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Serra de Monchique Golf Club is the club associated with Silves Golf Course. The club aims to provide competitions, control handicaps and to provide a social life for its members guided by the values statements authorised by the membership. Its rules are set up to provide a structure around which the club can be run.
Serra de Monchique Golf Club was formed in 2005, at Morgado de Reguengo when the regular players were invited to form a club. There were 30 founder members and the first General Meeting of the membership was held on 8th November 2005. At the end of 2006 the club moved to Silves Course, which had just opened. Mark Ellerton was appointed Captain for 2007. Pestana's very favourable terms of green fee arrangements led to an substantial increase in membership in 2008. Many Northern European countries are represented, including a number of Portuguese members.
The club plays competitions on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Tuesdays are for singles competitions either as Monthly medal or Stableford Qualifier. On Thursdays some members play at Silves in a format of their own choice, but many members elect to play on the other courses within the Pestana group. On Saturdays there is a wide variety of game formats, normally as team competitions as pairs or teams of four players. There are occasional qualifying competitions on Saturdays to suit our members who are in full time employment. Our eventlist will show these.
Friday was the Finals day of this year for the Interleague at Amendoeira, preceded by a Better Ball Stableford competition, with 3 pairs representing each club. All 22 clubs were present.
It was a wonderful day, the course was in a good condition and it was well organized.
More than 150 people enjoyed a delicious buffet, followed by the presentations and handing out the prizes to all the winners from each League and of course the Better Ball competition of the day.
Winners of the day were Boavista with a magnificent score of 124 points, closely followed by Pinheiros Alto with 122 and in 3rd place Alto with 119 points.
Congratulations to SdM member Ria Raap for her nearest the pin prize!
The Division Winners were:
Vale do Lobo - Division 1
Espiche -Division 2
Carvoeiro -Division 3
Many congratulations to past Captain Les Smith on his first ever hole in one after 39 years of trying!
Les hit a 7 iron on the 136 metre par 3 15th hole at Silves. The ball pitched just short of the pin and went straight in!
Les's ace was the third in recent weeks for SdM members after Bernard O'Reilly and Des Briggs both had similar successes.
Less than a month ago our game against Silves International was unfortunately cancelled, and that left us with a gap in our calendar.
Bravely our intrepid competition secretary, Eddie Kassner, stepped into the breach and organised a replacement competition - “not (quite) the Presidents cup”. Please don’t underestimate the logistics of organising this type of competition and many thanks to Eddie for saving the day.
Rain intervened but failed to disrupt a very successful event with “Not (quite) the Rest of the World” team (19 1/2) narrowly losing to a “Not (quite) the USA” team (22 1/2).
Our very own Poor Man’s Band entertained us (indoors due to the weather) for over an hour, and the celebrations lasted well into the afternoon.
Congratulations to Mel Huxtable who won the 11th annual Past Captain's Trophy, his first victory in this prestigious event.
15 past Captains were welcomed by present Captain Dave Darling who immediately demanded money, allegedly for prizes!
So under grey skies, and after the obligatory photo, three four balls set off into the gloom, remarkably the weather stayed dry and in decent conditions some truly poor scores were recorded, with the notable exceptions of Les Smith 34 pts and Mel with 37.
Today we had a visit from Carvoeiro Golf & Country Club ladies, vying to retain hold of the converted trophy for the winning team.
It was lovely to hear the buzz of activity in the clubhouse first thing this morning as we all prepared to do battle on the course.
The conditions for the match were great. Not too hot, not too windy, although several holes had you thinking did you have enough club?
This time, the SDM Ladies came out on top, winning 4 out of the 6 matches, two by considerable margins. The matches were fair and shots given reasonable and the games were played in our usual friendly spirit. Lunch was shared afterwards in the clubhouse.
Many congratulations to both our men's and ladies club champions, both of who defended titles they won last year. 
Men's winner was Ronnie Wraith with rounds of 78 and 79.
Ladies winner was Ria Raap with scores of 88 and 87.