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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.
What a fantastic day we had! 120 ladies dressed in all shades of pink playing golf at Silves.
The team of Sdm guys did a superb job of looking after the registrations, cards and selling Mulligans. Not to mention setting up the course with pink tee markers and flags. They happily served us with fizz, water and nibbles. Certainly a special day to remember.
The event has raised in excess of €9,500 for the Algarvean Oncology Association, fantastic! This will help fund the mobile breast screening unit and much more hopefully helping to save lives. The AOA are always funding new initiatives to support a range of cancer treatments and support cancer patients.
On behalf of the AOA and the Sdm Pink Ladies we would like to express our appreciation to everyone, and there are too many to name, who have;
played in the event, donated a prize, food or drink, given their time to prepare the event in some way and of course the 120 lovely ladies who played.
Thank you for giving me a wonderful President's Day, although it was a little bit windy to start with the day was bright and sunny.
I would like to thank Jackie and Pauline for a super half way house with an excellent snack and drink provided for all.
Again thanks to Les for tent duties in a force 10 gale.!!! and Danny for his photographic skills.
Also thanks to the staff and family at Victoria's which did a super job of looking after 70+ people on the day and finally thanks to the BUZZ for all the music on the day.
Eddie thank you for doing a great job of organising the competition and getting the results sorted so soon so that we could present the trophy yesterday and congratulations to the winners (Karen, Ken, Andy and Peter).
I was so pleased that every winner was able to be there to celebrate on the day.
Thank you all once again and I am looking forward to next year.
As you will see below the scores were incredibly close with all three podium places being decided on countback!
Results
This year's club tour saw a return to the fabulous Cabanas Beach and Nature Resort. A wonderful complex set on the Atlantic coast. The itinerary included two rounds on the picturesque Quinta da Ria course and one on the equally fabulous Quinta de Cima course. There was also a free day with members having the opportunity to explore local sites or simply chill out round the pool.
Each evening began with drinks before dinner, which was in our own dining room. One evening included a lucky dip bran tub event, a traditional occurrence with SdM tours.
Day one saw a pairs betterball stableford, day two a team event: Foxes vs Squirrels and day four was the Cabanas Trophy, an individual stableford.
The event ran flawlessly, due entirely to the brilliant organisation of John and Julia Hall. They both put in hours of hard work and their efforts were appreciated and admired by all.
All the results:
Many congratulations to SdM member Steve Day on his first hole in one on the 13th hole at Silves. Steve used a 6 iron for the successful shot. He also brought all those other members playing on the day a celebratory drink.This may be an appropriate time to remind members SdM has a Hole in One Club that for a small fee will insure the cost of the drinks bar bill. Details of this can be found in the members section of the website. There is also a list of all those that have joined the scheme.
This year saw SdM celebrate 3 international days in the same week! First up was St George's Day.
under a mostly sunny sky the members were resplendent in their red and white.
Eventual winners were Keith and Alison Scott partnered with Richard and Wendy Emrich.
Runners Up were Hans and Marit Linnet with Simon Agnes and Malcolm Marshall
Third place went to Tommy and Karin Sundin and Des and Barbara Briggs
The second of our three international days is Freedom Day on April 25th it celebrates the 1974 Revolution in Portugal that ended the dictatorship and started a democracy. It also commemorates the first free elections that took place a year later on April 25th 1975.
A massive field of 84 players took part in a team competition with Vinho Branco the eventual winners
Players all gathered in the clubhouse afterwards for a choice of typical Portuguese fare: Chicken Piri Piri of Bifan, followed by music, dancing and presentations.
a fabulous day.