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Millennium Competition, 9th March 2013

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11 players turned out at Millennium, rescheduled from Morgado after heaving rains.

The competition was the start of a surprise party for Jim Kearney on his 70th birthday, and everybody was keeping away from Jim to avoid letting the cat out of the bag.

We welcomed Ulla Peura, friend of Henning and Gudrun, and she played superbly off 15 to scoop both nearest the pins & the longest drive. Well done Ulla!

The biggest surprise was still to come as neither Jim nor Deirdre knew that Siobhan had arranged for their two daughters to join in the birthday celebrations. When they appeared at the prize giving this proved to be the best prize of all.

Back to the prize giving and it was definitely Jim’s day after his lesson with Hugo Santos, he took first prize with 38 points, holding off Christer & Eve with 37 & 35 respectively.

After the prize giving we all joined Jim, Deirdre and their daughters at the Thai restaurant in Vilamoura, and a great evening was had by all.

Chez Carlos Golf Society Annual Trip, 15th February 2013

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Dear All
Eleven players took part in the Chez Carlos Annual Trip to the 5 star Montecastillo Hotel & Golf Resort at Jerez la Fontera. The outing was a great success at which members enjoyed superb golfing facilities, après golf craic, fine cuisine and fun partying. Such was the fun that members celebrated Siobhan’s birthday twice – on two separate days.
The golf was played on two of the best courses in Spain – Montecastillo, designed by Jack Niclaus, hosted the Volvo Masters five times. It is a fair test of golf for players of all levels of ability, built on the rolling Andalucían terrain but with everything clearly visible to players. Two rounds were played at Montecastillo.
One round was played at the equally impressive and stunning Arcos Gardens course. This course was built by Landmark Golf who are responsible for such world golf masterpieces as Kiawah Island. The fairways are wide and forgiving but still require accuracy as you approach beautiful contoured true and fast greens. There are very good practice facilities at Arcos Gardens including free pyramids of balls.
There were some very impressive on course performances – Daniela played all 3 competition rounds – her first ever 18 hole competitions. Her swing is one worth watching and there is no doubt that she will feature prominently in future Chez Carlos outings. Another dark horse was Annie Densham, who hit the ball consistently well but struggled a little on the contoured greens. We look forward to seeing her more often. But the undoubted star of the trip was another lady – Helena Burke who carried Jim around the first day’s team competition and then won in her own right on the following two days, taking the top prize of 2 nights for 2 people at a 4/5* Resort/Hotel with golf. The consolation prizes were greatly appreciated and included green fees at S. Lourenco, Laranjal, Salgados, Alamos and Quinta do Vale.
Certainly a Chez Carlos Annual Trip not to be missed.

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.