Hola AMIGOS
Saurines surely belongs to STEVE WATTS today. A Hole-in-One on the difficult Par 3 14th Hole, you know, the one with the ‘gorge’ running through the green!  Many Congratulations Steve from all at Amigos and so pleased that your first came at one of our events!
It was a great occasion and thank you for helping him celebrate with his credit card!
That kind of eclipsed everything else, even the 3 entrants into the Amigos Forties Club but let’s see what else happened.
Category 1 : Individual 
It was pleasing to see some very good returns handed in on a very good and playable golf course but with very tricky pin positions, leftovers from an important competition held there yesterday.  Quite a number scored 34 points, but honourable mentions are extended to David Sirett, 35, Andy Duffield and Brian Platt, 36 points. Well played but many congratulations the podium finishers:-
Winner : Lucy Hole  :  38 points
Runner-Up : Colin Walters : 37 points (handicap 9.4)
3rd Place : Heimir Bergmann : 37 points (handicap 11.0)
Category 2 : Individual 
Scoring was not quite as good as the Category 1 players but Ken Sewell, Steve Fitzpatrick and Gary Conway, 33 points had a very good day at the office and honourable mentions are extended to Wayne Goodwin and Tony Syme, 35 points and me, Graham Field, 36 points.  There is no mistaking the top 3 who excelled with great quality and joining that elusive club! Congratulations:-
Winner : Ragnar Hilmarsson : 42 points (handicap 17.2)
Runner-Up : Gail Duffield : 42 points (handicap 17.8)
3rd Place : Dave Hughes : 40 points
Team Competition 
Anticipating 108 Stableford points to match Par with this format and with no places to hide the totals were impressive and half the field exceeded the target. You put some great teams out Iain Stewart!  Well played everyone who contributed well and how good were those standout prize Teams:-
Winners : Team 13  :  125 points
Shane Bordier, Martin Hennessy, Ragnar Hilmarsson and Dave Hughes 
Runners-Up : Team 1 : 121 points
Colin Walters, David Sirett, Klaus Hummel and Ken Sewell
3rd Places : Team 14 : 118 points.
Other team scores were: Team 9 = 114pts, Teams 3&10 = 111pts, Team 7 = 108pts, Teams 2&12 = 106pts, Team 4 = 105pts, team 11 - 104pts, team 8 = 101pts, Team 5 = 99pts, Team 6 = 95pts.
Alan Kilminster, Mick Lynch, Gail Duffield and Gary Conway 
What a lesson from today’s sharpshooters challenging the Flags, Ragnar Hilmarsson, Hole 5 (in 2); Jez Pike, Hole 6; Ilona Gregory Hole 13 (in 3) and into the ‘Two’ 
s Pot’ went Shane Bordier on Hole 10, Lucy Hole, Hole 11 and worth mentioning again into the cup on Hole 14 for an ace, Steve Watts. Well played every member of every four-ball.

Of the 4 remaining competitions left before the end of the year we have limited availability at  Hacienda Riquelme next Thursday and plenty at La Finca on Friday 27 Dec’24, the last game in the year long  Race to La Finca Competition. Please do register for these games and if you want to be considered for the other fixtures and go onto the reserve list then send me an email. You never know what might happen?
We will be developing our plans for the popular ‘Amigos Anniversary Cup’ Away Day to ‘La Envia Wellness Hotel, Spa and Golf’ in Almeria on Thursday/Friday 22/23 May’25 soon so if you would like to join us then please do register or let us know straight away. You will find all of the details on our website by clicking on anniversary cup.
Finally thank you to the Organisers and Helpers, Iain Stewart, Brian Platt, Dave Hughes, Ron Weller, Mick Lynch and Bob Lancaster who is recovering from surgery. 
It was so good to see so many returnees amongst our ranks today and thank you to James Pearson in particular who didn’t know he was playing until this morning!
Let’s look forward those who are joining the Platinum Fours Competition  at Las Ramblas on Saturday and see everyone else soon.
Hasta pronto
Graham