Greystones Golf Club

Co.Wicklow, Ireland

Junior Editor

Autumn & Winter Junior Coaching 2023

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Please see link to our Autumn / Winter coaching for our Junior Reds and Whites from 1pm in Greystones Driving Range starting this Saturday, 28 October 2023 and running for six consecutive Saturdays until 2 December 2023. 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 – Autumn & Winter 2023

As ever, we need parents to help out to ensure the smooth running of coaching sessions – with safeguarding requirements, we need 6 parents for the first group and 8 parents for the second and third groups. The plan is that we have three parents with the first group each week and four parents with the second and third groups each week. We have one parent for the first group, seven for the second group and six for the third group. Ideally each parent who volunteers oversees their group every second week. So we need more volunteers, particularly for the first group. Please PM me if you can spare an hour every second 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. We need to ask the parents to come in with the child at the start 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 business running as a standalone commercial business, so we cannot allow the boys and girls to leave the Driving Range unaccompanied under any circumstances.

The other 2 or 3 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.

We will be holding a second round of Winter & Spring coaching starting in late January / early February 2024 and will be in touch in the New Year in advance.

Thank you,

Declan Murray & The Junior Committee

Junior Results – 14 October 2023

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Blues (9 holes):

  1. Daniel Garvey 23pts
  2. Leo Murphy 18pts
  3. Ruadhán Murray 16pts

Reds (9 holes):

  1. James Long 21pts
  2. Robbie Watchorn 21pts (last 4)
  3. Aoife Dempsey 20pts

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Sinead Seifried 15pts
  2. Tom Lawlor 12pts
  3. Sam Kavanagh 11pts

7Ups (6 holes):

  1. Oscar Maguire 11pts
  2. Vanessa Gulliver 11pts
  3. Hugo Shearer 10pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. James Long 36 to 30
  2. Robbie Watchorn 36 to 30
  3. Sinead Seifried 42 to 31

Congrats to all winners. Please collect your prize next week if you missed the prizegiving. Our winter coaching programme will start in a few weeks and we will be in touch over the coming days with further details.

The Junior Committee

Junior Results – 7 October 2023

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Blues (18 holes):

  1. Jane Lumley 38pts
  2. Aaron Hickey 37pts (back 9)
  3. Daniel Garvey 37pts

Reds (9 holes):

  1. James Long 18pts
  2. Aoife Dempsey 17pts
  3. Aaron Byrne 15pts

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Sam Kavanagh 11pts (back 3)
  2. Rory Power 11pts (back 2)
  3. Devin Kelly 11pts

7Ups (6 holes):

  1. Mossie Quilter 12pts
  2. Ava Melody 8pts
  3. Vanessa Gulliver 8pts

Well done to all. There was no prizegiving due to the U15 trophy presentation, so please collect your prizes next Saturday.

The Junior Committee

Junior Results – 23 September 2023

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Blues (18 holes):

  1. Leo Murphy 41pts
  2. Daniel Garvey 37pts (back 9)
  3. Aaron Hickey 37pts

Reds (14 holes):

  1. Chloe Creedon 30pts (back 7)
  2. Lili McInerney 30pts
  3. Laura Haugh 28pts

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Eden Stroh 13pts
  2. Tom Lawlor 9pts
  3. Emily Farrell 7pts

7Ups (6 holes):

  1. Olivia Holmes 11pts
  2. Ava Melody 9pts (back 3)
  3. Emily Murphy 9pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. Eden Stroh 54 to 51

Congrats to all in very difficult conditions. Please collect your prize next Saturday if you missed the prizegiving.

The Junior Committee

Junior Results – 16 September 2023

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Blues (13 holes):

  1. Emma Haugh 27pts
  2. Jane Lumley 20pts

Reds (9 holes):

  1. Aoife Dempsey 16pts
  2. Tom Farrell 15pts
  3. Davie Harmon 11pts

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Evan Barry 13pts
  2. Harry Greenan 12pts
  3. James Long 10pts

7Ups (6 holes):

  1. Freddie Gormley 7pts
  2. Hugo Shearer 5pts
  3. Beckett Hodgins 4pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. Evan Barry 30 to 27

Well done to all in very difficult conditions! Please collect your prize next week.

Our Under-15 boys team play the first leg of their Leinster Final against Blainroe GC away at 2pm next Saturday, 23 September, followed by the home leg two weeks later in Greystones GC on 7 October. The boys had a great win at home last Sunday against New Forrest by 2.5 to 0.5 points. Following the disappointment of the last few years, including losing two finals, we need as much support as we can!

The Junior Committee

Results For The President’s Prize For Juniors – 9 September 2023

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President’s Prize for Girls:

  1. Emma Haugh 34pts

President’s Prize for Boys:

  1. John Byrne 40pts (back 9)

Gross:

  1. Will O’Riordan 69 (level par…..great shooting Will!)

Blues:

2. Tom Murphy 40pts

3. Cameron McConnell 38pts

Reds:

  1. Aoife Dempsey 33pts
  2. James Power 29pts
  3. Chloe Creedon 28pts

Whites:

  1. Mason Melody 16pts
  2. Rory Power 15pts
  3. Dan Finnegan 13pts

7Ups:

  1. Donnacha Cribben 14pts
  2. Ava Melody 11pts
  3. Emily Murphy 10pts (last 3)

Handicap Cuts:

  1. James Power 36 to 33
  2. Mason Melody 42 to 26
  3. Rory Power 45 to 36
  4. Dan Finnegan 48 to 45
  5. Donnacha Cribben 54 to 48
  6. Ava Melody 36 to 34

Well done to all of our prize winners in our third and final major of 2023, President Marguerite’s Prize for the Juniors, with Emma Haugh taking home the girls prize with a great score of 34pts and John Byrne winning the boys prize with an outstanding score of 40pts (and just pipping Tom Murphy on the back 9). Will O’Riordan won the gross with a great level par round of 69.

A massive thank you to our President, Marguerite, for her support of the Junior section in GGC and her very generous prizes today. We had a record 61 boys and girls playing in a Junior major and Marguerite was on the first tee to see every group off. It was great to see so many parents at the prize giving, with the results again expertly called by our Junior Girls Captain, Isabella, and our Junior Boys Captain, Jamie.

A big thank you to Ali, Liz and the catering team for feeding everybody, and to Paul and Alan behind the bar.

And to Anto, Martin, Sinead and John for getting all of the boys and girls off on time and marking the cards. As always, we can only run successful competitons with the help of parents!

The Junior Committee