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ST. HELEN’S
The final Seniors’ open of the season attracted a big entry. Generously sponsored by the Kilrane Inn, the competition was fierce.
The ‘young fellows’ in the 50 to 65 age group produced a tight finish with Peter just getting the better of John on the back nine. In the over-66 section, the leading Old Timer proved to be Terry, with a fine score of 42 points. The best of luck with your new 18 handicap.
We welcomed our friends from Foxrock Golf Club on Saturday for the Clare Redmond Trophy. Well done to the two Brians and Brona. In the team event, Foxrock retained the trophy with a narrow win over an unlucky home side of Aidan Colgan, Terry O’Toole, Pat Murphy and Gerry Byrne.
Our club outing takes place on Saturday, October 1, to Coollattin. If you haven’t already booked your place, do so right away as places are limited.
Results (gents) - Thursday, September 15, Seniors open (Kilrane Inn) - 50 to 65: 1, Peter Smith (14), 39 points (countback); 2, John Codd (16), 39 points; 66 plus: 1, Terry O’Toole (20), 42 points; 2, Gay Redmond (17, Foxrock), 38 points (countback).
Saturday, September 17, Clare Redmond Trophy: 1, Brian Cawley (15), 41 points; 2, Brian Dalton (26), 40 points; 3, Brona Cloonan (22), 39 points; front nine, Chris Dowling (19), 21 points; back nine, Bernadette Tully (30), 20 points; sponsors’ prize, Brian Rankin (24, Stackstown), 36 points; team prize, Foxrock - Paul Stirrat (6), Alan Stirrat (6), Mark Stirrat (13), Gerardine Stirrat (17), 111 points; St. Helen’s Bay - Gerry Byrne (14), Pat Murphy (18), Aidan Colgan (22), Terry O’Toole (18), 108 points.
Results (ladies) - open singles stableford, Wednesday, September 14 (S.S. 75, 33 points; red tees): 1, Breda Horlacher (Edmondstown, 20), 28 points; 2, Mary O’Kelly (Edmondstown, 21), 26 points; 3, Anne Goode (Edmondstown, 27), 21 points.
Open Seniors stableford, Thursday, September 15 (S.S. 74, 34 points; red tees): 1, Gerardine Smith (24), 32 points (24); 2, Siobhán Cronin (Ballyneety, 16), 31 points; 3, Ann Parkinson (23), 28 points (22).
Fixtures (ladies and gents): Wednesday, September 21, open singles; Saturday, September 24, open singles; Sunday, September 25, open singles; Wednesday, September 28, open singles.
BLACKWATERSOCIETY
The Society’s outing on September 11 was held in Seafield, with 18 members playing.
Results: 1, Ger Corrigan (17), 29; 2, Paddy O’Connor (10), 30; 3, Don Malanowski (20), 28; Cat. 1, Michael Byrne (14), 26; Cat. 2, Simon Kelly (19), 25; Cat. 3, Paul O’Reilly (24), 19; front nine, Seán Whelan (10), 14; back nine, R.J. Blake (12), 15; twos competition, no winner.
The next outing is in New Ross on Saturday, September 24. As this is the final outing for the current year, the trophy for player of the year will be awarded to the member with the highest aggregate score from a total of nine out of ten outings this year.
In addition we will also have the finale to the champions contest between the nine winners from outings one to nine. This will be contested by the following nine members: R.J. Blake, Stephen Murphy, Kevin Quigley, Nicky Curran, Alan Busher, Tom Corrigan, John Roche, Paul O’Reilly and Ger Corrigan. Good luck to everyone.
WEXFORDLADIES
It continues to be busy for our ladies in Wexford what with matchplay, club competitions and training for our two teams through to the All-Ireland Cups and Shields next weekend. The following are the results for the last couple of weeks as I was on holidays, playing golf in much hotter conditions in Spain!
Monday, August 29, Seniors: 1, Eileen Burke-O’ Keeffe (22), 31 points; 2, Mary Fallon (32), 30 points; 3, Pat Flanagan (31), 27 points (back four); 4, Helen McGuire (21), 27 points (back four).
Thursday, September 1, invitational fourball sponsored by Barker’s: 1, Tara Dunne (5) and Catherine Young (23), 42 points; 2, Denise Dunne (19) and Mags Mooney (8), 41 points; gross, Ruth Kennedy (5) and Joan Bowe (13), 30 points; 3, Leonie Furlong (12) and Bernie Furlong (18), 40 points; nine-hole, Marie Brady (16), 19 points; nearest the pin, Margaret Atkinson, 1m.
Monday, September 5, Seniors: 1, Róisín Leahy (34), 28 points; 2, Una Robinson (21), 27 points (back seven); 3, Una Doherty (30), 27 points (back seven).
Thursday, September 8, singles stableford sponsored by Carraig Donn and 3Ts qualifier: 1, Mary Fallon (32), 42 points; 2, Mary Cashe (33), 41 points; gross, Tara Dunne (5), 31 points; 3, Ruth Kennedy (5), 34 points (back nine); Senior, Phil Flood (28), 34 points; nine-hole, Rose Morris (15), 15 points; nearest the pin, Mary Robinson, nine ft.; 3T’s qualifier, Mary Cashe.
Monday, September 12, Seniors: 1, Phil Flood (28), 25 points (back seven).
Thursday, September 15, was for the Eleanor Conway Perpetual Trophy sponsored by Home Instead Senior Care. Scotch foursomes was the format and it was a very successful few weeks for both Mary Fallon and Tara Dunne who teamed up to scoop the first prize and get their names on Eleanor’s trophy!
Results: 1, Tara Dunne and Mary Fallon (13.6), 70.4; 2, Theresa Kehoe and Margaret Atkinson (12), 71; gross, Rachel O’Connor and Ruth Kennedy (5.8), 78; 3, Anna Sullivan and Sally O’Neill (20.4), 72.6; nine-hole, Pauline O’Neill (17), 13 points; nearest the pin, Mary Fallon, five ft. three inches.
A huge thank you to everybody who supported our very enjoyable table quiz last Tuesday, with the funds raised going towards defraying the cost of our panels going to the All-Irelands.
Best wishes to the Junior Cup and Challenge Cup teams in the All-Irelands next week in Dundalk. The Junior Cup are playing Belvoir Park on Thursday at 12 noon followed by the Challenge Cup who are playing the winners of Headfort/Co. Sligo on Friday at 11.15 a.m. Supporters are both welcome and appreciated.
Thanks also to all who supported the coffee morning in aid of Hospice last Thursday. We raised €359 for this very worthy cause.
ROSSLARE
For the first time in almost 20 years, Rosslare hosted a very successful Pro-Am on Saturday. A total of 48 professionals from throughout the country competed.
There were two shotgun starts - one at 8 a.m. and one at 2 p.m. - with 24 teams in each draw. The course was in immaculate condition and received high praise from professionals and amateurs alike.
The winner of the pro event with a great score of five under 67 was David Barry (Douglas). He had two shots to spare over a group of three - Colm Moriarty (Drive Golf), former Wexford pro, Damien McGrane, and Mark Murphy who, until last October, was assistant pro in Rosslare.
On two under par 70 were David Higgins (Waterville), Kenny Fahey (G.U.I. National Academy), David Ryan (Cahir Park) and Brian Walton (Island).
Team event: 1, Tim Rice (Limerick), Tom Barrett, Paul Barrett, Adrian Usher, 94 points; 2, David Higgins (Waterville), Bill Connolly, Billy Fanning, Rich Howlin, 92 points; 3, Mark Whelan (Castlewarden), John Barron, Ray Quin, Kevin Foran; 4, David Foley (Dromoland Castle), John Diviney, Tom Close, Michael Horgan; 5, Kenny Fahey (G.U.I. National Academy), Jim Goggin, Robin Gardner, Ned Kinsella; 6, Mick O’Shea (Rathsallagh), S. Redmond, M. Brennan, P. O’Farrell.
On Friday evening, despite heavy rain, a big crowd attended a clinic given by Damien McGrane and Hazel Kavanagh, former tour player on the European Ladies’ Tour. They were also guest speakers at a dinner in Kelly’s Resort Hotel, the main sponsors of the Pro-Am.
The main benefactors from the Pro-Am were St. Patrick’s Special School and Wexford Hospice Homecare.
The committee were very pleased with the success of the day and would like to thank everyone who helped make it so successful. A special thanks to the main sponsor, Bill Kelly of Kelly’s Resort Hotel, everyone who sponsored teams and tee boxes, and all who contributed in any way to make it such a success.
Wednesday singles (C.S.S. 35): 1, Denis Asple (10), 46 points; 2, Denis Noonan (4), 39 points; 3, Gary Hever (17), 39 points.
Sunday singles: 1, Liam Duggan (6), 33 points; 2, Philip Breen (17), 33 points (back nine); gross, John Morris (+2), 34 points; vet., Paud O’Brien (4), 33 points; 3, Denis Noonan (4), 33 points.
WEXFORD
Wednesday’s open 14-hole fourball was won by Pat Browne (20) and Davy Byrne (12) with 37 points from Richard Barlow (Coollattin, 17) and John Conroy (11) with 36 points.
Friday’s three-person open team event was won by Jim Doyle (20), Patch Doyle (19) and Christy O’Gorman (10) with 70 points.
The Bolands Wexford Town-sponsored competition winner was John Furlong with a great score of 46 points. Jimmy Creane (19) was second with 42 points.
Ray Cullinane (11) was third with 39 points on the back nine. Mark Mullen won the gross with 35 points while Lar Rossiter (14) won the veterans with 33 points on the back nine.
We wish the ladies’ Junior Cup and Challenge Trophy teams good luck in the I.L.G.U. All-Ireland Cup and Shield finals in Dundalk later this week.
Membership for 2017 is now open; play from now until the end of 2017 for €599 for new and lapsed members. See www.wexfordgolfclub.ie or phone 05391-42238 for full details of this and other offers.
ROSSLARELADIES
On Tuesday we played a v. par competition. This is a game of no mercy - you must hit to your own par on the course or you get a negative score, and then move on quickly to the next hole.
Each hole is over before you know it, with no chance even to practise your putting as in strokes. They say it is very good for your game though, so out we went and the weather was lovely.
Carmel Quinlivan was the winner and well done to her as she is a very steady player and this is a must for v. par.
The previous weekend we had our Pro-Am which everyone felt was a great success. The weekend was sponsored by Kelly’s Hotel who hosted a fabulous meal on Friday night, and the clinic with Damien McGrane and Hazel Kavanagh was both witty and informative despite terrible weather.
However, the sun shone all day Saturday, as 24 teams hit off at 8 a.m. and the second 24 teams hit off at 2 pm.. The team which won the sponsorship by the ladies’ committee - Marianne Brennan, Siobhán Redmond and Phyllis O’Farrell - won the ladies’ team prize with 89 points, playing with pro Michael O’Shea from Rathsallagh.
The other good news was that a cheque for €5,000 each was presented to the two charities – St. Patrick’s Special Needs School in Enniscorthy and Wexford Hospice Homecare. We would like to thank all our lady members who helped with registration, car-parking, ferrying to holes, ball spotting and many other individuals who made the event run smoothly.
Thursday sees the return of the Seniors’ morning golf for over-50s. Tuesday, September 27, is a singles stableford competition.
Tuesday, September 13, singles v. par (C.S.S. 74): 1, Carmel Quinlivan (21), four up; 2, Gerarde Mahon (19), two up; gross, Doreen McGovern (11), ten down (back nine); 3, Eleanor O’Connor (21), one up (back nine); 4, Norrie Goff (21), one up; Seniors, Eileen Doyle (21), all square.