NEW ROSS SENIORS
Oh, how lucky we Seniors’ group are with the weather each Thursday. After the torrential downpours of recent days and nights, we had a benign day last week although with a definite chill in the air.
Allied to that, a brisk north-easterly wind made things that bit harder on a perfectly dry course, with the greens in superb condition for the time of year.
Fourteen teams took part in the champagne scramble format and excellent scores were returned, with ten teams cracking the 90 points target mark. As usual, there was one team which handled the conditions better than others and they proved to be the runaway winners.
Carding two nines of 48/51, Jimmy Furlong (12), Willie Naddy (20), Robert O’Dwyer (22) and Tom O’Shea (24) were clear victors with 99 points - who missed the putt to make it 100?
Second place with 93 points went to Tony Harford (14), Mikey Lee (19), John Murphy (20) and Tom Kent (26), whilst Dick Cuddihy (12), Paddy Bennett (20), Brian Dolan (21) and Tom Furlong (26) were placed third after a stewards’ enquiry deemed they had not infringed any rule in marking the card which was then re-adjusted.
Not so lucky were another team who were rightly disqualified for not having a player’s handicap on their card - how can you calculate scores if there’s no handicaps shown?
Nearest the pin prizes went to Michael Kavanagh on the ninth hole and Michael Gannon on the eleventh.
Next Thursday, November 29, we hold our A.G.M. starting sharp at 9.30 a.m., and we will also collect the fee of €20 for our Christmas outing and dinner the following Thursday, December 6.
With many commemorations taking place for World War One, it is worth recording that a member of the family that once owned the land on which the golf course is situated lost his young life in a bloody battle in France.
Reginald Isaac Jeffers, born 1894, son of Sheppard and Kate Jeffers of Tinneranny, was only 23 years of age and a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers when mown down in the trenches by the German army on August 18, 1917. So, next time you stand on the 13th tee-box, look to your right where the old Jeffers homestead was once located.