Teeing up for club classic
Our annual fund-raising Club Classic takes part again this year on Thursday 12th and Friday, 13th May after 2 years of absence due to Covid - life is slowly returning to normal.
This is one of our major fund-raising events of the year. Our thanks go out to our numerous generous sponsors. Our main sponsor for the event this year is Kerrygold Park but we have many other businesses and individuals who have entered teams, sponsored tees and provided raffle prizes. Once again we would like to remind members and all participants in the event to be mindful of, and support our sponsors throughout the year. I am sure the event will be a success thanks to the hard work, time spent, and efforts of our club classic committee – well done folks.
At the time of going to press weather conditions are predicted to be good – hopefully our luck will prevail. Our course is in excellent condition at present thanks in no small part to the efforts of our ground staff and we hope all members and visitors will have an enjoyable day out. Food is provided after play and presentation of prizes will be approx. 10pm on Friday night.
There a still a few vacant slots available if any members or visitors wish to enter – please contact Dolores on 025-24072. For those who have already arranged tee times please try to turn up in adequate time to allow due processing of cards and for shotgun starters at 5pm on Friday please allow adequate time to get out to your tee – thanks and good luck to all – enjoy your round!
MEN’S CLUB NEWS RESULTS
Weekend 6th, 7th and 8th May 18 Holes Open Singles 1st Michael Leonard (21) 45pts, 2nd Ger O’Keeffe (21.5) 44pts, gross John Herlihy 34gpts (b3), 3rd Stephen Baker (20.9) 43pts. Monday 2nd May 3 Ball Scramble 1st Kate Biggane, Pat Biggane and Kieran Casey 58 nett. 2nd Kieran Dennehy, Liam O’Sullivan and John O’Brien 58.6 Nett. Next weekend 14th and 15th May – 18 hole Open Singles. Tuesday 3rd May 12 hole competition 1st Tom Ryan (17.4) 27pts. (b6), 2nd John McCleary (23.3) 27pts. Best Lady Monica Mc Cormack 25pts. Wednesday Qualifier 4th May Denis Howard (7.5) 41 pts.
LADIES’ CLUB NEWS
Results of prize sponsored by Rosarii Harrington 1st: Marie Waldron (28) 37 pts, 2nd: Mags Slattery (40) 36 pts, gross: Rita O’Brien (10) 22 pts. This week’s competition is sponsored by Margaret Ann Hanley - Sat 7th, Sun 8th and Wed, 11th May.
Our Ladies Get into Golf programme is starting off on Friday, 13th May. There is a good take up for these lessons and we are looking forward to welcoming new ladies to the club. There are still a number of vacancies for any ladies who may have missed the induction evening – please contact Rosarii Harrington on 087-1730664.
LADIES CLUB OPEN DAYS
We have a number of ladies open days coming up over the summer. The first of these is on Wednesday 25th May and is sponsored by The Wardrobe Boutique. Entry fee for this competition for visitors is €15.
SEANOIRI
Results of Champagne Scramble on Thursday, 5th May are: 1st Ml Fogarty, John McCarthy and John O’Brien 48pts, 2nd Richard Mansfield, Richie Cahill and John Seymour 47pts, 3rd Pat Kavanagh, Gorm Priesler and John Fox 46pts. No Seanoiri next Thursday – Club Classic on 12th and 13th. On the table for Thursday, 19th May Jim Flynn, Jim Griffin and John Lineen.
INTERCLUB COMPETITIONS
Congratulations to our Fred Perry team who defeated Cahir GC 3.5 to 1.5 on Friday, 6th May – next round in this competition is at home to Tipperary GC. Mitchelstown suffered a narrow defeat to Fermoy GC on Monday, 9th May in the JB Carr first round in difficult windy and wet conditions. After the last match going to the 19th hole the final score was 3–2 to Fermoy. Many thanks to the supporters who braved the unpleasant weather conditions to encourage their players.
The next inter-club competition is the Pierce Purcell against Slievenamon GC on Saturday 14th May at home at 3pm – support would again be appreciated – thank you.
UPCOMING EVENTS
12/ 13th May Club Classic. 14th/ 15th May 18 hole Open competition. 17th May Tuesday 12 hole competition. 18th May Wednesday Qualifier. 21st/22nd/23rd May O’Donovan Cup (GOY qualifier).
NEW MEMBERSHIP
For those wishing to take up golf we welcome enquiries about membership. The longer hours of daylight allow increased footfall on our fairways (and sometimes through our trees). Golf has been erroneously described as “a good walk spoiled” – we refute this and regard it as a good walk enhanced! For those interested please phone Dolores on 025-24072.