As always, the Gents Team versus the Ladies Team was a very popular event with 72 members taking part.  Again, as always, we had more gents signed up than ladies so 4 of our gentlemen very kindly (or should I say happily!) agreed to play for the ladies team! And again, as always, they played their part very thoroughly and wore the ladies team colour Pink proudly

As each team came in Peter & I heard the phrase “wow, that was a close match” as so many of the matches were decided on the 18th, several finishing on the final putt!

The whole day was enormous fun, both teams dressed in their team colours of blue & pink, some great golf was played and everyone was in high spirits at the clubhouse awaiting the final result’

Richard Conyers, Robert Lench, Bert Brett and Ian McMahon joined Lady Cap Sue for a bow (or rather curtsey) to the sound of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper - thank you Gavin  for the excellent music choice - see photo below

Nearest the Pins winning chocolates were Judy Dench, John Hudson & Simon Hobbs x 2

Finally … THE RESULT … THE LADIES WON 2 up. 
Sue presented Peter with the Wooden Spoon, the ladies each took home a bottle of wine and some great photos capturing the fun atmosphere of the day are attached below.

CONGRATS LADIES Better luck next year Gents!

One very happy Lady Captain
Sue ​

As always, this annual event attracted a big turnout and 32 couples tried their best to not fallout playing a Greensomes format!  The weather had cooled off a bit and from the many happy faces at the 19th hole it looked like everyone managed to keep their cool too with no “divorcesomes” evident

Thank you to Richard for all his work on the draw & checking cards, also to Kris for collecting in the monies.

The winning couple with 47 points were Jim Willens & Marjory Forsyth

2nd: Steve & Kerstin Alexus

3rd: Ian & Theresa Russell

Nearest the Pin in 1:
Ladies Hole 5, Susan Cunningham
Gents Hole 15, John Marshall

Nearest the Pin in 2:
Hole 4, Bob & Sandi Beatson
Hole 13, Steve Moore & Tracy Brett

Thanks everyone for the rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday”

LC Sue
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Kevin Crowe and Sandi Northey organised the SFD on 20 September, on Pinta.
It was a bright but windy day with 48 players with unfortunately 2 who had to withdraw due to health.

The competition on the day was Back over Front, with 2 Stableford scores to count per hole, and 3 to count on Holes 9 and 18.  Players could choose their preferred tees.
We played a 'nearest the pin' in one on Hole 5 for Ladies and Hole 15 for Gents.  These were won by Rhiannon Evans and Andrew Farnham, respectively.

In the spirit of SFD, we also a awarded a special prize:  'Nearest to the nearest to the pin', won by Asa Baggstrom and Gavin Mortimer.

The scores were close, and prizes were awarded as follows:

1st: John Lucas, Jordan Lucas, Heidi Mosedale, and Clive Mathews (55 points)

2nd: Kevin Morgan, Michele Howlett, Elaine Marshall, and the yellow ball (54 points)

3rd: Klaus Falkenberg, Graham Mosedale, Barry Ribchester, and Gavin Mortimer (53 points)

4th: Christian Barthel, Sue Mortimer, Andrew Farnham, and Jos de Raaij (50 points)

5th: Michel Shuijt, Violet Ramsay, Richard Turner, and Simone Morgan (50 points)

6th: John Marshall, Shaun Cunningham, Joyce Hutchinson, and Steph O'Reilly (48 points)

​7th: Rhiannon Evans, Sandy Rumfit, Bob Beatson, and Ulf Baggstrom (48 points)

Thank you to all those who played and to everyone who assisted. A good time was had by all !


Kevin Crowe

Alison and Ian McMahon organised the SFD on 13 September.
With many departing on the CGCC tour later that day, we expected a small turnout but were delighted to see 52 members and guests turn out for a round at Pinta
The day was pretty warm as we moved in to the afternoon but everyone survived.
The competition on the day was a scramble.  All players had to play off the red tees on the par three holes.  Ladies played off reds for all the other holes.  The men played off the yellow tees on the non par threes.
We played a nearest the pin in one on hole 5 and nearest the pin in two on hole 9.  One golfer was nearest to the pin on those holes but the whole team shared prizes for the skilful shot.
We awarded prizes for first to third and a couple of “bonus” prizes.  Perhaps a reflection in how the day warmed up, all the winners of first to third were in the first three flights.
The winners were:
Fist team.  Score 58.  John Cross, Jim Rush, Ian Wylie and Trish Bodell
Second team.  Score 58.3.  Mikael Svensson, Asa and Ulf Baggstrom and David Legge.
Third team.  Score 59.8.  Alison and Ian McMahon, Violet Ramsey and Michel Schuijt
Nearest the pin on hole 5. Shaun and Susan Cunningham, Michaela Falkenberg and Simon Martin.
Nearest the pin on hole 9.  Mikael Svensson, Asa and Ulf Baggstrom, David Legge.
Neatest score card.  Jim Willens
Strongest team. (their highest score of the day meant they had to hold up everyone else).  To avoid embarrassment, I cannot find a record of their score.  Barry Ribchester, Charles Davies, Pat and Steph O’Reilly.
Thank you to all those who played and thanks to Pestana for organising the nearest the pin spikes.


Alison and Ian
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​This week we played “All the Strokes”  with 1 team score to count on stroke index 1-6, 2 to count on 7-11, 3 to count on 12-15 and all 4 to count on stroke index 16-18. We played on a still recovering Gramacho course.  The fairways were lusher and greener in places,  but the greens remained painfully slow after their annual maintenance a few weeks ago.
 
Nearest the pin in 2 on hole 3 was   Klaus Falkenberg
Nearest the pin on hole 7 was Asa Baggstrom,
Nearest the pin on hole 15 was  Klaus again!
 
There were 4 team prizes,
 
In 4th with 89 points and a back 9 of 38
Theresa Russell, Marilyn Lightburn, Bob Bessel, Rene VDZ
 
In 3rd place also with 89 points but a better back 9 of 41 points
Gents Captain Peter Hill, Sarah Mathews, Asa Baggstrom, Guy Norgrove
 
In 2nd place with an excellent 95 points
Bruce Cooke, Micheala Falkenberg, Clive Dromard, Marina Bessell
 
In 1st place with an outstanding 97 points
Mark Williamson, Beate Kernen, Mike Pledge and MP Norgrove.    
 
It was great to see returning members again after the summer break and, as always, we all enjoyed each other’s company after a fun round of golf with friends on a perfect Algarve day, sunshine with a breeze.  Nothing to complain about, aren’t we all lucky!
 
Thank you Gavin for all the organisation this week, much appreciated
 
Sue Mortimer
Ladies Captain