ON the FAIRWAYS
BUNCLODY
June 19, singles stableford: 1, Alan Murphy (10), 37 points; 2, David Nolan (13), 36 points.
June 20, Senior open: 1, Paul Weldon (12, Elm Park), 43 points; 2, Billy Mernagh (14, Callan), 38 points; 3, Gerry McKenna (15, Grange), 38 points; best lady, Deirdre Killeen (29, Galway), 29 points.
June 21, ladies’ three-person waltz: 1, Terri Byrne (6), Margaret Moore (10), Lucy Healy (13), 87 points; 2, Fran Crean (23), Ann Cowman (31), Monica Mernagh (36), 74 points.
June 22, Wednesday open singles: 1, Liam Martin (19), 42 points; 2, Michael Kavanagh (4, Woodenbridge), 38 points; 3, Simon Jones (6), 37 points.
BALLYMONEY
Singles stableford, June 18-19: 1, Andrew Byrne (18), 41 points; 2, Dermot Noctor (18), 40 points; 3, Richard Doyle (16), 40 points.
Wednesday nine-hole: 1, Paul O’Brien (14), 19 points; 2, Shane Fox (11), 18 points; 3, Mark Miskella (7), 18 points, holding off Mike O’Grady, Paddy McNulty and Tommy Dunne.
Out of a big field only three players broke 80 strokes in the June medal from the back tees, indicating tough conditions. Eugene O’Brien Jnr. (14) won gold with 80 strokes.
Mark Read (15) won silver with 81 and Anthony D (11) won bronze with 78 strokes. Leighton Gleeson (6) shot the best round with 77 strokes.
The first round matchplay results will be included in next week’s report.
COURTOWN LADIES
Saturday, June 25, was lady President Ann Bernie’s prize. The weather was lovely and the course was in great condition.
There was a very full timesheet and a packed clubhouse for the presentation. Lady President Ann thanked her family and everybody involved in making her day a success.
Standard scratch was 74 and the winner was Sorcha Howell (4), 71. Second was Maria Coone (11) with 71, and the gross was won by Caroline Hewitt (7) with 80.
Third was Gretta Duke (22) with 73, followed by Denise Kavanagh (14) on 74 (countback), Mary Grogan (29) on 74, Ann Duggan (25) on 75 (countback), Jill Quinlan (30) on 75, and Pat Kinsella (20) on 76.
The past Presidents category was won by Irene Poole (22) with 80.
Juniors: 1, Hannah Morrissey (33), 47 points; 2, Muireann O’Connor (25), 34 points.
Nine-hole: 1, Sally Fleming (36), 15 points; 2, Muriel Richards (28), 14 points.
Men’s nine-hole: 1, Noel Ivanoff (7), 20 points; 2, Harry Poole (23), 19 points.
The Tuesday, June 21, competition was sponsored by Luca Boutique Gorey.
First with a great score of 42 points was Stella Courtney (18), and second went to Cecilia O’Riordan (26) with 39 points.
Third was Pat Kinsella (21) with 38 points, and the category winners were: A, Catherine Quinn (17), 33 points; B, Allyson McPartland (27), 37 points; C, Jo O’Hara (36), 35 points.
Nine holes: 1, Hannah Morrissey (33), 19 points; 2, Susanne Hall (25), 16 points.
COURTOWN
Well done to our Duggan Cup team on a great win, and hard luck to our J.B. Carr team and Senior Cup team. Well done to all involved.
Congratulations to Sorcha Howell on winning the lady President’s prize.
Lifeboat benefit day, two-person team event, Wednesday, June 22: 1, Danny Dixon (17), Kevin Horan (11), 61 points; 2, Dean Davis (8), Harry Poole (23), 56 points; 3, Lee Kinsella (16), Simon Doran (15), 55 points.
ENNISCORTHY
The regional qualifying tournament for the AIG Senior Cup took place in Enniscorthy on Saturday and Sunday.
Fourteen teams entered the weekend hoping to advance to the next stage of the competition.
The Senior Cup is the premier competition in club golf and Enniscorthy was graced with some of the best golfers in the region over the weekend, playing singles matchplay off scratch.
Our Senior Cup team unfortunately lost on a scoreline of 3.5 to 1.5 to Arklow on Saturday morning. Commiserations to manager Michael Coffey and his team of Maurice Donohoe, Paul Lynch, Jason Rackard, Alistair Rennick and Martin Sludds.
Kilkenny and Rosslare contested the final on Sunday afternoon, and for a change it was Wexford getting the upper hand over Kilkenny, with 2014 Leinster champions Rosslare overcoming Kilkenny on a scoreline of 3.5 to 1.5.
Gents’ stableford competition sponsored by Mr Oil, June 18 and 19 (145 played; S.S., 36 points on Saturday and 35 points on Sunday): 1, Barry O’Neill (22), 41 points; 2, Alan Franklin (8), 40 points; gross, Jason Rackard (0), 35 points; 3, Garrett O’Gorman (19), 39 points; 4, Brian Sinnott (10), 39 points (back nine); 5, Martin Sludds (5), 38 points (back nine); Senior, Jim Doran (13), 30 points.
Nine-hole midweek, June 22, sponsored by Tom Kirwan (88 played): overall, James Foley (9), 22 points; Category 1, Nicky Murphy (9), 20 points (last two); Category 2, Tim Morrissey (13), 21 points; Category 3, Nick Casey (15), 21 points; Category 4, Tommy Kinlough (22), 21 points.
The presentation will be on June 29. Next week’s sponsors are the Post Office staff.
Our in-house Senior men’s group called ‘The Brittle Bones Society’ played last Monday week, and the three-man winning team in scramble formats was Paddy Kelly, Kieran Maloney and Gordon Radloff with 52 points.
On Thursday the winners with 51.6 points were Michael Dee, Paddy Kelly and Mattie Mernagh. Both games were over 15 holes.
Congratulations to each and every one of our winners and a big thank you to all our sponsors.
There is a fantastic new offer available to anyone thinking of starting to play golf available at the club. We call it ‘give golf a try’. It is a ‘learn to play’ membership for just €150.
For this you get three months’ membership which is available Monday to Friday, a group clinic with our resident professional, Stephen Fitzpatrick, on course mentoring with some of our ‘seasoned’ members, free use of golf clubs if you don’t have any for the clinic, and special ‘learn to play’ competitions.
There is a limited availability on numbers for this so act fast if you wish to avail of this new and innovative idea over the summer months.
If you should then decide that you would like to join as a full member, there is no joining fee and we will deduct the €150 that you have already paid from your annual subscription. Now that is what you call a deal! If you know of anyone who might be interested in this offer then please encourage them to take it up, a great way to spend the summer months.
Utilise it as a treat for the Leaving Cert. students before they start third level.
Our new competition to the calendar recently started and is gaining in popularity judging by the number of players rising every week, the ladies’ and gents’ open singles.
It is scheduled to be on almost every Monday until the end of September.
The entry fee is €5 for members and €10 for visitors. It is open to all membership categories.
If you know of anyone who might be interested in this competition then please bring them along.
Where else would you get such great golfing facilities for €10?
Next month’s sponsor of the gents’ monthly Seniors is Caulfield’s SuperValu and the competition date is July 14.
The draw for our club singles/club fourball took place recently and the finish date for the singles preliminary round has now passed. The second round has to be completed by July 10.
The first round fourball has to be completed by July 13. There will be no extensions to the completion dates.
The only rule change this year is in the club fourball where the 3/4 handicap difference has been replaced by 9/10. All matches are off of the blue pins.
We have another classic shortly hosted by Wexford Ladies’ Gaelic Football on July 1, and the cost is €200 per team of four, meal included.
For further information and timesheet ring Denis Nolan on 086-8111878. The slots are almost full so get in quick if you want to play.