First of all I have posted a photo of the Viking Cup with the current holders name on. So rest assured my norwegian friends your success has been recognised!
This weeks competition was the popular 1,2,3 waltz. 32 players took part and the winners were:
1st…..91pts
Dean Valentine
Alison Valentine
Mark Bettles
Julie Bettles
2nd…..85pts
Peter Reeves
Jim Matherson
Graham Mayes
Malcolm Frost
I am pleased to report one of our members was a prize winner at this weeks Hi5 tour Futures Open held at Hacienda del Alamo. Matthew Webb played with us last week in our stableford competition. Although he did not score well, the practice must have been beneficial because he was the leading amateur with a score of -9 over the 3 rounds. He also finished tied seventh only four shots behind the winner. Another two of our members, Shaun Mills and Mark Penny also played. Shaun was +5 but Mark did not survive the cut. Congatulations Matt and good luck for the future. We will follow the progress of these rising stars.
Next week is the December Apollo Air competition. This time it will be strokeplay (not stableford) which is always a challenge.
Thanks again to Neil,Lynne,Paul and Rachel for providing sandwiches for the players before the presentation. Also thanks to Neil for my TV – on Tuesday I went to the bar to watch Man U and Man City on their two screens. However there were many spanish in there so Real Madrid was on one screen. So I went to Alley Palais to watch the matches. On Wednesday night I went to the Condado Club for our weekly meeting and found that Neil had installed a 3rd TV in the bar so I could watch my 2 english teams next time! They are always open to suggestions and are trying to give customers what they want (a big change from the offerings in the Clover). It is a multicultural bar and deserves support from our community.
This week Mileniun have emailed owners with news from IRM. The golf shop and buggies are to be moved to near the 1st tee. It is ambiguous what kind of buildings will be used. Certainly it looks like the portacabin which was used by the community administrators initially (near the cement works) will be used for something. It may be the golf shop or shower and changing rooms. It says there will be services(does this mean some kind of bar?). The rumour was that the glass building (formerly used as a sales office by Polaris) may be moved and used as a clubhouse. Not ideal but better than what we have at present if it does happen. Hopefully we will have more news by next week.
If you go the the fixtures tab you will see that I have updated them until the end of 2012. Please note that the Barry Barker Strokeplay and The Paul Harrington Scratch Cup is now on July 20th (not 13th).
Barry