Monte Rei Golf & Country Club celebrates 10th anniversary

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Monte Rei Golf & Country Club

To celebrate its tenth anniversary, the Monte Rei golf resort, located in the Eastern Algarve, has organized a special event calendar featuring themed dinners and golf tournaments from 22 July to 12 August. The date marks also the beginning of a new phase of growth of the golf resort. In the year it celebrates a decade, Monte Rei Golf & Country Club has growth projects, such as the construction of 40 new apartments next to the Clubhouse, already started, and for next year is scheduled to begin construction of the second Jack Nicklaus golf course – Monte Rei south – and the start of the projected hotel and beach club.One of the Monte Rei golf resort’s birthday events, which has already proved successful the previous year, is the “Guest Chef” dinners at Vistas, the resort’s main restaurant, with host chef Albano Lourenço inviting three Chefs with Michelin Star to join him in the kitchen: Vitor Matos (Antiqvvm, Porto) on July 22, Jordi Esteve (Nectari, Barcelona) on the 29th and Henrique Sá Pessoa (Alma and Tapisco, Lisbon) on 11th and 12th August. For its part, the Varanda restaurant will host theme dinners: Algarvian Nights on July 30th and August 6th and Indian Nights on August 3rd and 10th.On August 1st and 10th, two different golf tournaments take place: the first with individual stableford format and the second with scramble texas. With regard to the celebrations, Salvador Lucena, general director of Monte Rei Golf & Country Club, comments: “This year Monte Rei celebrates a decade of success, recognition and new projects, so we would like to share this moment with all those who Contributed to our development. To mark this special date, we have prepared a calendar of events that highlights our valences at golf and gastronomy and that will take place over three weeks.”

Enjoy Monte Rei golf resort experience with this Add Values:
– Free Shared Buggy
– Free Driving Range – 1 hour before play
– No pairing up of players
– Monte Rei bag tag
12 minutes interval Tee Times and some special offers, including Twilight green fee , Golf and Tapas , or Golf and Degustation dinner.

Golf in Portugal and Portuguese Golfers, at European level

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Vitor Lopes

Vitor Lopes

Vilamoura golf club, Miramar, and Oporto golf club, at 30th European Amateur Championship.

Vilamoura golf club player, Vitor Lopes, hcp +2

Miramar Golf Club player, Peter Lencart, hcp +1.8

Oporto golf club player, João Girão, hcp +1.6

A year after he won The Junior Open Championship, the most accredited European amateur tournament for under-16, Pedro Lencart played for the first time the prestigious Individual men’s European Amateur and showed that, at 17 years, is ready to compete with the best.

Among 144 players of the European elite, national amateur champion, not only passed the cut at the end of the third day – something only achieved by 64 players – as still took the luxury of complete the race in the top-40, after having included the top-20 at the end of the second of four rounds of competition.

Pedro Lencart was 39th (tied), 283 shots, 5 under Par after rounds of 71, 68, 73 and 71. In the difficult golf course of the Walton Heath Golf Club in England, which has played host to a Ryder Cup and for 12 consecutive years welcomes European qualifications of the US Open, the Portugal national team player stamped three rounds under Par in four possible.

«It was a positive week for me and I felt good on the golf Course. The first two days were very important for me because I was able to get in a good position inside the cut. It is always important to pass the cut, however, I feel that I could do better ‘, said the Press Office of the FPG, after a last round, where he scored 1 eagle, 2 birdies and 3 bogeys.

«The golf course is considered one of the best in England, has tight fairways and tough roughs, making the tee shots fundamental to make a good result», he added.

The other two Portuguese who went to England, Vítor Lopes, from Vilamoura golf club and João Girão from Oporto golf club, played for the third consecutive season the European Amateur Championship, but hasn’t been this time yet which they passed the cut, but Vitor Lopes had a third round of high level, scoring (-5) 67 shots.

Their results were as follows:

Vítor Lopes: 217 (74 + 76 + 67), +1;

John Girão: 223 (77 + 75 + 71), +7.

Nelson Ribeiro, national selector who accompanied the players to the European Championship made a brief analysis to the national provision:

«Victor Lopes, in 54 holes played, made 3 putts on 13 greens, and 4 putted 1 green. John Girão, in 54 holes he played, only made 19 fairways in regulation at 45 possible. Pedro Lencart, despite being the only one to pass the cut in 72 holes he played, made 3 putts in 5 greens. In such a competitve enviroment as the European Championship, does consecutive errors have a high price when you want to have a good rank. Players were able to identify a pattern of error in their game, what defines a way to guide the practice of assertively».

The 30th edition of the European Amateur Championship was won by Englishman Alfie Plant (72 + 68 + 66+67), who tied with the Italians Lorenzo Scalise (64 + 65 + 69 + 75) and Luca Cianchetti (70 + 67 + 67 + 69), last year’s champion, with 273 shots, 15 under Par. In the play-off, Cianchetti was eliminated on the first hole and the second Plant, the 64th-ranked amateur in the world rankings, made 1 birdie to beat Scalise and crowned European amateur champion.

Fun Facts about Golf You Probably Didn’t Know!

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Fun Facts about Golf You Probably Didn’t Know

The history of Golf dates back centuries, making it one of the oldest sports that are still played today. This alone is a major reason why the game is liked, followed and played by millions of enthusiasts across the globe.

If you are reading this blog, chances are you are already into golf, for your own reasons as to why you like the sport. You must also have a sound knowledge about the rules and tactics of the game.

Let’s take a look at some lesser known facts about golf that you might not have known before.

Golf is one of the two sports played on the moon

This might come as astonishing to you, but the astronaut Alan Shepherd did in fact take a golf ball on the Apollo 14 expedition to the moon. Not only did he take the ball and a rod, he also played a one-handed, full-hit using a six-iron rod, making golf the only sport, besides javelin, that was played on the moon.

The low-gravity pull of the moon’s atmosphere made the ball go flying through. The ball wasn’t found, nor did the astronaut have any intentions of bringing it back. It is probably still lying somewhere on the surface of the moon, exactly where it landed all those years ago.

China has imposed an official ban over setting up new golf courses

Did you know that the Chinese government has officially forbidden the construction of new golf courses in the country? Although the ban was imposed several years ago, this has not prevented constructors and community developers from making more courses.

What they do is that they simply proceed to construct the course without calling it a purpose-built course. This tactic has really worked in getting around the ridiculous ban.

The golf balls were once made of feathers and wood.

Originally, golf balls were made not out of plastic and rubber, but hardwood and even feathers. This might sound as ridiculous; however, the hardwood balls made out of box and beech trees were widely popular and ruled over for around 300 years, from 14th century till 17th century.

The balls made out of feather were an alternative choice and were called as ‘feathery’. These golf balls were relatively expensive, due to the cost of raw material, labour and the manual manufacturing process involved. The ball comprised of a spherical leather pouch that was filled with bird feathers.

Golf had been banned in the past – not by China, though!

The Scottish Parliament, during the reign of James II, imposed a ban on Golf as well as football, in 1457. The ban had been imposed for Sundays, since, according to the parliament, it was a distraction for the mandatory military drills, to prepare the army men for war against the English.

The ban was carried forward by the successive parliament of James III in 1470, and by James IV, in 1970. The ban was finally lifted in 1502 after the Treaty of Perpetual Peace was signed between the two countries.

Good for you that golf has never been banned in Portugal and Spain. No wonder they are the top favourite golfing destinations of golfers from across the globe.