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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.
The Captain's drive in commenced with the new Captain Keith Scott driving off on the first tee, the shot didn't go exactly to plan as it hit a tree on the right hand side of the fairway and thankfully landed in a playable position. The length of the drive was 146 metres, which was guessed by 2 members, who kindly donated their winnings back to the charity.
The golf was played in perfect conditions, as the sun was shining, providing us with the hottest day of the year so far, this was ok for the early starters, however, many of the later players had 5 hour rounds and looked a little hot and bothered when they came into the clubhouse. Simon, Christine assisted by his helpers Jackie & Chris provided refreshments to the players, which was well received by all.
Another National Day and another great event. With members dressed in green we celebrated the Irish day with a clear sky, quite a surprise after the recent weather. There were however a few lakes that are not normally present particularly on the 4th and 16th, and there were examples of members having to go bare foot into them to retrieve their golf balls!
Almost 80 players competed in a "greensomes" format with some very good scores. A partial shotgun start enabled most participants to stay for the presentations and gather in the clubhouse afterwards. The halfway house provided some typical Irish fare accompanied by the odd shot of Irish Whiskey.
We must congratulate Declan Byrne who virtually ran the day single handedly and also presented the prizes.
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Our annual Norwegian Day as usual was a fabulous event, the weather was "changeable' but mostly dry .Typically for this day there was a huge field, 88 members and guests enjoyed the course which despite the appalling recent weather was in excellent condition, the halfway house offered some traditional Norwegian fare and some rather pleasant Aquavit!
Many stayed to congratulate the winners who were lucky enough to receive some super prIzes, not least the first prize of a whole smoked salmon.
Vice Captain Keith Scott thanked our Norwegian members for a wonderful day, also all those helpers who make SdM's National days such a success.
The competition was very close, 4 teams had the lowest score with the final placings going on count back.
Results and Image Gallery:
Yesterday we had our first Interclub League match away at Morgado.
We knew it was going to rain, but not how late and how much… well, most of us got drowned on the last few holes. That is the bad news.
The good news is, we started this season with a great result beating Morgado away with a 4-1 win, which gives us 9 points in our Division result.
Congratualtions to the whole SdM team and thank you to all the players who finished their matches in these circumstances.
Furthermore, the course was in a fantastic condition with extremely fast greens and the company and the after game lunch were great as well.
Next Interclub League match is against Morgado at Silves on Thursday the 10th of April.
The annual Roses vs Thorns this year turned out to be something of a St. Valentin's Day massacre with our ladies overwhelming the gents comprehensively 10.5 to 5.5.
A bright but windy day saw over sixty of our members dressed accordingly, men in blue and ladies in pink. However due to over subscription of men some had to play for the "other side". Congratulations to Ray Bisley who looked resplendant and rightly won a nice bottle of pink bubbly.
We must, as always, congratulate our Competition Secretary Eddie Kassner for another brilliantly organised event.
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