A GOOD WALK
Cabe and Lady President Dorothy Collins, and Seapoint captains
house and afterwards everyone made their way up onto the 1st tee to watch the official drive-in.
The usual shenanigans followed, with a number of club members in fancy dress doing their utmost to unnerve the new captains before they drove off from the tee. Fortunately, all four newly-appointed captains retained their composure to hit beautiful shots down the middle of the fairway.
The drive-n was followed by a Men’s & Ladies Nine-hole Team Competition which was thoroughly enjoyed by the 102 player who participated. The day finished with a beautiful meal provided by chef Gerry Matthews and his staff, plus entertainment in the club bar.
In their speeches the captains welcomed all of the visitors to the club, especially the Captains of Seapoint Golf Club, Bernard Seery and Mary Upton and the Captain and Lady President of County Louth Golf Club, Pat McCabe and Dorothy Collins. He finished by thanking all those who helped make their special day such a great success.
Lots of photos and videos from the day are on the Laytown & Bettystown Facebook page and golfers from near and far are reminded that they are most welcome to come and play the links at Laytown & Bettystown Golf Club in 2018. Don’t forget to keep an eye out for our Open weeks this summer.
February 18th 15-hole singles stableford: 1st Niall Kelly 11 (9) 35pts, 2nd Michael Conlon 7 (6) 34pts, Gross prize Cian Geraghty -1 31pts ocb, 3rd Raymond Lawless 17 (14) 34pts, 4th John Masterson 12 (10) 33pts ocb.
February 11th 15-hole singles stableford: 1st Peter Downey 9 (8) 33pts ocb, 2nd Cian Geraghty +1 33pts, Gross prize Frank Flynn 2 (2) 28pts; Cat 1 Kieran Gough 19 (8) 32pts, Cat 2 Eoin Sarsfield 17 (14)n 32pts ocb, Cat 3 Macarton O’Reilly 26 (22) 28pts ocb.
February 10th 15-hole fourball stableford: 1st Seamus O’Beirn 19 (14) & David Garbutt 14 (11) 42pts; 2nd Michael Sweeney 5 (4) & Val Sweeney 15 (11) 39pts; 3rd Raphael Smyth 5 (4) & Pat O’Donohue 9 (7) 38pts ocb.
LAYTOWN & BETTYSTOWN LADIES
TWELVE-HOLE competition played last Thursday and Saturday: Class 1 winner Carol Wickham 19pts, 2nd Jean Kierans 18pts; Class 2 winner Bridie Durnin 20pts ob6, 2nd Helena Coen 20pts. Nine-hole winner Olwen Kirkpatrick 14pts ob3.
LUMPER’S SOCIETY
THE society held it’s AGM on Friday February 16th. The Outgoing Captain, Gerry Malone opened the meeting by welcoming the members to the annual general meeting. Gerry gave an outline of his 12 month term in office and stated that his highlights were the Captain Day at Ballymascanlon Golf Course in June and the golf weekend away to Athlone in September.
Gerry thanked the committee and the members for assisting him in carrying out his duties as captain and for supporting the various outings and competitions during 2017. He reserved a special mention for the sponsors, whose generous support of the outings is greatly appreciated by the society.
Gerry concluded by saying that he enjoyed his year as captain and he wished his successor, Donal O’Hagan and the new committee every success for the coming year.
The Secretary, Peter Morgan gave a brief report on the society’s activities over the past year and he advised that the addition of a number of new members was a very welcomed development for the society.
Peter acknowledged the support that John and Patricia Lambe had provided to the society during their time as owners of the pub and he wished new owner Frankie McCrory and the new management and staff at The Lumpers every success for the future.
The Treasurer, Peter Murtagh then reported on the finances. Peter advised on the income received and expenditure incurred during the year and he further advised on the balance at the bank at year end.
The members responded by expressing their gratitude for the excellent job that Peter had done in managing the finances and maintaining a healthy bank balance on behalf of the society.
The election of officers for 2018 was next on the agenda and resulted in the following outcomes: Captain, Donal O’Hagan; Vice-Captain, Declan Mc Guinness; Secretary / PRO, Peter Morgan; Treasurer, Peter Murtagh; Asst. Treasurer, Peter Callan; Handicap Sec., Rory O’Hagan; Competition Sec / Website Coordinator, Tommy Mc Guinness; Hon. President, Liam Manning.
The Incoming Captain, Donal O’Hagan thanked his predecessor Gerry Malone for nominating him as Captain and he also thanked the members for electing him to the position. Captain. Donal then outlined his golfing programme for 2018.
He advised that outings have been arranged at Greenore (Capt. Drive –In), Ardglass, Dundalk, Ballymascanlon, Headfort, (Capt. Day) and Ardee. Captain, Donal further advised that a golf trip to Murcia, Spain in October has been arranged and he outlined the details around the flights, hotel accommodation and the golf course bookings at La Serena, Lo Romero and Roda Golf Courses.
The first outing of the year, the Captains’ Drive-in will take place on Saturday, April 7th. at Greenore Golf Club and the society would like to extend a warm welcome to golfers wishing to join the society this year. Please visit our website : www.lumpersgolfsociety.com for details of all our outings and activities for 2018.
MACBRIDE P&P
WEEK four of the Winter League took place at the weekend and was an 18 gross competition.
The Grade 1 winner was Pádraic Sarsfield with a score of 47 gross. Grade 2 was won by Keith Cluskey with a score of 52 gross.
Week 5 of the League will be an 18 nett competition - times of play Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 10am.
For more information about MacBride Pitch & Putt please contact us via our Facebook page.
MANNAN CASTLE
THE final week of the spring league threw up no surprises, with John Hanratty making it three wins in row, an unbelievable feat. No one in the history of Mannan Castle has ever won on three consecutive weekends, a magnificent effort by John.
John (17) won with 29 points, beating Val Donoghue (18) by a nose into second place also with 29 points and in third place was Derek Murnaghan (12) who was beaten by a short head with another 29 points.
The overall results of the spring league are: Division 1 - 1 st John Rouiller 38 points, 2nd Philip McGovern 37points, 3rd Barry Conroy 36 points; Division 2 - 1st John Hanratty 41 points, 2nd Tommy Hoey 40 points, 3rd Stephen McGarvey 39 points; Division 3 - 1st Patrick Byrne 40 points, 2nd Paul Martin 39 points, 3rd Seamus Martin 39 points. Congratulations to all the winners.
Tuesday’s Seniors 10-hole: 1st David Murphy 20pts ocb, 2nd Con Hanneffy 20pts.
There was a great turnout for the Ladies Spring League this week and scoring reflected the improving conditions. Round of the week goes to Bríanán Kingham with 28 points.
The timesheet is now open for the Captain’s Drive-in 3rd/4th March. Our 25th Captain Tommy Duffy and Lady Captain Gill Rouiller will arrive the to the clubhouse at noon Sunday 4th March, come join in the celebrations.
MEATH P&P
WINNERS from last Saturday’s Meath County Board Spring Alliance Scramble: 36 nett - Paul O’Rourke (Dunshaughlin), Marie Brennan (Bellewstown) & Paddy Bird (Laytown); 36 gross - Sean Kelly (Royal Meath), Esther Andrews (Laytown) and John Troy (Stackallen).
Special congratulations are extended to Christopher Gibney from Trim who was awarded with the Hall of Fame award from the Pitch and Putt Union of Ireland on Saturday in Templemore, Co Tipperary at their Annual Convention. This was awarded for 56 years of membership and voluntary work at club and county level. Well done Christopher on this brilliant achievement - very well deserved.
SEAPOINT P&P
RESULTS from the sixth and final week of the Briscoe Expert Electrical Winter League, an 18 gross, were as follows:
Senior - 1st Fechin Rath 44, 2nd George Beardsley 45; Inter - 1st Paul Cooney 48, 2nd Michael Vaughan 50; Junior - 1st Declan Murphy 53, 2nd Ray McEvoy 54 (ob9 26); Ladies - 1st Mary Agnew 53, 2nd Christine Carroll 56.
The five points went to Team 6 (Pat Greene, Michael Vaughan, Toma Rock & Ann Ward) who scored -9, with three points going to Team 1 (Johnny Campbell snr, Kieran McDonnell, Colin Campbell & Bridie Hanratty) who had -4.
Overall finishing positions: 1st Team 1 (as above) with 13 points; 2nd Team 5 (Brian McGinn, Anto Mullen, Eddie Smith & Mary Coyle) 12 points (ob9s 283); 3rd: Team 6 (as above) with 12 points (b9s 286).
Finally, a big thank-you to our new sponsors for 2018 Briscoe Expert Electrical.
This coming Saturday our two captains for 2018, Joanne and Paul Cooney, will host their Captains’ Pitch-in. Also taking place on the day will be the presentation of the prizes for the Winter League.
We ask everyone attending to be there for 1.15pm to facilitate the competition draw. There will also be refreshments following the competition.
This week will be an 18 nett - times of play Friday and Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 9.30am (no pm session on Sunday).
Seapoint Pitch and Putt Club are proud hosts of the International Irish Open, to be held on August 25th and 26th.
TOWNLEY HALL
FEBRUARY 17th/18th competition: 1st Darren Kavanagh 22pts, 2nd Michael Reilly 21pts, 3rd Simba Wekare 20pts. The mid-week winner for that week was Paddy Bedford with 21 points.