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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.
Huge congratulations to our vice captain Denise Hennin with Her first hole in one.
According to reports she made it on the tough uphill par 3 11th hole at Silves.
Well done Denise.
The President’s Event was held at the popular Casa do Avo in Guia late on Sunday afternoon, 14th
June, following the successful but windy competition the day before.
Everyone was greeted with a wide selection of welcome drinks and canapés on the outside
terrace.
Before the meal the presentations were made, including a gift to Richard Emrich for his service to
the club as President for the last 3 years as well as the prizes for the President’s Cup competition.
The evening then began in earnest with an outstanding array of starters from the buffet, followed
by a barbecue with an excellent range of meats, fish and salads all washed down with plenty of
wine.
For those of us that were able to enjoy today’s St George’s Day competition, once again on behalf of members, I would like to send our thanks to all of the organising team who did such a brilliant job, and to those members who kindly donated prizes, we send our thanks.
Congratulations to the winning teams, there were some tremendous scores.
We are, of course keeping our competition team, led by Eddie , busy having just completed this event, he will be shortly sending out the start sheet for Saturdays Portuguese day.
Today, we played our first interleague match against Vilamoura, they came with a very strong team and out of 10 players eight with a single figure handicaps with only two above , both of whom were off 10!.
We also learnt that most of them played Silves yesterday to get them self prepared, I think they were expecting a big win.
The SDM team performed brilliantly. With the result we won 3 -1/2 to 1- 1/2.
Dave Tweed known as Tweedy who has been the Thursday boys organiser for very many years celebrated his 80th birthday on Monday 6th of April.
To mark the occasion the Thursday boys clubed together, and we bought him a golf shirt with the SDM logo together with a celebration cake to mark the occasion.
Around 40 of the Thursday boys were present to witness the celebration and there was a huge round of applause , everybody holds Dave in such high regard and appreciates all he does for us.
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