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Rory McIlroy Wins Again on the European Tour

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Tee Times Portugal Golf – Rory McIlroy Wins Again on the European Tour – Race to Dubai World Tour Championship

Tee Times Portugal Golf – Rory McIlroy Wins Again on the European Tour – Race to Dubai World Tour Championship

Rory McIlroy is crowned for the third time on the European Tour, this time as Champion of the Race to Dubai’s DP World Tour Championship.

A fourth round of 66 shots, allowed Rory McIlroy crowned for the third time in the last four years as number one by winning the European Tour Race to Dubai. In addition, McIlroy managed to win for the second year the DP World Tour Championship, the European Tour finale.

McIlroy beat Danny Willett His rival maximum in the Order of Merit and Andy Sullivan in regard to the tournament. Eight birdies throughout the day, four of them between 11 and 15, were endorsed by McIlroy in the final round that closed the 2015 season in Europe.

McIlroy -21 won in Dubai and one stroke ahead of Andy “Spaceman” Sullivan, and six on the South African Branden Grace. Behind a group of six players with -13, Molinari, Schwartzel, Willett, Grillo and the two would-be rookie of the year, Matt Fitzpatrick English and Korean Byeong Hun An.

Of the four Spaniards in the field, three finished tied with -7 in the twenty second place. Rafa Cabrera-Bello who delivered the second best card of the day (66), Pablo Larrazabal and Alejandro Canizares. Miguel Angel Jimenez finished forty-eighth -1.

Long-time Official Starter to The European Tour and The Open, Ivor Robson is retiring after 41 years in the role this week. The last word, fittingly came from Ivor himself. “It has been a wonderful career,” he said. “It’s been a great honour to have been allowed to be the Official Starter for The European Tour. Thank you.”

Source: opengolf.es, europeantour.com

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Algarve Masters Pro-Am Ready to Start

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Tee Times Algarve Golf – Algarve Masters Pro-Am Ready to Start on 13th September 2015

The “Algarve Masters Pro-Am 2015,” a golf tournament in a Stableford Net format, kicks off on 13 September at the Onyria Palmares golf course in Lagos. This tournament sponsored by the Algarve Tourist Board (RTA) and organized the PGA of Portugal, will bring together 80 players, among them the journalist Júlio Magalhães, the presenter Jorge Gabriel and former goal-keeper of Sporting Clube and National football team: Ricardo Pereira.

The team with the highest ranking in this competition will be able to play in the “Pro-Am” of the Portugal Masters, one of the most important events on the European Tour, which will take place on 8th October at the Oceânico Victoria Course in Vilamoura.

The tournament will start on “shot-gun” at 09:00 and will be organized with rating teams of four each, formed by a PGA professional and three amateurs guests. They are registered 20 teams from across the country and also two Spanish teams. Already confirmed for the tournament are James Cross, national defending champion, Ricardo Melo Gouveia, current No. 1 of the European Challenge Tour circuit, and well-known public figures of the Portuguese.

The three teams that go up to the podium receive trophies Vista Alegre/Atlantis, while participants who win the ball closer to the General Amateur flag, the “drive” longer (category men) and “drive” longer (women category) will be awarded dishes of famous pottery of Porches. “The mild climate that allows prolong the golf season for several months, along with the stunning scenery in which the fields are inserted, have brought to the Algarve increasingly practitioners of the sport year after year. In addition, the quality of the golf courses in the region is recognized worldwide. Fruit of this recognition were the awards – seven national and five environmental certifications – the Algarve received in 2014, making it the main Portugal golf destination, “notes Desiderio Silva, president of the Algarve Tourism Board.

Source: oje.pt

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Quarteira – Vilamoura Promenade Connection

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Tee Times Algarve Holidays – Quarteira-Vilamoura Promenade Connection Requalification Works Begin

Tee Times Algarve Holidays: Quarteira-Vilamoura Promenade Connection Requalification Works Begin

The previously announced “Passeio das Dunas” (“The Dunes Promenade”) project by the municipality of Loulé for the urban redevelopment of the coastal zone west of Quarteira – east of Vilamoura, which connects Quarteira to Vilamoura Marina’s has now started it’s works on the field. It is considered one of the most significant urban rehabilitation projects planned for the municipality of Loulé, for Quarteira and Vilamoura, but also for the Algarve.

The current route that connects the leftovers of what once used to be the old fishermen sheds, near the fishing dock, to the beach front that sides with the Vilamoura’s Marina, was being used extensively as a walk stroll by many but it clearly lacked the proper infrastructures and it was a contrasting gap.

With this intervention, performed in 17.7 hectares, it is intended to create a seaside promenade that connects the Vilamoura’s Marina to Quarteira’s beach promenade, with the creation of green spaces, focusing on pedestrian and cyclist circulation, creating recreational spaces, enhancing and rehabilitating the contact with the sea front and running as a new point of attraction, taking in consideration the built environment with the construction and enhancement of accesses to beaches which constitute the main “entertainment space” of these areas.

Tee Times Algarve Holidays: Crowne Plaza Hotel Vilamoura

Tee Times Algarve Holidays: Crowne Plaza Hotel Vilamoura

The redevelopment work zone develops between the Armação Street in Quarteira and the front of the Crowne Plaza Hotel (formerly Hotel Atlantis), being bounded on the south by the beaches and the fishing port of Quarteira and to the north by Vala Real and provides the resolution of the problem of Vala Real, with its partial coverage.

This intervention seeks to fundamentally change the character of the area, promoting a currently vacant site, a no man’s land, capable of living for itself as a source of energizing vitality but also as a requalified public space that is also a promoter of flows between different urban areas and beaches.

The works that have just started are expected to last for 13 months, nearing the end of 2015. It will surely bring value to the area for both the current population and the many visitors it receives, so its end is, naturally, being anxiously expected by many in the Algarve.

Source: Inframoura Vilamoura & Loulé’s Municipality

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