Most of have been familiar with my written ramblings when I organised the Saturday competitions, so it may come as a surprise to learn that our web master has asked me to provide editorial material for the newly enhanced SdM web site.
You will probably be completely disinterested to know my family have been staying with me for the last two weeks, but the relevance will unfold. With 11 house guests leaving at the weekend and Maddy away in Holland, I spent Sunday moving furniture, tidying up and doing no less than 6 enormous washes of white sheets and towels. Today at Gramacho there were 6 matches between 24 members and guests of Serra de Monchique Golf Club and I witnessed yet another enormous WHITEWASH – as the “northern” team regained the North/South trophy with a resounding 6 – 0 victory.

The next round of the Quattro Club Challenge will be held at Gramacho on Monday 12th November 2012.  Any members wishing to play please submit your name/s now to Geoff Cox via e-mail at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - the objective is to involve as many members as possible. 

The first round took place at Alto Club on Monday 15th. October in perfect weather.

A fun competition Alto members made us very welcome and we enjoyed an excellent inexpensive buffet.

The outcome was close run ... so all to play for in future matches ...

Carvoeiro  184 points

  Alto          181

SdM           181  

Vila Sol    177

Hi Ladies

 Just to keep you updated since my last email.  As you all know, I have been trying to organise four games of golf between the four Pestana Courses, Silves, Alto, Vila Sol and Carvoeiro Club.   We have decided it would be nice for 40 ladies to play at each event.  You can enter as many as you wish and hopefully all four at each course.  

Saturday 29th September saw the club stage its first ever Portuguese Day. SdM has a large contingent of local members and the turnout was fantastic. Hopefully this will become an annual event, probably moving to early June next year. 

The prizes were local wines and olive oil. There was a great turnout and the eventual individual winners were:

Carlos Pereira (Portugal) and David Monk (International) both with 38 points.

Team winners: Francisco Pina, Brian Probert, Sally Hoyer-Kruse and Dave Brennan.

Thanks to Miguel Heliodoro,  David and Mags Taylor for the time and effort put into running the day.

Many congratulations to Serra de Monchique member Marco Duarte who has won first place in the second category of the Solverde Casinos Golf Circuit.