Monday 9th November saw the first round on the 2015/16 Fermon Trophy. It was held at Alto and included the inaugural participation of Silves International GC. The course was extremely challenging following the recent rains with the fairways being very wet and the rough very deep. This was reflected in the scoring which was some of the lowest ever seen in the competition.
SdM recently competed in the Finals Day of Interleague season. 17 Clubs attended at Golf Santo Antonio Resort, formerly Parque de Floresta in the Western Algarve. Although rain threatened it remained dry with relatively mild winds for this course.
The SdM Management committee have introduced two local rules until further notice.
Preferred Lies:
A player is entitled to prefer the lie of the ball when the ball lies on a closely-mown area through the green, such as the fairway. A closely-mown area is any area of the course that is cut to fairway height or less and includes paths cut through the rough and the fringe/apron around the green. If the ball does not lie on a closely-mown area, the player cannot take a preferred lie.
If the player chooses to prefer the lie of the ball, the position of the ball must be first marked. Most players will use a tee to mark the position of the ball but a coin or other similarly sized object is suitable. Once the ball has been marked, the player can then lift the ball and clean it if desired. The ball must then be placed on a spot no nearer the hole within 6 inches.
Embedded Ball:
Through the green a ball that is embedded in it's own pitch mark in the ground may be lifted, without penalty cleaned and dropped as near as possible to where it lay, but not nearer the hole. The ball when dropped must first strike a part of the course through the green.
Through the green:
The whole area of the course except:
a: The teeing ground and putting green of the hole being played, and
b: All hazards on the course.
A fine away victory and bonus point at Morgado has secured SdM second place in their division this season and sees us promoted to Division Two for next year.
Good all round performances saw us win 3-2 at a course that is notoriously difficult to get good results.
Scores:
October 2015
Good Day to everyone
Now into my 3rd quarter as Club Captain and below a brief summary of the last quarter.
Firstly can I take this opportunity to thank all the Management Committee and SDM Members for making this a very pleasant nine months?
Congratulations to our Interleague team on a fine victory at home against Castro Marim.
With two wins and three halved matches we should move up the table into third place with games in hand over those clubs ahead of us.
Lead pair Mick Girling and Lynn Cook secured a win on the 18th and third pair out Andy Mattinson and Steve Edwards won comfortably 5 and 4, all three other pairs halved.
Scores:
SdM returned after the summer break to halve their home match with Morgado.
After some early results in our favour our final two groups sadly were on the wrong end of the results.
Scores: