Matoa Nasional, 2nd July 2017

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Tee Set

The Day

Great weather and a fabulous day at Matoa with few golfers on the course except for our own 26 resilient post-Lebaran Tee Setters, Tee Setters made of stern stuff of course having survived 10 days or more without a driver, jaga or cook 🙂

The greens were a bit furry but thankfully were not Ramadan-spiked like most other courses in Jakarta at this time. The holiday season impact extended to the restaurant where what the staff could provide from the menu went not much further than nasi goring or fried noodles, however, most were pretty happy.

Rather more seriously, Richard Green arrived with an empty cool-box expecting to stock up on a half a dozen cold Bintangs for the round but just a solitary can could be found. No doubt this is why we didn’t see Richard in the winning circle this week – lack of aiming fluid does not help his game. should this happen again in the future Richard we will add  3 strokes to your handicap.

A warm welcome to Owen Evans who had a rather memorable introduction to Tee Set. After going OB on his 3rd hole he tee’d up again only to duff it and fall short of the ladies tee. Welcome to Tee Set Owen!

Key welcome backs headed by a Kenny Black at 61 weeks who blamed soccer duties for keeping him away for so long. Rob Cheng and Livia were a close second at 44 weeks, had no excuses but promised to join next week at BSD since it is close to home. Tony Wood at 19 weeks also well worth mentioning after his stout effort in finally claiming his maiden skirt.

The Play

Details are available for Tony Wood’s skirt courtesy of Laurie O’Conner who was loyal enough to share with us that Tony hit the ground a good 12 inches behind the tee and failed in his attempt to get the ball off the tee box. Craig Binks was however to keep all details of his own skirt quiet so we can only speculate that his fast-as-lightning backswing was his undoing as it has been on many times in the past. Keep your pets and any young children well clear as Binksy draws one back.

Debbie Minicola came close but escaped having a photo with the Monster Putter monkey mask with her 39 putts – less than the 40 required, however, she could not escape the Rp50K fine for most strokes with not one but two 10s. Fortunately she had good company for the photo with Rob Cheng, Laurie O’Conner and Kim Pham all being caught by the same 10 stroke sting.

Owen Evans was our only Newcomer but quickly demonstrated that his golfing was likely to be worthy of future attention and comment. For now we just observe that on hole #14 Owen’s caddy was challenged as to whether to track his ball heading to the green or his wayward 5 iron that had slipped out of his hands in the follow through and spun ever so close to putting a significant dent in his playing partner’s buggy.

The golden rule of golf is stay behind the player taking his shot – or risk unexpected and inconvenient injury.

Ric checking to make sure he is mispronouncing things correctly

Jaturaporn won his match play against that hard-charging campaigner Laurie O’Connor 4 and 3 – and no doubt this contributed to his low net 69 win for B grade low net.

Lis Wymer came tantalisingly close to breaking 100 for the first time ever with her gross 101 to take low net C grade with 69 while Matt Fairey took low net A grade with a 73 although the mathematics might have shown differently if scores were added up correctly on the day.

Low gross went to Ryan Shepard with his 82 off the stick. Ryan never uses a driver and why would you bother when he can hit a 5 iron over 200m off the tee?

The ex-President of Almost Everything was true to his word and came prepared with extra prizes for the key winners. A box of Grand Slam Golf’s rejuvenated Pro V1 balls were awarded to those winners for making the effort to get out of the house during the Idul Fitri “return to Jakarta traffic chaos” worthwhile!

Other winners were Alistair Livingstone with  27 Low Putts, Rob Cheng for 1st Birdie on hole #3, Mark Johnson with 1st Sandy on hole #7 and Tom Alcedo stealing Lis’s thunder with a par on hole 12. And let’s not forget the Vice-President of Almost Everything who drilled two long-range puts to set up Most Improved with two birdies and a 7 shot improvement on his back nine.

More detailed player by player results here while more snaps can be found on the Tee Set Gallery.

Next up

We are booked in for the exclusive and rarely bettered BSD course and therefore in for something of a treat on Sunday.

For those who are ready for the rather higher than usual satu juta green fees, you will not be disappointed by your investment. We are rarely allowed access to this premier course and have made the ultimate sacrifice to get it on the calendar.

Tee off from 1 & 10 at 11:42 – green fees of 999,000 including shared cart – register here as usual for a special treat.

The normal course charge for Sunday afternoon guests is more than 1.6 juta so please don’t miss this amazing Jack Nicklaus designed course with a Tee Set discount to ease the financial pain ……. cheers, Tee Set

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Matoa, Sunday 2nd July 2017

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Tee Set

Some words from Roger, new President of Tee Set

Thank you to all those Tee Setters who were at Modern last Saturday for the vote of confidence in electing me to fulfil the role of President of Tee Set.

To my predecessor Pascal, on behalf of myself and all our group, our appreciation for your contribution to the organisation and development of Tee Set – and we look forward to seeing you out regularly on Sundays – with pastis in hand of course!

To all, I am looking forward to serving as your President and helping ensure Tee Set continues to run smoothly in providing opportunities for all levels of golfers to enjoy their Sunday golf and social banter in a relaxed atmosphere each week.

With the hard work behind the scenes week to week being supported by Keith, Ric, Wina, James Ross and our secretaries, the real order of business is to ensure we just carry on as usual with just the occasional tweak here and there as needed.

Battle Royale Cup

For those, like myself, who enjoy both the golf and Margaritas at Cengkareng, the renovations are due to be fully completed by the end of July just in time for the 2nd playing of the Battle Royale Cup against Par 5 Club on the week-end of 19th and 20th August. More details of this to follow soon.

Next up

Murphy’s Law sees us having to make a change the scheduled venue of Cengkareng to Matoa on Sunday due to the final stage renovations ongoing at Cengkareng.

11am first tee-time at Matoa from 1 and 10 – and with green fees at a bargain 600,000 for this nice course including shared cart.

If you have not yet signed up and wish to join the fun at Matoa then please do sign up as soon as possible.

The Vice-President of everything advises that there will be some supplementary “secret prizes” this week for the three Grade winners. Obviously clearing out time for his garage again 🙂

Although we do accept late sign ups and even turning up on the day, it helps our organization of the week-end immensely if you can sign up before 4pm on a Friday so we can prepare playing lists and your personalized score card etc.

See yah at Matoa! … Tee Set

 

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IMPORTANT – Change of Venue for Sunday 2nd July 2017

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Tee Set

As a result of the course being in the middle of renovations and heavy maintenance, we have agreed with Cengkareng management to cancel our scheduled visit there on Sunday and, as Cengkareng is perhaps the membership’s most popular course, look for somewhere in the programme for the rest of the year to make up for the loss.

At short notice, Wina has been able to secure Matoa for us instead at 600,000 including shared cart and with a first tee-time of 11am from 1 and 10.

Sign up here for the fun and competition and get some very early practice at the home of Tee Set’s 2017 Championship 

See yah at Matoa …. Tee Set

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Monthly Medal at Modern, Saturday 24th June 2017

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Tee Set

The Day

The highlight of the day, apart from everyone’s superior golf of course, was to be the weather which was cloudy, cool and overcast all day, with your scribe failing to come off “sweaty-wet” from an Indonesian golf course for the first time after 11 years of trying. Wonderful, now just have to wait another 11 years.

Just one Newcomer to report in Hal Loevy while there were two notable Welcome Backs in Arne Tjaden at 115 weeks, and a scarcely believable 26 weeks from Cucu who has been a Tee Set bedrock for so long. We hope to see you all regularly in the future!

Some interesting swing comparisons …..

Course in good condition generally, though the greens were a little variable thanks to the man who goes to work every morning with a spike and that cursed bag of gravel tucked under his arm.

Under the odd happenings label we can relate that the Vice-President of Almost Everything was wrapping up and telling anyone who cared to listen where we were to play next week when a bright spark in the audience reminded him that he had yet to announce the winner of  the Monthly Medal!!

Completely unabashed, Ric duly awarded a completely unfazed Dave Baglivo his second Monthly Medal award in three attempts for his splendid 41 Stableford points. Well done Bags!

Finally we took the opportunity to thank the resto staff in the time-honoured fashion for their consistently great service.

Even on the eve of the Eid they were not to complain about more than half a dozen of the Usual Suspects exchanging war stories until after 7pm. Great staff, they serve us well, well done them.

The Play

With the red tees not terribly far advanced for once there was but one Skirt today – and there are no prizes for guessing who got it. The Immediate Past President of the West confessed that under a less kind regime than our own he would have got three of them. He is special as we all know 🙂

No Monster Putter award again today with the highest number of putts being but a respectable 38, though Joe and Mick each took 11 strokes at a hole to “win” Most Strokes.

Grade winners C, B and A above were Mike Harling, Tom G and Richard with excellent net scores of 68,68 and 69 respectively.

Longest Drive at 245 meters, against the wind, went to Arne Tjaden while Closest to the Pin after some discussion went to Stuart Wigley.

Once again the VP of Almost Everything had to point out that the “only one prize rule” applies just to our regular prizes and NOT to the once a month (at best) prizes of Long Drive and Closest to the Pin.

Fuller, player by player, details can be found here and more photos of the day on the Tee Set Gallery.

Tee Set Matchplay

Match plays as follows:

Divya beat Chris Lever 1 up on the last hole.

Simon Reynolds beat Pieter Groen 2 and 1 (?)

Tom Grace beat Joe Callahan 7 and 6

Divya and Chris played an absolute cracker of a game with Chris holding the lead most of the time. With four holes to play Chris was up by 3 but Divya who is a soccer buddy of Chris knew it was not over until the fat lady sang and took full advantage when nerves stopped his opponent closing out the match. With two pars and a birdie Divya had the momentum and it all came down to the last hole, the par 5 18th.  Chris managed a respectable par that under normal circumstances would have been the game but Divya drained a birdie putt from 2 meters and it was all over.

All square would have been a fair result but there is nothing fair in golf.

Golf Addicts

We all have it in varying degrees however walking amongst us are a couple of addicts in spades, doubled. As is their wont, Wina and Efsi were not happy with 18 holes played in under 4 hours on Saturday so they took off on a mission to get another 18 in before darkness. Imagine the girls motoring down the fairways in their buggy playing speed golf but nevertheless completing their bonus round before dark in a little under 2 hours.

A hard act to follow ladies.

The Tee Set Presidency

With the other members of your committee point-blank refusing the poisoned chalice, they were instead to wholeheartedly recommend that Roger Finnie become the new President of Tee Set – a choice that was to be confirmed by unanimous acclamation of the membership after prize giving today. Congratulations Roger!.

Roger is of course already heavily involved in committee work, not least with running our Interleague participation – and tells us he is looking forward to serving further as President.

If you need something doing give it to a busy man.

Next up

Please note this is a change from the original scheduled venue due to course modifications and maintenance

As a result of the course being in the middle of renovations and heavy maintenance, we have agreed with Cengkareng management to cancel our scheduled visit there on Sunday and, as Cengkareng is perhaps the memberships most popular course, find somewhere in the programme for the rest of the year to substitute

We have been able to secure Matoa for Sunday instead, 600,000 including a shared cart and with a first tee-time of 11am from 1 and 10. Sign up here for the fun and competition and get some very early practice at the home of Tee Set’s 2017 Championship 

See yah at Matoa …. Tee Set

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Monthly Medal at Modern, SATURDAY 24th June 2017

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Tee Set

As usual it is back to Padang Golf Modern for the last weekend of  the month for the Tee Set Monthly Medal and part-deux of the 4-part Tee Set Dyslectic. Rather less usually we will be playing on Saturday and NOT Sunday with the latter being the first day of Lebaran and the course closed like most others in the Jakarta area.

With numbers expected to be down a little due to holidays, though sign-ups have already reached 24, this is perhaps your best chance to join those with bragging rights and immorality on our Tee Set Medal Honours list – and of course win the small matter of a 1 million roops voucher to buy stuff from Grand Slam Golf!

Green fees of 770,000 on Saturday including shared cart when we will tee-off at 11:30 from 1 and 10. If you haven’t done so already then let us know you are coming here.

See yah SATURDAY!! … Tee Set

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Rainbow Hills, Sunday 18th June 2017

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Tee Set

One of the great pleasures of Rainbow Hills, sitting on the terrace watching the world go by…

Our trifecta of visits to the great courses of the Bogor area during Ramadan was completed with a first visit in more than 2 years to the splendid Rainbow Hills. The 31 players who joined were treated to a great day’s golf with the weather bright and sunny and the course, usual green maintenance at this time of year excepted, playing in good condition. We got to enjoy the 2 mature 9’s which made for a good challenge and a great setting for our internal Inter-League match, more of which you can read about below.

This week, we welcomed 4 Newcomers, Anders Eriksson, Ryan Shepherd, Tony Foglia and Robert Nicholls. Both Tony and Robert are Committee Members of the Par 5 Club in Bali, so it was nice to welcome them to a Tee Set week-end ahead of our August return match for the Battle Royale Cup.

We also were pleased to welcome back Johan Stenmark, Tomas Dudasko and Karel Horak after 37, 36 and 26 weeks, respectively. Where have you been, guys? 🙂

A super day enjoyed by all and the Committee hope to be able to somehow find another quiet traffic week-end to be able to add Rainbow Hills into the schedule again. And soon.

The Play

Some very long carries from the Blue to the Red tees saw a healthy 7 skirts from the 28 male players, most of whom managed to squeeze into the picture.

Tomas Dudasko was financially saved by the 1 (booby) prize rule, only having to remain for his picture with the monkey for his 45 putts and our Monster Putter award.

A happy Dave Chew takes the reward for just 27 putts!

Peter Bush also benefited from the one prize rule to take home 1st Sandy prize for his effort on hole 15 while Dave Chew was awarded Low Putts for his equal best of the day 27 putts.

An absent-at-prize-giving Tom Grace, presumably jet lagged from his long haul return flight yesterday, managed to get into his round during the back 9 to shave an astonishing 17 strokes off his first 9 score to win Most Improved. Most likely helped by not repeating his 14 strokes on a hole during the front 9 which saw him awarded Most Strokes, albeit having already contributed to the skirts fund, he would not have had to contribute again.

Richard and Karan always delighted to win anything!!

The remaining skill prizes perhaps unsurprisingly featured heavily the players also participating in the Inter-League match. Team mates for Tee Set Too, Richard Mau and Karan Khetan were both awarded first birdie for their respective efforts on hole 2.

Lis Wymer was awarded First Par for Handicaps 30 and over for her par on hole 6, an effort which also was first sandy par but for the one prize rule.

Simon Reynolds was awarded Low Gross for his 82 strokes.

Roger (net 70), Wina (net 69) and Mick (net 69) were awarded Low A, B and C grades, respectively for their fine play on the day.

More detailed, player by player results are here while you will find lots more photos of a fine day on the Tee Set Gallery.

Tee Set versus Tee Set Too Inter-League

With the regular Inter-League week-end matches called off, we took advantage to catch-up on the Tee Set versus Tee Set Too match which had been held over from April. As would be expected, some close games resulted with 3 of them going to the final green. Tee Set came ahead in those close games 4-2 helping them to an overall 8-2 victory.

VP Roger Finnie paid particular thanks all those who stepped up to participate in the match-play due to the absence of several regular Inter-League squad members during the holiday season.

Next up: Padang Golf Modern

Laurie O’Three Putts enjoying the Caddy Services last time we were at Modern – it worked and he won with NO three putts!!

Next weekend will see us back to Modern for the Tee Set Monthly Medal and, for the first time in some years, we will be playing on Saturday for, as in common with most if not all Jakarta area course we are advised that they will be closed on Sunday, the last day of Ramadan.

Your last chance to play before Lebaran hits us of course, green fees etc including shared cart of 770,000 roops and a 11:30 tee off from 1 and 10. Sign up here to join in the fun.

A reminder once again that registration is required by 4:30pm on Friday to be guaranteed to have handicaps and groups etc confirmed to you by e-mail – and for you to get a scorecard with your name on Saturday.

See yah at Modern on SATURDAY! … Tee Set

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Rainbow Hills, Sunday 18th June 2017

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Tee Set

We round off our Ramadan Tour of the great Bogor area courses on Sunday with, rather astonishingly, our first visit to the delightful Rainbow Hills since May 2015.

Some good news – the price for Sunday will be a Ramadan Special 768,000 roops including shared cart and NOT the more expensive 956,00 you will see on the Tee Set Schedule and mentioned in the previous post.

Tee off remains the same at noon from tee boxes 1 and 10, though there is a likelihood that we will get away a little sooner, so don’t be late!

If you are not amongst the 20 plus already signed up then you can check in here.

See you somewhere, over the Rainbow ….. Tee Set

 

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Rancamaya weekend, 10th/11th June 2017

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Tee Set

Due to the heavy mist it is possible that first timers have not seen the glory that is Mt. Salak … trust us, it is there!

The days

A meal in two parts at Rancamaya for one of the most enjoyable week-ends on our golfing calendar, with some excellent social golf on the Saturday afternoon followed by  a great social evening at the Tee Set sponsored BBQ Saturday as the appetiser – and a main course of a relaxing start to Sunday having slept over at the excellent R Hotel Saturday night and then the annual D.O.G.S. versus Tee Set matchplay as well as our regular Tee Set Sunday.

As is now traditional, most of our number took advantage of the attractive R Hotel prices negotiated by President Pascal to make a weekend of it – and the field swelled by “day trippers” on the Sunday.

For those making a weekend of it, Saturday morning saw us gathering at the clubhouse from around 10am with our groups being sent out in fine sunshine from around 11.30am. The course was, as ever, in good condition with the greens being much faster than some we have seen in recent weeks – albeit a little bumpy as Ramadan is when course management like to undertake their maintenance programs.

After a couple of drinks in the clubhouse to share war-stories about the round, and catch-up with friends, we changed for the BBQ in the club-house when we were joined by the later arrivals.

Something of a hiccup in the food service was more than offset by the enjoyment of the many and varied beverages brought from our own cellars and the music provided by our President. Mindful of the important exertions lying ahead in the morning, the last party goers headed to bed around 12.30am, and plenty of time to sleep the sleep of the just.

Somewhat remarkably, we were to have NO Newcomers on the Sunday, however we did have one spectacular three digit Welcome Back in Dan Brod at 186 weeks, with Dan celebrating his return with “the round of my life”. As you are back in Jakarta Dan, we expect to see you rather more often now!!

As we had no Newcomers we were not to reduce our stock of shirts. This reminds us to remind you that while we have no annual membership fee and charge nothing for the significant effort put in by your unpaid organising committee, we do expect you to have a 2017 shirt. Please buy one if you don’t have one.

The course was pretty quiet on the Sunday when around 60 D.O.G.S. and Tee Setters took advantage and headed out ahead of the scheduled noon start and everyone got round in five hours I believe.

Unfortunately a heavy mist was to obscure the iconic Gunung Salak throughout Sunday but it was certainly hot enough the heat was to taper off nicely to leave us with perfect golfing conditions over the last 6 holes or so.

Once again most of the caddies were fasting but did a fabulous job, how lucky we are.

For the day trippers, an hour to Rancamaya and an hour back to South Jakarta today was of course the result of your committee’s long and detailed planning in a smoke filled back room of the Star Deli in January. Well done them.

The play

With a number of Tee Setters also being D.O.G.S. members we had 41 players registered under the Tee Set scoring system. Top honours for the day went to Dan Brod, who was also our biggest Welcome Back after 188 weeks, and for what he described as “the best round of his life”, shooting 85 off the stick and a winning Low Net 62 in B Grade.

Richard Mau continued his recent fine play with a Low Gross of 78 but took the most prestigious Low Net A Grade prize, when he was joined in the winners circle by joint Low Net C Grade winners, Tom Alcedo and Mel Cantarella.

Taking advantage of the 1 prize rule, Roger Finnie was awarded Low Gross for his 81 off the stick and Stuart Wigley First Birdie for his effort on number 3.

Mick Dodsworth had a sandy par on hole number 1, Lis Wymer continued her winning ways with First Par for handicaps 30 and above for her Par on hole 3 while both Don Duttlinger and Paul Ang enjoyed much better back nines, shaving 10 shots off their front nine efforts.

After a few weeks where the monkey has stayed asleep in the bag, the greens at Rancamaya were able to catch a few people out and Jonathan Quek took Monster Putter after needing 42 blows with the flat stick.

Most strokes was a close affair with Kathy Scalabre getting her nose ahead of the pack on 10 with an 11 stroke effort.

Not to be outdone by the absence of our current President, former Presidents Craig Ewers and Ric Wymer did the honourable thing and were joined by Mike Webb in supplementing Tee Set funds with some well deserved skirts.

 

D.O.G.S. versus Tee Set

D.O.G.S captain and more than occasional Tee Setter Mark Johnson receives the trophy from Ric

The 3rd edition of this matchplay format event was played in parallel to our own the regular activities, with 24 players from each side pairing up to represent their respective societies.

A series of close matches saw 4 matches halved but with D.O.G.S. just getting the better of those matches which had a result to retain the trophy with a 7-5.

Congratulations to Mark Johnson and his team who will finally be able to get their hands on the trophy once Tee Set Captain Ric Wymer gets it engraved!

The inspiration for this event has always been Juergen Degert who had close and long time associations with both Tee Set and D.O.G.S. and who sadly passed away just after this event in 2016.

During prize giving, Ric Wymer announced that the trophy will be named in memory of Juergen in order to mark the wholehearted appreciation of both teams for his efforts in developing this successful weekend.

2017 Tee Set Matchplay

Just one match-play completed with Rasmus Kilde and Jeff Landau finding themselves in the unusual position of being both playing partners in the D.O.G.S. matchplay AND opponents in the Tee Set knock-out matchplay.

We are not sure how this affected their play but it was reported that Rasmus prevailed in the end!

Tee Set Presidency

It is with great regret that we have to advise that, for personal reasons, Pascal Bekaert has resigned as President of Tee Set. Since joining Tee Set in 2012, Pascal has been greatly involved in both the playing and committee side of Tee Set. Pascal’s energy and contributions as President, not least in organising this weekend’s Rancamaya fun virtually solo, will be greatly missed by the Committee.

Happily Pascal expects to continue playing with us into the future, though a little less regularly than of yore perhaps, so we can continue to enjoy his friendship and of course, share the odd “pastis”. Or perhaps two.

Pending a decision on who will succeed Pascal, the rest of the committee will bumble on as before.

Lost and Found @ Rancamaya

1 pair of sunglasses left alone and unloved in the clubhouse after it was all over. Tell us the brand and they are yours!

Next up

Continuing our spectacular run at the great Jags Tol courses as we take maximum advantage of the quiet Ramadan month traffic, we visit the spectacular Rainbow Hills next Sunday; if you haven’t played it before then you are in for a treat, if you have then you will not want to miss more of the glory.

Green fees of 956,000 including shared card and with a noon tee-off, sign up here for the fun.

With the scheduled Interleague programme falling apart and the Tee Set v Tee Set Too Interleague match outstanding we intend if possible to play that in the background to our regular stuff at Rainbow. You may get a call from Tee Set Interleague Boss, Roger.

Permata Sentul, Bogor Raya, Rancamaya and Rainbow Hills on the bounce – WOW. Make that quadruple WOW.

See yah at the end of the Rainbow,  after we wake up where the clouds are far behind us …. Tee Set

 

 

 

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Next up: Rancamaya, Sunday 11th June 2017

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Pascal Bekaert

This week we continue the special time of the year where the mix of Ramadan and what should be the dry season has motivated us to schedule most of the Sundays down the Jagorawi Toll, as we get better rates, less busy courses and we hope less traffic and rain.

Therefore this weekend we head down to the scenic Rancamaya Golf Estate for our annual Weekend vs. D.O.G.S. where the 30 Tee Setters and D.O.G.S. who have already registered for it will play an unofficial round on Saturday afternoon, fraternize along with their spouses during the Saturday night BBQ and get over their hangover by spending the night at the R Hotel to hopefully be in top shape for the Sunday round. Don’t forget that people attending the BBQ are greatly encouraged to bring a or a few bottles of wine, as well as any other beverages they might want to consume or share.

On Sunday VP Ric will captain the Tee Set match play team that will hopefully regain the trophy lost last year to the D.O.G.S. by selecting the most competitive Tee Setters to match the yet to be determined number of players fielded by the D.O.G.S., while the non-selected players will enjoy the normal Tee Set round with all its fun and prizes.

So if you haven’t done so yet and want to join us on Sunday for a mere 650,000 Rp including cart and an official tee off time of 12:00 please register here.

Friendly reminder that even though we always accept registrations until the last minute, we do appreciate when they are made before Friday afternoon as it greatly helps us with the preparations. On the other end, if you have registered and for some reason can’t make it please let us know.

For more information on the weekend you can consult our Rancamaya weekend 2017 page.

Other news

Handicap Improvement (or not)

As we approach the mid-point of 2017, perhaps you are wondering whether you improved or not this year, and to help our competitions captains determine who’s ‘hot’, you can see how you improved (or not 🙂) your handicap this year in the 2017 Handicap Improvement report.

3rd Ramadan Cup

For those of you interested in mid-week golf on June 21, you might want to join the following non-Tee Set event:

As the Holy Month of Ramadan draws to a close our minds are focusing on this important time of the year that leaves some important questions in our minds:

  1. Did I play enough golf during the discounted month of Ramadan?
  2. Will I be able to get another game or 2 in before the price rises and the mobs return?
  3. How enjoyable is the drive back from Riverside as the rest of the country gets into sundowners break fasting?
  4. How much should I tip the poor starving lass who has lugged my bag for me on this really hot day?

Anyway once you have asked these questions you know the answer is to join the 3rd Ramadan Cup. Enjoy the empty course of Riverside. Get a skinful of your favourite alcoholic beverage into you, without too much fear of the FPI turning up on the 15th to put you off your putting by emptying your last 5 cans into the bushes. No waiting at the restaurant for your order, getting the best seats in the club house. No queue at the Après Golf Spa, unless Thwaites gets there first. All in all a good day as the last few Cups have proven. 

Two Cups 3 winners? All down to the organizer being too deep into his cups to be arsed trying to figure out a count back. This year the format will be the same as usual, best net. If it is a tie 2 cups will be awarded. If there are more than 2 winners a drink off will be held to determine the 2 winners.

The cost: Green Fees at Riverside plus caddie tip and necessary beverages to keep you safely hydrated on the course.

Planned Tee off Time is 12.30 so we can break fast after around of golf and a shower over a few coldies.

A good day guaranteed!

If you are interested in joining just let Michael Seabrook know by email at seabrook@jiibfinancial.com.

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Bogor Raya, 4th June 2017

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Tee Set

The Day

Ramadan is something of a bonus for Tee Setters as well as for the faithful as the fabulous Bogor area courses become reachable without the need for getting stuck in the appalling traffic normally offered by the Jagorawi Tol on a Sunday.

Today we played the quite amazing Garden Course at Bogor Raya, a course where even if you are playing badly, the beauty of the place is a constant to admire and console you!

Two Newcomers to report in Moritz Kleine-Brockhoff and Kathy Scalabre, welcome to them both – come back often!!

Some notable Welcome Backs in Rick Doll at a more than a year and Bruce Smart at 46 weeks and Nick Gleeson at 35 weeks. After a long sojourn in Thailand, we understand Rick will be a rather more regular Tee Setter in future.

We got away on time at 11:30 – and with something of mini-shotgun start, though that didn’t speed things up much with around 5 hours being the norm.

Weather was super-hot at the start and didn’t get much cooler until the middle of the back nine when it was just about perfect golf weather after a troubling moment or two when it looked like it might even rain. And this without a pawang hujan in sight.

Most of the caddies were “berpuasa” and that none of them dropped out was a tribute to their gameness – and they were mostly good, efficient and clearly well trained as well. A Lebaran bonus was clearly called for!

It may be paranoia, but Tee Set coming to play does seem to encourage some courses to get out and spike their greens and Bogor Raya was not to be an exception with the front nine having been spiked recently – with the inevitable consequences 🙂

Nice post-match venue and with the rather unusual inclusion of dinner in the green fee-and it really wasn’t bad at all, with the chicken roulade at least being rather agreeable to your scribe’s palette anyway!

It is not often that we showcase a course more than our players but the glory that is Bogor Raya needs a boost – so no apologies for these shots from a memorable day.

A great day at a fabulous course and a quick straw poll of those present by the Vice President of Nearly Everything for an early return drew a most positive response. Shame about the macet.

The Play

Top performers on the day were Efsi and Mike Webb with each shooting a net 66 to win Low Net B and C respectively, while the best golf came once again from Richard Mau with an 81-9-72 to take the blue ribbon for Low Net A – leaving Bags to take Low Gross with 84.

Mike, Richard and Efsi, with Efsi having to be grafted on later – unclear whether due to playing an extra 9 holes as usual – or a particularly luxuriant shower 🙂

A relatively high Low Putts of 29 shared by three players was only decided on count-back, well done Raymond Huang! The high count undoubtedly due to those bumpy spiked greens on the front 9 where anything could happen, and often did.

A rather miserable haul of just 2 skirts this week left the Treasurer a little disgruntled.

Fuller, player by player results can be found here and lots more photos taken by the multi-talented Brenda here.

Tee Set Matchplay

Couple of results yesterday:

Jon Pipe beat Ivan Byriel 4 and 2

David Baglivo beat Andrew Waites 6 and 4

Well done to the winners, for the losers there is always next year!

Next Up

Next up is of course our now traditional mid-year weekend away break at the stunning Rancamaya course, carefully timed for the heart of Ramadan this year so we don’t need to spend half a day travelling in either direction.

For those of you who already registered for a room at the Rancamaya “R-Hotel” there is NO NEED to register again for this Sunday, but for those others who just want to join us for the Sunday only, for a very attractive 650,000 Rp including cart, and an official tee off time of 12:30, then please register here.

The Sunday will also see the annual Tee Set v D.O.G.S match embedded within the usual Tee Set fun and games. Captain Ric has his team together more or less but don’t be surprised to get an invitation from him to join the Tee Set team if you haven’t already as team size is a remarkably indeterminate number right now.

See ya at Rancamaya!! … Tee Set

And it’s goodbye from them too …..

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