It may have been, 6th of the 6th '06, but nothing was going to spoil such a beautiful day. A few had to pull out last minute due to illness, but we still had 25 players including 7 guests, a few of them regulars like, Big Nige, Brian Lees and Alan Salisbury. They were over-seeding the greens on the front 9 so we had to play the back 9 twice. It meant we had the hill on the17th to climb twice but I think I prefer that to playing the 2nd and 8th twice!
  My playing partners were all guests, Big Nige, Brian Lees and Pete McVoy. Nige and Brian are both regulars in the bar I work in, and Pete has been going in to Rogues Gallery where he found out about the golf from our president, Derek. We had a really pleasant round in good company, and the pace of the filed was perfect, everyone had a bit of space without being held up or pushed from behind.
  On this occasion we were holding our presentation at the Fuerteventura Golf Club, instead of the Kings Arms, because we were invited to see the new course next door, Las Salinas, which is due to open late July. I have been negotiating terms and conditions for the society with the new course over the last few weeks. It looks to be a very interesting course to play and some of the things they have planned will be fantastic for golf on the island. More information on the new course will be revealed as and when I get it.

  Anyway, back to the golf on the day. I had arranged for a bit of food to nibble on at the end of the game, so once everyone had finished their nibbles, we gave out the results. A really close finish, with only 5 points separating the top 7 in the members comp. In 3rd place was this years Captain Rob Hughes, with 36 points. Maybe it was because he didn't have to play host in his own bar!? Yet again a card play-off, this time it was to determine the winner. Both Dennis "the menace" McKernon and ex-captain Coops came in with 37 points. Dennis scored 21 points the first time round, but on a back 9 play-off, Coops scored 18 second time around, 2 more than Dennis to claim victory on the day. This means that both will be cut by 2 shots as they both score 30 points towards our player of the year comp. They needn't fear, because our six monthly handicap revise is coming up after our next game on June 20th.

  Nearest the pins were on the first time round on both par 3's, the 12th and 15th. It was very nearly a hole in 1 for Billy Seaforth on the 12th. Just a few feet away from the pin, Billy also managed to birdie to win him the 2's comp as well! Apparently Billy said the same as me on the 12th tee, "Anywhere on the green will probably win it" as the tees were right back and the wind was blowing from right to left and a little in your face. The 15th was won by guest and playing partner, Pete McVoy, who beat me by just 1 foot. His shot won deservedly as his went in the air and straight on the green where as mine went in the bunker and came out near the pin, local knowledge I'll have you know to use that bunker! The sweep was won yet again (about 3rd or 4th time now) by Lynden Bartlam, who incidentally had his best round so far with 33 points, he is going to be a danger in the very near future. Our winning guest was Steve Roberts who scored a massive 37 points off an 11 handicap. It's not very often guests' play to their handicap on this course, so well done Steve.

  Our knockout individual match play games are now underway with the qualifying round this month, I will let you know results of this as they happen and of course all the latest results and tables, plus information in general can be found here on our website

  If you want to join us as a member or guest for this or any future events, or if you would like any further information about the society, please contact:

President: Derek Mac on (0034) 646 672888
or myself on (0034) 620 161360
or drop me an email

Alternatively check out our website for details & dates.

Hope to see you soon,

Dave Brown (Society Secretary)