of Jakarta’s finest courses and one of Tee Set’s most popular venues. It will also be the first round of the Cycle VII of the Eclectic.

Whether you wish to enjoy a pleasant stroll or ride the a hover-board over the rolling fairways, Cengkareng is always an enjoyable experience with its well trained caddies to guide you round and its famous Margaritas to cool you down afterwards.

If you are able to join us for a very reasonable Rp750,000 please sign up here. Tee time is 12pm as usual

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