Greystones Golf Club

Co.Wicklow, Ireland

Junior Editor

Junior Results – 29 June 2024

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Blues:

  1. Doireann Dowdall
  2. Senan Dowdall
  3. Aoife Dempsey

Reds:

  1. Harry Gormley 23pts
  2. Matthew Gormley 19pts
  3. Jack Daly 17pts

Whites:

  1. Hugo Collier 17pts
  2. Charlie Collier 16pts
  3. Aoibheann Dowdall 13pts

7Ups:

  1. Sean Hughes 6pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. Harry Gormley 36 to 26
  2. Matthew Gormley 33 to 31
  3. Hugo Collier 54 to 39
  4. Charlie Collier 39 to 27
  5. Aoibheann Dowdall 48 to 45
  6. Dan Finnegan 42 to 36

Congrats to all winners. Please note there is no Junior Competition on Saturday 6 July as the Captain’s Prixe is taking place.

The Junior Committee

Junior Results & News – 22 June 2024

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Blues:

  1. JP Lynch 39pts
  2. Leo Murphy 37pts
  3. Daniel Garvey 36pts (back 9)

Reds:

  1. Sinead Seifried 22pts
  2. James Long 21pts
  3. Alex Hamilton 20pts

Whites:

  1. Ben O’Gallagher 20pts
  2. Timothy Byrne 19pts
  3. Hugo Henley 36pts

7Ups:

  1. Oran Guilfoyle 15pts
  2. Sean Hughes 10pts

Handicap Cuts (and its a long list!):

  1. James Long 24 to 18
  2. Alex hamilton 36 to 32
  3. Jack Daly 26 to 22
  4. Patrick Murray 36 to 32
  5. Oran Guilfoyle 36 to 27
  6. Ben O’Gallagher 54 to 30
  7. Timothy Byrne 51 to 30
  8. Hugo henley 54 to 36
  9. James Ward 42 to 33
  10. Amy Murphy 42 to 33
  11. Charlie Collier 54 to 39
  12. Annie Dillon 51 to 48
  13. David McKeown 39 to 36
  14. Vanessa Gulliver 42 to 39
  15. Matthew Byrne 30 to 24
  16. Conor O’Farrell 39 to 33

Congrats to all of our winners and the 16 boys and girls with handicap cuts! Great scoring! All of the coaching from Davie, Barry Massey, Ben and Keith is paying off! Please collect your prize next week if you missed the prizegiving.

Big congratulations to our Boys Fred Daly team who had an emphatic 4.5 to 0.5 win over Carton House GC yesterday afternoon, and now progress to the Leinster South final against Stackstown GC on 27 July. We won three matches away against a very strong side, with an equally impressive home performance. Well done to Dylan, Jamie, Will, Toby, Jack, Milo, Ruadhán and Mark! Even the management team of Karl and Peter were smiling last night, so well done guys and also to Michael who looked after the boys playing at home.

Best of luck to Shauna, Isabella, Dylan, Jamie, Will and Milo who are all playing in the Leinster Boys and Girls U18 Amateur Open Championship in Royal Tara tomorrow – play well guys!

And finally, best of luck to everyone playing in the Flogas Irish Junior Open which we are hosting in Greystones tomorrow.

The Junior Committee

Junior Girls Match v Elm Park

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Our Junior girls played a match against Elm Park yesterday.

Aoife Dempsey & Chloe Creedon played at home and Jane Lumley & Doireann Dowdall played in Elm Park in four singles matches.

Aoife & Chloe got off to strong starts and while they faced stiff opposition from the lower handicapped visitors, both were 3 up at the turn. Meanwhile in Elm Park, Doireann got off to a very steady start, up early in her match while Jane was swapping holes with her opposition. At the turn Doireann was 2 up and Jane 1 down. It’s worth saying that Doireann was playing against Kate Fleming, playing off 3. Kate had been playing in The Womens Irish Amateur championships in Woodbrook during the week and had played 18 holes there earlier in the day. I greatly admire her support for junior golf in her club to come back and play in our match. Her ball striking was superb but Doireann also played beautiful golf and was able to use her ‘shots received’ very well.

In Greystones, after halving a number of holes Aoife teed off on 15 still 3 up. Both players found the thick rough down the right but Aoife’s clever course management skills paid off and she found herself on the green with little damage done and with her opponent unable to halve, the match was over – a 4&3 win.

Having to give an in-form Chloe a shot a hole was always going to be difficult and despite her best efforts the Elm Park girl was still 3 down after 15. A lovely tee shot on 16 set Chloe up to win the hole and close out the match 4&2.

On 12th tee in Elm Park Doireann was 2 up, and after a beautiful drive and a superb 2nd to 20 feet  she went 3 up as Kate could only match her par while giving a shot. Also on 12 Jane found herself 2 down but made an excellent up & down par to go back to 1 down. On 13 her tee shot found trees right but she played a superb recovery shot to set up a nett par and a win to go back to all square.

At this stage the results had come in from Greystones and after Jane had teed off 14th we could see Doireann & Kate standing off to one side, their match having finished on 15.

A 3.5-.05 win for Greystones! Excellent golf played on both sides and played in good sporting fashion. Many thanks to Helen Creedon for looking after the home team and to June O’Brien in Elm Park for their hospitality.

Jenny Moore, Junior Committee

 

Junior Results & News – 15 June 2024

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We held the inaugural Billy Reilly Memorial Trophy competition for Blues on Saturday. Billy was a former Junior Convenor and was instrumental in establishing what is now our Junior Section over 40 years ago. Billy passed away in 2021 and his wife Erika and three sons, William, Gerhard and Stephen wanted to mark his contribution to Junior golf in Greystones GC and very generously donated a beautiful trophy which our Blues category will play for every year.

We were delighted to welcome Erika to the clubhouse on Saturday evening to present the trophy and prizes with our Captain Mark and President John, both huge supporters and advocates of our Junior Section. Our illustrious former Captain and President, Pat O’Neill, was also on hand and it was great to hear him speak so fondly about Billy and his contribution to Greystones GC over the years.

Congratulations to Ruadhán Murray who is the first winner of Billy’s trophy with a brilliant score of 44 points. Playing off a handicap of 7, Ruadhán shot an incredible round of one under par 68 to take the trophy home in style! Well done Ruadhán on an amazing round of golf! Great scores also from Daniel and Aoife, well done guys.

Blues: The Billy Reilly Memorial Trophy

  1. Ruadhán Murray 44pts
  2. Daniel Garvey 40pts
  3. Aoife Dempsey 39pts (back 9)

Reds:

  1. James Power 20pts
  2. Hugo Fallon 18pts
  3. Tom Lawlor 16pts

Whites:

  1. Sean Nunan 20pts
  2. Charlie Dodson 18pts
  3. Alex Porter 17pts

7Ups:

  1. Sean Hughes 13pts
  2. Ben McFadden 11pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. Sean Nunan 36 to 12
  2. Charlie Dodson 54 to 36
  3. Alex Porter 42 to 27
  4. Sean Hughes 54 to 51

Leinster Girls U18 Inter-Provincial Panel:

Well done to Shauna Seifried and Isabella Stewart who were selected in the Leinster U-18 panel. We look forward to seeing you both in action for the province over the coming weeks! Congrats ladies!

Shauna continued her great summer of golf with a convincing 7&6 win in her match for the Ladies Junior Cup Team on Sunday to help them to a win over Arklow, and then had a 2&1 win today as the Ladies Revive Team beat Edmonstown.

Barton Cup:

We had three junior members playing for the men’s Barton Cup team in the match against Powerscourt yesterday. The two Dylans (Holmes and Cavazza) won comfortably playing at home on the 13th hole, while Ruadhán was playing with Alan Keane away in Powerscourt and they won their match on 16. So a clean sweep for the boys! Beech Park up next in a few weeks.

Fred Daly:

We play Carton House in the next round of the Fred Daly this Saturday. We have three matches away and two at home. First tee time in Greystones is at 2.45pm and it would be great to see some of our younger Juniors up supporting the guys.

The Junior Committee

 

 

Junior Results – 8 June 2024

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Blues:

  1. John Byrne 41pts
  2. Cillian McInerney 40pts
  3. Ollie Packman 38pts

Reds:

  1. Harry Ovenden 23pts
  2. Max Mahady 20pts
  3. Harry McGeehan 18pts

Whites:

  1. Sean Nunan 16pts
  2. Amy Murphy 15pts
  3. Evan Hatton 13pts

7Ups:

  1. Charlie Collier 17pts
  2. Donnacha Cribben 13pts
  3. Oran Guilfoyle 12pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. Harry Ovenden 36 to 26
  2. Max Mahady 30 to 26
  3. Sean Nunan 54 to 42
  4. Amy Murphy 51 to 42
  5. Evan Hatton 30 to 27
  6. Donnacha Cribben 36 to 33

Category Change:

  1. Charlie Collier moved to Whites. New handicap 54. Well done Charlie!!!

Congrats to all of our winners. Some great scoring! Please collect your prize next Saturday if you missed the prizegiving.

The Junior Committee

 

Junior Results – 1 June 2024

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Blues:

  1. John O’Boyle 39pts (back 9)
  2. John Byrne 39pts
  3. JP Lynch 38pts

Reds:

  1. Aaron Byrne 22pts
  2. Scott Hamilton 21pts
  3. WIlliam Byrne 29pts

Whites:

  1. Charlie McConnell 17pts
  2. Alex Porter 16pts
  3. Noah Thompson 15pts

7Ups:

  1. William O’Neill 25pts
  2. Oran Guilfoyle 19pts
  3. Charlie Collier 11pts

Handicap Changes:

  1. Aaron Byrne 34 to 26
  2. Scott Hamilton 26 to 20
  3. William Byrne 24 to 20
  4. James Power 30 to 28
  5. Charlie McConnell 45 to 30
  6. Alex Porter 54 to 42
  7. Noah Thompson 42 to 33
  8. William O’Neill 54 to 15
  9. Oran Guilfoyle 54 to 36

Well done to all. Please collect your prizes next Saturday if you missed the prizegiving.

Great to see our attendances growing – 56 boys and girls played on Saturday!

The Junior Committee