Yearly Archives: 2015

January Society Day

We hope you all had a great Christmas and enjoy the New Year celebrations.
Our first society day for 2016 is on Jnauary 14th at the Morgado course –  see below for details.

We trust that there has been serious training and that you are all fit and raring to go.

Could those members intending to play let us know

VALE DA TELHA GOLF SOCIETY

 
                     Date                     14th January 2016
Venue Morgado 37.50€ including buggy
Competition Men play from Yellow Tees

Ladies from Red Tees
Handicaps Members

  Guests

 Your Club or Society

Handicap to be used – shown against name
To agree agree handicap with Group Leader prior to play
Competition Entrance Fee Members

Guests

 2 euros
Nil
Prizes Members

  

 Best Stableford –  Bottle of wine

Best Stableford Runner Up  Bottle of wine

Nearest the Pin (Hole 17) –  Bottle of wine

Longest Drive (Hole 6)  Bottle of wine

Other competitions to be advised
Guests Currently not eligible for prizes based on Stableford scores.
Results & Prize presentation Prize presentations  at 5.30pm – place to be advised
 
TEE TIMES
GROUP 1 9.12am      
GROUP 2 9.20am      
GROUP 3 9.28am      
GROUP 4 9.36am      
GROUP 5 9.44am      
GROUP 6 9.52am        
SOCIETY RULES
‰  Balls lying on stones may be picked & dropped no nearer the hole on a playable surface

‰  Balls lying in mud/water on the fairway may be picked, cleaned & placed no nearer the hole

‰  Balls in waterlogged bunkers may be picked and dropped no nearer the hole

‰  Should your Group fall behind the players in front, please follow the instructions of your Group Leader

‰  Espiche – should a ball land in the scrub and is not playable (the case almost every time) then treat as a Lateral Water hazard.
NOTES
  1. Members are welcome to invite Guests
  2. Green Fee reductions have now been negotiated with the majority of local Golf Clubs, including Penina, the Pestana Group, and Morgado/Alamos
  3. No Gimmes – please putt out
  4. Please ensure that you fill in your playing card with your name, date, handicap and ensure that it is signed by both your marker and yourself.
Competition Information
Submit cards with Gross score – the competition panel will determine the Stableford score

 
Next Society Day February 11th at the Morgado course

 

Golf Society Annual Awards for 2015

This year we have 3 annual awards (including trophies) and they are

  • Best Player 2015
  • Best High Handicapper 2015
  • Matchplay Tournament winner

The first 2 are determined by players performance for the period January to November taking into account their stableford scores, also they must have played in 4 tournaments.

So Player of the Year goes to Ian Bedford with an average score of 32.44

he was closely followed by John Williams on 31 and Brian Parker on 30.42

Best High Handicapper for 2015 goes to Sharon Dickens with an average of 28.2

The Matchplay Tournament was won by Geoff Costigan who beat Manny Pinto 2&1 in the final

The finalists and semifinalists (Chris Dickens and Tony Bishop) get trophies to keep.

So congratulations to the winners.

I would like to wish you all a Great Christmas and New Year and look forward to seeing you at our January event.

Results – Dec Society Day

We had an excellent day on the Alamos course yesterday, great weather and tough greens. Also we had a different competition from usual with a better ball pairs arrangement.

So onto the results

Better Ball Pairs Stableford Winners

Sharon Dickens and Liam Byrne won with 43 points

Better Ball Pairs Stableford Runner-Ups

Alastair Maxwell and Derek Allen with 41 points and a back 9 of 23.

Other excellent scores were

Tom Melville-Evans and Garry Brewster with 41 (Back 9 of 22)

John Williams and Steve Scott with 41 (Back 9 of 19)

Chris Dickens and Tony Bishop with 40

Longest Drive Hole 14

Ian Bedford

Nearest the Pin Hole 3

Roel Pluim

Fun Day Activities

Longest Drive of an Air Ball

John Williams

Shortest Drive

Dorine Lensvan Rijn

 

Most Lost Balls

Ron Ellis

Though Ian Bedford did manage to lose 11 balls but had his prize for the longest drive.

Most Bunkers

Garry Brewster

 

Our next day in on January 14th at the Morgado course

Shoebox Appeal for Orphaned Children in Lagos – UPDATE

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“All the children at the orphanage now have their Christmas boxes ready for delivery to them, so it has been another successful operation by the organisers. Thank you to all of you who have made a contribution”

 

Leni Eves has been in touch again over her recent appeal to say six of the children at the orphanage still have no Christmas box this year.

Leni writes:

“I recently sent out names and ages of children in the Caslas Orphanage so that anyone who wished could make up a shoebox of Christmas gifts for a particular child.

A lovely lady called Lois Herrington delivers the boxes to the children each year and I take them down to her from Vale da Telha.

Unfortunately, I had a sad email from her yesterday telling me that 6 children ( 3 boys and 3 girls ) still had no Christmas box this year.
If anyone could help, please would you email Lois on:

herringtonlois@gmail.com

so that she could tell you the name, age and size of a child who hasn’t yet been chosen.

I’ve arranged to take the shoeboxes down to Lagos next Friday morning as Lois is delivering them to the Caslas Home on Saturday. She travels to England after that.

If you can help you can drop your shoe box off at my house, L 174, Vale da Telha by Friday morning or you can contact me on my mobile, 91 254 7198, or home 282 995 366.

So there is a very small window of opportunity to make sure no child is in the awful position of being left out. They don’t have very much to make their lives a bit special. If you are able and willing to help, please contact Lois to arrange details. All I would ask is that you decorate a shoe box with Christmas paper, putting the child’s name (perhaps on a Christmas card on the top).

There are many simple gifts that would fit in a shoebox – ie: t-shirts, socks (Lois has sizes), torches, sports water bottles, toiletries, sweets etc.

Thank you for reading this far and thank you again if you can help.