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Alamos Golf Course, 9th February 2013

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Alamos Golf Course : Chez Carlos Golf Society Competion

17 players tee’d off on another sunny but chilly Algarve day.
Alamos golf course was in pretty good condition with the greens running true and this was reflected in the scores.
Scores were as low as 24 and as high as 41 and the four players who struggled to make the 30 points mark were rewarded with an extra shot on their handicaps, these were Jeff Williams, Colette Bourke, Tony McInerney and Chris Milford.
At the top end Alan Wesson had another amazing golf round shooting 3 under on the back 9 with 3 birdies and 6 pars – well done Alan who has racked up 3 wins in a row and will now be playing off 5.
Eve Koch and Will Cogan also produced stunning golf rounds of 39 points with Eve producing a fantastic birdie on the 12th with a 40 metre bunker shot to 1 metre.
Will came second after a count back and will be playing off 10 whilst Eve has been granted her wish and will be playing off 16.7 in future.
David Bowles started the day with 4 pars and his tee shot on the Par 3 – 3rd to 4 feet gave him closest to the pin.
Peter Verschoor hit a cracker on the 16th to get inside Alan Wesson and enjoy his bottle of wine.
On the 12th hole Deirdre Kearney showed her husband Jim what she can do with a great drive to secure the longest drive – the second lady to win the longest drive in two weeks!! – come on guys – whats that that all about?

Results:
1st – Alan Wesson 41
2nd – Will Cogan 39
3rd – Eve Koch 39
Closet to the pin on Hole 3 – David Bowles and Peter Verschoor and on the 16th
Longest drive on the 12th – Deirdre Kearney

Prize giving was held at Chez Carlos restaurant and many thanks to Fillipe and his staff for the snacks enjoyed by all

To all of those taking part in the Spanish weekend – enjoy yourselves and play well.

To those who cannot make the trip, we will be playing at Pinhal golf course on Saturday and I will advise of the format once we know how many are playing.

Oceanico Pinhal, Vilamoura, 16th February 2013

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We welcomed two new guests, David Brennan and Steve Jinks and the word on the street is that Steve and Raymond Yassim really enjoyed their game together and increased their vocabularies by a number of explicit words !!

At Oceanico Pinhal 5 players did not manage the 30 points barrier and gratefully received their bonus shot. Mary Strutt now off 19, Heather Ward 18, Raymond Yassim 17, David Brennan 13 and Ann Campbell 22.

Three players came in with 33 points – David Bowles, Will Cogan and Chris Milford, with Steve winning on a count back.

For the first time that I can remember we did not have a “Closest to the Pin” winner on the 5th hole, so we will carry the wine over to the next game.

Prize winners :

1st – Will Cogan: 33pts
2nd – Chris Milford 33pts
3rd – David Bowles 33pts

Steve Jinks took the Nearest the Pin on the 14th & Longest drive on the 16th. As he was flying back to the UK on Sunday he donated his two bottles of wine back to the Society and we will use these for the next game as well; nice one Steve – well done.

On Wednesday 20th we will be playing our first Roll Up game at The Old Course and a lot of interest has been shown for this event – so get get your names onto the board at Parky’s.

Oceanico Milllennium, 24th November 2012

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Chez Carlos Golf Society played Oceanico Millennium on Saturday, it was a winter’s day but a pleasant one nonetheless. The group was all in good spirits with a good turn-out: 20 members with quite an even number of ladies and gents. The course was in reasonable conditions except for holes 2, 6 and 7 where the greens were perhaps not in the best shape. Once again, Millennium proved to be a favourable course for the ladies as they conquered all 3 places in the podium. Deirdre Kearney celebrated a victory just before she and her husband Jim got back to Ireland the following day, so a real great way to end their break in the Algarve – we hope they had a nice journey back home and hope to see them again soon!

Afterwards, the group headed to Chez Carlos Restaurant for a warm up and some well-earned food & beverage(s).

1st – Deirdre Kearney
2nd – Gudren Henning-Loehr
3rd – Lanaia Donkin
Nearest-to-the-pin (6th hole): Peter Densham
Nearest-to-the-pin (15th hole): David Nicholls