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1960s cadillac sits under the marquee from the week-end's event.

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A collection of 20 beautiful old cars, from the Ford Model T up to such prestigious classic models as the Cadillac, Mercedes and Bentley came to visit us on Sunday to spend the day relaxing on the estate and golf course, and savour the best food in the province. The Club de Vehiculos Historicos del Puerto de Santa Maria, led by its President Fosco Valimaña Lechuga, left very impressed with the facilities and we hope that some of the club's members will join our community in the future.

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Day 3 of 3
13th October 2006

Friday the 13th saw the local "levante" wind blow making it a difficult day for all. The course designed with the prevailing wind in mind showed all its defences as not one player managed to go under par. The best round of the day came from Portugal's, Antonio Rosado, who showed fine control to finish with a level par 72. His score helped his country to retain first place however England managed to dig deep to force a tie. In the spirit of this event prizes where awarded to both teams and the result tied.
On lookers where very impressed with Portugal's Pedro Figueiredo, at only 15 years of age, he is certainly one to watch.
However, Oliver Fisher was the player of the week winning the individual by 3 clear shots. In his winners speech he thanked Arcos Gardens for holding this event adding that he really enjoyed the course.
We wish all the players good luck for the up coming Eisenhower Trophy in South Africa.

The individual winner, Oliver Fisher (right) with Ashley Northridge, director of golf at Arcos Gardens

Final Day
13th October 2006

TEAM

1st Portugal 426
England 426
3rd Netherlands 433
4th Germany 434

INDIVIDUAL

Position

1st Oliver Fisher ENGLAND 71 64 75 210
2nd Pedro Figueiredo PORTUGAL 69 67 77 213
3rd Maximilian Kramer GERMANY 68 72 74 214
4th Wil Besseling NETHERLANDS 72 69 75 216
5th Antonio Rosado PORTUGAL 71 74 72 217
6th Joao Pedro Sousa PORTUGAL 70 72 76 218
7th Ross McGowan ENGLAND 74 73 73 220
8th Jamie Moul ENGLAND 73 70 80 223
Sean Einhaus GERMANY 72 75 76 223
Stefan Gross GERMANY 75 72 76 223
11th Reiner Saxton NETHERLANDS 78 73 79 230
Tim Sluiter NETHERLANDS 72 72 -- ---
Joost Luiten NETHERLANDS -- 70 75 ---

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Day 2 of 3
12th October 2006

El Dia del Pilar, a national holiday here in Spain did not see the players of this interesting challenge match relaxing, as another perfect day for golf saw scores going low. Pedro Figueiredo of Portugal followed his 69 from yesterday with an easy looking 67 but the 17 year old St Andrews Links Trophy holder, Oliver Fisher moved into first place, carding a near perfect 64 with 8 birdies and no dropped shots. "This amateur star sure showed his class today" said one onlooker.
Oliver's score also aided his country, moving England up to joint first with Portugal.

Peter Mattsson, EGU director of coaching watching his players closely.

TEAM

1st Portugal 278
England 278
3rd Netherlands 283
4th Germany 284

INDIVIDUAL

Position

1st Oliver Fisher ENGLAND 71 64 135
2nd Pedro Figueiredo PORTUGAL 69 67 136
3rd Maximilian Kramer GERMANY 68 72 140
4th Wil Besseling NETHERLANDS 72 69 141
5th Joao Pedro Sousa PORTUGAL 70 72 142
6th Jamie Moul ENGLAND 73 70 143
7th Tim Sluiter NETHERLANDS 72 72 144
8th Antonio Rosado PORTUGAL 71 74 145
9th Sean Einhaus GERMANY 72 75 147
Ross McGowan ENGLAND 74 73 147
Stefan Gross GERMANY 75 72 147
12th Reiner Saxton NETHERLANDS 78 73 151
Joost Luiten NETHERLANDS - 70 -

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A near perfect golfing day with little or no wind encouraged good scoring for the first day of the Arcos Gardens European Challenge. Although fast and true greens gave some defence and stopped a really low score being returned.
The story of the day was Pedro Figueiredo from Portugal who was 6 under after 11 holes but after a double bogey, bogey finish on the tough finishing holes returned a 69.
Portugal lead the team event with a one shot lead over Germany and Maximilan Kramer leads the individual after a very consistent round of 68.

Results
Day 1 of 3
11th October 2006

TEAM

1st Portugal 139
2nd Germany 140
3rd England 144
Netherlands 144

INDIVIDUAL

Position

1st Maximilian Kramer GERMANY 68
2nd Pedro Figueiredo PORTUGAL 69
3rd Joao Pedro Sousa PORTUGAL 70
4th Oliver Fisher ENGLAND 71
Antonio Rosado PORTUGAL 71
6th Wil Besseling NETHERLANDS 72
Tim Sluiter NETHERLANDS 72
Sean Einhaus GERMANY 72
9th Jamie Moul ENGLAND 73
10th Ross McGowan ENGLAND 74
11th Stefan Gross GERMANY 75
12th Reiner Saxton NETHERLANDS 78

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