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10th Portugal Masters – Day One

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Portugal Masters in Vilamoura

Melo Gouveia

Ricardo Melo Gouveia a solid 12th. Marc Warren leads.

Portuguese nr. 1 is the only of eight Portuguese players in the Portugal Masters en route to make the cut. João Ramos also had a great performance – one below Oceanico’s Victoria par and is also close. Scottish Marc Warren leads with a round where he scored 8 below par.

Ricardo Melo Gouveia made Thursday his best round ever in Portugal Masters in five appearances in the most important Portuguese golf tournament, with a 2 million prize money, and finished the first day in 12th place, tied with nine players, including two Grand Slam tournaments champions, the Scot Paul Lawrie and Irish Padraig Harrington.

 The Portuguese,161st the world ranking completed the first round in 66 strokes, 5 under the par Victoria Golf Club in Vilamoura. In the first 18 holes, he converted five birdies in 5 holes (par-5), 11 (Par-4), 12 (par-5), 15 (Par-4) and 17 (par-5).

The ACP Golf pro is the only one of eight Portuguese in the provisional cut, but João Ramos, making his debut in the Portugal Masters, in a course where he had never played before, beat the par-71 of the late Arnold Palmer designed golf course, with a score of 70 (-1).

The other Portuguese players are classified as follows: 107th Pedro Figueiredo (+2) and Hugo Santos (+2), 115 th Tomás Silva (+3) and Pedro Lencart (+3), 121st João Carlota (+4) e 124 th Tiago Cruz (+ 5).

The European Men’s Club Trophy 2016 in Aroeira this weekend. Oporto Golf Club.

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Oporto Golf Club

Oporto Golf Club

Aroeira and Oporto Golf Club

The Oporto Golf Club (OGC) will present a very young team to participate in the next three days at the UEFA European club teams challenge, a golf equivalent to the UEFA Champions League, organised by the European Golf Association (EGA).

Afonso Girão, 19, last year’s under-18 Portuguese national champion and the best amateur in the recent Solverde National PGA Championship, is the only experienced playor of Espinho based team, coached by Eduardo Maganinho and captained by Miguel Montenegro. He is joined by Vasco Alves was national champion sub-16 last year and João Pedro Maganinho was national runner-up sub-14 in 2015.

Tiago Rodrigues became professional just two months ago, having competed the American college circuit, and the transfer of João Girão to the same championship in the United States three months ago, seriously embezzled the OGC, which this year won the Solverde Club National Championship.

It is not expected the Portuguese side to repeat the triumph of Vilamoura Golf Club in 2013, when the tournament was played at Aroeira Country Club.

And it is exactly in this county resort located near Almada that the champions from 23 countries will play, in a tournament co-hosted by the Portuguese Golf Federation, which had this week to deploy efforts given its presence also in Portugal Masters in the Algarve.

From this European elite gentlemen’s clubs, we highlight the five-time winners of Racing Club de France La Boulie, which seek to revalidate the title and make it a sextuple three weeks after their women’s team have got the “hat-trick” in Bulgaria.

10th Portugal Masters – At Vcitoria Golf Course

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Portugal Masters with Two Ryder Cup players, several players participating in recent Ryder Cup editions, former Majors champions and European Tour Tournaments winners all set to play in Oceanico Victoria, Vilamoura.

The stars filled participants list including Ryder Cup players, winners of Grand Slam tournaments and local heroes that will grace the tenth edition of the Portugal Masters in the Algarve.

Thomas Pieters, who beat the rookies’ records in the Ryder Cup and last year’s Portugal Masters champion, Andy Sullivan, were part of the Ryder Cup European team and will be present in Vilamoura, along with former Ryder Cup heroes which, this time, were behind the scenes at the Hazeltine National and return to the Algarve: Thomas Bjørn, Padraig Harrington and Paul Lawrie.

Sullivan will try to replicate its last year fantastic display when he set a new tournament record, winning by a margin of 9 shots.

His Ryder Cup partner, Pieters, a Belgian is capable of long distances also set up the European team Ryder Cup to add 4 points in 5 duels played soon in his debut. And note that last year he finished 6th at Oceanico Victoria Golf Course.

This double will be joined by the 2014 Portugal Masters champion Alex Levy, who recently won his third European Tour title in the Porsche European Open in Germany.

Other Famous Names on Portugal Masters

On the entry list are the Swedish Alex Noren, who has won two tournaments this year and finished 11th in the prestigious Alfred Dunhill Links Championship last week; the “bomber” Spaniard Álvaro Quirós – which retains its affiliation to the Oceânico Victoria Golf Course – and his compatriot Jose Maria Olazabal.

The former double champion of the Masters is one of the greatest ever heroes of the Ryder Cup is a good friend of the Portuguese Ricardo Santos and was away 18 months due to injury but has returned to competition and will also compete in the Algarve.

The most important tournament of Portuguese golf will take place from 20th to 23rd October, with the Pro-Am on the 19th, handing out cash prizes amounting to 2 million euros.