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Boavista hosts Sir Henry Cooper/Mike Reid Charity Golf
Updated: 09-Jun-2005
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• John Virgo, whose team had the best round at Boavista, plays his approach to the 16th
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• Sir Henry and Mike receive the charity donation cheque for £10,000 from Boavista Resort’s Managing Director Phillip Pope
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Leaders from round one, which had been played at Palmares Golf Club on the 16th, were Bad Company with celebrity Kevin Whately of Auf Wiedersehen Pet fame on 82 points, closely followed by teams led by Phil Daniels and Frank McLintock.
The improved weather conditions made scoring easier on day two, but the Bad Company team held their nerve and managed to increase their lead to 3 points after a superb score of 85.
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• Sir Henry Cooper waits to tee off
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The opposition was gathering momentum, however, and snooker stars Willie Thorne and John Virgo, with their Northop GC and Penina Resort teams, scoring well in second and third places.
At the end of play, Phillip Pope, Boavista Resort’s Managing Director, formally welcomed Sir Henry and Mike before presenting them with a cheque for 10,000 pounds Sterling towards the charity. All of the players and their guests then gathered at the Boavista clubhouse for a barbecue with entertainment provided by the Algarve’s own Ilze.
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• Willie Thorne, plays his first tee shot at Boavista
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The final day saw Bad Company struggling around the Penina Championship course to return only 75 points compared to Northop GC’s 82, which left the latter team as outright winners by 4 points on 246, with Penina third on 237. It was a day to remember for Northop’s Rod Kavanagh who had a hole-in-one at Penina’s par 3 at the 8th hole – the first ever hole-in-one in the seven-year history of the tournament.
(In the celebrities individual competition, sprinter Alan Wells (handicap 5) had led the way from day one with two level par rounds at Palmares and Boavista, but had a final round disaster scoring only 28 points and was overtaken by former speedway star Dave Jessup (handicap 3), a Sir Henry Cooper/Mike Reid regular who had a magnificent 38 point score to turn around an 8 point deficit to win by 2 on 102 points. Willie Thorne rounded off a very successful week scoring 99 to finish third.
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