I had a very interesting 2 days this week with the ladies from the FPG while they carried out Silves course slope rating and it was good to get an insight into how it is done.

On each yellow tee, shot lengths are measured for both scratch and bogey players, based on average shot length statistics and the same procedure is done from the red tees.

An AimPoint Green Reading Clinic is being run by Rob Chaney on Friday 17th May at Silves putting green from 12:00pm. The usual cost for Pestana members is €100 but SdM members can now attend for the very low price of €20.

Mel Huxtable wins this years Spring Cup! Two rounds of 37 points was enough to beat Mags Taylor's 40-34 on count back. 

SdM suffered a narrow defeat at Alto today. The match hung in the balance right up to the final match which sadly didn't go our way. Always  a very tough place to play the team tried very hard, sadly to no avail. There were to good wins, Mike Carr and Bob Coe ran out 5&4 winners as did the Ian Chapman & Gill Edwards pairing, again 5&4.

A great result by SdM today, beating Boavista 4-1 so completing the double. This sets up our season nicely, with our next two matches being against Alto and PdF.

The scene was set by the first pair, Steve Edwards and Chris Price who won 4&3 soon to be followed into the clubhouse by Mike Carr and Bob "Bilko" Coe who also won 4&3.

Third pair in the hutch were rookie Arthur Greenwood and Ray Groves who were on the end of a 5&4 pounding, our only loss.The match was decided when Captain Geoff Cox and Bill Goodwin crossed the line with a 2&1 win.

To see all the scores of the fifth round and the final totals of the competition: Quatro Final Placings .

Congratulations to all those that represented SdM so well.