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.

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.

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

President's Day Winners; Ian & Anne Wakenshaw, Daniele Gambetta & Elena Funetta

Captain's Day Winners; Andy Richardson & Mick Girling

KO Mixed Pairs: Steve & Julie Barratt

KO Men's Pairs: Des Briggs & Daniele Gambetta

KO Ladies Pairs: Merja Ronkko & Sandy Rumfitt

KO Ladies Singles: Ria Raap

KO Men's Singles: Dirk Oelmann

Ladies Foundation Cup Winner: Barbara Briggs

Men's Foundation Cup Winner: Per Lars Tonstad

Ladies Summer Cup Winner: Elaine Milor

Men's Summer Cup Winner: Paramjeet Bedi

Ladies OoM Winner: Sandy Rumfitt

Men's OoM Winner: Bob Cutt

Ladies Spring Cup Winner: Jan Bell

Men's Spring Cup Winner: Stuart McGill

Firstly, thank you to so many of you for entering today’s competition and for making the day so enjoyable and memorable. It was lovely to see so many happy smiling faces, I am sure from the kind feedback that you all enjoyed the drinks and nibbles at Patricia´s cart. Judging by all the photos I have seen a good time was had by all! Didn´t Patricia & her mum do a great job for us all!

On behalf of all the club members, I’m sure you would like to join me once again thanking captain Keith , supported by Alison for doing such a fantastic job throughout his tenure, he has been an outstanding contributor to the club ,for many years, and I’m sure that they will both continue to help the club going forward.

Well done to Marijke & Andy the nearest pin winners today, the results from the competition will be sent out by Eddie in the normal way. Once again a big thank you to Eddie for all his hard work.

Finally today we had a break in the weather, and it was lovely to see everyone with smiles on their faces on the course!

We navigated our way around the soggy course, trying to avoid the mud to the best of our ability - kudos to those who choose to wear white trousers or shorts/skorts - glad I'm not doing your washing!

It was a hard fought game, and went right down to the wire......and the winners were the Thorns 6 1/2 to 5 1/2 - well done Thorns.

Special thanks go to those brave men who played as Roses today - thank you. And another special thanks to Jan Daapan and Debbie Newton for their help in running the competition and sorting the results and sourcing the prizes.

So, after fostering Max for about 6 weeks, we have eventually found a forever home for him with a lovely couple who are going to adopt him and, in their words, love him to bits.

Photos  of Max with new owners John and Heather Beaumont. A happy ending, at least for this lucky dog.