Greystones Golf Club

Co.Wicklow, Ireland

Junior Editor

Junior Results – 27 April 2024

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Blues:

  1. Dylan Cavazza 45pts
  2. Emma Haugh 44pts
  3. Jane Lumley 40pts

Reds:

  1. Chloe Creedon 22pts
  2. James Long 21pts
  3. Jack Daly 16pts

Whites:

  1. Max Mahady 17pts
  2. Michael McCormack 14pts
  3. Evan Barry 11pts

7Ups:

  1. Timothy Byrne 18pts
  2. Sean Farrell 16pts
  3. Vanessa Gulliver 13pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. James Long 30 to 24
  2. Michael McCormack 45 to 39
  3. Vanessa Gulliver 27 to 24

Category Changes:

  1. Max Mahady Whites to Reds, new handicap 36
  2. Timothy Byrne 7Ups to Whites, new handicap 54
  3. Sean Farrell 7Ups to Whites, new handicap 54

Congrats to all of our winners. Some great scores handicap cuts today, and great to see some early season category changes. The prizegiving was held in the Clubhouse after the competition, so please collect your prize next week if you missed this.

We will be circulating a full category list during the week and will also be in touch to formally arrange parents rosters for helping with our weekly competitions.

The Junior Committee

 

Junior Results – 20 April 2024

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Blues (18 holes):

Results to follow

Reds (9 holes):

  1. Hugh Taylor 20pts
  2. Daniel Cunningham 17pts
  3. Chloe Creedon 15pts

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Sam Kavanagh 15pts
  2. Devin Kelly 14pts
  3. Tom Lawlor 14pts

7Ups (6 holes):

  1. Caoileann Murray 18pts
  2. Emily Murphy 16pts
  3. Timothy Byrne 14pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. Hugh Taylor 24 to 20
  2. Sam Kavanagh 39 to 30
  3. Devin Kelly 27 to 21
  4. Tom Lawlor 36 to 30
  5. David McKeon 42 to 39
  6. Caoileann Murray 51 to 33
  7. Emily Murphy 39 to 27
  8. Timothy Byrne 38 to 32
  9. Olivia Holmes 42 to 36
  10. Hugo Henley 33 to 30

Great to see 51 boys and girls playing today in perfect golfing conditions. All prizes were presented in the clubhouse after the competition, so please collect your prize next Saturday if you missed this.

We were particularly delighted to see 9 handicap cuts so early in the season! We look forward to seeing everyone back next Saturday. Timesheet will open on Tuesday evening.

The Junior Committee

Junior Results – 13 April 2024

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We were delighted to welcome back 42 boys and girls this afternoon for our first Junior Competition of 2024 having had to cancel last week due to Storm Kathleen.

Some great scoring across all of our groups:

Blues (18 holes):

  1. JP Lynch 44pts
  2. Cameron McConnell 38pts (back 9)
  3. John O’Boyle 38pts

Reds (9 holes):

  1. Harry Greenan 19pts
  2. Jack Daly 17pts
  3. Sinead Seifried 15pts

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Matthew Byrne 18pts
  2. Annie Dillon 12pts
  3. Eden Stroh 11pts

7Ups:

  1. Hugo Shearer 21pts
  2. Sean Farrell 19pts
  3. Hugo Henley 19pts

Note: All handicap cuts will be posted during the week.

Great to welcome everyone back and to see some new faces. Some phenomenal scoring today in what were very windy conditions. We didn’t hold our prizegiving (as we couldnt locate our Junior locker key!), so please collect your prizes next Saturday.

It was particularly pleasing to see so many boys and girls, and parents, in the clubhouse after the competition. The social aspect of our Junior section is equally as important as our on-course activities, and one which we embrace and encourage.

We look forward to seeing everyone again next Saturday.

The Junior Committee

 

 

Spring Coaching 2024

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Please see the link below to our Spring 2024 coaching for our Junior Reds and Whites from 1pm in Greystones Driving Range starting this Saturday, 3 February 2024 and running for six consecutive Saturdays until 9 March 2024. Please note the times – first of three groups from 1pm. Parents roster also included under each group. Coaching is being provided by Ben and Keith, our two Assistant Professionals.

Junior Coaching – Spring 2024

Thank you to the parents who have offered to help out to ensure the smooth running of coaching sessions and adherence to safeguarding protocols. The plan is that we have two parents with the first group and three parents with the second and third groups each week.

We need to have one parent in the shop at the Driving Range when the boys and girls arrive. This parent needs to check the child in on the attendance list, help to get the money paid (€7 per bucket, thanks again to Karl for the generous discount!) and the child out of the shop and down to the bays at the end of the range. The same parent gets all of the children back into the shop and signs them out as they are collected at the end of the session. All parents need to come into the shops with their child at the start of each coaching sessions and to come into the shop to collect them at the end of the session.

We have to be mindful that the Driving Range is not part of GGC is and is a private, standalone commercial business, so we cannot allow the boys and girls to leave the Driving Range unaccompanied under any circumstances.

The other parents are required at the bays with each monitoring three/four bays. Essentially they just need to ensure:

  • the children are not running up and down between bays and running off down to the shop;
  • when a child is hitting a shot the other child stands out of the bay if sharing;
  • the children do not leave the front of the bay to retrieve a ball on the gravel/grass in the front of the bay;
  • if a child needs the bathroom the “signing in” parent goes with them and waits in the shop. We just need to ensure the child comes back into the range; and
  • at the end of the session all the children are brought back into the shop and wait to be collected.

An Attendance Sheet will be left behind the counter in the shop – could we ask the first Supervisor who arrives for each group to be the parent who remains in the shop while the boys and girls arrive and fill in the Attendance Sheet, which should then be left behind the counter.

I would also encourage as many parents of the Whites and 7-Ups to stay during the sessions to help also.

We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow and kick-starting the new golf season.

Thank you,

Declan Murray & The Junior Committee

Junior Scramble Results – 3 November 2023

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We held our last official Junior Competion of 2023 this afternoon when 42 boys and girls played in our season-ending Junior Scramble in very unseasonal weather…….not a drop of rain fell! Some great golf played, and it is always particularly enjoyable to mix our Blues, Reds and Whites together in what are really fun events.

7Ups Competition – 6 Holes:

  1. Tom Lawlor, Max Mahady & Oscar Maguire
  2. Olivia Holmes, Ben McFadden, Freddie Gormley & Donnacha Cribben

Main Competition – 9 Holes:

  1. Leo Murphy, Alfie O’Reilly & James Lynn
  2. John O’Boyle, Jack Daly & Jack Delmar Anderson
  3. Ruadhán Murray, James Power & Devin Kelly

It was a great day and a fitting end to a truly wonderful Junior Golf year in GGC. It has been brilliant to watch the progress of all of our Juniors this year, in particular all of the Whites and 7Ups.

As ever, we can only host regular competitions with lots of help, so a huge thank you today to Jenny Moore, Helen Murphy (our official photographer!) and Barry Massey (teaching all of the smallies how to do the “Massey Chip”!).

Also to Jackie behind the bar and Ali and Olivia who fed everyone!

And finally, to our 2023 Junior Captains, Isabella and Jamie who again expertly called the results, ably assisted by our Junior Convenor Neil. It was Isabella and Jamie’s last official engagement of the season and they have both been a credit to the Junior Section. Sophie and Dylan have big shoes to fill next year!

Thankfully as Neil said during the prizegiving, this is not the end of the season as our Junior coaching programme continues tomorrow in the Driving Range for Reds and Whites. Please encourage your children to continue playing during the darker winter months, and we look forward to 2024 being another great year of golf for all of our Juniors.

The Junior Committee

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