Hugo Santos Leads Quinta do Peru PGA Open

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Hugo Santos leads Quinta do Peru PGA Open, the first tournement of the series PGA Portugal Tour 2013 that the professional portuguese golf association is organising until tomorrow at Quinta do Peru & Country Club in Azeitão.

The professional national champion (aged 32), finished the first round with 69 stokes, 3 under the par, having an advantage of 2 over António Rosado (2009 national champion) and 3 over Tomas Silva, ex amateur national champion, and Marcus Lester, EuroPro Tour player.

«It was a good round, the result was positive and I played well specially given the wind» said Hugo Santos, who was second place last year, behind Gonçalo Pinto, national absolute bichampion (amateur), who will struggle tomorrow to keep the title once he’s 12th place (tied) with 77 (+5).

The oldest of the Santos brothers finished the first 9 holes with a Par, with two birdies (holes 5 and 7) and a couple bogeys (6 and 8), and finished the back nine with 3 under the par, thanks to an eagle on hole 12 (Par-4), followed by a birdie on hole 13, with a bogey on hole 17.

Hugo Santos Tee Times Golf Order of Merit for the past 2 years, also won the Iberian swing of Jamega Pro Golf Tour last week.

Quinta do Peru PGA Open has 30 people enrolled and prizes of 5 000euros. Tomorrow they will play the second and last round, with the first group to begin at 08:00 and the last at 09:31.

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.

Salgados Golf Course, 2nd March 2013

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On a very wind day 17 players joined the Chez Carlos competition at Salgados.
We welcomed Neil Woolfrey, playing off 2 and decided that the longest drive would be on the stoke 1, to give the others a chance. However, Neil hit a perfect drive to the 200M mark in the middle of the fairway & claimed the prize.
The ladies excelled throughout the day with Mary Strutt and Jane Nicolls leading the field home, and everybody seemed to have enjoyed the back 9 as the leading scores were in the early 20’s.
We also welcomed Daniella Ferreira who played her first competition with Chez Carlos.

Well done to all.