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84th Portugal International Women

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Women International Portugal openSilvia Bañón (from Alicante – Spain) was proclaimed champion of the 84th Portugal International Women, an event that traditionally opens the international womens season played over four days in the golf course of Montado Golf Resort in Portugal.

Day one of the 84th Portugal International Women, began with Bañón and  Luna Sobrón from Baleares  tied with five strokes lead over their immediate pursuers, was intense and exciting to the end. The Alicante player saw their income due to doblebogey committed on the 13th hole and bogeys 4 , 8 and 14 , only subtracted by a birdie in 5 .

Having reached the 17th hole the player of Comunidad Valenciana managed to keep calm to get the birdie back and close your couple at 18 , the result enough to clinch the title with one clear of the English Gabriella Cowley

Leader of the 84th Portugal International Women  since the first day, the Alicante player Bañón Silvia climbed to the top of the table at the start of the 84th edition of International Women in Portugal .

Silvia Bañón (75) , who led the race from the beginning to the end , accumulated 285 Cowley blows one less than (70) and two less than the Castellón Escuriola Natalia (72) also achieved a podium finish. These three players , two of them of Valencia were the only players who managed to subdue the Montado Golf Resort.

Silvia Bañón and Moon Sobrón tied with 210 hits (six under par) at the top of the standings after they signed 72 and 68, respectively.

The Spanish depart five -stroke lead in the absence of the last 18 holes , about a group of five players including the Castellón Natalia Escuriola that sealed his third round impacts is 71 .

Bañón maintains the lead on the second day of the 84th Portugal International Women.

The Alicante held the lead in the Montado Golf Resort after a second round 69. Bañón, like the first day, took the lead on the front nine of the Portugal International Women route to sign on that stretch three of five birdies made ​​where no error was observed .

Leader on the first day, the Alicante Bañón Silvia climbed to the top of the table at the start of the 84th Portugal International Women edition.

Bañón began leading the race with 69 strokes in a day when only four players able to play under. The Alicante player signed five birdies (four in the first nine holes of the course) and two bogeys in the the 84th Portugal International Women .

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Birdie ?!

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birdieBirdie ?! We have never asked where they came from a series of terms adopted and used by all of us in a day of golf?  We will refer to golfing terms that did not originate in any field of Scotland, or England, or even in Europe but in the United States since the late nineteenth century.

The term ” birdie ” means scoring one under par (- 1) , was coined in 1899 in Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield , New Jersey. History tells us that in a game of the year 1899 three golfers : George Crump (who later built Pine Valley) , William Poultney Smith (founder member of Pine Valley ) and his brother Ab Smith, were playing together when Crump made ​​his second that hit a bird in flight and the ball went to stop a few inches from the hole. This fact made ​​the starting companions began to exclaim that the result of three shots on a par four were due to ” birdie ” . Soon, all members of the club began using the term and the term quickly spread and was used by all U.S. golfers.

The said term ” birdie ” was standardized for the result of one under par (-1), we continued with the ratio of a better result is called with a larger bird, ie -2 is “eagle” ( eagle) , -3 is ” albatross ” ( albatross ) -4 and a ‘ condor ” ( condor ) .

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Algarve Winter Tour

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Algarve Winter TourAlgarve Winter Tour , the international circuit that the PGA of Portugal organized from January to March , in collaboration with the Tournament Golf College , based in Cornwall, UK.

“This first tournament was a success with 120 entries , more than last year, which led us to use the two fields of Amendoeira Golf Resort from Oceânico, the Oceânico Faldo Golf Course and the O’Connor Golf Course. The  volume of players also allowed us to offer cash prizes worth 10 thousand euros and was exploited by some of the best Portuguese players to start their season , “commented José Correia , president of the PGA of Portugal .

The Algarve player Hugo Santos , number 1 of the Order of Merit of the PGA of Portugal , joined the top 10 rank, with 223 shots , 7 over par, after rounds of 73 , 71 and 79 shots, with a 6 strokes distance from the winner, the Englishman Bob Cameron , who signed laps with  70 , 72 and 75 shots.

Bob Cameron is one of the best values ​​of the European Senior Tour . Won two titles, including the French Open Veterans and finished three seasons in the top -ten of the Order of Merit of the European Professional Circuit of Veterans .

The Algarve Winter Tour attracted some highly prominent figures in the history of European Golf, as the Northern Irishman Ronan Rafferty, known to have won the Portugal Open in 1992, but still his crowning glory is the Volvo Masters title of 1989 and the 1st position of the European Order of Merit that same 1989 season .

Also highlighted the Scottish Andrew Oldcorn , winner of the Volvo PGA Championship at Wentworth, the headquarters of the European Tour , which three times in the last four years ended the season in the top -ten of the Order of Merit of the European Senior Tour .

“We are benefiting from, once again, the European Senior Tour hold its Qualifying School in the Algarve, in the fields of Pestana Golf Resort , Carvoeiro and Silves , between 30 January and 6 February . Many of these esteemed players came early to run in the Algarve Winter Tour , taking advantage of the excellent conditions that offer them and this benefits the Portuguese foreign professionals and amateurs of GCT , making Algarve Winter Tour more competitive and with more attractive prizes circuit , “explained José Correia .

The national champion, Pedro Figueiredo, was one of the figures of the first tournament, finishing the first lap in 2nd place (tied ) after 70 strokes,  2 below par in the field of Oceânico designed by former world number 1 Nick Faldo.  The following rounds of 75 and 87  fired ” Figgy ” tied for the 39th position , with an aggregate of 232 ( +16 ) .

Gonçalo Pinto, who is now also a professional, was positioned in the group of 18 ranked, with 225 strokes ( 77 +71 +77 ) +9 . There were more portuguese to compete, but only these three PGA professionals of Portugal passed the cut .

The next tournament in the Algarve Winter Tour will be played on 6-8 February at the Oceânico Faldo Course, the Amendoeira Golf Resort , between Silves and Lagoa .

 

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