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Tee Times Portugal Golf – 2015 Madeira Islands Open

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Tee Times Portugal Golf - 2015 Madeira Islands Open

Tee Times Portugal Golf – 2015 Madeira Islands Open

Tee Times Portugal Golf – 2015 Madeira Islands Open – Started on 20th to 22nd March 2015

The Madeira Islands Open BPI – Portugal – got its start postponed to today, Friday the 20th, due to the strong wind that was felt in Santo da Serra Golf Club, in Machico, Madeira.

Santo da Serra Golf Club – Above the bay of Machico, where the first Portuguese sailors disembarked. Here, golf and nature live in perfect harmony with sport and the environment. Be it competition or pleasure, the passions of those who play at Santo da Serra are always satisfied. The Machico and Desertas Courses are those usually used for the Madeira Island Open whilst the Serras Course, mildly flat, maintains the same level of play.

Tee Times Portugal Golf - 2015 Madeira Islands Open

Tee Times Portugal Golf – 2015 Madeira Islands Open

With the tournament reduced to 54 holes after strong winds prevented any play on Thursday, strong breezes again caused a delay on this morning with play starting one hour and 50 minutes later than planned.

Sweden’s Jacob Glennemo got play started at 9:40am, and with the first four groups having completed their opening hole, Javier Ballesteros – son of legendary five-time Major winner Seve – was the only player to have carded a birdie.

But it was Joachim B Hansen took the clubhouse lead during the first round of the Madeira Islands Open – BPI – Portugal with a four under par 68.

The 24 year old Dane, who lost his European Tour card last season after failing to register a top-ten finish, birdied two of his first three holes after starting on Santo da Serra Golf Club’s back nine.

This European Tour Professional Golf Tournament with 600.000, Euros in prize money was suspended from the start, and the decision to definitely postpone the opening day for today was communicated yeasterday at 2pm, by the race director, the Spanish Jose Maria Zamora.

“We had the misfortune of having presented a day with a lot of wind, with an average speed of 35/40 km/h and there were times with gusts that reached the 80 km/h. This causes the ball to move on the greens, to not be still, so you can not play in these conditions.” said Zamora.

The forecasts for today, the tournament director seemed to be more confident, “I am optimistic about the wind, will do much less wind tomorrow. It is expected rain, but if it does not rain much no problem. Also depends on the height of the clouds: if the height of the field, we have the same problem last year. But I am optimistic and I believe that Madeira and the Madeira Open deserve a good end. I am optimistic and we will try to do 54 holes, “praised José Maria Zamora.

The director also explained that, given the weather forecasts, the field can not be touched. “We choosed to not cut the greens: We were expecting this strong wind but still we can not cheat the wind and being so strong we had to decide that today we do not play.” Zamora said that cutting the greens would leave them faster and unplayable.

Let’s hope for better weather next days to come to a wonderful conclusion of this wonderful tournament at Santo da Serra Golf Club, in Madeira, Portugal.

Source: Golftattoo.com, europeantour.com

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Tee Times Portugal Golf – Liberty Seguros Tournament

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Tee Times Portugal Golf – Liberty Seguros Tournament – Penina, Algarve

Tee Times Portugal Golf – Liberty Seguros Tournament – Penina, Algarve

The elite of the national amateur golf had its first major summit last weekend 17-18th January 2015 at the Penina Hotel & Golf Resort in Portimão, Algarve, which was the first of the six tournaments Liberty Seguros circuit (LS) and that the Portuguese Federation golf will host in 2015.

The Sir Henry Cotton Penina Championship Golf Course was a fabulous venue to open the calendar at the highest level, having been one of the preferred courses of the Open de Portugal, the last time in 2006.

The overwhelming majority of top amateur players competed in the Algarve and the tournament attracted 60 male and 12 female players.

In the women’s tournament, the final results were:

1 – Susana Mendes Ribeiro, Miramar (-2 to par) total: 144
2 – Leonor Bessa, Miramar (+7 to par) total: 153
3 – Rita Câncio Martins, Paço do Lumiar (+8 to par) total: 154
4 – Beatriz Themudo Santos, Miramar (+9 to par) total: 155
5 – Maria Inês Barbosa, Miramar (+10 to par) total: 156
6 – Berenice N. Pedro Jr., Lisbon Sports Club (+16 to par) total: 162
7 – Joana Silveira, Miramar (+17 to par) total: 163
8 – Sofia Câmara, Quinta do Peru (+20 to par) total: 166
9 – Joana Mota, Vilamoura C. G. (+24 to par) total: 170
10 – Inês Isabel Santos, Miramar (+29 to par) total: 175
11 – Rebeca Cunha Ferreira, Vilamoura C. G. (+30 to par) total: 176
12 – Ana Sintra, Morgado (+37 to par) total: 183

In the men’s competition, the final results (first 11 positions) were:

1 – Vitor Londot Lopes, Vilamoura C. G. (-7 to par) total: 139
2 – Afonso Girão, Oporto Golf Club (-5 to par) total: 141
3 – Pedro Lencart Silva, Miramar (-1 to par) total: 145
3 – Nathan Brader, Vilamoura C. G. (-1 to par) total: 145
5 – Tomás Bessa, Miramar (PAR) total: 146
6 – Tomás Santos Silva, Estoril (+1 to par) total: 147
7 – João Ramos, Oitavos (+5 to par) total: 151
8 – Rui Pedro Morris Mendes, Miramar (+8 to par) total: 154
9 – Renato Ferreira, Miramar (+10 to par) total: 156
10 – João Girão, Oporto Golf Club (+11 to par) total: 157
11 – Gonçalo Costa, Lisbon Sports Club (+12 to par) total: 158
11 – Thomas Drenth, Vilamoura C. G. (+12 to par) total: 158
11 – José Mª Cunha, Miramar (+12 to par) total: 158
11 – Greig Mann, Vilamoura C. G. (+12 to par) total: 158

The 1st Liberty Seguros Tournament was one of the main stages of preparation for the International Amateur Championship of Portugal, taking place at Montado Hotel & Golf Resort in Palmela.

Source: www.fpg.pt

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Portugal Masters – Leader Colsaerts So Close to First 59

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Tee Times Portugal Golf – Masters – Colsaerts so Close to First 59 – Day 1

Tee Times Portugal Golf – Portugal Masters – Leader Colsaerts So Close to First 59 – Day 1

Nicolas Colsaerts is the current Leader at the end of day 1 and missed out on the first 59 on The European Tour by the merest of margins on the opening day of the Portugal Masters at the Oceânico Victoria Golf Club.

Victoria Golf Course, Oceânico’s jewel, was the most ambitious golf project in Portugal, and was aimed at being one of the best golf complexes in the whole of Europe.

The Victoria Clube de Golfe is the fifth at Vilamoura and the most exclusive one at the resort, making it ideal to became the Algarve’s and Portugal‘s major venue for top international tournaments. Palmer, whose design company has planned some 500 layouts worldwide, compiled the Victoria course project, and Southern Golf, Europe’s largest golf course builder, was awarded the construction contract.

Several man-made lakes provide hazards for the players and also serve as water reservoirs for irrigation.

Tee Times Portugal Golf - Portugal Masters - Oceânico Victoria Golf Course

Tee Times Portugal Golf – Portugal Masters – Oceânico Victoria Golf Course

The Belgian slid an 18-foot foot birdie putt agonisingly just past the left-hand lip of the 18th to fall short of the elusive feat by a single stroke.

No player has broken 60 in the 42-year history of The European Tour, but Colsaerts looked set to change all that after he followed seven birdies with eagles at the 15th and 17th.

That left the 31 year old needing a birdie on the last and he responded by sending a typically booming drive straight down the middle of the fairway.

A short iron left him with a makeable putt and, as he walked towards the green, he was able to share a joke with playing partner Branden Grace, who shot 60 at Kingsbarns in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship two years ago.

Colsaerts’ putt looked on course to drop, but he instead had to be content with a 60 – the 19th time the score has been managed on The European Tour.

Even more significantly, he was able to head to the Victoria clubhouse with a three-shot lead over the rest of the field.

His closest rivals were Alexander Levy and Scott Jamieson, the Scot having set the target mark for the afternoon starters with his round of 63.

Frenchman Levy was first to haul in Jamieson, who operated with a new putter after missing the cut in his previous three tournaments, after 14 holes but he was unable to go on.

Instead it was Colsaerts who took charge as his recent return to form gathered extreme pace on the back nine.

The 2012 Ryder Cup winner has missed the cut in half of the 14 tournament he has played on The European Tour this season, but has found some touch in the past month.

He had made his past three cuts before heading to the Algarve and last time out finished in a tie for fourth at the ISPS Handa Wales Open.

A string of four birdies from the ninth moved him to seven under before he leapfrogged Levy and Jamieson into the lead with the first of his eagles as his power dwarfed the 315-yard par four 15th.

At the penultimate hole he was able to clear the water – which Jamieson had earlier found in the only blemish of his round – to open up his chance of a 59 up the last.

“When I made eagle on 15, I knew then that if I birdied the last three, that would have been 59,” Colsaerts said.

“So I parred 16 and then walking down the fairway on 17, I said to my caddie after I hit a good drive, ‘it’s 59 or nothing’.”

Re-living his final hole, he added: “I hit a good drive. It’s too bad it (the putt) just shaved the edge.

“I thought it was going to be slightly left to right at the end and it kind of went straight and basically just left it hanging. Too bad, I thought it was a pretty good effort, especially with these dark clouds.”

The weather at Victoria Golf Course forced play to be called off for the day shortly after Colsaerts left the 18th, and 16 groups was expected to resume at 8.15am on Friday morning. But the game was suspended due to thunderstorms and (at the time of this writing) the tee times are delayed until further notice.

Source: europeantour.com

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