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Long Stay for Golf Professionals at Hotel Jardin Tecina

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Hotel Jardin Tecina

Long Stay for Golf Professionals at Hotel Jardin Tecina (here)

This is an offer that we have launched because we have verified that there are pros living on the island who are not staying at Hotel Jardin Tecina. They cannot teach in their countries, due to COVID restrictions or due to the snow, and they are spending the winter in La Gomera, where they receive and play with their clients. What happens? that there are many who cannot get a minimum of 7 amateurs this year to travel for free, and that is why we have this long stay offer, a minimum of 21 days, for the pros to live in our hotel and receive their paying clients here price agreed with your usual TTOO.

Closed Golf Courses in Zimbabwe takes Stephen Ferreira to South Africa

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Stephen Ferreira

Stephen Ferreira, Photo: Octávio Passos

Stephen Ferreira heads to South Africa to play golf

The Portuguese Professional Golfer nº 3 in the World Golf Ranking waits for the start of the Sunshine Golf Tour ( the highest level of competition for male professional golfers ) in March.

Stephen Ferreira chose to travel to South Africa to train and prepare in the best way the start of the 2021/2022 season of the Sunshine Golf Tour after Zimbabwe declared the closure of golf courses as one of the measures to combat the pandemic of COVID -19.

“The situation (of the pandemic) in Zimbabwe is not bad, but it is not good when it comes to golf, because the golf courses are closed again,” Stephen Ferreira told Tee Times Golf Agency exclusively for Record.

«I am thinking of going to South Africa to be able to train again on the golf courses and prepare myself well», added the third-best Portuguese Professional Golfer in the World Golf Ranking.

Stephen Ferreira is a member of the Sunshine Golf Tour, the first division of the South African Professional Circuit, and was supposed to start the 2021/2022 season in February, with three golf tournaments co-organized with the Challenge Golf Tour, the second European division.

However, the Challenge Golf Tour announced a week ago that these three events will have to be postponed to April due to the pandemic.

Following this Challenge Golf Tour decision, the Sunshine Golf Tour decided to delay the start of its competitive.

In the statement from the South African Professional Golf Circuit, it reads: “The Sunshine Golf Tour announced the postponement of its 2021 calendar by one month, due to the increase in cases of COVID-19 and as a way of supporting the request of Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa for that all South Africans work together to help fight the spread of the virus.

Sunshine Golf Tour Commissioner Thomas Abt said the circuit will begin with a new tournament, the Kit Kat Group Pro-Am, from March 5-7. The called “South African Swing” of the Challenge Golf Tour will start on the 22nd of April, extending for three weeks of joint competition.

In between, there will be four more Sunshine Golf Tour events: The Players Championship that starts on March 11th, the Gauteng Championship on March 18th, the Serengeti Invitational on March 25th and Zanaco Masters on April 15th.

This means that Sunshine Golf Tour players will appear on the “South African Swing” much more competitive than Challenge Golf Tour athletes and Stephen Ferreira will be able to take advantage of this to add precious points to the Challenge Golf Tour ranking, the race to Majorca.

This start of the season will be very important for Stephen Ferreira for two main reasons: first, because one of his dreams is to represent Portugal at the Tokyo Olympic Games and, for that, he needs to add many points in these tournaments that count for the world ranking and the Olympic ranking. Secondly, because he gets good rankings in the three tournaments co-organized with the Challenge Golf Tour, he may have more invitations to play frequently in the second European division.

In 2020 Stephen Ferreira played five golf tournaments on the European Golf Tour (the first European division) and his best performance was his 28th position (-7) at the Portuguese Open at Royal Óbidos Golf Course. He also entered four Challenge Golf Tour events and the highest point was the 27th position (-4) in the Limpopo Golf Championship (in South Africa). In these nine tournaments, he cut five of them.

Tee Times Golf Agency will follow all the golf tournaments, publicizing their results and wishes to Stephen Ferreira the best scores ever.

Source: Hugo Ribeiro / Tee Times Golf (teetimes.pt) for Record

Challenge Golf Tour postpones start of the golf season by two months

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Ricardo Melo Gouveia in Challenge Golf Tour

Ricardo Melo Gouveia, Photo: Octávio Passos

Challenge Golf Tour

Ricardo Melo Gouveia and Filipa Lima will have to choose between three golf tournaments in South Africa and the Portugal Golf Masters to be held at the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf course, in Vilamoura.

The Challenge Golf Tour announced the postponement of the start of the season in about two months, directly affecting Portuguese players such as Ricardo Melo Gouveia and Filipe Lima, who are members of the second European division, and Stephen Ferreira, who is entitled to play some of the events on this circuit via Sunshine Golf Tour.

The European Challenge Golf Tour and the Sunshine Golf Tour jointly announced the confirmation of the postponement of the three co-organized tournaments in South Africa.

For the time being, no similar measure is planned for the European Golf Tour, which has everything set to start on January 21, with the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. It is a tournament of the Rolex Series, that is, one of the strongest of the year in the first European division, and no Portuguese should have entry. Ricardo Santos is the best placed but is currently ten places out of the list of subscribers.

The European Golf Tour follows an extremely strict health and safety plan, with all players, coaches, caddies, journalists, circuit, hotel and golf courses staff to be tested before entering the “health bubble”.

The Sunshine Golf Tour and the Challenge Golf Tour are dependent on the pandemic worldwide evolution, being postponement according to this evolution.

The two circuits should return to their activity in February. The Dimension Data Pro-Am would open the season from February 11th to 14th, followed by the Cape Town Open from February 18th to 21st and the Limpopo Championship from February 25th to 28th.

With this change of calendar, the Challenge Golf Tour will only start from 22 to 25 April safely in South Africa. The Cape Town Open will follow from 29 April to 2 May, and the Dimension Data Pro-Am, from May 6th to 9th.

Professional Ricardo Melo Gouveia from the luxury Quinta do Lago area with its greats Quinta do Lago North, South and Laranjal Golf Courses, as well as San Lorenzo & Pinheiros Altos Golf courses and the magnificent overlooking the Atlantic ocean 5 stars Hotel Quinta do Lago, has his situation regularized with the British state as a foreign resident and Brexit will not affect him.

In competitive terms, things have not been easy for Ricardo Melo Gouveia. It was scheduled to start his season on January 17th, at the Palmares Open but the Portugal Pro Golf Tour decided to cancel its entire 2020/21 season.

When the circuit returns, Ricardo Melo Gouveia will have a difficult decision to make. This redefinition of the calendar puts the Cape Town Open right on top of the Portugal Golf Masters of the European Golf Tour.

However, Ricardo Melo Gouveia has a special relationship with Portugal Golf Masters held at the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf course in Vilamoura. He has been the best Portuguese player in the most important national golf event for six years running, and in those six years, he has made two top-10 and two top-30.

Playing a tournament in South Africa, returning to Portugal, to return to the Sunshine Golf Tour in three straight weeks is an idea, but physically very exhausting.

An identical dilemma should present itself to Filipe Lima. Stephen Ferreira never received invitations to the Portugal Golf Masters, so he will surely play the three tournaments co-organized by the Challenge Golf Tour and the Sunshine Golf Tour.

Tee Times Golf Agency is attentive to all updates of all national and international tournaments and available to organize all the necessary services (golf packages with accommodation, green fees, transfers, rent-a-car, club rental and others) for players and companions, travelling alone or in groups.

Source: Hugo Ribeiro / Tee Times Golf (teetimes.pt) for Record