The Terramar Golf Club recently inaugurated three new holes that complete its golf course

Terramar Golf Club - Map

Terramar Golf Club – Map

Terramar Golf Club

On Thursday the 13th the Terramar Golf Club inaugurated its new golf course with the opening of three new holes in the Can Pere Pau and Can Girona area.

Completing the second phase of the Master Plan, designed by Martin Ebert, with this reform the course will once again be a par 72 with the incorporation of a par three (hole eleven), a par four (hole twelve) and a par five (hole thirteen).

To complete the new Terramar project, the third and final phase of reform will be pending with the construction of the new hole ten, a par four with a large lake between the second shot and the green that will give a new personality to the entire area.

In this way, the new layout route goes from 5,893 meters to 6,036 meters, making the golf course more competitive although adapted to all handicaps and ages. The new holes are a par three of 151 meters from the white tee, located next to the old catalogued farmhouse of Can Pere Pau (which will be restored in the future after the architectural study that is underway), a par four of 330 meters on land granted by the Sitges City Council and which is parallel to the Can Girona area, and a par five that when the third phase is completed will become par four with a green next to the same lake as the future hole ten.

Once the last phase of the Master Plan has been completed, Terramar golf course will then maintain a par 72 since hole ten, currently a par three, will become a par four. This new 495-meter par five runs along the route of the old twelfth hole but in the opposite direction and ends on the green of the old par three on the lake on the thirteenth hole.

Portuguese National Club Championship – Solverde Casinos

Portuguese National Club Championship – Solverde Casinos - Morgado Golf Course

Morgado Golf Course

Portuguese National Club Championship

The Portuguese National Club Championship of clubs took place from the 4th to the 6th of September with 19 men’s teams and 6 lady’s teams, enrolled, in a competition played in 54 holes Stroke Play, for three days (18 holes per day).

The 3 best results of each team were determined daily, which together determined the best final results.

The last day was obviously a day of great emotions and competitiveness at the Morgado Golf Course, in Portimão, with Oporto GC recovering and consolidating its first position, becoming the national champion club of 2020. In ladies, it was the Quinta do Lago team that debuted as a winner. The Visconde Pereira Machado (men) and Nini Guedes Queiroz (women) cups are thus awarded.

Portuguese National Club Championship – Solverde Casinos - Morgado Golf Course

Morgado Golf Course

The Oporto GC team wins again, after 2016, this time with the team composed by the players Vasco Manuel Carreira Alves, Afonso Girão, João Girão and Pedro Maria Sousa Machado who totaled 645 strokes (-12), one stroke advantage over the 2nd place, the Miramar team that ended with an aggregate of 646 strokes. The team from Quinta do Perú closed the podium with 674 strokes.

In the ladies competition Quinta do Lago ends up winning with an aggregate of 418 strokes (-20) and thus wins the Nini Guedes de Queiroz Cup. Miramar with 429 (-9) and Orizonte with 438 (Par) completed the podium.

The remaining results were as follows:

Men´s – 4th Vilamoura – 5th – Paredes – 6th Quinta do Lago – 7th Ilha Terceira (azores) 8th Estoril – 9th Juvegolf – 10th-Orizonte – 11th Morgado – 12th Vale de Janelas – 13th Belas – 14th Penina – 15th Amendoeira – 16th – Quinta do Fojo -17º Alto Portimão – 18th Viseu – 19th Amarante.

Ladies – 4º Quinta do Perú – 5º Oporto -6º Estoril.

The next tournament organized by the Portuguese Golf Federation and PGA Portugal will be the National Individual Absolute Championship – Audi, where amateurs and professionals will compete on an equal footing, both in men´s and in ladies, for their respective absolute titles.

Ryder Cup star and former “Race to Dubai” champion, Tommy Fleetwood, will return to the Portugal Masters at the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course, in Vilamoura, from 10 to 13 September.

Tommy Fleetwood will return to the Portugal Masters - Victoria

Tommy Fleetwood

Tommy Fleetwood will participate for the sixth time in the European Tour tournament, having competed in the Algarve every year between 2012 and 2016.

«I am looking forward to returning to the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course. It is a beautiful area of the world and I have beautiful memories of when I played there in the past,” said Fleetwood.

«In 2020, I started well in the Race to Dubai, with two positive weeks in the Middle East, including a 2nd place tied behind Lee Westwood in Abu Dhabi. As with everyone else, my season was suspended shortly after, but I am focused on a strong conclusion of the season and I think the Portugal Masters will be the ideal place in Europe to face a good list of participants, before heading to the US Open the following week, ”he added.

The 14th edition of the Portugal Masters is part of the “Iberian Swing” of the European Tour. Play right after the Estrella Damm N.A. Andalucia Masters, which ended last Sunday in Spain. The Open de Portugal at Royal Óbidos concludes this series next week.

The European Tour resumed its competitive activity in July with two “dual-ranking” events in Austria, and soon afterwards with the new six-week “UK Swing”, fulfilling the strategy of, whenever possible, holding events in succession in chosen regions, avoiding long trips whenever possible.

As with all the tournaments in the 2020 rectification calendar, the Portugal Masters will be subject to the European Tour Safety and Health Program (COVID-19 Health Strategy) and, consequently, spectators will not be allowed on the Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course.

The Portugal Masters will also be covered by the new “Golf for Good” initiative of the European Tour, which aims to support the local communities where the European Circuit passes, honoring the true heroes, as key elements of the front line, at the same time that it intends promote the health benefits of golf.