Saturday 13 June, President’s Day 2026, dawned bright, sunny and windy - oh so very windy. The majority playing said it was the windiest and perhaps toughest conditions they had ever played in. It certainly made for a long and hard day.
However all 64 players turned up to play and were given a gift of a sharpie ball marker pen on the first tee. Rolls to order, sausage rolls, snacks, coffees and cold drinks were provided by Patricia at her hut behind the 10th green. As always this was very much appreciated by the players.
A partial shotgun start enabled a number of competitors to stay behind on the clubhouse terrace for the presentation of the Nearest the Pin prizes. These were won by:-
Today we’ve had another memorable event to celebrate Portugal Freedom Day.
Firstly, I want to send my thanks to you as members, thank you for supporting us and for making days like today, so special, and as Eddie, quite rightly, said, another fantastic atmosphere on the terrace.
Thanks also to Gary, John and Euan, and of course their other two fellow band members for entertaining us so brilliantly, isn’t it great that we have three such talented members of our club.
Thanks to our Portuguese friends for helping to organise today, and to those members who have generously contributed prizes.
For those of us that were able to enjoy today’s St George’s Day competition, once again on behalf of members, I would like to send our thanks to all of the organising team who did such a brilliant job, and to those members who kindly donated prizes, we send our thanks.
Congratulations to the winning teams, there were some tremendous scores.
We are, of course keeping our competition team, led by Eddie , busy having just completed this event, he will be shortly sending out the start sheet for Saturdays Portuguese day.
Today, we played our first interleague match against Vilamoura, they came with a very strong team and out of 10 players eight with a single figure handicaps with only two above , both of whom were off 10!.
We also learnt that most of them played Silves yesterday to get them self prepared, I think they were expecting a big win.
The SDM team performed brilliantly. With the result we won 3 -1/2 to 1- 1/2.
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