This year, considering we have had COVID, lockdown, travel restrictions and generally life has been "different" the generosity of others never ceases to amaze me.

Thanks to you, a massive 956 euros was raised on this years Pink Ladies Day. The dinner dance in March raised 406 euros. In total, so far this year the huge figure of 1,362 euros has been raised.

Half of the money raised will be sent to the AOA and the other half will be for "Algarve families in need" a local charity that SDM has been supporting through the current crisis.

On Saturday 19 September in near perfect weather conditions on a well prepared Silves Golf Course, Serra de Monchique Golf Club took to the fairways in a Pairs better ball format contesting the Captains Day substantial array of prizes.

The following evening at Brasserie Rosal restaurant respecting social distancing restrictions, Captain Des Briggs and wife Barbara presented the Captains Jug Trophy to the overall winners Stephen Day and Malcolm Marshal. This was followed by an excellent 3 course meal together with superb entertainment by the ABBA tribute girls Mandy and Elsa.

Results:

On Saturday 19 September in near perfect weather conditions on a well prepared Silves Golf Course, Serra de Monchique Golf Club took to the fairways in a Pairs better ball format contesting the Captains Day substantial array of prizes.

The following evening at Brasserie Rosal restaurant respecting social distancing restrictions, Captain Des Briggs and wife Barbara presented the Captains Jug Trophy to the overall winners Stephen Day and Malcolm Marshal. This was followed by an excellent 3 course meal together with superb entertainment by the ABBA tribute girls Mandy and Elsa.

Results:

Saturday the 24th Oct saw the 2020 running of the Serra de Monchique Golf Club President’s Day competition. The Seattle Shambles event saw 76 players (19 teams) competing to get their names on the honours board. After a chilly start the sun shone and the combination of little wind along with a well prepared course the conditions were just about perfect for golf. When the cards were returned it proved to be a competitive affair at the top of the leader board with the top seven teams being separated by only 3 points!
The prize winners were as follows:
Winners – Clive Davison, Bernard O’Reilly, Kieran O’Brien & Hilke Glienke (98pts)
Runners Up – Bob McMahon, Bob Cutt, Les Smith & Hans van der Laar (97pts, 52 back 9)
Third – Mel Huxtable, Richard Emrich, Ronnie Wraith, Jimmy Cruz (97pts, 49 back 9)
Nearest the pins:

In an absolute classic matchplay game SdM overcame a very good, and favourites, team from Alto to retain their Interclub Knockout Trophy the so fabulously won last year.

Playing at the wonderful Palmares course no team had home advantage but SdM's recent record here is very good so there were some confident faces on the range before the start. Des Briggs and Chris Zisimides led the way against Alto's strongest pairing and lost narrowly. Second  pair out were Steve Edwards and Les Smith who had a very tough match with the lead see-sawing both ways until late in the back 9 when Steve won 14 and 15 and Les hit a sublime chip at the par 3 16th to halve. Another half by Steve on 17 was enough to take the game.

Third group were Per Lars Tonstad and Mick Girling who had a tough match and lost with a few holes to go. On the other side of that result were out last group Jimmy Cruz and Steve Barratt who romped to a magnificent 6&5 result. This leaves just one group between those two-our trump card- the Girls Duo of Marja Chapman and Julie Barratt.

The fifth annual Silves Charity Golf Day jointly hosted by SICG and SdM was held on Friday 5th July 2019. As a result of the generosity of sponsors, members and their guests, in excess of 5,000 euros was raised for the Captain’s Charities; Algarvean Oncology Association (Cancer diagnosis and support) and Santa Casa da Misericordia de Albufeira Charity (children’s homes).