Portugal Master Lessons
with Daniel Silva
PlayBetterGolf has teamed up with ex European Tour player Daniel Silva. This is your chance to benefit from his expertise as a golf pro by taking an individual or group lesson.
Daniel Silva, at the 1992 Jersey Open, holds the distinction of being the only Portuguese player to win on The European Tour (Jose-Filipe Lima is now a Portuguese national. However, in winning the 2004 Aa St Omer Open he was representing France).
Monte Rei Golf Course
It is difficult to describe how beautiful this
2007 Jack Nicklaus designed course is laid out in the natural landscapes of the surrounding hills.
Play-Better-Golf have negotiated a special greenfee rate.
To find out more send us an email
Free transfers
Several hotels in Vilamoura offer free transfer to the nearby Vilamoura courses including:
Victoria, Laguna, Millennium,Pinhal,Old Course
Vale do Lobo and
Quinta do Lago
For your perfect Algarve villa villa-index
Dear Golfing Friends
We are proud to announce the inaugural golf event at Quinta do Lago in support of the Seve Ballesteros and thePortugees Champalimaud Foundation both in aid of cancer research.
The event will now take place 26 and 27 April 2013 . For more information on how to register for the event www.playbettergolf-algarve.com/SBF-Form.html
PlayBetterGolf-Algarve has set a target of raising € 50,000 between the two foundations.
Some new hotel deals we have secured over the last few months are with Hotel do Golfe close to the Old Course and within an easy walking distance of Vilamoura Marina. The hotel is very poplar with golfing groups and offers spacious 3* accommdation. Transfers to the Vilamoura courses are included.
Our new 4* partner is the Monte da Quinta Suites hotel , Quinta do Lago.
In Albuferia we have agreed new contracts with 3* Hotel Topiaz and 4* Apartmento Forte do Vale.
Latest observations from golfers responses we have received.
Palmares is fast becoming one of the favourites. The infrastructure around the course
is now complete. The course itself has 27 magnificent holes with breathtaking ocean views.
Alto GC needs a bit of loving care around the tees and greens.
Best value:
3 round Vale do Lobo Package
3 round Palmares Package
Enjoy your time golfing.
A lesson for all of us.
The tendency to lose one's nerve - or "choke" - was seen in graphic fashion in the Masters at Augusta earlier this year. Rory McIlroy was within touching distance of the Green Jacket when he underwent a devastating implosion.
For a while it was as if he had become a novice again.
Consider what happens when you are learning a task, say driving a car. When you start out, you have to focus intently to move the gearstick while shifting the steering wheel and pushing the clutch. But now consider what happens after hundreds of hours of practice. Now, you can perform these skills effortlessly, without any conscious control. In effect, experts and novices use two completely different brain systems. Long practice enables experienced performers to encode a skill in implicit memory, and they perform almost without thinking about it. Novices, on the other hand, wield the explicit system, consciously monitoring what they are doing as they build the neural framework supporting the task. Choking is triggered when we get so anxious that we seize conscious control over a task that should be executed automatically. The problem was not insufficient focus, but too much focus.
Algarve Golfcourses and what you need to know
If you would like more information about Algarve golfcourses you may want to have a look at
Portugal Masters - Victoria Golfcourse - 13-16 October 2011
British youngster Tom Lewis won the Portugal Masters on Sunday to earn a
European Tour exemption in only his third event as a professional.
Lewis, 20, produced an exhilarating final round of 65, the same score he shot
to lead this year's British Open in the first round, for a total of 267, two strokes better than Spain's Rafael Cabrera-Bello.
After beginning the final round four strokes off the pace there were no early
signs Lewis would pull off such a memorable success.
But a blistering run of four successive birdies from the 14th, including a
stunning 30-foot putt on the short 16th that took him to the top of the
leaderboard, earned him the € 400.000 first prize.
The event was staged for the 5th successive time at the magnicent Oceancio
Victoria golfcourse and is becoming more and more popular with the European tour players. This year Martin Kaymer, Thomas Bjorn, Colin Montgomery,
Padraig Harrington , Paul Lawrie, Ross Fisher, Miguel Angel Jimenez and
Jose Maria Olazabal were among the competing prominent European players.
PlayBetterGolf: receiving some great advise from Miguel Angel Jimenez and Thomas Bjorn during the Portuguees Masters Pro Am
