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  • GOLF BACK IN FORCE FOR ITALIAN PORTO SANTO


    Porto Santo Golf lived in recent days with moments of great handling the presence of a large number of golfers Italians who chose this week during a field to the practice of their mode of election Foral the 140 golfers who in recent days marked assiduous presence on the Field of golf, practicing, practicing and taking part in several competitions held. Giving substance to an idea that was born last year, the Porto Santo Golf in partnership with the professional Italian Lorenzo Golse and with the sponsorship of the Italian operator i Viaggi di Atlantide, organized the "2nd Pro-Am Italy", proof in that 35 professional shared the golf course with 105 amateurs. For two days the 35 teams progressed with very balanced results that determined the winner with just over a point of advantage over the other two teams that completed the podium. The winning team at the end of two days of competition was composed by Andrea Zanini professional and amateur by Ivan Rosa, Danielle Squassina and Maria Teresa Pollonini, which somou 279 strokes. In 2nd place toys is the team of Giovanni Catturani, while the 3rd place was the formation of Dario Colloi, which was included in the port-Santo Paulo Silva, who somou 280 strokes. The professionals also differed a third day of competition, the 4th exhibition, this time already playing without the company of amateurs, to determine the winner of evidence and access to Prizzi-money which was 32500.00 dollars. The big winner was ultimately Emanuelle Bolognesi somou the three days that 225 strokes, compared with 228, Andrea Zani (2nd) and Zanini 231, Michelle (3rd). Already amateurs differed in the 4th test in a fair stableford, the "Gara Italy-Porto Santo Santo", with golfers divided into three categories. 18 holes were very disputed with the winners to be Samuele Ferrari (1st Class), Giovanni Bobbio (2nd category), with the port-to Santo Bruno Sousa 2, with 38 points and Massimo Cesc (3rd class). Of course, this week and these three tests have been disputed many special awards, a total of 12 awards divided among the longest drive and the balls closer. At the Organization dispute did an event at "putting green", which consisted in which each player, in return for 10.00 euros, made a return to the area of 9 holes of practice putts, winning the one who makes fewer strokes. The winners were not important, since the major objective of proof was raising some funds to support the organization "Birdie for Life", an institution that supports abandoned children and needy. All these developments of the golfers were followed by a television crew that in addition to the golf course brought together many images of the island of Porto Santo, to serve as a reason for issuing the two programs in Italian channel Sky 3.

  • “German Business Masters”.

    Porto Santo Golf will be the final stage this year's most important amateur golf tournament of the companies which will be held in Germany, the already known "German Business Masters."
    In 2006, in Baden Baden, near Frankfurt, met with the Organization of the German Business Masters, "representatives of the Association for the Promotion of Madeira and the three golf courses of Madeira, in the sense that, along with all the sponsors that important event in golf, determine and settle the details so that the end of the tournament would be held Madeira. Here it was agreed that, for three years, "German Business Masters" was carried out in the fields Madeira, the first in Santo da Serra (2006), then the Palheiro (2007) and finally in Porto Santo Golf in 2008.
    So this year, the Porto Santo will receive such prestigious tournament, which will take place between days 6 and Nov. 9, and present all the winners and ranked first of the twelve tournaments Germans, who over the years have been conducted on the and several cities in Germany where it already has the participation of more than 1,500 golfers, have always had the opportunity to hear the fate of Porto Santo and Madeira. This is because whenever the Region was represented by the most diverse environments, from advertisements in newspapers, and especially in the decoration of the Club House, with advertising leaflets and pamphlets and even with pedestrian crossings that called attention to the Madeira and Porto Santo, as tourist destination of choice for the German people.
    The "German Business Masters" every year brings together some of the great German businessmen linked to several areas of the economy in this country and therefore the major sponsor of the event is the German economic newspaper "Handelsblatt", but it has other important partners, cases of Alfa Romeo, Jobsforfinance, Euro Hypo, among others, and with a strong presence in German television, through Artiv TV,

  • By now it differed eleven evidence counts towards the 2008 edition of "Business German Masters," which went through cities such as Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, Dusseldotf, among others, and the next day 9th of October, in Munich, we will stay the learning about the latest findings to the German final which will take place in Porto Santo and where will be the best falling to an exciting end is expected, given that will meet the 80 best golfers in German business, an event that in Porto Santo has the unqualified support of the Association for the Promotion of Madeira and "Hotel Porto Santo," unit responsible for the stay of all participants. In Porto Santo Golf, which also invested in this Organization, will be found the representatives for the German World Cup final of the World Business (World Corporate Golf Challenge).
    The German market is very important to Porto Santo and especially for golf, which is the second best market, next to Italian, who in the past two years has had a very strong growth, driven by direct flights from Milan and Rome. However, the Germans because of their large presence in Madeira, were always present in the market over Golden Island.
    After the "PRO-AM Italy", which will take place from October 30 to November 5, with the presence of 140 golfers Italians, the very next day, the November 6, we have the arrival of 85 Germans who will stay until the 9th, which will result in an extraordinary move in Porto Santo Golf, causing about a thousand "rounds", and with reflexes insurance in the local economy.