The first meeting of the VACS Trophy took place at Vila Sol on Monday 3rd December. It was a glorious Sunny Day and the event was extremely successful. Everyone enjoyed meeting players from the Pestana Courses and made new friends. Many thanks to all the SDM Ladies who played. It was unfortunate that due to illness Alto had only 7 ladies and S.D.M. had 9 ladies but thanks to Vila Sol and Carvoeiro Club who had a few reserves we were able to make up the numbers.

The Individual Event was won with a fantastic 49 points from a young Vila Sol player who was so excited she celebrated her win with a bottle of champagne!!! Our Hero of the day was Sandy Rumfitt who scored 37 points and came 3rd, unfortunately the rest of the SDM were not at their best and we ended up fourth in the team event with 147 points. In third place was Alto with 151, second was Vila Sol with 167 but in top spot is Carvoeiro Club with 175 pts. The next meeting will be on Thursday 10th January at Silves first tee time 10.03. A few ladies have registered already for this event but any member wishing to play is very welcome and please let Lynn Cook know if you wish to be included. Lynn has presented a Silver Cup to be played for and this will be presented to the Winning Club at the end of the four competitions. The third meeting will take place at Gramacho on the 22nd January and the fourth meeting at Alto Club will be some time in April. Many thanks to Rui Gago and Pestana for allowing members of Alto and Silves only to receive courtesy at the other Pestana courses for this event.