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PRESIDENTS CUP DAY 6TH DECEMBER 2005 

  It was the last of our major events of 2005, and indeed the last game of the season for our yearly comps. Yet again it was a record-breaking day, not for amount of players, nor for the highest score, in fact incredibly it was the lowest ever scoring match we've had!

  Defending cup holder Joan Roaden hasn’t been playing lately, and wasn’t able to defend her title this year. There were plenty of others though gunning for the Presidents cup. Regular readers will know that being the last game of the season, it was last chance to make an impression on our yearly comps, only Derek Mac, Rob Hughes and Paul Benham had any real chance of catching Jo McKernon on the yearly eclectic table, and needed 4 birdies! A tall order one thinks. Myself and Jo McKernon were level on the player of year and we had to come within the top 3 to better our scores, if not we would half the competition. Well, I came 6th with 29 points and Jo came 10th with 25! So indeed we halved it. Incredibly, it was a 3-way tie for 2nd place, on these occasions we do card play-off, working from the best back 9, back 6 or back 3 if still tied. This meant the placings were as follows, in 4th place was Alan Wrigley, 33 points, 17 on the back 9 with 5 on the last 3 holes, 3rd place with 33 points, 17 on the back 9 but 8 on the last 3 was Dave Cooper and in 2nd place with 18 on the back 9 was Andy Knapman. Leaving only space for our victor of the 2005 presidents cup, Tony Fawcett with 34 points.

  Congratulations Tony, not only from myself and the rest of the society, but also from your eldest daughter Dawn and her husband Paul, who are regular readers of the golf report. Initially, his daughter emailed me to congratulate him not for the presidents’ cup, but for his victory in the individual match play competition, so Tony had double reason to celebrate the end of this season. A full list of the years honours you can find on our website here

  Nearest the pins on the par 3’s were won by Pepe Suarez of “La Sirena” on the 4th hole, Jo McKernon on the 7th, Dave Hill on the 12th and Dermott Haughian was closest on the 15th. Our guest winner on the day was unstoppable Peter Flynn also with 34 points and the lucky person picking the winner on the sweep was Dave Hill.
The evening presentation was a combined Presidents cup, end of season and
Christmas meal all rolled into one. By popular choice, the president held the meal at
Pepes restaurant, “La Sirena” and as usual Pepe did us proud with the fantastic food
he’d prepared along with his other half, Wendy and the rest of his staff. They had to
close the restaurant to the public as there was 50 of us, (apologies to Pepes regulars).

After a superb variety of starters, we were served with the most delicious Christmas dinner you could imagine, and after coffee and sweets we started the presentation. At the beginning of the year we thought it would be nice to run through and re-present all the major trophies of the year. All put together they make quite an impressive display!

  Starting with the yearly competitions, as we said before Jo McKernon won the eclectic by a big margin and halved the Player of the Year with myself, a good year for Jo. The main Match Plat Competition was won this year by Tony Fawcett and the spin-off Plate Competition was won for the 2nd year running by Andy Knapman! Also having had a good start to the year was myself! I won the 1st 2 major cups of the year, the Captains Cup and the Brocemar Sponsors Cup, Rob Hughes won the La Sirena cup in September and of course Tony Fawcett won the Presidents cup. Guest winner as we said was Peter Flynn who won himself a beautiful oil painting handcrafted by the talented Suma, (Coops’ other half).

  The party continued through the night, (so I’m told!) and judging by the feedback we received, everyone thoroughly enjoyed the night. All in all it’s been a great year for the society and a few new things are lined up for the year to come. In the next report we’ll tell you about some of the new things happening in the year to come along with reports on how our Sunday funday and xmas golf bash went, but for now on behalf of the Corralejo Golf Society, I would like to wish all our readers, supporters and friends a very Merry Christmas!

Don’t forget our next event is Tuesday, 3rd January.

  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
Vice-President: Phil Richards on (0034) 629 688698
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)