Golf Tournament 2011

The 23rd Pinmar Yachtsman’s Golf Tournament, “The Pinmar” co-sponsored by Awlgrip, held in October at the stunning Son Gual Golf course in Mallorca, raised a new record of €67,000 for its nominated charities.

372 players took part in the tournament, 860 guests attended the prize-giving dinner at the Come Fly With Me Theatre, and over 100 sponsoring companies and 80 volunteers supported the four-day event, all helping to make it a great success. The money raised will go to several charities including Yacht Aid Global, which delivers aid to remote coastal communities, and Allan Graham 4 Kidz, which helps disadvantaged children and young people throughout Mallorca.

In addition to Awgrip’s generous donation of € 10,000, the charity total was boosted by two further exceptional contributions. The ‘Ugly Sisters’ bar, operated by Roger Horner of e3 Group and Richard Gardner of Global Services with great support from Amanda Butler as “Sinderella”, made an amazing €11,300 on the golf course. This total was helped along by dozens of generous donations including Captain Richard Hutchinson who paid the highest price of €1,600 for a single drink. They also raised another €6,000 from Lee McGuire of LM Group and David Ireland of Deckers for the honour of running the bar next year.

The second extraordinary donation came in surprising fashion at the Prizegiving Dinner.
Due to a combination of bad luck and an absence of babysitters, Beaugeste, the overall winners of the tournament, were unable to collect the Pinmar Trophy so a spontaneous auction occurred to see who would hold the trophy for the year. Derik Wagner of MTN Satellite Communications won with a fantastic donation of € 10,200 but he was pushed all the way by Wade de Claris of GibOil.

We would like to thank everyone who made the tournament such a success, including the sponsors, players, guests and volunteers.

The dates for The Pinmar 2012 are 10 – 13 October 2012.

Dear All,

We have just about recovered from an epic golf weekend with you all in Palma.

I have been fortunate to see at first hand how the Pinmar Golf Tournament (The Pinmar) has grown over the past 20 years or so but having not attended for the past couple of years I was blown away by the quality of what The Pinmar has become. It has always been fun but, from what was once a hack around followed by a cowboy show, you have now managed to create the equivalent of a PGA event followed by a Las Vegas show.

For the guests, what could be easier? At the price of a decent meal you are met at the airport, transported to your hotel and then pampered by event after event in a seamless pattern. When you multiply that by the hundreds that attend we can only marvel at the amount of organisation that goes into making the Pinmar the social event of the yachting calendar.

Please send our thanks to all the team who work so hard to make our life so easy.

Kindest regards,
John Clark 

Dear Nick, Eva and all at Pinmar

Thank you so very much for a great long weekend of fun!

We all enjoyed it so much.

With best wishes

John & Lala Masters

Dear all, 
Just want to say what a fabulous event.  Everything was so well organised and it was a lot of fun.
Stephanie Wink from Giboil

Dear all,
A really good Golf event, gala dinner, Friday party and overall experience. I appreciate the hard work and effort that you and the teams of volunteers put in.  I also understand that is has been a good charity year as well despite tough times.
Many thanks
Ps Remy -- big THANK YOU for Cathy too.
Ralph Crane
Director
Fiducio Limited

 
Dear Nick and Eva,
I just wanted to thank you for a Pinmar that was simply bigger, brighter and more fun than ever, something that you have all worked very hard to achieve.
We can’t wait until next year and hope to see you soon!
Kind regards,
Jim
Jim Acher

Ocean Independence

 
Dear Nick, Eva and Remy,
Thank you so much for an fantastic event last week culminating in an outstanding evening on Saturday (ending way into Sunday morning!)
As you know, this was my first time attending the dinner and it was clear to see the enormous efforts put into organising such an event – it really was most impressive! Congratulations!
Best regards
Rupert
Rupert Savage - Managing Director
R.S. Finishing & Refinishing

Nick,
Just a short note to thank you and all your team for what can only be described as another first class event. It is 11 years since I last attended and hope to reduce the time gap down for the next one!
You certainly have your work cut out for future events, with the bar now being set so high!
Lastly, congratulations on the incredible sum raised for charity. Great to know that we are able to return something to the community.
Best regards, Chris
Chris Woodd
Captain
M.Y. Mylin IV

 
Hi Eva,
Would like to say a big thank you from the S/Y AGLAIA crew, to you and your team for hosting such a well organised and fun event. 
This is the first year some of us have been involved, and it certainly has inspired us to book time off for Pinmar next year. As volunteers on the bar, we felt looked after with all the check ups from you and your team, and therefore enjoyed our time very much.
Hope you can catch a breath now before starting next years!
Kind regards,
Chief Stewardess Laura Cubie 
S/Y Aglaia