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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.
To help me celebrate my 60th Birthday, 36 wonderful ladies joined together in an Individual Stableford Competition. Not only ladies from SDM, but guests from Amendoeira, Vale de Milho and Carvoeiro Golf & Country Club.
The weather was perfect with sunshine and very little wind. The course in perfect condition with guests marvelling at the state of our greens and perfect fairways.
Patricia from our halfway house, alongside our wonderful helpers Christine Caudle and Jackie Smith, ran a fantastic halfway house, with kiwi style food supplied by Denise, Fresh orange juice from oranges sourced from Mags & David Taylor’s orchard, Almond cake provided by Patricia’s Mother, and rocket fuelled Sangria’s created by Patricia. There was fun, laughter and good spirits all around.
We had wonderful donations from Debbie Newton, Wendy Emrich, Ria Raap, Wendy Burns, Jill Edwards, Anne Webber, Anne Wakenshaw, Elaine Wraith and Beatrice Brack for Nearest the Pins, Nearest the Line and the Longest Drive. The prizes were equally shared amongst the field.
The golf scores were very evenly matched across the field, but the first three prizes were:
1st Place with 43 points – Beatrice Brack
2nd Place with 38 points – Bernie Kilbride
3rd Place with 36 points (on a countback) – Judith Greenwood
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.
A Memorable Competition and Celebration!
Better ball Pairs Battle for the Captain’s Jug
The much-anticipated Captain’s Weekend teed off in fine spirits on Saturday, bringing together club members for a thrilling better ball pairs competition. The event saw a fantastic turnout and a wonderful display of camaraderie and competitive golf, all in pursuit of the coveted Captain’s Jug.
Winners and Standouts
Congratulations are in order for Andy Richardson and Mick Girling, who emerged as the champions, claiming first place and taking home the Captain’s Jug. A close second were John Corrigan and Vitor Cortes, who gave a sterling performance to secure the runner-up spot. Third place was well-earned by the formidable duo of Ruth and Don Simpson.
Special Thanks:
The Ladies from the hills played again at Silves, the 8th Pink Ladies Day!
And they did not disappoint! Pink was the order of the day from the top to the bottom, Pink Flags, Pink Tee box markers, Pink score cards, not to mention 120 Ladies all dressed in Pink even down to shoes, with pink fizz, sandwich wraps, Indian nibbles, and meat patties, served with a smile by our fabulous SDM dream boys, the day went down in a blaze of Pink.
After the game, all the Ladies had drinks and cakes, which preceded the auction, prize draw and finally the prize giving.
The winning pair with a score of 50 points were Trish Bruce & Kerry Charles
Several Ladies won Nearest the Pins and prizes went down to 7th place.
Today the players of our SDM Interclub League team had to get up around 6 am, to play an away match at Quinta de Lago Laranjal. Originally an orange grove, this beautiful par 72 championship course has some spectacular fairways and very "interesting" greens.
Our first tee-time was 8:40 and the last game to come in was after a 5-hour round at around 2 pm. The first game we lost, the next 2 we won, then we halved one and the last we won as well. Resulting in a 3,5 to 1,5 win in an away match. And this gives us an extra bonus point in the Interclub League Standings. As a result of this win, we are now leading Division 3 with 29 points after 4 matches. As you can see here
Thanks to all of you who attended one or both of the events last Saturday.
The morning started at 8AM with 76 participants teeing off in the Captain’s cup
Congratulations to all the winners, especially to Bob Cutt and Les Smith who lifted the Captain’s trophy with a brilliant score of 50 points.