Greystones Golf Club

Co.Wicklow, Ireland

Junior Editor

Junior Results – 20 July 2024

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Blues (18 holes):

  1. Emma Haugh 36pts
  2. Jane Lumley 35pts
  3. Aoife Dempsey 29pts

Reds (9 holes):

  1. James Power 23pts
  2. Matthew Gormley 21pts
  3. Tom Lawlor 19pts (last 3)

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Alex Porter 16pts
  2. David McKeown 15pts
  3. Hugo Henley 15pts

7Ups (6 holes):

  1. Ben McFadden 16pts
  2. Mossie Quilter 13pts
  3. Elijah Davis 12pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. James Power 28 to 18
  2. Matthew Gormley 31 to 25
  3. Tom Lawlor 36 to 34
  4. Mason Melody 36 to 34
  5. Alex Porter 27 to 15
  6. David McKeown 36 to 27
  7. Hugo Henley 36 to 27
  8. Sam Kavanagh 30 to 21
  9. Hugo Collier 39 to 36
  10. Ben McFadden 48 to 36
  11. Mossie Quilter 42 to 39
  12. Elijah Davis 36 to 33

Congrats to all winners and for another week with a long list of handicap cuts! Please collect your prize next Saturday if you missed the prizegiving.

The Junior Committee

Junior Results – Captain’s Prize – 13 July 2024

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We hosted our first major of the year today, Ciara and Mark’s Captain’s Prize for the Juniors. We had an incredible turnout of 67 boys and girls playing in great playing conditions, as evidenced by the fantastic scoring across all of our categories.

Our Junior Girls Captain Sophie Lumley and Junior Boys Captain Dylan Holmes were on hand to call out the results and present the prizes with Ciara and Mark, ably assisted by our Junior Convenor Neil Lawless who did a great job in organising our first major of the year.

Congratulations to Emma Haugh who won Ciara’s prize for the girls with a great score of 38pts, and to Cillian McInerney who won Mark’s prize for the boys with a brilliant score of 43pts! A Captain’s Prize is an incredibly hard prize to win, so well done guys.

Blues:

1 (Boys) Cillian McInerney 43pts

1 (Girls) Emma Haugh 38pts

2 John O’Boyle 40pts

3 JP Lynch 39pts

Gross: Conor Dignam 39pts

Reds (9 holes):

  1. Chloe Creedon 26pts (last 3)
  2. Devin Kelly 26pts
  3. Sinead Seifried 24pts

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Noah Thompson 16pts
  2. Sean Farrell 15pts
  3. Sean Nunan 14pts

7Ups (6 holes):

  1. Farrah Keogh 16pts
  2. Oran Guilfoyle 14pts
  3. Ben McFadden 13pts

Handicap Cuts (a long list!):

  1. Devin Kelly 36 to 20
  2. Noah Thompson 33 to 21
  3. Sean Farrell 33 to 24
  4. Farrah Keogh 48 to 36
  5. Oran Guilfoyle 27 to 21
  6. Ben McFadden 54 to 48 (first cut, well done Ben!)
  7. Jack Daly 22 to 20
  8. Matthew Byrne 36 to 34
  9. Robbie Watchorn 36 to 26
  10. Annie Dillon 48 to 39
  11. Amy Murphy 33 to 27
  12. Conor O’Farrell 33 to 27
  13. Iseult Naidoo 51 to 48
  14. Charlie Dunne 54 to 51
  15. James Ward 33 to 30
  16. Donnacha Cribben 54 to 51

Category Change:

  1. Sean Nunan to Reds (well done Sean!)

Congratulations to all of our winners, and thank you to all of the parents and boys and girls who attended the prizegiving in the Clubhouse after the competition. Our majors are special days and it was great to see everyone after.

A huge thank you to Ciara and Mark, for both your prizes today and your ongoing support for Junior golf in GGC. We have a Junior Section that is the envy of many clubs!

Thank you also to Paul, Jackie and the team behind the bar and also to Ali, Liz, Olivia and the team in the kitchen who fed and watered everybody.

We also had a busy week in the provincial championships. Will O’Riordan was just pipped at the finish line when he was beaten in a play-off for the Munster U18 Boys after shooting a great final round of 2 under par 69, playing his last 6 holes in 3 under par. This followed Will’s 3rd place finish in the Leinster U18 Boys a few weeks ago – great golf Will! Dylan Holmes was tied 22nd, while Jamie Anderson and Toby Murphy also played. And well done to Dylan, Jamie and Will who played for our Mens Senior Cup team today in a great win over Lucan in the Leinster South Area quarter-final.

Isabella Stewart shot a final round of 73 to finish tied 5th in the Munster U18 Girls and Shauna Seifried finished in 12th place after a final round of 79 (Sinead is following you Shauna after a great score today!). Well done ladies!

Up in Tyrone, Ruadhán Murray shot a 77 to finish in 8th place in the Ulster U14 Boys. Ruadhán will make his interprovincial debut in 2 weeks time for the Leinster U14s when they play Ulster. Well done Ruadhán!

The Junior Committee

Captains Prize for Juniors – Saturday 13 July 2024

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Our Captains Ciara Marmion and Mark McAleer will host their Captain’s Prize to the Juniors this Saturday, 13 July.

Both Ciara and Mark are massive supporters and advocates of our Junior Section, with Mark previously holding the position of Junior Convenor. This is the first of our three majors this season and we are looking to have as many of our juniors playing as possible.

The timesheet is now live. If lines fill up for your category, please contact the pro shop and they will add more lines.

The entry fee is €10 to include food afterwards.

The prize giving will take place at approx 8.30pm in the clubhouse and as ever, it would be great to have a big turnout of both players and parents. Our majors are as much about the social aspect of our extensive Junior golf programme, including for the parents, so please try and make the prize giving.

The Junior Committee

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