On the same day of the Nisse Trophy, Balaia Golf organized a very special competition between the regular golfers and the Balaia staff, in a pairs format!
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Sr. Roberto Bachmann, owner of the Balaia Golf Village Resort, teamed up with Engº Gad Ron. On this photo we can see an amused crowd at the ClubHouse watching Sr. Bachmann’s golfing skills!
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Engº Gad Ron holding the flag for Sr. Bachmann’s final putt!
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Engº Rui Justo working his magic on the golf green!
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Engº Justo paired up with Balaia Golf Manager Maria José Pinto!
Engº Justo going for the putt…
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Engº Ron with a good shot over the lake to green #1!
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Maria José Pinto chipping the ball to green #1!
Sr. Roberto Bachmann, Engº Rui Justo, Maria José Pinto and Engº Gad Ron all together for a picture to remember!
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Paulo Queirós, from the financial department, went along with Duncan Sears and showed some skills on the putting!
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Aliete Santos, supervisor from the cleaning department, played with Tony Pharo!
Four golf pro’s on green #1!
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Teresa Cruz, from the Human Resources department, played with Hilary Temple as a team.
How many shots took Teresa to putt this one? 
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Filomena Lindeza, from the reservations department, went on with Balaia owner David Gooderham and got some putting tips from David!
They all had lots of fun!
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Ana Maria, from the administrative services, only took 2 shots to putt her ball. It was very impressive!
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Ana Isabel, from the reservations department, took a couple more shots on the green, but it was just because she was loving it! 
Colin Robinson and Sean O’connaire joined the two Balaia ladies!
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Helena Rodrigues, from the Offices, looking for the best angle to putt!
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João Gonçalves, from the accounting department, strugling on green #1, but he made it!
The group, with Fred Boes and Michael Sum, passing by the bridge, between the 2 lakes, on green #1
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Raquel Silva, from the Golf department, was finding a way to chip in the ball to the green!
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Angela Doros from the garden maintenance, took a tip from Raquel on how to putt her ball!
Raquel and Angela went with Viv Stephens and Julie O’Connaire!
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Daniel Meneses, from the main reception, very concentrated on his putt!
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José Jesus, from the offices, was too close to the hole to miss the shot!
Daniel and José went along with Jorge Crespo and David Bouker
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Luis Guerreiro, from the garden maintenance, was going for a difficult putt!
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José João, also from the garden maintenance, showed some skills with the putter on his hands!
The group, with Rita Green, José João, Jeff Stephens and Luís Guerreiro!
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Carlos Lança, from the golf maintenance, putting his ball on the 1st hole!
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Sofia Gonçalves, from the cleaning department, also had the opportunity to prove her talent on the course!
Carlos and Sofia had Pat Gamalatge and Mary Page as golfing partners!
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Mário Alberto, Balaia head green-keeper, teeing off from the 1st in style!
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José Oliveira, from the marketing department, went on with the Nisse Trophy presenter, norwegian Jan-Gunnar Furu, and did quite well on the green!
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Marcus Cheng, from the golf maintenance, was going for his victory putt on hole #9!
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Rogério Correia, from the main reception, played with David Green!
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Hugo Bonito, from the Golf department, finishing hole #1 with a nice putt!
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João Borges, from the offices, showing a good swing on tee #1!
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Vanderlei, from the garden maintenance, did good on the green!
While some of the Balaia staff went out, playing the competition, the rest of the crowd was having fun watching their colleagues trying to do the best they could on the course!
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Lurdes Lains, from the offices, took the opportunity to catch the moment, taking a photo of the event!
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Balaia Golf Manager Maria José Pinto with the golf crew, coordinating the golf event from tee #1!
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By the end of the tournaments, Balaia Golf Village C.E.O., Engº Rui Justo, presented the award to the Best Nisse winner from the 2 holes competition, and also said a few words, praising the organization of this event!
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and so Marcus Cheng was the winner of the Nisse trophy on the Balaia Staff side!
Marcus played with Eileen Farren, and both were crowned as the best team on the 2 holes pairs Competition!
Sr. Roberto Bachmann ended the ceremony with a final speech, stating he was very proud on how Balaia has developed along the years and about the good relation that has been created amongst all the Balaia staff, and owners, guests and friends of Balaia. All in all, this day was a great success!
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Download the full size group photo of the event here: http://www.versatilealbums.com/dloads/golf%20group.jpg
(photo taken by Balaia Owner Colin Robinson)
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Hallo to the “putting familie” of Balaia!
This comment is coming late, some technical problem.
Looking at the pictures makes me feel glad, because it seems that everyone had a good time! It is not so very often you can see a director down on his knees on a golf green! Thanks to Maria and her staff for a great idea for that kind of competition! And to Jose Oliveira; after you put the birdie on the 9th i am very sorry to put my first teeshot in the water on the1th!! If not, you had won? We do it necst year! But Marcus was a great winner!!
Event like this is very often included in team building, so maybe it is a start of doing something like this, for Balaia, also in the future? Invest in people!!!
All the very best from Aase and Jan-G Furu
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