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Details of our Golf Smarter adventure to
Portugal with Tara Fox and Alan Tullis.

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This is Golf Smarter together. They
are travel made impressive t MII Golf and

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been doing this for a number of
years. And this is to talk about

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the next Golf Smarter adventure and that
is to Portugal. That's right, Alan,

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if you done this trip already,
yes, tell me about this trip.

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This is based you know that we're
based around Lisbon, and then move

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on to Villa Mura, which is
the golf capital of Portugal. Golf courses

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are stunning. Most of them are
very very mature Portuguese golf courses with umbrella

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pines. Villemura is a golf destination
is really not that well known because it's

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not that old, right, No, I would think probably the Seventh Ace,

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was it? The golf started to
grow in the seven Ace in Portugal.

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People from the UK trap when they
built a lot of the courses.

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Is that right? Yeah, And
so let's talk about the golf courses we're

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going to play. Now. There's
five golf courses in Villemora. Yeah,

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we've got scheduled for three of them. But if somebody wants to play all

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five that can be worked out right, Oh, absolutely absolutely. Within the

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area there is probably a lot more
golf courses than just five outside Villa Mura.

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If somebody wants to play that that
can be arranged for them at play

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something like that. Well, let's
talk about how we're going to break this

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up, because this is a couple's
trip. We're inviting golfers to bring their

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partners with them, whether they play
golf or not, which I'm doing.

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I'm going to be bringing my wife
who doesn't play golf. What are the

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activities that they get to do while
we're playing golf? First, and we're

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in Lisbon. When you guys arrive, we have a walking tour of Lisbon.

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Lisbon's a very historical city, as
most people know, and you know,

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you can do a ton of things. Once we go down to Villemura.

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When the golfers are on the course, I think your wife is going

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to be taking the non golfers possibly
as everything's optional. But we have a

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boat trip arranged to see the Bengali
caves and the coast of the al Ghar.

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Alan can tell you more about the
beauty of the Ylghar of the coastline

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there. But you also have the
option, depends on how busy your wife

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wants to be, but they do
have wine tasting, they do have walking

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tours as well there, so if
you're a non golfer, there's a ton

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to do. Also, I'll let
him talk about the port. You know,

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Villamora itself is quite interesting, lovely
lunch spots, very Portuguese. But

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there's also beautiful beaches there, right, gorgeous. I mean you just go

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hang out at the beach. We
are going to be there in September where

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the weather should be great. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, beaches are beautiful.

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Most beaches have got beach bars on
beach restaurants, so you can be

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relaxed on the beach and move up
to the bar for launch, have some

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wine, some tapis. It's all
there for you. Fish a lot of

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fish, fresh fish. The food
there, the Mediterranean food diet, I

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mean, it's unbelievable. Everything is
so fresh. You feel your body feels

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better when you're over there. It's
amazing. And it's the southern part of

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the Atlantic part for Portugal, it's
not far from the Mediterranean. No.

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So the trip again is going to
be September fifth through the thirteenth, twenty

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twenty four. We're going to have
a total of twelve people, so it's

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me and my wife Joanne and five
other couples who are going to be doing

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this. Alan. Let's talk about
each of the three golf courses that we

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will we will be playing, so
let's talk about those three. First,

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Pinhall Pinhall. It was originally called
Ville Mura number two when it was first

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built. The courses were called Villa
Mura one, two and three when they

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first built the three courses, and
this was Villa Mutter two. It's a

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very tight kind of Portuguese courst with
umbrella pines up and down each side of

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the fairway, and there's a belief
that there's ninety percent and air through these

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trees, but I don't believe that
because I've tried it a few times.

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Doesn't work. It's like a screen
door ninety but good luck. It's always

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in very good condition. It's got
beautiful barome terraces overlooking the driving range.

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First tea and tenth t are not
far away, so you can either start

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back nine or front nine. And
the greens are tight, gabrid small greens,

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usually very fast. They're grainy,
which means that like you know,

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the greens will be running fast one
way, slow the other way, So

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people do find this a huge challengees
golf course. Oh boy, do we

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have a handicap qualification here? Do
you have to have a certain handicap to

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sign up for this trip? No, they as long as you've got a

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handicap, they're normally quite comfortable letting
you on. They don't ask for handicap

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very often. Now, good,
good to know. Yeah, all right,

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so what about our second course?
Second course would be Millennium Millennium which

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was originally Villa Mura number three,
which was split into two courses, one

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called Laguna and one called Millennium,
which was one course there is now it's

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now two courses, which the Millennium
comes from the year two thousand, so

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of course is not super old millennium. But again nine nine holes are in

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the Umbrella Pines which around a beautiful
estate houses on the golf course. They're

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not close to the course but you
can actually see them through the trees and

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it's again a very nice, nice
set up. These courses are not super

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long, they're like mainly go on
the keep the ball in a fairway.

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Of course course management you know,
keep the ball in a fairly enjoy your

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golf. It's a nice, nice
area to play golf. We call that

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golf smarter. And our third course
that we're playing. Third course is classified

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now is that was wille Murham one
and it's now classified as the Old course.

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It is a real challenges golf course. It's got a great reputation in

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Portugal as well as the rest of
the world of being a great golf course.

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They've all they've held quite a few
things there, like the Portuguese Opens,

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been out there a few years back. To me, it's one of

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the best golf courses to play,
very very similar to the setup and maybe

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you know, like maybe like a
Walderama with the umbrella pines dog legs to

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the left. You know, you've
got to think of you know where you're

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gonna hit your t shirt too.
You love that course. Yeah, yeah,

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We've played a lot of time and
it beats you up every time.

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Do we need to bring extra balls? Is that we're taking Definitely most of

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the holes. That's hard to lose
the ball because it doesn't go far.

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Once you hit these trees, it
brings you down to earth again, like

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you know, your three hundred yard
drives are gone. Have you ever had

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other than those three rounds of golf. There's other activities we're going to be

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doing in Villamora. Is like a
boat ride, well, it's about right.

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They have these incredible cave called the
Bengali Caves. It's something that people

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do there all the time. So
they see the coast of Alghar, which

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is gorgeous, just the pretty cliffs
and cliffs and beaches that go on forever

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all the way along that Algave coast. You know, there's just a lot

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of walking and you know that we
could do walking trips in that as well

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around Algarth, just to see these
places. Yeah, make sure you bring

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your walking shoes because that's you know, the Europeans and especially the Portuguese are

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You really don't drive anywhere, right, They have great lunch spots. You'll

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be walking everywhere. It's just the
lifestyle. The culture there is so fascinating

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phenomenal Villemora is not a traditional Portuguese
area, but there are activities, there

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are things around there that are traditional
Portuguese correct, Yes, yeah, back

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off the marina. You have a
lot of proper Portuguese essions. Even on

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the Marina. There is some really
good Portuguese ressions still which give you a

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lot of choice on Portuguese food.
They eat basically a lot of fish and

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they do quite a bit of steak
as well. Okay, all the food's

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good that people eat there. You
know. I had to trip down there

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in September and they we're all great
there here. Everybody enjoyed their time and

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it's not overpriced. That's one thing
about Portugal is not overpriced. You go

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there, Villa Mura is probably the
most expensive place in Portugal. It's nothing

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compared to what prices were charged in
America. Wow. Oh, that's really

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good to know. So we're going
to set a deadline here of July fifteenth

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for people to sign up because again
the trip is September fifth through the thirteenth.

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Arrive on the fourth and the trip
will start on the fifth, and

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we'll do a couple days in Lisbon. We do an overnight in Lisbon,

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so you'll do the walking tour when
you arrive on the fifth, and then

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the next day we're there for most
of the day and then we head down

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to Villamora. And tell me about
how how we get to Villamora and how

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long it takes, well, we
have a bus for your trip, and

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then how long does it take?
On? Two hours and thirty minutes down.

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And then the good thing is that
on the way back we'll come back

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to Lisbon via the bus, but
we'll be staying at an hotel at the

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airport, so that you can either
get a late night flight or a first

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thing in the morning flight and you
don't have to really worry about hassling that

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exactly. That was a great plan. Thank you for doing that. Everybody

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likes to fly their different airlines and
different points, and everybody leaves at different

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times, so it's a lot easier
just to be close to the airport so

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you can pop on your plate.
So this is going to be a lot

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of fun. I really encourage every
Golf Smart listener to check their calendar,

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check their spouse, check a buddy
if you know, like if you don't

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have a spouse, you don't have
a partner, but you want to invite

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somebody, invite them and we'll all
have friends at the end of the trip.

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But bring your friends along as well. So one more time. It

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is going to be September fifth through
the thirteenth, twenty twenty four, we're

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limiting the size of the group small
group, and you need to sign up

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by July fifteenth, twenty twenty four
to get your space in. There's always

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people who cancel at the last minute, so don't worry about thinking that you

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didn't make it in. Just go
ahead and sign up. And nobody is

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confirmed until we get the full group
size, so please sign up and we

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can discuss more of it later.
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