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Oceanico Milllennium, 24th November 2012

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Chez Carlos Golf Society played Oceanico Millennium on Saturday, it was a winter’s day but a pleasant one nonetheless. The group was all in good spirits with a good turn-out: 20 members with quite an even number of ladies and gents. The course was in reasonable conditions except for holes 2, 6 and 7 where the greens were perhaps not in the best shape. Once again, Millennium proved to be a favourable course for the ladies as they conquered all 3 places in the podium. Deirdre Kearney celebrated a victory just before she and her husband Jim got back to Ireland the following day, so a real great way to end their break in the Algarve – we hope they had a nice journey back home and hope to see them again soon!

Afterwards, the group headed to Chez Carlos Restaurant for a warm up and some well-earned food & beverage(s).

1st – Deirdre Kearney
2nd – Gudren Henning-Loehr
3rd – Lanaia Donkin
Nearest-to-the-pin (6th hole): Peter Densham
Nearest-to-the-pin (15th hole): David Nicholls

Oceanico Laguna, 17th November 2012

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Chez Carlos Golf Society played Oceânico Laguna on Saturday, a day that threatened rain but we actually only had a small shower on the first hole, maybe because we were the lucky 13 ? 7 ladies and 6 gents.

Despite the time of year, the course was in good shape although we still had to play under the “winter rules” due to some patches on the fairways. Once again it was proven that the back nine is far more difficult than the front nine. Whilst you breeze through the front nine, as soon as you get to hole 10, a par 5, you get a glimpse of what’s ahead of you. Both par 5’s of the back nine – 10 and 15 – are quite challenging and, looking at the stroke index on the card we could say they are underrated. In between these two par 5’s sits the course’s stroke 1, hole 13, the longest par 4 with 405m.

As someone once said about Laguna, the contrasting front and back nine is what separates the boys from the men and this week was no diferent , with results proven it . Afterwards we headed to Parkys Bar at Parque das Amendoeiras for a well-deserved drink.

1st – Lanaia Donkin: 34 points
2nd – Carlos Ferreira: 28 points
Nearest-to-the-pin: Evelyn Koch

Onyria Palmares, 10th November 2012

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Last week’s event at Pinhal was cancelled due to bad weather which continued resulting in one of the heaviest downpour ever seen in the Algarve on Tuesday 6th. Our day at Palmares was a dry one except for a couple of holes at the beginning of the day.

This was another 27 hole event taking in all the three loops of the fabulous Onyria Palmares golf course near Lagos. It was an early start today as our first tee was at 09.00 as it was the intention to play right through in a better ball pairs stableford format. At the end of each nine we switched playing opponents to add some variety. The best two nines were added together for a combined score. A new style format enjoyed by all. The course was in great shape with some of the fastest greens we have played on for a longtime.

Many remember with fondest memories the old Palmares with its Almond Blossom trees but Robert Trent Jones II new version is magnificent and a worthy predecessor. If you have not played it yet do make the effort.

1st: Jim Kearney & Deidre Kearney: 41pts

2nd: Clive Davies & Simon D Turner: 39pts

Nearest The Pin:

Praia 21st: Gudren Loehr

Praia 26th: Robin Prescott