As you know I was away for the game on Sunday the
12th so can't tell you much about that other than it
seems our rookie Eva Krivacska (left) finally nailed it by
beating off the competition and scoring 37 points on a Stableford competition. No doubt you'll be hearing a lot more Eva over the coming months.

  Once again I left the Derek and Rob at the helm on distributing cards and taking the money, as technically speaking I was still on holiday. I therefore managed to get on an early tee, a bit of a novelty for me. My playing partners were John Burgess and 2 guests, Dave Emsley and Ian from the northeast who’s a regular to the island.

   I mentioned before a certain flying Scotsman. Terry Blood has been with the society since the end of our first year, and is a pretty good golfer for a 28 handicap, but only has flashes of brilliance and rarely comes into contention for the main competitions, he does get the odd nearest the pin and wins the occasional sweepstake. But on this occasion he was playing out of his skin. Even after not scoring on 2 holes, he came in with an impressive 38 points, which can be enough to win on most events. The twins, Matt and Phil I'd had a game with at the weekend to show them the course, and both are very good golfers, but they played better at the weekend than they did on the event in question. In fact I played better at the weekend than I did on the day! Except that is for the 16th hole, where I somehow came up just short of the green with my 2nd shot and went in the greenside bunker, but then chipped in for a birdie! That shot puts me in the lead on our annual eclectic score, where we record everyone's best results on each hole to make up what would be an ideal round if you could do it all in one day! Other interesting shots I witnessed on the day were by Eddie Allen, who on the 10th was having a little trouble with on the palm trees, he hit it the first time on his 2nd shot and it went backwards so he tried again and hit it again! I don't know what he did to the tree or whether he has some great influence, but they cut down that very palm later in the week! Mike Thurman was having similar problems with palms on the 18th. This time it was his drive that stuck up the palm tree at the end of tee (15 feet away!) He then declared that unplayable and took another from the tee and hit the palm again! Not to put people off who haven't played the course before, there isn't that many trees, but just some of them are very strategically placed. If you ever have any problems with palms, just speak to Eddie Allen, he'll get it sorted for you!

  Although I've taken the lead on the eclectic comp, I've now slipped into 2nd place on our player of the year comp thanks to another outstanding round from Tony Fawcett, he scored 37 points off his 12 handicap which put him behind Terry Blood and earned him valuable points for player of the year. If you want to see who's doing what in our comps visit the leaderboard section of our website and you'll see with only 4 games left of the season, things are very tight at the top. Both Terry and Tony's efforts on the day were far surpassed though by our winner, after just announcing his engagement, Dave Cooper must have been on a high because he had the round of his life shooting a gross 82 with an eight on his card off his only recently acquired 18 handicap. This equated to 43 stableford points which of course put Terry in 2nd place and Tony in 3rd. Congratulations Coops on getting down now to a 16 handicap! Nearest the pins were both on the front 9 again, Steed Ansell got nearest on the 4th and ex-captain Dave Cooper was nearest on the 7th. Guest winner on the day was a lucky young fella by the name of Gavin Nixon. I say lucky not for his 31 points he scored on the game itself, not even for the 66 euro he won by being the only one getting a 2 on the day, but to top it all he also won 50 euro by picking the winner of the day in our sweepstake! What a day for him!

  The nearest the pins this week were on the 4th and 15th. Old-timer Dave Hill got nearest on the 4th, and nearest on the 15th was Dave Cooper. Coops was also the only one to get a “2”, and scooped 66 euro all to himself.

  The new course, Salinas de Antigua, is now half open, the back 9 isn’t quite ready so just the front 9 is open. I managed to play the course before it opened to the public to get a sneak preview and was suitably impressed. It is quite a bit shorter than the Fuerteventura Golf Course, making it easier to achieve par, but there are minefields of bunkers and boulders all over the place. Most of the water is on the back 9 so we’ll reserve full judgement until that opens next month. We already have next years fixtures set up on both courses, upping our fixtures to every Tuesday and 2 Sundays a month. The fixtures calendar for 2007 will be on our website www.CorralejoGolf.com later in the week.

  Our next event is our Presidents Cup day on Tuesday, 5th December. There will be lots going on, on the day plus a presentation meal in the evening. Then Sunday 12th and our Xmas Bash on Tuesday 19th December. Tee times are from 10.00 am.

  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)