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Jesus Villaverde, Javier Poladura and Paul Cabrera Schorn, winners of the XV Trophy of Golf disputed this weekend in Lanzarote.

The facilities of the golf course on Coast Teguise have received this last weekend the XV edition of the Trophy Atlantic Ocean Golf Rotary, organized by Rotary Club Lanzarote with the collaboration of the Canary Federation of Golf, and which benefits will be destined to the social dining rooms of Lanzarote tutelado by Cáritas.





The trophies delivery developed in Teguise Golf's facilities. During this event a raffle was realized auctions with several pictures and obsequiousnesses donated by several artists and companies of the island, betweenamong them stays in hotels of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria.


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Corralejo Golf Society - Fuerteventura, Canary Islands.TUESDAY 8TH JANUARY

Although we had a fun day warm up comp on Friday 4th, Tuesday the 8th was our first official comp of the year. A few changes were voted in at our AGM, so we are now running on an official computer program that calculates handicaps with each game we play. Other changes are we’ve dropped the Sunday fun days this year to make way for the occasional special comps so watch out for those. We also welcome in our Captain for 2008, last year Dennis May did a splendid job and has set the precedence for our new captain, John Burgess. Elected vice and next years captain was Vince Price, who also fills in for any duties whilst John is away.
We had a good turnout for our fun day last Friday, but our first main comp of the year was sold out! We actually had to squeeze in an extra person at the last minute but still managed to get everyone out 10 minutes ahead of schedule! So 37 of us including 11 guests set out to tackle the course. The weather was pretty much perfect, there was a slight breeze which grew as the day went on, but blue skies mostly and a blazing sun was what we had to cope with on that fine January morning.
With the extra person we had to send out three groups of three on the first tees of which I was in the 2nd with Rob from the Kings Arms, our unofficial clubhouse and Alan Wrigley a café owner and entrepreneur from Blackpool! Rob had a bit of luck on the first after bouncing out of the houses on his tee shot and me and Alan played the hole more conventionally. The tee on the infamous 2nd hole, the hardest hole on the course was from the whites for the men, making it more or less a par 5, and a hard one at that! Despite actually getting off the tee without being out of bounds (for the first time in 3 weeks!), I still didn’t manage to score on the hole but Alan did. In fact Alan was clocking up a tidy little score on the front 9. The most eventful hole for us though was the dog leg par 4, sixth hole. Myself and Alan were in the middle of the fairway with our tee shots, but Rob hit a corker cutting the corner and ending up about 60 yards from the green. Rob came up short on his 2nd and left himself a 20 foot putt for birdie, which he sank! Alan duffed his 2nd shot into trees at the side of the green and after eventually finding it he hacked it out to the side of the green and then chipped in for par! I on the other hand, was at the side of the green for 2 and 3 putted for bogey! The back 9 was eventful too, with some great golf shots as well as some awful ones! I managed to pull it back a little and played to my 10 handicap scoring 36 points, Rob had lost the will to live, and Alan chipped in again on the 18th giving him 37 points and joint 3rd with Gordon Gilhooley, Vince Price and up and coming rookie Lynden Bartlam. In 2nd place was our very own thespian, Paul Benham with 38 points and the days’ winner, Steed Ansell, just back from getting hitched to his fiancé Jenny, romped in with a staggering 42 points off an 18 handicap. It seems that the taste of wedding cake has given him some extra zing in his Ping! Well done Steed!
In the guest comp, Lynden Bartlams’ brother-in-law Paul Wilson beat off competition from the other 10 guests and won it with a very respectable score of 33 points off a 26 handicap with his 15 year old son Richard in 2nd place with 30! Nearest the pins were won by Steed Ansell on the 7th and new member, David Galavan got nearest on the tricky 15th hole. Only one person managed to get a 2, so the 2’s comp and also lucky sweep winner, was Terry Blood, it was a good day for him!
Check out our website www.CorralejoGolf.com to see this year’s fixtures and please note that due to both courses being very busy in winter months, we have limited spaces for players so please contact myself or Derek in good time (at least 4 days before the comp) to guarantee a place in any of our comps.
Don’t forget our next event is on Tuesday 22nd January to be held at the Salinas golf course, tees from 11am. The following two games are at the Fuerteventura Golf Club, 29th January and 5th February tees are from 10am. If you would like to join us for these or any other events, or if you would like any further information about the society, please call Derek Mac on (0034) 646 672888 or drop me an email to corralejogolf@yahoo.com

Corralejo Golf - TUESDAY 27TH NOVEMBER - STABLEFORD COMPETITION

It was our penultimate game of the season and also the day of our AGM. We had a great turnout with 31 players including 10 guests. I was drawn Jo McKernon along with husband and wife, Bernie and Carol O’Boyle who are currently scouting the Canaries to decide where they want to settle. We certainly had a great day, and despite mishaps on 2 holes, I managed to come off with a very good score of 38. Guest Bernie also did well scoring 33, not bad considering it’s the first time he’d played the course. Unfortunately, neither of us were leading in the clubhouse when we returned, as 2 of the first group out, consisting of Captain Dennis May, Dud Tanton and guest Pat O’Hogan, had beaten our scores, Dennis had scored 40, and Pat had scored 36. Dud was only 1 behind me on 37, but it meant I’d won our little side bet! So it was a waiting game to see how far down the pecking order we’d fall.
Generally it was a high scoring day with 21 of the 31 scoring 30 points or more, and although we’d done our best, Bernie slipped down one more place to 3rd in the guest comp and I slipped into 4th in the members comp. Colin Webb, a 10 handicapper who’d played with us earlier in the year, scored 2 more points than Pat with 38 and won the guest comp, despite feeling somewhat under the weather from the night before, in fact he even had to make a sharp exit before the presentation as he’d gone a little green round the gills! See his brave face on the picture! In the members comp, Dennis McKernon beat me by 1 point with 39 and came 3rd, Dennis May came 2nd with 40, and romping in with a gross 73, just 3 over par was 11 handicapper, Tony Fawcett with 44 points. Tony was hacked by 3 shots, Dennis by 2 and me, Dennis Dud and Aly all lost half a shot for beating our handicaps.
Nearest the pins were won by guest Pat O’Hogan for nearest the pin in 2 on the 9th, and he was only about 2 feet away, not bad when consider he had to hit a little white ball just twice to reach 324 metres and get only 2 feet away! Nearest the pin on the short 14th hole was Aly Tanton who also got pretty close. Three of us managed to get a 2, Captain Dennis May, Aly Tanton and myself! Lucky sweep winner was that old dog, Dennis McKernon.

Corralejo Golf - TUESDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2007

To mark the end of the season and to round up the yearly comps, we celebrate the final comp, the Presidents Trophy in honour of our President Derek Mac. Things were as tight as tight could be in the yearly comps. The eclectic comp could be changed by just one single shot if one of 3 people make birdie on certain holes. I was at the top of the leader board for the player of the year comp but I could be equalled after Tony Fawcetts superb win on the last comp. Tony of course was cut 3 shots bringing him down to an 8 handicap after his round of 73 last week. He had to win the Presidents Trophy and me not come in the top 3 to draw with me and make him joint player of the year, no mean feat with the standard of golfers we had in the days line up. Most people would have put money on Gordon Gilhooley to win after beating me in the match play final 2 days previous and shooting an average round of 75 on par 70 courses off a 9 handicap all week, but there was such a strong field it was anyone’s day.
My game was pretty much doomed from the start, for the first 6 holes I made par then no score, then par, then no score, then birdie, then no score, so with 13 points on the front 9 it was safe to say I was out of contention. I was playing with the man of the day, Derek Mac along with Phil Richards and single figure handicapper Steve Bennett. Phil got a great score of 19 on the front 9 but unfortunately fell apart a bit on the back 9. However, he did scrape 13 points on the back to leave him in a card play off for 2nd place. Phil, Aly Tanton and Mike Turner all scored 32 points playing off ¾ of their handicaps, so with 13 on the back Phil finished 4th, Aly came in 3rd place with 17 on the back, but pulling it back from the brink of death with only 11 on the front, Mike Turner scored 21 points on the back 9 securing him 2nd place in the comp. So the winner, well what can you say, against all odds he pulled it off, Tony Fawcett scored that all important one more point than the others to not only win the Presidents Trophy, he also made an all important birdie to tie him the yearly eclectic with Jo McKernon and tie the player of the year with me. Was I gutted? No, to be honest, hats off to Tony, he found form when it was needed and deservedly ranked the top golfer of the year. Incidentally I finished 6th overall in the days comp, not bad after the start I had!
There were many sponsored holes for nearest the pin prizes. The 4th was sponsored by Tony’s bar Chaplins in Caleta, which was won by Jo McKernon, the 7th sponsored by Dud & Aly from the Grapevine Magazine was won by John Cockroft and the 9th in 2, also sponsored by the Grapevine was won by Rob Hughes. The 12th sponsored by Phil at Castaways bar was won by none other than me, Dave Brown! (Nearly a hole in one!) The 15th sponsored by our Captain, Dennis May, was won by Vince Price, and our President Derek Mac from Rogues Gallery Bar sponsored the nearest pin in 3 on the 17th won once again by Jo McKernon! The final hole, the 18th was sponsored by me and I got nowhere near, but my playing partner Steve Bennett did after nearly driving the green in 1! In the 2’s comp, there were only 2 people that got a 2 on the day, Jo McKernon and John Cockroft. The guest winner was someone who only plays about 3 or 4 times a year, normally with us but was a guest on the day, Andy Knapman scored 25 beating off competition from 5 other guests. All year we’ve had a fund running for anyone who gets a hole in one. Paul Benham late last year on a federation comp got a hole in one on Fuerteventura GC, but our only hole in one this year was achieved by Jo McKernon on the 12th at Salinas so she scooped the whole pot, as if she needs the money!
As is tradition, Derek chose El Rancho restaurant in Villaverde for the evening presentation meal where golfers, wives/girlfriends, friends and family all joined us to celebrate the end of another great year for the society. After a superb 3 course Christmas dinner we presented the prizes for the day and the year after which we danced, drank, sang on karaoke and had a party ‘til the early hours. You’ll have to ask others present how it all ended up as I have a few blank spaces in my memory banks!
Incidentally, our next event is on Tuesday 8th January 2008 to be held at the Fuerteventura golf course, tees from 10am. The following 2 games are at the Salinas Golf Club, 15th and 22nd January tees are from 11am. If you would like to join us for this or any other events, or if you would like any further information about the society, please call Dave Brown on (0034) 620 161360 or drop me an email to corralejogolf@yahoo.com

So for the moment I would like to wish all our members, friends, readers and supporters of the society a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous, healthy, happy 2008!

All the best, cheers

Dave Brown.

Society Day 2nd October - Salinas Golf Club

Though not one of our biggest turnouts, there were some surprise guests joining us for our fortnightly Stableford comp. There were some faces from the past joining us as guests. One of them used to be a member of the society and have a bar here, John Gibson of Ela’s Bar in Corralejo turned up the out of the blue. John had the claim to fame that he was the eldest member of the society, though I think he’s been superseded now by a few other “mature” members! He did play a few games with us whilst he was here and played pretty steadily too.

Due to necessary maintenance the back 9 holes were still closed at Salinas, so we had to play the front 9 twice. They are hoping to have the back 9 fully open by the 20th of October, ready for their club competition as well as our next dates at that course. Playing the same 9 twice does have its advantages, it means that you can get an idea of the pin positions, but the wind was stays the same for long so by the time we’d got back round for the second half, it was almost like playing a different course! To keep things flowing along we were able to go out in groups of 3, we were also offered free buggies or trolleys as compensation for the back 9 being closed. Normally I like to walk, which is why I took up golf in the first place, but as my guest, Pete Butterworth was feeling the strain after playing a round a few days earlier, we chose to opt for the buggy method. I put it down to his age! Then again, he has spent almost every night with his wife Becky in the bar I work in ‘til chucking out time, so maybe I’d worn him out that way. Pete and I were joined by Aly Tanton, just back from her travels, and were 2nd out in the running order. Both Aly and Pete got off to flying starts where as I took a few holes to get going. We all had reasonable front 9’s, with Aly a few points ahead of us with 21 after getting two 4 pointers. The 2nd time round started ok but then my wheels fell off big style and I had 4 no score holes in a row, and Pete who was sharing the buggy had the same problem. There were 4 wheels on our buggy, but only 3 wheels on our wagon! Thankfully my closing few holes were more successful, Pete’s were ok, and Alys were superb! She scored another 21 points on the 2nd half, it could have been a lot more if it weren’t for being attacked by sprinklers! We were both unlucky to our balls land in places where we would be caught in mid-stream of the sprinklers, and for both of us, as soon as we’d hit the ball, the sprinklers stopped! Well, I think 42 points is enough anyway for one day, well it was on this occasion, Aly took victory costing her 3 shots off her handicap, (I think she can handle the drop anyway!) and in 2nd place was Mr Captain, Dennis May with 40 and Terry Blood took 3rd with 38. Alys luck didn’t stop there though, she also pulled out her own name in the sweep to win her days golf for free! Our guest winner was none other than ex-member John Gibson! He was delighted with his trophy and I think it was the first time he won with the society as a member or a guest! Getting nearest the pin on the 5th was Dennis McKernon and John Burgess got nearest the pin on the 8th! Though Dennis didn’t sink his putt for a 2, John Burgess did and my day wasn’t wasted either as I also sank a putt on the 8th the 2nd time round to get a share in the 2’s!

There are lots of things coming up over the next few months for the society, the finals our knockout match play games, the Presidents Cup plus the exciting grand finale to the eclectic and player of the year comps which come to a close in early December. Many other tournaments are being held on Salinas, Fuerteventura and Playitas golf courses throughout the next few months, interested parties can contact the courses directly via their websites or through myself on our own website http://www.corralejogolf.com/ Our next events are on 23rd, 28th and 30th of October at the Salinas course, tees are from 10am, as usual just drop me an email to corralejogolf@yahoo.com or give me a call or drop me a text on (0034) 620 161360 if you want to join us for these events or if you want further information about the society.
All the bestDave Brown