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BUNCLODY
September 12, Wednesday open singles: 1, Seamus Brennan (10, Gowran), 41 points; 2, Mick Mahon (11), 39 points; 3, Graham O’Connell (16), 38 points; best lady, Anne O’Connor (11, Stackstown), 33 points.
BALLYMONEY
Wednesday nine-hole competition (mixed): 1, Ger O’Brien (9), 23 points; 2, Kevin Byrne (20); 3, Richard McDonald (7), 19 points, holding off Charlie Logan on countback.
The September medal was played over the weekend (stableford off white tees) in glorious Indian summer weather.
Seán Furlong (10) won gold with 41 points, Thomas Doolan (17) won silver with 40 points, and Anthony D. Doyle (12) won bronze with 39 points.
Paul Gorby (4) had the best gross with 73 strokes (including a seven on the par four 16th).
The front nine went to Clive Curran, and Paul Sutton won the back nine.
Ladies’ singles: 1, Sandra Wills (32), 34 points; 2, Carole Wortmann (20), 26 points.
DONOHOE’S SOCIETY
Donohoe’s Society played Blackwater on Sunday, with 19 players in total.
Results: 1, ‘Cockney’ Murphy, 41 points; 2, Willie Nolan, 40 points; 3, Pat Morrissey, 37 points. Joe Byrne took home the birdie money.
The yellow ball competition winners were Trevor Murphy, Joe Byrne and ‘Cockney’ Murphy with a great score of 44 points.
Next Sunday we play Rathaspeck, with the matchplay first round taking place.
Fixtures: Trevor Murphy v. ‘Cockney’ Murphy, Jim Breen v. John Cahill, Owen Murphy v. Martin Collins, Lar Morrissey v. Paul Breen, Cha O’Brien v. Pat Morrissey, Cha Kearney v. Cliff Weber, Nicky Cahill v. Andrew Holden, John Sullivan v. Sam Farnan. Please be there by 8.45 a.m.
COURTOWN
Due to a lot of works which are under way at present, we were not able to hold our normal open singles competition on Wednesday as the back nine holes were closed for the annual hollow coring.
We were, however, able to play the front nine and held a nine-hole sweep. There is still drainage work taking place on holes twelve and 17. This is important work to make the whole course playable during the winter months.
We send our congratulations to one of our younger members, Ross Steedman, who won the golfer of the year prize last weekend.
As usual, there was to be no runaway winner of this prize, and Ross pipped our Captain’s prize winner, Paul Kavanagh, by only one point in the end.
There will be a presentation of prizes this Friday at 8 p.m. to the matchplay winners, the golfer of the year, and to a few who were good enough golfers to score a holein-one during the year.
Gents’ singles medal sponsored by Doyle Associates, Sunday, September 9 (122 played; C.S.S. 75): 1, Martin Griffiths (13), 71; 2, Martin Byrne (19), 73 (last nine); 3, Tony Kinsella (15), 73; gross, Alan McDonald (1), 75; ladies: 1, Pat Kinsella, 34 points (countback).
The weekend competition will be a ladies’ and gents’ singles hamper.
ENNISCORTHY LADIES
There was a touch of autumn in the air for last Tuesday’s ladies’ competition, sponsored by Flowers by Grace.
Results: 1, Helen D’Eathe (27), 38 points (back nine); 2, Mary Halligan (27), 38 points (back nine); 3, Ann Banville (14), 38 points; 4, Mary O’Shea (14), 37 points; Category 6, Nora Furlong (40), 35 points; nine-hole qualifier: 1, Maureen O’Shea, 20 points; 2, Deirdre Bowler, 17 points.
Next week’s competition is a stroke medal and is sponsored by Creane and Creane.
Our ladies’ open Seniors’ competiton is on Thursday, September 20, and is sponsored by Parnell Antiques.
The ladies were playing in the Borris Cup competition on Friday. They played well and it was the first time out for some of the players.
Next Friday, September 21, another team of ladies are playing for the Borris Trophy.
A new group of the ladies’ ‘Get Into Golf’ programme has just got under way, and shortly we will see new faces on our fairways.
ENNISCORTHY
Monday open, singles stableford, September 3, sponsored by E.G.C. (23 played; S.S. 71, 37 stableford points): 1, Paul Connolly (8), 40 points; 2, Joe Delaney (5), 37 points (back nine).
This competition’s prizes are vouchers for Top Tyres which will be given out in the clubhouse on the last Wednesday of the month on the same night as the midweek nines presentation.
Midweek nine-hole, singles stableford, August 22, sponsored by Keith Donnelly of Donnelly Coaches (89 played): overall, Davy Murphy (10), 24 points; Category A, Seán Hegarty (5), 22 points; Category B, John Mernagh (11), 22 points; Category C, Ray Hutchinson (18), 22 points; Category D, Brian Redmond (20), 21 points.
Midweek nine-hole, singles stableford, August 29, sponsored by George Kehoe & Sons Ltd. (80 played): overall, Brian Redmond (20), 25 points; Category A, James Gilbert (5), 23 points; Category B, James Foley (10), 20 points; Category C, Tom Hogan (15), 23 points; Category D, Liam Swan (28), 25 points.
Midweek nine-hole, singles stableford, September 5, sponsored by Peter O’Shea of S.O.S. Electrical (84 played): overall, John Buckley, 23 points (last three); Category A, Joe Delaney (5), 20 points (last five); Category B, Billy Sinnott (13), 21 points; Category C, Mick Wickham (18), 23 points; Category D, J.J. Murphy (20), 20 points.
The presentation for all the September midweeks will be on September 26.
Singles strokes, G.O.T.Y. 8, blue tees, August 25 and 26, sponsored by Jim Holden of Turfcare (98 played; S.S. 72 Saturday and 73 Sunday): 1, Rikki O’Leary (14), 64; 2, Douglas Murphy (17), 68 (back nine); gross, Cormac Martin (1), 72; 3, Kevin Frayne (14), 68; 4, Patrick Kavanagh (7), 70 (back nine); 5, Tommy Kinlough (19), 70.
Eighteen holes singles stableford, yellow tees, September 7, sponsored by E.G.C. (59 played, C.S.S. 37): 1, Robert Frayne (10), 44 points; 2, Joe Delaney (5), 41 points; gross, Jason Rackard (0), 38 points; 3, John Ryan (18), 38 points (back nine); visitors, Ambrose Guilfoyle (18, East Cork), 38 points.
Eighteen holes singles strokes, blue tees, September 8 and 9, sponsored by Vice-Captain John Byrne and Vice-President Matt O’Connor (123 played, C.S.S. 73 both days): 1, Maurice Treacy (13), 68 (back nine); 2, Jim Gahan (18), 68; gross, Cormac Martin (1), 71; 3, Patrick Hore (10), 69 (back nine); 4, Patrick Laffan (21), 66 (back nine); Seniors, Joe Delaney (5), 71.
Nine-hole ‘four club’ challenge, August 17 (43 played): overall, John T. Delaney (9), 22 points; gents’ prize, Len Hall (18), 20 points; ladies’ prize, Helen D’Eathe (27), 21 points.
Nine-hole four-person scramble, August 24: 1, James Foley (10), Ray Hemmingway (14), Charlie Hogg (9), Bill Whelan (10), 26.85 points.
Four-person scramble, August 31, sponsored by E.G.C.: 1, David Boland (15), Billy Crosbie (11), Jim Holden (13), Jason Rackard (+1), 111 points; 2, Tom Hogan (15), Ray Hutchinson (18), Tony Hutchinson (18), Brian Redmond (20), 107 points.
Two-person team, September 1 and 2, sponsored by Ciarán Mooney of Mr Oil (107 played): 1, James Foley (10), Bill Whelan (10), 61; 2, Paddy Fitzpatrick (15), Frankie Morrissey (9), 60; 3, James Foley (15), Patrick Hore Jnr. (10), 58.
Our Barton Shield team played Tullamore in Mount Wolseley with a place in the afternoon’s Leinster semi-final up for grabs.
The team of Graham Donohoe, Dayle Donohoe, Jason Rackard and Paul Conroy did us all proud by advancing to the Leinster final where they came up against a very strong Dundalk team who proved too good, but to be able to say our top four golfers could only be stopped by one team in Leinster is something to be proud of.
Second out of 96 Leinster entries is no mean achievement. Well done lads!
In the Senior Cup, the Leinster finals weekend was in Mount Juliet Golf Club on August 24 and 25. We played against a hotly-fancied Carton House with a place in the afternoon’s semi-final up for grabs.
The team of Jason Rackard, Dayle Donohoe, Graham Donohoe, Paul Conroy and Nigel Cullen played some fantastic golf which saw us progress by three games to two, with Paul, Jason and Graham getting the wins.
We came up against Portmarnock in the semi-final and unfortunately came out second best to the eventual Leinster champions.
For a club with our resources to get to final of Barton Shield and to the semi-final of Senior Cup in the same season is a fantastic achievement, and all credit must go to the players involved.
Apologies for the lateness of this one as I mislaid my notes. Captain Tim Morrissey’s prize day was held on the last weekend of June.
After the 18-hole part of the competition the top ten were: Garrett O’Gorman 67; Brian Sinnott 67; Pat Mulvey 67; Thomas Kielthy 68; Liam Sheridan 68; James Sheridan 69; Keith Donnelly 69; Conor Flynn 69; Mick Coffey 69, and Brian Mullarkey 70.
But all to no avail as out of the chasing pack came Anthony Byrne with a 70 plus a 31.5 from the nine-hole play-off to win by 1.5 points.
Top five standings in the gents’ golfer of the year with one event remaining: 1, Liam Sheridan, 128; 2, John Colclough, 104; 3, Paul Lynch, 96; 4, Graham Donohoe, 92; 5, Adam Jordan, 91.
The semi-finals of the club singles were completed recently where David Morton and Martin Sludds and Rory McCauley and Michael Murphy battled it out, with the latter winning in each case.
The final was a major achievement for Martin Sludds who has tried for over 20 years to win this title.
To say he was excited on this victory would be an understatement.
The semi-finals of the fourball were completed recently where Shane Fortune and Eddie Doyle played Joe Delaney and Philip Browne, and Barry Bolger and Con Fleming played David Mahon and Jim Doran in the other, with the former in each pairing winning through to the final.
Congratuations to Barry Bolger and Con Fleming on being victorious in the final played on Sunday.
We are at the quarter-final stage of the mixed foursomes. Louise Roe and Liam Dunbar are in the semi-final after beating the pairing of Marie Dunphy and John Buckley.
The only other known quarter-finalists are Ann Bernie and Philip Browne who will play Maeve McCauley and Alan Jacob.
Some round two matches still have to be played to determine the remaining quarter-finalists.