On Thursday October 8th we headed to Portimao, Algarve for Captain Neil Brady’s weekend away. In attendance was Sean Lennon, Ciaran Lennon, Mark Cunningham, Sean Crowe, Brian Duffy, Aidan McKenna, Darren Quinn, Brendan Larkin and Neil Brady. We stayed in the Tivoli Marina Hotel for 4 night and played 3 rounds of golf on Pestana courses – Gramacho, Alto & Silves.
Day 1 we played Gramacho golf course and unsurprisingly the first day produced the highest scores (helped by only one night of beer on board). Winner on day 1 with a superb score of 38pts was Brian ‘Can’t remember last February’ Duffy, 2nd was Aidan ‘Smoking’ McKenna with an excellent 34pts and 3rd went to Mark ‘Paul Byron’ Cunningham with 29pts.
Day 2 we went swimming…..I mean golfing at Alto golf course. After 7 holes of pure hardship in p**sing rain we decided to call it a day and instead retire to the pub early for the Australia v Wales rugby match followed by a long evening on the beer!
Day 3 we played the excellent Silves golf course. The pressure was on and clearly it got to certain individuals who completely lost their way…. Winner on the day was Ciaran ‘McEnroe’ Lennon with a great score of 30pts, 2nd was Brendan ‘Wall Street’ Larkin with 30pts and 3rd went to Neil ‘Sepp Bock’ Brady also with 30pts.
Overall the Captain prizes results were as follows:
1st: Brian ‘Can’t remember last February’ Duffy
2nd: Brendan ‘Wall Street’ Larkin
3rd: Sean ‘Croke Park’ Lennon
Well done to everyone who traveled, a great weekend was had by all with the mighty Irish Rugby team helping to make a Super Sunday of it after disposing of the ‘Shaking French’.
(See the Photo section for a group picture)
Hope to see you all next year when it’s the turn of our incoming captain John Crowe.
Drumlish / Ballinamuck Golf Society 