2016: Away Trip Mar Menor (10.-12.5.)

Venue: Hotel Intercontinental, Mar Menor Golf Resort,

10^th – 12^th May 2016

This year our annual Away Trip took us to the Mar Menor.  We stayed at the Hotel InterContinental at the Mar Menor Golf Resort & Spa, a first-class hotel with lots of amenities for the non-golfers and the Mar Menor Golf Course attached to the hotel plus some other courses nearby.  The trip was fully booked with 36 players and 12 non-golfers which meant that unfortunately some of the players on the waiting list could not be accommodated.

Each day we played Individual Stableford with daily prizes and accumulative prizes at the end of the tour.  On the second day, in addition to the individual competition, we had also a team game and the gamblers among us had a chance to bet on the winning team.

On the first day we played the Mar Menor course which suited especially those players who had arrived the day before and could enjoy a leisurely breakfast before venturing out onto the course.  The second day saw us at the nearby El Valle and on the third day, on the way home, we stopped at the Hacienda Riquelme Golf course for our final game and final prize giving.

There were some very good daily results with

Bob Crow winning on day 1 with 36 points,
Angel Centenera winning on day 2 with 39 points, after, according to his own statement, very little sleep the night before,
and Sandra Woodfine winning on day 3 with 40 points.

The overall winners for the three days, were two formidable ladies, with Pascale Leroux coming second scoring a total of 99 points and our very own Captain Jan Boultbee winning with a total score of 102 points.

The Captain also continued with her special “secret” prizes of a bag of golf balls and the recipients can be spotted in the picture gallery of the trip. So we are left wondering ….

A great big thank you goes to our Captain Jan and her helpers, especially also to her Vice-Captain Gordon, for the superb organisation on and off the golf course. We all had a fantastic time, the hotel was very good, the food in the two different hotel restaurants was delicious and we struggled to eat it all.  So sum it up, another Away Trip which was extremely enjoyable for both the golfers and “the Ladies who lunched”.