After the Captain's drive in and the lunch that followed was a wonderful opportunity for us all to congratulate the various winners of the club competitions throughout the year.

The prizes were presented by out going Captain Keith Scott to the following recipients:

Ladies Club Championship Winner: Denise Hennin

Men:s Club Championship Winner: Wayne Sinfield

Firstly, thank you to so many of you for entering today’s competition and for making the day so enjoyable and memorable. It was lovely to see so many happy smiling faces, I am sure from the kind feedback that you all enjoyed the drinks and nibbles at Patricia´s cart. Judging by all the photos I have seen a good time was had by all! Didn´t Patricia & her mum do a great job for us all!

On behalf of all the club members, I’m sure you would like to join me once again thanking captain Keith , supported by Alison for doing such a fantastic job throughout his tenure, he has been an outstanding contributor to the club ,for many years, and I’m sure that they will both continue to help the club going forward.

Well done to Marijke & Andy the nearest pin winners today, the results from the competition will be sent out by Eddie in the normal way. Once again a big thank you to Eddie for all his hard work.

Finally today we had a break in the weather, and it was lovely to see everyone with smiles on their faces on the course!

We navigated our way around the soggy course, trying to avoid the mud to the best of our ability - kudos to those who choose to wear white trousers or shorts/skorts - glad I'm not doing your washing!

It was a hard fought game, and went right down to the wire......and the winners were the Thorns 6 1/2 to 5 1/2 - well done Thorns.

Special thanks go to those brave men who played as Roses today - thank you. And another special thanks to Jan Daapan and Debbie Newton for their help in running the competition and sorting the results and sourcing the prizes.

So, after fostering Max for about 6 weeks, we have eventually found a forever home for him with a lovely couple who are going to adopt him and, in their words, love him to bits.

Photos  of Max with new owners John and Heather Beaumont. A happy ending, at least for this lucky dog.

Many congratulations to SdM member Stale Schmidt on his first hole in one recently on the 13th at Silves. A smooth 7 iron and a perfect result!

SdM Captain welcomed a fine gathering of Past Captains competed in our annual competition, this year 12 were present and on a beautiful Algarve day they all enjoyed a tight game with some extremely average scores. There was however one particularly good score, last year's incubent Dave Darling at least managed to play to his handicap and returned with 36 points. 
Les Smith organised both the competition and the evening meal, he did so with some aplomb, especially the dinner which was held at A Casa do Avô in Guia. A fabulous buffet to start was followed by delicious main courses and desserts.