Friday Golf Society

Movember moustache competition - Results

Here are the answers:

1. Lawrence Perkins
2. Pepe Garcia Martin
3. Larry Rowe
4. Albert Taylor
5. Eduardo Pacheco Martínez
6. Mel Moody
7. Rolf Jönegård
8. John Fielding
9. Alan Sly
10. Peter White
11. Alan Sheppard
12. John Woodhead

The winner of the competition is Kristina Olsson who was the only person to identify all 12 moustaches correctly.

Friday Golf - 21 December 2012

The run of fabulous weather continued in Almerimar this week. Whilst others wore only polo shirts as their top layer I managed to remove my gilet and only have a polo and a jumper on.

We had 25 players take part in the penultimate Friday competition of 2012 in brilliant sunshine and virtually no wind. We played a Reverse Waltz with two hidden holes.

The winners this week were Jacqui, Hans F, Rosemary and Kevin W with a great score of 96 points. A whopping 8 points ahead of the second place team. Jacqui, Hans and Rosemary were all in their handicap buffer zone while Kevin scored 43 points. Kevin has had his handicap cut by 3.7 shots and has lost 4 shots on the slope at Almerimar.

Last place was very close with the bottom five teams only separated by 4 points and the bottom three teams by 2 points. In last place and winners of the chocolates were Alan Sl, Joan, Kristina and Paul T with 76 points. Interestingly if you added their individual scores together they scored more than the sums of the  individual scores of the two teams just above them. However they did not do well on the 3 to count holes scoring 6 and 7 points less on these holes compared with the two teams above them.

Nearest the pin on hole 17 was very tricky this week. The pin was tucked over on the left in the narrow part of the green between the front and back bunkers. The winner was John Wo with a distance of 7.88m.

Well done to Kevin W. We hope you like your new handicap of 22.0 sloping to 23 on the Master course at Almerimar. Nobody else played better than their handicap this week.

The man in charge of the results presentation this week was Herbert. Thanks Herbert.

Possible Sunday competition on 30 December 2012

The Sunday competition on 2 December 2012 that was cancelled has been re-arranged provisionally for Sunday 30 December 2012.

We hope to confirm this date soon once we have approval and allocation of tee times from the management of the Almerimar course.

If approved, the event will be individual stableford with people arranging their own tee times as is usual for FGS Sunday competitions. The society will book some times and put up a list of times on the noticeboard. However the responsibility for finding playing partners lies with the people taking part in the competition, not the FGS committee.

If the competition goes ahead the prize giving will take place at L´Isöla Capri on Wednesday 2 January 2013 at 7:30pm with first prize being a 50 euro voucher for L´Isöla Capri.

England vs. Rest of World entry list is open

The entry list for the England vs. Rest of World competition on Friday 25 January 2013 is now open. The list will be maintained on the site.

For more details see the entry in the Featured Events menu on the left of the site.

Please note that the restaurant, Almadraba, can only seat 50 people in its main room so please enter early if you wish to guarantee your place in this event.

Handicap list updated

The handicap list has now been updated foilowing Friday´s competition. No handicap cuts this week but a lot of give backs.

Friday Golf - 14 December 2012

It is getting close to Christmas and a lot of our regulars are on their way to their home countries so we were down to 20 players this week. The weather wasn't too kind to us as it was a bit windy. Also the tees were well back as they were being set up for the BSM competition the following day. Neverthess we all had a good day.

We played a Yellow Ball competition with two hidden holes. The scores were a little lower than normal for this type of competition due to the weather and tee positions.

The winners with 115 points were Robbie, Karen, Jürgen N and Nina. Last place and chocolates went to Lawrence, Amanda, Elaine and Paul T with a score 0f 90.

Lawrence got a double dose of chocolates as he won nearest the pin with a distance of 1.10m. Sadly he missed the putt.

Thanks to Herbert for doing the prize giving this week.

First guesses in the Movember moustache competition

With just under one week to go to the deadline for entries we have had our first guesses in the moustache competition. Thanks to Alan & Judi, our boule event oganisers, for their guesses.

To make it easier for people to enter here is a copy of the information in the Forum about the competition:

"You need to assign the following names to photos 1 -12. Please email your answers to the committee email address by no later than Saturday 22 December 2012.

John Fielding
Pepe Garcia Martin
Rolf Jönegård
Mel Moody
Eduardo Pacheco Martínez
Lawrence Perkins
Larry Rowe
Alan Sheppard
Alan Sly
Albert Taylor
Peter White
John Woodhead

There is no prize. Just the kudos of being the winner."

Photos from Xmas prize giving and full results now published

We have now published the full results from the Xmas competition 2012. You can see them via the drop down menu above.

We have also published some photos of the prize giving at Yachting Golf. You can see them starting here in the Gallery.

If you have any more pictures from the event that you would like us to publish on the site please get in touch with one of the committee.

Martinez-Echevarría Pérez y Ferrero Law Firm - Buying a property in Spain

Welcome to our latest partner business, Martinez-Echevarría Pérez y Ferrero Law Firm. They have made a donation to society funds and are also planning a seminar in Almerimar entitled "Buying a property in Spain".

Details of the date, time and location of the seminar will be published in the near future.

Read More for details.

Read more: Martinez-Echevarría Pérez y Ferrero Law Firm - Buying a property in Spain

Well done to Sharon and the Xmas Fairies

They won yesterday by a margin of 7 - 3 over Lennart´s Jul Tomte team. We will publish the results and some photos from the excellent prize giving dinner at Yachting Golf when we get a chance.

Photos from Xmas competition uploaded to the Gallery

We have uploaded the photos from the Xmas competition today onto the site. You can see them here in the Gallery.

Christmas competition 2012 start list

Sharon and Lennart today did the draw for the 2012 Xmas competition. Here are the details.

CHRISTMAS COMPETITION

WEDNESDAY 12TH DECEMBER 2012

NOTE: We will sit down for dinner at Yachting/Golf for the meal to be served at 9pm. People can arrive earlier for pre-dinner drinks but these are not included in the price for the evening.

Read More to see the draw.

Read more: Christmas competition 2012 start list

Spot the Movember moustache competition

You need to assign names to photos 1 -12. Please email your answers to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. email address by no later than Saturday 22 December 2012.

There is a list of 12 names available in the Forum in the members section on the site. Paid up members of the society who have registered on the website can log in and see the list of names.

There is no prize. Just the kudos of being the winner.

Friday Golf - 7 December 2012

It was a bit cold, slightly breezy and we had a few drops of rain this week. Also, as the Yachting/Golf  3 day competition was taking place the tees were much further back than normal. Plus the rough is unusually thick this year so you are punished if you miss the fairway. These factors combined to make it a hard day for scoring at Almerimar.

We had 30 players including 3 guest taking part and we were playing an X x Y + Z competition. Where you multiply together two stableford scores and add a third on each hole. In this format you can get some really good scores on a hole. Two teams scored 19 points on a single hole by team members having 4, 4 and 3 stableford points. As Lennart pointed out at the prize giving neither of these teams were the winners.

The winners were Alan Sh, Rosemary, Kristina and Doris (our imaginary player)  with a score of 118 points.

Last place and chocolates went to Albert, Nina, Mick Cl and Ingegerd with a score of 73 points.

Nearest the pin on hole 17 was won by Mr President with a distance of 4340mm.

Thanks to Lennart for doing the prize giving and for collecting the money this week. Herbert has volunteered for the task next week.

The cards have been processed and checked on Golfshake. This week nobody played better than their handicap. Only Alan Sh, Peter E and Kristina broke the 30 point barrier this week.

Handicaps now updated

The handicap list has now been updated following Friday's competition.

More photos from the Bodega visit

I have uploaded some more photos from the visit into the Gallery. Thanks to Mimi for sending us these.

Photos of the bodega trip on 5 Dec 12

Herbert and Mimi have sent us some photos from the trip to Bodega Dominio Buena Vista on 5 December 2012. You can see them here in the Gallery.

Initial feedback from the bodega trip yesterday

I have spoken to several people who went on the bodega trip yesterday and they have all said what a great day out it was. So well done to Lennart for organising it (with some help from Sharon and Alan).

Hopefully we will get some photos and a bit of a write up about the day in due course.

More photos from Desert Springs

Jacqui played with Wikki at Desert Springs and he took quite a few photos. We have now had the opportunity to add them all to the Gallery.

The one above is of Jacqui modelling a snazy Daily Sports gilet. You can see Wikki´s photos from the day starting here in the Gallery.

Latest partners - Roxy Tours and Sunread sunglasses

Welcome to our latest partner businesses for the 2012/2013 season.

Roxy Tours is offering 10% off boat trips and car hire in Almerimar until 30 June 2013.