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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.
Today, it was my honour to announce our Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Gross Champions of the Year.
The competition consisted of two very competitive rounds, with the first round played yesterday and the final round today.
The Ladies’ Gross Champion is Ria Raap with a fantastic total score of 179.
The Men’s Gross Champion is Ronnie Wraith with a remarkable total score of 163.
I’m sure all members will join me in congratulating both Ronnie and Ria on their tremendous performances and on winning their respective competitions. They can truly say that they are our Champion Golfers of the Year.
On behalf of everyone who took part, and indeed all our members, I would also like to extend our sincere thanks to Joost Rombouts. As most of you will appreciate, there is an enormous amount of work involved in preparing and managing a competition of this nature.
Joost even chose not to play today so that he could be at the clubhouse to check the scorecards and ensure that we were able to announce our winners. It was particularly great to see so many members on the terrace to congratulate our two very worthy champions.
What a wonderful day at the golf club !
Wonderful to see so many members making some attempt to wear team colours.
Wonderful to hear that so many members (everyone?) enjoyed themselves.
Wonderful to hear that there were so many tight matches, in all 3 formats.
Wonderful that the match overall was so close .... well no .... actually .... it wasn't.
Historians of this competition will know that it often promises a close match early on, and then one side runs away with it. After the first 7 results came in Europe had a small lead having scored 14.5 points to USA's 13.5. Out of the next 10 matches, USA won 8 matches, Europe none, and with 2 matches halved !!!
I am not sure , but I think 42 to 26 may be the heaviest defeat ever.
But you know what was the most wonderful thing of all ??
This years past captain's trophy was a competitive affair with 11 past captains taking to the fairways.
Mags Taylor was the organiser, and a very good job she made of it. A fabulous day was followed by a wonderful lunch a Mama Mia's in Monte Carvoeiro.
The eventual winner was Steve Edwards, second Dave Darling and third Peter Chapman.
On Saturday, 76 of you took part in the Captain’s Day competition. The full results have, of course, been issued, and I’m sure all members will join me in congratulating the top seven. There were just three points separating first place from seventh place, which made for a very exciting competition.
The trophy was awarded to Ian and Anne Wakenshaw, with an excellent score of 46 points. Congratulations to them!
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.