Golf galore – and an ace or two thrown in!

The past week has seen super golfing conditions in Mitchelstown on a super golf course. The favourable weather conditions have seen even further improvements in the fairways and greens. Breezy weather added further interest to the golfer’s round over the weekend and helped a lot in drying up the course.

The weekend 18 hole Open saw a good turnout with some good scores returned and a hole-in-one struck from the third tee on Saturday morning by Stephen Murphy. We also learned of another hole-inone struck from the fourteenth tee during our recent Spring League by Sean Buckley. Congrats to both Stephen and Sean on your achievements.

Presentation of prizes took place on Sunday, 24th April in the clubhouse. Congratulations to all prize recipients but especially to the winners of the Spring League: Jim Moran, Adrian Mulley, Paddy O’Callaghan, Leo Walsh, and Paul Craig. Special congratulations also to the best individual scorer of the league – John Martin.

MEN’S CLUB NEWS

Results 22, 23 and 24th April 18 hole singles 1st Richard Caplice (13.5) 40pts (b9), 2nd Pat Barrett (10.7) 40pts, gross Dean O’Riordan, 39gpts, 3rd John O’Brien (25.2) 39pts.

Monday, 18th April Texas 2 Ball 1st Barry O’Brien (20.8) and David O’Sullivan (12) Team handicap 8 40pts (b9), 2nd Shane Fleming (7.3) and Noelle Fleming (9.1) Team handicap 4 40pts, 3rd Sean McCarthy (18.8) and Shane McNamara (25.2) Team handicap 12 39pts (b9).

Next weekend 18 Hole Open Singles (Friday, Saturday and Sunday 29th/30th/1st) Monday, 2nd May threeball Scramble.

LADIES’ CLUB NEWS

Results of prize sponsored by Catherine Kavanagh - 1st Siobhan O’Mahony (11) 35 points, 2nd Jean Roche (38) 33 pts. This week’s competition is sponsored by Sandra Gallen - Sat 23rd, Sun 24th and Wed 27th April.

SUMMER LEAGUE

The Summer League is back! The sign-up sheet is in the locker room or you can message the WhatsApp group to join. This will be held over 5 weeks starting the 30th April, 1st May and 4th May. Best 3 scores will count. The entry fee for the league is €7 and €6 for weekly competition fee. The league will be a blind draw, which will take place at the end of the 5 weeks. We would hope to have as many people as possible playing.

LADIES GET INTO GOLF PROGRAMME

Are you thinking of taking up golf as a pastime or maybe returning to the sport again? We are starting a ‘Ladies Get into Golf Programme’ again this year. This will entail a 6 week course, starting Friday May 13th at 6pm or 7pm, with one hour lessons from Mark Collins, Golf PGA Coach. Equipment will be provided for these lessons.

The cost for this course is €70 in total. There is an information evening for potential interested participants on Friday, May 6th at 7pm in the clubhouse. Come along to have a chat and give it a go.

SEANOIRI

Seanoiri results from Thursday, 21st April as follows: Foursomes - John O’Keeffe and Pat Cleary 65 nett. 2nd John Nyhan and Michael Fogarty 68nett. 3rd Batt Power and Eamon McGrath 68 nett. Scramble - Jim Anderson, Gorm Priesler and Jimmy Drea 53.9nett. 2nd Tim Doody, Tom Roe and Willie Casey 54.9nett. 3rd Wm B Walsh, John Seymour and Stephen Murphy 55.8 nett. On the table for next Thursday 29th are Ciaran Dolan, Pat Kavanagh and John Fox.

Don’t forget club classic on 12th and 13th May.

CLUB CLASSIC

Our annual club classic (Jimmy Walsh Memorial Cup) for 2022 will take place on Thursday 12th and Friday, 13th May.

Mitchelstown Golf Club are delighted to welcome Kerrygold Park as the main sponsor for 2022.

Kerrygold Park, part of the Ornua Group, the home of Ireland’s first ever billion-euro food brand, is a state-of-the-art Kerrygold butter production and packing facility in Mitchelstown. The production facility has a capacity of up to 50,000 tonnes of butter per annum and employs 126 people. Kerrygold Park is now expanding its facility further to meet the growing consumer demand for Kerrygold.

While we value and appreciate hugely our corporate sponsorship, we would also encourage our members to organise enter and teams of three. This is an important fundraiser for the club so all efforts on the part of our members to bring teams in is appreciated.

INTERCLUB COMPETITIONS

Saturday, 30th April 1pm Barton Shield (Home v Carrick-on-Suir). Team – Kieran Dennehy (capt), Clem Leonard, John Herlihy and TBC.

Jimmy Bruen 1.30pm. Team – Ned Finn (capt) and Vinny Ryan, Jim Moran and John Barrett, John Hanley and Michael Walsh, Ollie Walsh and Michael English, Denis Howard and Jack Quirke. Reserves – Kieran Casey, Paul Foley, Joe O’Gorman and Sean Beecher.

Best of luck to Kieran and Ned with your respective teams.

Mitchelstown GC were unfortunately beaten by Tipperary GC in the Seniors Cup recently by 3.5 to 1.5.

NEW MEMBERS

Mitchelstown Golf Club remain open to applications from new members. Please contact Dolores on 025-24072 9am - 1pm.