On a beautiful October sunny day, with hardly any wind, the Golf Society played on the East side of the Algarve – Castro Marim Golf Course.
We all took advantage of the excellent offer on the buggies, as the course is quite Hilly/rough/bumpy, so it was just handy.
The Castro Marim course has 27 holes and we played the new 9 holes – the Grouse route – and the old backnine, now called – Atlantic route – wich ends with a good par 5, where the players can be seen from the clubhouse balcony.
Will remain for history the 1st and 2nd places, both with 33 points, Carlos Ferreira and guest Linda Dixon.
Back to the clubhouse, we welcomed our new member Jim Drover, who decided to subscribe the Society membership on that day. Jim is a long time friend of Sinclair Armet and very familiar with all of us at Chez Carlos Golf Society.
Next week we will be playing Vale da Pinta golf course, with a fantastic offer for our members and guests.
Golf in Algarve
Morgado – Weekly Competition
Is Pancho Villa back in town?
Morgado Golf Course, was in excellent condition, and provided another wonderful day of golf.
It was very nice to have the company of friends, like Roy Sallis, Sinclair Armet, Jim Russell, Tom Taylor, Jim Drover, Heather Ward ,Irene Roysalles and Alan Thearle, just to mention a few.
We teed off at 13:30 with a cheerful group of players, and it seemed like that the high scoring of the previous week inspired some players for this week.
Our member Chris Norman, maybe being inspired by his new lady, achieved an outstanding result of 48 stableford points. Knowing Chris, and having played golf with him for over 6 years, we rarely saw him exceeding 36 points, and that was the main reason for not hanging him at the club house. Hopefully on his return from Thailand, he will keep his inspiration, as he will be loosing 4 shots the next time he plays Chez Carlos Golf Society.
Tracey McCall, with 41 points ‘worked hard in the week’ and Carlos Ferreira, playing with is new handicap of 11 , with 38 points holding the 3rd place, were equally inspired.
Tony Sestito won the nearest-the-pin on the 17th hole measuring 145 mt.
Next week we will be playing Alamos at 09:50, again with the same price as Morgado. We would like to remind you all that the reservations made for 1 member + 1 guest are available on www.algarve-golfsociety.com at a special price. Login and Password are essential.
Vale do Lobo Royal – Weekly Competition
Another wonderful afternoon. Our thank you for Vale do Lobo for the excellent deal to Chez Carlos Golf Society.
A warm welcome for the members: Trevor and Heather Ward and Tony and Lorraine Mullen, who were in need of the sun of Algarve.
We also had some visitors joining our members, making a group of 15 players.
Vale do Lobo Royal proved once again that is a very hard course, where any player should be happy with the result of their game.
The best results went to 3 players all with 33 points. The winners were decided in the back-nines. In first place Jeff Syemour, in second place Heather Ward and in third place Garry King. There were some no return score cards.
Nearst to the pin: the front-nine was on hole 7, with 125 m, where Jeff was the winner, who placed the ball 1,5m from the hole and held the putt for a tasty birdie.
The back-nine was on hole 16 – the famous hole over the cliff – and the winner was Silvya King, being maybe the only one player putting the ball on the green
As usually the presentation was in Chez Carlos restaurant.
Next Saturday, on 19th September, we will have the next game on Laguna golf course at 13:06. There are great expectations, as the course has been closed during 7 months for redesigning and maintenance.
