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Silves Golf Sun, 27th Jan 2019 The second part of the first stage of the 2019 of the European Tour Qualifying School took place on the Silves course on the 25th of January, 2019. The first place was won by Ter-chang Wang from Taiwan, second place went to Neil Cheetham from England, and third place was taken by Frederik Larsson from Sweden |
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Gramacho Tour Qualifying School - Gramacho Sun, 27th Jan 2019 The first part of the first stage of the 2019 of the European Tour Qualifying School took place on the Gramacho course on the 24th of January, 2019. At the end of the day there were three equal leaders, Euan McIntosh from Scotland, David Mosland IV from Canada, and John Inman from the USA. |
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European Senior Tour Qualifying School
Fri, 11th Jan 2019 Three of Hotel Pestana golf courses in the Algarve have again been chosen for the European Senior Tour Qualifying School, and these are the Gramacho, Vale de Pinta and the Silves courses. The first event will be from the 28th of January to February the 1st on the Gramacho and the Silves courses. The final stage for those players qualified from the previous rounds will be on the Vale de Pinta. |
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Gramacho Gramacho Charity Golf Sat, 27th Aug 2016 On Friday the 2nd of September there will be a Charity Golf event organised in favour of the local 'Refugio dos Burros' which supports abandoned and ill-treated donkeys. It will be a Betterball Stapleford competition and entry is € 45.00 which includes golf, lunch and prizes. |
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Gramacho Lions Club Tournament on the 20th of August Mon, 25th Jul 2016 On the 20th of August the Lions Club of Lagoa will hold its annual Stableford tournament over 18 holes on the Gramacho Course. The purpose of this event is to raise funds for needy locals and in particular to financially assist the Medical Student already studying at Porto University. Entry is 35 Euros for all participants. An optional Buffet lunch on the day will be provided for an extra charge of 25 Euros per person. For more information or to enter the tournament please visit Lions Club of Lagoa Tournament |
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Vale da Pinta Senior Tour - Qualifying School - Finals Fri, 5th Feb 2016 Gary Marks led the field by one stroke in the final day of the European Senior Tour Qualifying Finals. It was a sunny but windy day with the latter at times tested the players in their placing abilities. Gary Marks from England, Barry Conser from the USA, Brenden McGovern from Ireland, Magnus Atlevi from Sweden and Ken Tarling from Canada earned their Senior Tour Cards and now have access to the European Senior Tour Schedule of events which includes the famous Carnoustie Course on the 21st of July. |
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Gramacho Stage 1 Senior Tour - Qualifying School Wed, 3rd Feb 2016 Clark Dennis - Qualifying School - Gramacho - Carvoeiro -Lagoa - Algarve - 28th to 29th January, 2016. English golfer Clark Dennis finished three strokes less than his nearest rival Jose Romero from Spain on the Gramacho Course in Carvoeiro in the Algarve. |
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Silves Golf Stage 1 Senior Tour - Qualifying School Wed, 3rd Feb 2016 Jose Buendia - Qualifying School - Silves - Algarve - 28th to 29th January, 2016. Spanish golfer Jose Buendia lead the field on the final day on the Silves Course in the Algarve. Two amateurs from England followed with two stokes behind, Martin Haddock and Paul Scarrett. |
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Vale da Pinta Sat, 1st Aug 2015 On the 25th August the Rhiannon Trophy was held on the Pinta course in Carvoeiro with 100 participants. Job van Dalen won the day with 445 points with Gillian Duplessis taking second place. This is a special Trophy to raise funds to assist a child with special needs. |
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Vale da Pinta Mon, 1st Dec 2008 At the 72-hole European Senior Tour Qualifying School finals at the Vale da Pinta course, 52-year-old Jimmy Heggarty from Northern Ireland came back from a seven shot deficit going into the last round to card a 4-under score of 67 and lead the field, thus gaining his full card to play the Tour in 2009. South African Bertus Smit tied the Ulsterman's aggregate score of 277 but the latter earned top honours as Smit post a level par 71 in round four. Alfonso Barrera also escaped with his card, and in fact would have been the outright winner, had he not been penalized two strokes for practicing a putt that he had missed on the third green. While positions seven to fourteen gain cards in Category Nine from the Qualifying School Final, a further 12 players gained playing privileges for 2009 as Allan, Towne and Michael Lord all celebrate their 50th birthdays, and thus gaining eligibility for the Senior Tour, during the course of the 2009 season. The remaining four players to gain full playing privileges were Englishmen Peter Allan and Kevin Spurgeon, Alfonso Barrera from Argentina as well as U.S. pro, Greg Towne who led until scoring an almost disastrous 42 on the last nine holes. |
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Gramacho Mon, 1st Sep 2008 The RE/MAX Long Drive Championship of Portugal was held at the Gramacho course in early August. Mariana Martins hit the longest ladies' shot, while the 6 foot 7 inch Finn - quite a tall player! Antti Saleva won the main event and Brian McCarroll won the Seniors and they now go forward to the next stage which will be held in the UK. |
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Vale da Pinta Fri, 1st Feb 2008 The Pestana Vale da Pinta Course and Resort was granted the first Eco-Golf certificate issued by TUV Rheinland Group to be given out in Portugal. In addition to the golf certificate, the resort also received an Eco-Hotel one, the objective of both being to maintain environmentally friendly policies with strict regulations on energy, water, and waste materials issues. |
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Vale da Pinta Tue, 1st Jan 2008 The Algarve was once again the location for the 7º 'Seniors Qualifiers Event', the final being played on the Pinta Course in Carvoeiro. The only Portuguese resident to pass the final phase and qualify with the international names was Brian Evans who hails from Pinheiros Altos course near Almancil. |
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Gramacho Sun, 1st Jul 2007 The 'Algarve Ladies Open', an official Ladies European Tour event, took place on the par-72 Gramacho Course near Carvoeiro. After the first two of the three scheduled rounds, the cut was set at 5 over par. A total of 70 players passed the cut, and leading the field going into the 3rd and final round were four players tied on 7 under par: Jade Schaeffer and Sophie Giquel from France, Australian Joanne Mills, and Louise Stahle from Sweden. The scene was set for a close finish but by the fourteenth hole it came down to a duel between Sophie Giquel and Louis Stahle, with the latter leading until she bogeyed the tricky par-four 16th after failing to get down in two from a green-side bunker. The Frenchwoman parred the hole and then sank a lengthy downhill putt for birdie on the next green to lead by a single stroke. On the decisive par-5 last hole, most of the pressure was on the Swede to try and force a playoff, but she hit her second shot into a deep bunker in front of the green. Sophie Giquel confidently struck her long-iron approach to the back fringe and then chipped to about two feet for a birdie and a 10 under par total to win her maiden victory less than four years after turning pro, and just 11 days before her 25th birthday. On the same round, Lisa Hall scored a rare albatross on the 18th, and another Lisa (Sorensen) from Denmark sank her approach to the tricky par-4 uphill fifth hole. |
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Vale da Pinta Fri, 1st Jun 2007 The 'Solverde Algarve Open', one of the Pro tournaments of the 2007 Lexus Portuguese PGA Tour, was held at the Vale da Pinta course at the end of May and included players from 11 other PGAs. Tiago Cruz dominated the event from day one with a round of 67 strokes. He followed on with rounds of 68 and 66 to take the trophy and a cheque. Ricardo Santos scored a 6 under par total of 207 tying for 2nd place with Spanish amateur Gonzalo Vicente. Our home-grown players were Sean Hawker and Antonio Sobrinho whom tied for 4th place on 209. The event was followed on 28th May by a Pro-Am Texas Scramble comprising of 24 teams and was won after a count-back. With a net score of 55 strokes by amateurs Antonio Moutinho, Pedro Silva and Joao Eca Pinheiro alongside their professional team captain Henrique Paulino. |
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Gramacho Fri, 1st Jun 2007 The Ladies European Tour will hold the 'Algarve Ladies Open' from 28th June to 1st July on the Gramacho Course at the Pestana Golf & Resort, Carvoeiro. |
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Vale da Pinta Fri, 1st Dec 2006 There was an exciting conclusion to the PGA European Seniors Tour qualifying school staged at the Vale da Pinta course in the Carvoeiro area. All the usual sudden death play-offs for the top six full cards and 11 provisional cards for the 2007 Seniors Tour season created a sense of keen competition. However, two players created a stir when Spain's excitable Emílio Rodriguez and the much calmer David Merriman from Australia, tied on 9 under par and fought out a sudden death decider for the £3,500 (€5,168) winner's cheque. It was the Australian club pro from Sydney who triumphed at the 2nd play-off hole, a par-5 fourth hole, calmly sinking a 14-foot birdie putt after Rodriguez failed to reach the green in three following a wayward fairway wood 2nd shot ended up blocked out in the right-hand rough. David Merriman had previously said: 'As a golf pro you want to play competitive golf, so I thought I would come over to Europe and give it a crack'. Winning the event was the icing on the cake for him. |
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Silves Golf Sat, 1st Jul 2006 Pestana's new Silves course is taking shape fast and is programmed for opening in a few months time. The par-70 layout in a rural area between the towns of Lagoa and Silves has all the promise of a challenging course. Centuries-old olives and other trees, fast and undulating greens and fairways guarded by tricky bunkers will afford a true test of golfing skill for players of all handicap categories. |
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Vale da Pinta Thu, 1st Jun 2006 The Qualifying School for 14 places on the 2007 PGA Seniors Tour will be held once again in the Algarve this year. Quinta de Cima and Pinheiros Altos will host the Stage One qualifiers on the 16-17th November, followed by the 72-hole final at the Vale de Pinta course at the Pestana Golf Resort, Carvoeiro on November the 20th-23rd. |
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Vale da Pinta Thu, 1st Dec 2005 At the Vale de Pinta Course the PGA European Seniors Tour Qualifying School Finals were also affected by storm damage on the opening day but course maintenance staff, aided by many volunteers, made massive efforts to make the course playable. Full cards to play on the 2006 Tour were available for the top six players and conditional ones for a further eleven. It was 56-year-old Aussie, Stewart Ginn who came out on top with a steady 72-hole total of 274 (10 under par), with only 4 dropped shots. Until now Ginn who plays on the US Champions Tour, and winner at the 'Ford Seniors Players Championship' (one of the majors in 2003), he now wants to change his career and succeed on the European Tour. Winning the Q-School is a tonic to Stewart Ginn's aspirations. The other full cards went to Kurt Cox (USA), Bobby Lincoln and Bertus Smit (SA), Stephen Chadwick (Eng), and Rigoberto Velasquez who will turn 50 in September. His place until then will be taken by Angel Fernandez from Chile. Amongst the winners of conditional cards, who were involved in playoffs to secure them, was our Brian Evans the local Pro at Pinheiros Altos. |
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Gramacho Thu, 1st Sep 2005 On 3rd September, a Texas Scramble for teams of 4 players was held on the Gramacho course to help raise funds for the Lagoa Volunteer Fire Brigade |
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Gramacho Fri, 1st Jul 2005 The important golf event of the month was the 'Portuguese Ladies Open', part of the Ladies European Tour and played over 54 holes again on the Gramacho course. The original sponsor of this event that offered the prize money of 300,000 Euros did not reach an agreement with the authorities, but happily in April an eleventh hour replacement backer was found. With the short time then still available and together with the on-going drought in the Algarve, it was difficult to put the course into the perfect playing condition required. Considering this factor and the unusual prevailing strong winds there were some excellent scores returned. After a 1st round of 5 strokes over par it seemed that Cecilia Ekelundh from Sweden would not retain the title after her maiden tournament win last year at Aroeira near Lisbon. However, she rallied with rounds of 66 and 67 winning by 3 strokes from Ludivine Kreutz of France. Aussie Cherie Byrnes and another French player Gwladys Nocera were placed a stroke further behind in equal 3rd position. |
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Gramacho Wed, 1st Jun 2005 After several months of negotiation the 'Professional Ladies Open', one of the 'Robi di Kappa' Ladies European Tour (LET) tournaments, is being held at the Gramacho course near Carvoeiro in the Algarve, from 23rd to the 26th of June. Points counting for the next Solheim Cup team will be at stake at this event so a strong contingent of players is expected to take part. The holder of the title is Cecilia Ekelundh from Sweden who won her maiden LET tournament at Aroeira, near Lisbon last year. |
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Silves Golf Fri, 1st Apr 2005 Earth-moving has commenced on the Sandy Lyle designed layout near Silves owned by Pestana and will be a sister course to the Gramacho and Vale de Pinta courses. |
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Gramacho Thu, 1st Jul 2004 In mid-June, golfers at 20 courses in 11 countries and 5 continents around the globe played in the 'Christel House Charity Open', all on the same day – starting in India and ending in Hawaii. Christel House is a charity organisation run by that focuses on improving the lives of impoverished and under-privileged children worldwide. The winning 4-player team from each country goes forward to play in a world championship held at the famous Westin Mission Hills Resort near Palm Springs, California and hosted by Gary Player. In Portugal, the tournament was held at the Gramacho course near Carvoeiro. |
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Gramacho Tue, 1st Jun 2004 The Gramacho course at Carvoeiro, is hosting the Qualifying event for the 'Christel House Open' on 12th June. The 4-ball team Texas Scramble costs 95 Euros per person, including dinner, and there is a chance to win 2 rounds of golf to be played at the World Championship Tournament at the Westin Mission Hills in Palm Springs, California, with Gary Player. This is part of the Christel House children's International Charity 2004 Tournament and similar qualifiers are being played in countries all over the world. |
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