I was amazed to find out recently, how many hits we get on our website. We get 1000 visitors every 2-3 days, that's over 120,000 a year! It's a comforting thought that the many hours I spend writing reports and doing tables are actually read by someone other than myself! Some visit the site for the reports, others for info on the course or the 2004 Spanish Open, and some just like to see who's doing what or to book my villa. I've recently spoken to quite a few people that come on holiday to Fuerteventura that regularly read the reports, one of whom turns out to be a friend of a friend who has recently stayed in the villa I rent out. So I would like to say "Hi" to Martin and family, look forward to seeing you again soon, this time with your clubs. And it's not just golfers that visit the website either, some regulars that come to the bar I work in also keep an eye on what I'm up to! To anyone that knows me, and also those who don't, thank you for visiting the website, reading reports and supporting the society.

  Anyway on to the event in question. We had the most amazing electrical storm I've ever seen on this island on the Sunday night, streaks of lightning every 2 or 3 seconds illuminated the night sky for a good couple of hours, plus some heavy rain graced our streets and flooded in places. The next day, you wouldn't even have known it had rained, it was bright sunshine as usual, which thankfully carried on to the Tuesday that we played a Stableford comp. Though not our greatest turnout, we had a nice round twenty including 6 guests joining us for the day. As regular readers will know, things are running very tight at the top of leader board with just one point separating myself and Jo McKernon who for this event got drawn together adding extra pressure to perform well.

  Jo as usual put in a great performance coming in with 33 points which beat my 31, it might be said she had a little help from the occasional “McKernon” bounce (out of bunkers!) but still managed to out play me. Jo and myself have to come 3rd or better to improve on our score and 33 points is often enough to do that. We were the 2nd group out and knew of nearly all the scores except for 2. As it stood, it looked as though Jo had come 3rd which would have put her level with me on player of the year, but luckily for me, one of the missing scores was that of the winner and therefore put Jo into 4th place. A narrow escape for me! But there was more to drama to come, as we had to do the draw for the semi-finals of the match play knockout competition. With only 4 names in the hat, myself, Dennis May, Tony Fawcett and Jo McKernon! Jo was 1st out of the hat and it was given to me to pick her opponent, with 3 remaining names in the hat, I only ended up picking myself to face her, DOH! Which means the other semi-final will be Tony Fawcett and Dennis May. The draw for the spin off plate competition and all results are posted here on our website under the Leaderboard section.

  Talking of leaders, the winners of the competition of the day were none other than Dennis May with 37 points, he'll be docked 2 shots, and in 2nd was his opponent in the semi-finals, Tony Fawcett who scored 36 points and is docked 1 shot! Tony also got nearest the pin on the 4th and no one managed to hit the 15th! So you can see, the games are now so close between our members that you wouldn't like to lay odds on anyone at the moment. Our winning guest of the day was Peter Flynn with an impressive 34 points and another guest, Ray from Stables bar in Corralejo got a birdie on the par three 12th giving him the 2's competition.

Don’t forget our next event is Tuesday, 25th October. Tee times are from 10.30 am followed by games on Tuesday 8th and Sunday 13th November.

  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)