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East Algarve Golf Trophy 2019
Mon, 17th Dec 2018 The East Algarve Golf Trophy consists of five days from the 9th of February until the 16th to be played over the Benamor, Castro Marim, Monte Rei North, Quinta da Ria and the Quinta de Vale courses. Accommodation package for players for € 755.00 at the Vila Galé Tavira which includes seven nights stay, buffet breakfast, dinner with wine, gala dinner, seven days car hire (2 pax sharing), discounts on Food & Beverage on certain course, and free buggy on Monte Rei North. Further details from: golf@monterei.com |
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Benamor 7th Benamor Amateur Tournament Thu, 3rd Nov 2016 On the 8th of November the Benamor Course will be holding their final competition for their 7th Benamor Amateur Tournament 2016. The format will be Greensomes and tee-offs will commence at 08:30 hrs. The entry fee is € 60.00 which also includes lunch. |
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Benamor Benamor Golf Tournament Thu, 6th Oct 2016 A Benamor Classic Golf Tournament will be held on the 8th of October. It will take the form of a Texas Scramble with a Shotgun start at 08:30 hours. Open to all visitors with handicaps costing € 60.00 for the competition which includes a lunch at the club house. |
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Benamor 7th Benamor Amateur Tournament Thu, 15th Sep 2016 Benamor Course will be holding its 7th Amateur Stapleford Golf Classic on the 17th of September. A shotgun start will be held at 08:30 and the tournament will also include a lunch for all players - Per golfer € 60.00. |
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East Algarve Golf Festival 2016
Mon, 18th Jul 2016 A combination of five golf courses in the Eastern Algarve are holding an Eastern Algarve Golf Festival from the 26th of November through to the 3rd of December. These will be Benamor, Quinta do Vale, Monte Rei, Castro Marim and Quinta de Cima. Details can be obtained from any of the five courses. |
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Benamor Chilli Boy Golf Challenge Sat, 21st May 2016 Benamor Course - May. Some 60 golfers participated in the second annual Chilli Boy Golf Challenge on the Benamor course. The competition organised by Viv Thomas raises funds for breast screening in the Algarve. The overall winner was Roger Brandao. |
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Benamor Benamor Classic Golf Tournament Sat, 7th May 2016 The third competition of the 7th Annual Amateur Tournament Benamor Golf is being held on the course today |
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Benamor Benamor Golf Classic Sat, 16th Apr 2016 The 2nd Benamor Golf Classic 2016 is being held on April 16th with the format of 4 Ball Better Ball. The next and and 3rd Benamor Golf Classic 2016 will be held on 7th of May with a Foursomes format. The 4th Benamor Golf Classic 2016 will be held on 11th of June with a Cross-Country Strokeplay format. |
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Quinta de Cima Hugues Joannes (Belgium) Wed, 9th Mar 2016 Algarve Pro Tournament - Quinta de Cima Course - Tavira - 5th and 6th March. Belgium golfer Hugues Joannes ended as the winner on the 6th with a combined two strokes below par. In equal second place was Englishman Sam Day and Frenchman Joel Staler, both with a combined par score. |
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East Algarve Golf Trophy
Sat, 13th Feb 2016 From the 13th to the 20th of February the five East Algarve Golf Courses are holding a week long joint competition ending with the final day on the Monte Rei Course. |
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Benamor Sat, 1st Aug 2015 The 2015 Goldra Golf Tournament will be held on the Benamor Course near Tavira on the 29th August - in favour of the Goldra Dog Sanctuary. It will be an Individual Stapleford competition and details may be obtained by contacting sue@thegoldradogsanctuary.com |
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Benamor Thu, 1st Aug 2013 During August and September the Benamor course provide a free trolley after 15.00 hrs. |
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Quinta da Ria Sat, 1st Aug 2009 On 20th & 21st of June the Solverde company that owns several casinos throughout Portugal staged the third of its 7th annual series of 36-hole tournaments at the Quinta da Ria golf resort near Tavira. After the first round over the Quinta da Ria course, the players and guests were treated to a dinner and live show at the nearby Monte Gordo Casino, before the Sunday round at the more testing Quinta de Cima. Several players had previously qualified from each of the five tournaments held on northern courses, from Chaves in the far north of the country down to the Algarve in the south. |
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Quinta da Ria Sat, 1st Aug 2009 Several more players earned their places at Quinta da Ria for the season-ending final which will be on 19th-20th September at the Oporto Golf Club in Espinho. There are separate divisions for ladies, men (12 handicap and under, and 12.1 to 24), as well as a gross division. A special prize was given to Domingos Melo Cardoso who had an ace at the 11th hole at Quinta de Cima, and course owner Jose Lisboa provided a few bottles of celebratory champagne for those at the Sunday prize-giving party. |
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Quinta de Cima Tue, 1st Jul 2008 Continuing the trend of the two previous years, the winner of the 2008 Portuguese Ladies Open at the Quinta de Cima course was another French player, Anne-Lise Caudal from Biarritz. This was her first win in her short professional career on the Ladies European Tour - a mere nine days shy of her 24th birthday. After establishing a sensational ladies course record of 64 (9 under par) in the first of the three rounds, she never relinquished her lead, although she finally closed the deal by scoring 203 (16 under par), only a single stroke less than her compatriot and good friend, Gwladys Nocera, and Georgina Simpson from England. Anne-Lise, who was runner-up in the 2006 Portuguese Amateur Championship, took home a €30,000 cheque along with the Trophy. |
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Quinta de Cima Sun, 1st Jun 2008 The big golfing occasion in June is the Portuguese Ladies Open, one of the Ladies European Tour events and most of the leading players are coming to take part in this 54-hole tournament from the 13th to 15th at the Quinta de Cima course in eastern Algarve. |
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Quinta da Ria Tue, 1st Jan 2008 The Quinta da Ria and the Quinta de Cima was the scene for the battle to chose the pair of golfers to travel to India for the final in February of the Final of the 'Golf & Communications Trophy'. The winners were Abílio Silva and Artur Ferreira. |
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Quinta da Ria Thu, 1st Mar 2007 The 77th 'Portuguese Open Amateur Championships' for both men and ladies were held at the Quinta de Cima and the Quinta da Ria courses near Tavira. There were 96 contestants in the men's event and 36 in the ladies', and after two qualifying stroke-play rounds those with the leading scores played match-play for the Championships. Inigo Urquizo, a 24-year-old law graduate from San Sebastian in Spain, became the 2007 champion by defeating Frenchman Anthony Pailler 3&2 in the 36-hole final. The English golfer Holly Aitchison (who is 19), became the lady Amateur Champion after beating Nicola Roessler from Germany by the same margin. Joao Carlota, a 16-year-old Vilamoura junior, lost to Urquizo in the semi-final, the same stage at which Ana Melo, aged only 15, from Terceira GC in the Azores lost 1 down to the eventual winner. |
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Quinta de Cima Sun, 1st Oct 2006 Early in September the 4th Portuguese Cardiology Foundation tournament was played on the fine 18-hole course Quinta de Cima. Many of the 88 participants driving down from Lisbon and much further a field. The two-player better-ball team event was won by Tiago Almeida and Luis Pereira with a net medal score of 58 strokes, edging out two other teams with scores of 59 and 60. |
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Quinta da Ria Wed, 1st Feb 2006 The last qualifying event for the finals of the 15th 'Golfe & Comunicacao Tour' took place on the sister courses near Tavira, the Quinta da Ria and Quinta de Cima. Two well-known Portuguese personalities were in the field, Joao de Deus Pinheiro (former Foreign Minister and European Commissioner), and General Vasco Rocha Vieira, an ex-Governor of Macau. Both claimed prizes for their efforts, Joao Pinheiro taking 2nd place in the 2nd Handicap section, and General Vieira who gained the best net score for the Seniors. The winners in each section qualified for the finals which will be held in China later in this year. |
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Quinta de Cima Tue, 1st Nov 2005 During the second week in October, the Quinta de Cima course near Tavira in Eastern Algarve hosted the 'Algarve Seniors Portuguese Open', the second last tournament of this year's 'PGA European Seniors Tour'. Sam Torrance, seeking to overtake Carl Mason in his bid to win the Order of Merit, had an excellent opportunity on the penultimate green to break out of a 4-way tie for first place with Jerry Bruner, Eddie Polland and Jose Rivero. He unfortunately missed a slick downhill 8-footer putt for birdie. Sam Torrance then had to pull out all the stops on the difficult par-4 final hole after Jerry Bruner hit his second shot onto the putting surface, some 30 feet from the hole, and he followed suit by placing his ball a few feet closer. However, it was the American who sank his left to right putt, and under this added pressure, Sam Torrance missed, leaving him in a tie on 10 under par with Eddie Polland and Jose Rivero. The result left the Scot a mere 245 Euros ahead of Carl Mason in the Order of Merit going into the final Seniors event in Bahrain from 10th to the 12th November. |
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Quinta de Cima Tue, 1st Jun 2004 The 'Casinos do Algarve & Quinta da Ria Masters', a 54-hole professional event on this year's PGA Europro Tour calendar produced a thrilling decider with the Limerick Pro, Tim Rice, edging out Lee Slattery from Southport at the second play-off hole after tying on 204, or 12 under the Quinta de Cima par. Slattery, who won the year-end Europro Tour Championship at Parque da Floresta in 2001, started the last round in 2nd place on 136, one behind Mark Smith, and with birdies on the 1st four holes, but followed this with 14 pars. Rice, however birdied holes 14, 15 and 16 to force the tie, and eventually take the £12,000 first prize - an early present for his 27th birthday on 3rd June. Slattery took home the £6,000 runner-up cheque, with Mark Smith earning £3,000 for 3rd place on 10 under par. Dutch rookie Inder van Weerelt who had come in equal 6th at the recent East Lothian Masters fell to a 38th finish after a promising opening round of 68. Inder's parents are keen Vilamoura Golf Club members who have dedicated several years co-organising the Junior Golf School. |
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Quinta de Cima Thu, 1st Apr 2004 The 'Mens and Ladies Portuguese International Amateur Match-Play Championships' were held from 10th to 14th March on the new Quinta de Cima course just east of Tavira. Gillian O'Leary from Ireland defeated Scottish girl Liz McKinnon in the Ladies' final by 5 and 4. 20-year-old Gillian is a member of Cork GC and represented Ireland in the under-21's in Moscow in 2001. |
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Quinta da Ria Mon, 1st Sep 2003 The 'Vila Gale Hotel Group Tournament' was held with one round at Quinta da Ria and the other at the sister course Quinta de Cima, both located close to the town of Tavira. The format was aggregate Stableford points in three divisions, Men 0-12 and 13 handicaps, and Ladies. There were also prizes awarded by Mundo Golfe magazine: the winners being Carlos Marta (0-12 hcap), Guilherme Correia (13 ) and Fatima Pires (Ladies). Carlos Marta also won the 36-hole aggregate gross prize with 66 points, and the net aggregate winners were Miguel de Sousa (0-12 hcap) 80 pts. Jose F. Guerreiro (13 ) 71 pts. and Sally McMiken 67 pts. in the Ladies division. |
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Benamor Mon, 1st Sep 2003 The 6th New Style Open was held at the Benamor golf course near Tavira on 7th-8th June. A total of 88 players took part in the 36-hole Stableford event. Francisco Faustino carded the best gross score with 65 points, whilst his son Nuno was first in the net division, scoring 76 points. On the 9th, the New Style staged the 'Iberico SuperClubs Trophy' played over 18 holes at the same venue and the gross prize went to Spaniard Joaquín Rodriguez with 36 points. Dina Ferreira was the overall net winner with 41 points. The finals of the New Style 2003 circuit, with the winners of each event taking part, will be held at the Costa da Suaípe, Salvador, Brazil from 24th November to 3rd December. |
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Benamor Mon, 1st Sep 2003 As part of the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Military School in Lisbon, a golf tournament was held at the Benamor course. About 170 golfers took part in the 18-hole competition, mainly ex-pupils of the school which was started in 1803 by the armed forces for children of officers and staff, as well as needy youngsters near the Lisbon barracks. |
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Benamor Fri, 1st Aug 2003 On the 7th and 8th of June, the 6th 'New Style Open' for amateurs took place at the Benamor course, followed by the 'Trofeu Iberico' on the 9th at the same venue. They latter are also organizing the ANA (Aeroportos de Portugal) Tournament at Palmares on the 14th and 16th of June. |
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