Tee Set

maybe not so comfortable …..

The day

Just one Newcomer in Lars Schaumann to report today, enjoy your golf with Tee Set, Lars, the caddies get prettier than those found at PJ – and don’t forget to bring your new Tee Set shirt and other paraphernalia next week!

Welcome Backs rather sparse too with Kathy Hill’s 43 weeks topping the bill, well ahead of Dawn’s 18 weeks. Welcome back to all.

A reduced but enthusiastic field of just 25 Tee Setters, a result of the long Easter weekend and Bandung Bash, were to enjoy glorious weather at the start, weather which was thankfully to cool down somewhat after midday as relief in the shape of cloud cover made a most welcome appearance. Those who had chosen to walk were certainly feeling the pain by the end.

A full car pack was not to be the best of views upon arrival, however, the PJ starter is always keen to pick up his two red backs and managed to get the groups off more or less on time from two tee boxes – and an entirely reasonable 4.5 hour round for most, with the course far more free-flowing on the back nine after the 9 o’clock starters had left the battlefield.

After overnight rain, lift clean and cheat was still in place as the Singing President was on duty in Bandung and in no position to override the rule. Harold Haynes, in his last few months with Tee Set before moving back to the States, said he knew nothing about the Easter weekend Bandung Bash – and must surely he must be the only one with his head that deep in the sand 🙂

With Harold visibly disappointed by learning he’d missed the boat on such a legendary event, we decided to let him play off the white tees as small compensation.

Babora Gaislerova was breaking in a new set of clubs which she had been given way ahead of her birthday. When quizzed on how they performed, the only comment forthcoming was “I could have played 5 or more shots better”.  Join the club, Barbora, we all wish for that, and maybe even a little more.

The course was a little under-mown due to the recent heavy rains and with very little roll as a result, but the truly staggering change, never seen before on PJ, was the blue tee boxes set way back in the zone normally reserved for the black tees on many holes – with the result that we were all intensely jealous to see Harold teeing off so much in front of us from the whites.

Good to see the club management spending some money on the amenities such as the new chairs provided on tee box 1 – very comfortable while you wait for the numerous flights in front of you to tee off 😦

The play

The occasionally maligned PJ was up to it today with no one matching its par even with a handicap – and Simon Reynolds usual Low Gross of 84 was 10 (ten) more than his round at the mighty Jags in Interleague last week. No pushover then.

Alastair, Harry Hill and Chris Till took the Low Nets in A, B & C – a first ever Tee Set cash-positive Sunday for Chris!

2015 Matchplay Championship

Three more 1st round results today, with 2 of them going to the 19th green!

Koen beat Mike Webb 3 and 2

Keith beat El Guapo on the putting green

James beat Ric on the putting green

James Ross, newcomer Lars Schaumann, Jaroslav Gaisler and Keith Miller did not cope so well with the tee boxes being set so far back with all them succumbing to the numerous cross dressing opportunities afforded by Tee Set as you see in the photo – Keith with his very first swing of the day – to the delight of a significant if sensibly muted audience.

Greens were a little furry and Pieter Groen did not cope too well here either, taking Monster Mutter with a stand-out 43.

He does already have the tee-shirt and looks so comfortable in the monkey mask that one can only imagine that  more high putting is on the way 🙂

Although Harold had the luxury of playing off the whites he still managed to get most strokes at 12, much to the dismay of the treasurer who was hoping to take money off the 6 players all perched on 9 shots. Nevertheless Harold still ended the day ahead after collecting the Most Improved award.

Next up

Palm Hills is an attractive and popular course with Tee Setter for very good reasons besides being possessed of a fine course and clubhouse, not least the cute caddies and restaurant staff!

Green fees of a reasonable 708,000 roops all up including cart. Tee off from 1 & 10 at noon.

Sign up now to join in what should be a fine day with us hopefully now into the dry season.

See ya at Palm Hill!! …. Tee Set

Well, we don’t think we fooled too many of you with our April Fools Day post – but we did get some excellent golf jokes, many thanks to all who contributed – sadly none of them will be showing off their new Titleist clubs and near unlimited supply of Pro V1’s across the playing fields of Jakarta in the near future 🙂

You can see the various contributions by clicking on “comments” on the bottom of the post – later we will move them to our “Golf Tales” page.

April fool’s is dead and gone, so we can tell you in all honesty that we will have a Tee Set on Easter Sunday with an 11am start from 1 & 10. Green fees of just 490,000 to which you can add 90,000 (from memory) for a shared cart if you don’t wan’t to walk a very walking friendly course. Don’t be late, they often get us away early!!

If you want to join the more than 20 Tee Setters already signed up then do the needful here.

See ya at PJ!! … Tee Set

PS a couple of opportunities for play and giving at the same time in the near future, the top class Society of Petroleum Engineeers event at Jagorawi on the 24th April and the Cilandak Rotary event at the same venue on the 25th May.

PPS Joseph Peries tells us there are still a few opportunities for sponsoring the SPE event, drop him a line here if of interest to you “oilies”

The Day

Once again it all looked a bit dodgy at 9 o’clock with the rain bucketing down. Right on cue however the clouds cleared, the wet stuff stopped and a record-breaking 52 Tee Setters were all away ahead of schedule on a fast draining course

The PJ starter had a great job of getting our 13 flights away from two tee boxes and earned himself two red bills as a reward for 4 hour or less rounds.

We have had something of a love-hate relationship with Pangkalan Jati over the years and numbers have been as low as 3 players but today the numbers peaked at that highest ever 52.

The reasons for PJ’s popularity are not too difficult to find, being easy on the wallet in all respects, close to home for most and a real challenge in the skill department requiring the deployment of every club in the bag.

After a relatively quiet few weeks we were pleased to see 4 Newcomers up for the challenge today in Donald Haywood, Glen Mayennett, Ralph Sasse and Rusty Witwer. We hoped you all enjoyed your first day with us guys, welcome to Tee Set!

Welcome backers were led by Rob Davies at 45 weeks, rashly attracted by the return of Shane – and Clyde Wickiser at 29 weeks.

Clyde, with his last project completed, now has more time to concentrate on his golf so we may be seeing him a little more often.

PJ is generally considered to have the cheapest and best selection of “previously cherished” balls of any Jakarta course. Might not be unrelated to all those military VIP types playing with brand new balls subsidized by the tax payer.

You won’t see Tom Alcedo’s name down in the results so we have to mention that despite escaping monetary penalties, his 5 shots to get out of a bunker has made an entry into our records 🙂

The play

The aspirations of Simon Reynolds to be a scratch golfer by the time he reaches age 31 is running short on time but nevertheless he still manages to take low gross each week though “only” with an 82 on this occasion.. Keep chipping away Simon because you have the best chance of anyone else in the group to be a scratch golfer.

The Grumpy Pirate gets his just rewards for once 🙂

Low Net B Grade and overall went to Paul Taylor with a 70, Graham McGeady took Low Net A Grade with a 72 while Jaco Zaayman took C division with a net 72.

Jaco must have one hell of a swing coach because he plays his handicap every week these days. Hard to beat such consistency but Brenda has been informed that handicapping needs some personal attention from time to time.

Matt Kaempf took 1st Par >= 30HC once the scorers worked out which tee box he started from (All are encouraged to read the instructions on the score card about filling out your card occasionally). Shane tried to share in the spoils but his loud protestations about having parred his second were quickly undermined by pulling out a scorecard that revealed it was actually his 3rd hole where he found a par.

The first rule of Tee Set is of course being able to stand unassisted on the first tee box, and has never been a real issue however the second rule about getting past the ladies tee box with each drive continues to be a challenge, with 9 players today falling short in their endeavours. Such occurrences might be stressful for the players but it always puts a smile on the treasurer’s face to see those blue notes coming into the Tee Set coffers.

The Newcomers provided welcome cover for a number of old hands by scooping the pool in Monster Putter with Ralph Sasse having to dip his hand in his pocket with a pretty impressive, best of the year, 48.

Happiness is ….. no fine!!

For reasons that were not clear at the time, and are even less so now, the 4 Tee Setters sharing Most Strokes on 11 were forgiven by our normally flinty hearted Treasurer. It would not be wise to rely on such largesse every week  however – he was probably a little sated by his skirt takings 🙂

Fuller, player by player results from the day’s play can be found here.

2015 Matchplay

Last chance to join in Tee Set’s 2015 Matchplay Championship is today, anyone who has played at least twice this year but has not registered should already have received their personal invitation. If you want to join in but didn’t get the e-mail then let us know here.

1st round match ups will be published on Thursday and play can take place at any time after that. All participants will receive a briefing pack from Matchplay Organiser, Fernando Gaggino.

Rancamaya Stay & Play

Last year’s stay and play event at Lido Lakes was something of a success and we will be doing something similar this year at the glorious Rancamaya on the weekend of May 9/10.

With scant regard for personal inconvenience, two of your committee played there yesterday and indeed stayed on afterwards at the newly built and contiguous “R” Hotel where they got wined and dined by the management to add to their free round.

Such selflessness is of course the hallmark of our dedicated committee and was well rewarded as the suitability of the whole setup was to be deemed up to scratch for a weekend away for a bunch of Tee Setters, and their families, all hell-bent on fun.

rooms with a view …

The Rancamaya course itself needs no introduction to Tee Setters of course as it was voted #1 in our poll of courses earlier in the year; 18 holes of paradise, while the hotel is 4 star with excellent facilities and excellent bedrooms. Those facilities include 3 swimming pools, sauna, gym, massage, tennis, bicycles and a kids’ club with all sorts of activities to distract them. All in all a perfect setting for our annual thank you to partners and kids – while you yourself can get a couple of rounds in, on the Saturday afternoon and Sunday starting late morning.

For those who can’t make it for the play on the Saturday afternoon – and the mother of all BBQ parties in the evening, then no problem, just turn up as usual for play on the Sunday morning at around the usual time.

Not one to miss, not least because, rumour has it, that Tee Set will be using its funds (ie your funds) to significantly subsidise the rates for this very special event 🙂

More details in a week or so when the newly appointed organiser of the weekend, Jan Janda, has gotten his feet under the table.

Next up 

Kedaton, so much easier to get to these days with the completion of the Western JORR is our destination  next Sunday where we will have an 11am start from 2 tees.

A very attractive course with lots of water and excellent greens, it is also one of the small and diminishing number of courses where walking is possible so don’t miss your chance to “fight the flab” when green fees etc are a reasonable 650,000 – or a less reasonable 790,000 with shared cart.

Sign up here as usual for what is always a fine day out in the east and about as far away from the southern rain centre as you can get.

See ya at Kedaton!! …. Tee Set

And its good night from them after a busy day …