Greystones Golf Club

Co.Wicklow, Ireland

Junior Results

Junior Scramble Results – 3 November 2023

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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Junior Results – 14 October 2023

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

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

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

Brilliant performance from our Sixes team in the All-Ireland finals (17th Sept)

Well done to our Sixes team who, despite putting in an excellent performance in the All-Ireland finals today just came up short.

The finals were held at Grange Golf Club this afternoon in horrendous conditions with eight clubs competing from the provinces.

In the end Tramore ran out the winners but our team, representing the Leinster South region did the club proud both by how they presented themselves on the course and the quality of their golf.

Manager Martin Haugh stuck with the same team who won the Leinster South pennant last month to play today. The rules of this competition state that a minimum of two girls should be included in the six person team however it was great to see that the Greystones’ team included three girls and three boys. Only one other club in the finals had more than the two mandated girls on the team today ( the other being Galway GC ).

Out first today were Aoife Dempsey & James Long, Emma Haugh & Jane Lumley were out in the number two position and John O’Boyle & Jack Daly brought up the rear. With the best two cards to count Greystones returned an excellent team score of 4 over par.

Aoife also won the longest drive of the day competition!!

Many congratulations to all involved – another pennant for the 2023 wall of fame !

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Junior Results – 16 September 2023

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

Under 15 Boys move to Leinster Final

Congratulations to team manager Ben Crowley and his squad who beat a strong New Forest side this afternoon to get to the Leinster final which will take place later this month.

Ben and his team will face local rivals, Blainroe who saw off The Island in their semi final yesterday.  The final will be over two legs, one home and one away (dates to be confirmed).

Out first today was Conor Dignam who was giving six shots to his opponent.  Conor stormed into a three hole lead after just three holes and turned two up, despite a loss on the ninth. Conor halved the tenth, while giving a shot, and his win with a par on the eleventh was followed by another good win on eight. His New Forest opponent won thirteen but it was too little too late for him unfortunately and Conor closed out the match with wins on fourteen and fifteen by a margin of 5&3.

Number two today was Ruadhán Murray. Ruadhán was giving eight shots which is never easy and found himself two behind after losses on six and seven. He stuck to his guns however and dug out three excellent wins in a row from the eighth to get ahead for the first time in the match. The back nine was cat and mouse. Ruadhán lost twelve, giving a shot but won fourteen with a par. He was giving a shot on fifteen also which went to New Forest to bring the match back to all square. Sixteen was halved in pars but seventeen, another shot hole, went to the visitors and Ruadhán found himself dormie one down.

The anchorman for the team this afternoon was the ever dependable Toby Murphy.  Toby was giving two shots to his opponent and was struggling a bit perhaps with the flat stick early on in his round, turning one down.  He was giving a shot on the tenth but Toby made par which was enough to halve the hole. Pars on eleven and twelve got him ahead for the first time since the second tee box. His choice to hit driver on thirteen nearly cost him the hole but a good putt from six feet for bogey earned him a half and fourteen was also halved, this time in par. A birdie on fifteen got Toby to two ahead with three to play, sixteen was halved in par and another par on seventeen was enough to seal the match 2&1and the tie for Greystones.

Ruadhán had won eighteen to get his match all square when called in.

Congratulations to Ben and his squad.

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

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

 

 

 

Junior Results – 2 September 2023

Blues (18 holes):

  1. Jane Lumley 44pts
  2. Dylan Cravazza 42pts
  3. Tom Murphy 40pts

Reds (14 holes):

  1. Aoife Dempsey 42pts
  2. Daniel Cunningham 23pts
  3. Scott Hamilton 20pts

Blues (6 holes):

  1. Fionn Quilter 15pts (last 3)
  2. Liliana Drew 15pts
  3. Emily Farrell 14pts

7Ups (6 holes):

  1. Hugo Shearer 18pts
  2. Vanessa Gulliver 14pts
  3. Oscar Maguire 13pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. Fionn Quilter 42 to 33
  2. Liliana Drew 34 to 25
  3. Emily Farrell 30 to 24
  4. Sinead Seifried 45 to 42
  5. Hugo Shearer 51 to 33
  6. Vanessa Gulliver 42 to 36
  7. Oscar Maguire 33 to 30

Some brilliant scores today, with a big shout out to Jane with 44 points and Aoife with an incredible 42 points (for 14 holes!). Please collect your prize next Saturday if you missed the prizegiving in the Clubhouse after the competition.

We host our last Junior major of the season, President Marguerite Hamill’s Prize for the Junior girls and boys, next Saturday. Timesheet will go live on Tuesday, so let’s try and get a big turn-out for Marguerite who is looking forward to seeing everyone in action.

We had a long update last week when we were delighted to list out some of the great achievements of our Junior boys and girls in recent inter-club competitions. Unfortunately this week we fell just short of winning a Green Pennant when Peter Anderson and Karl Holmes’ incredible Fred Daly team came ever so close to beating Royal Portrush in the final in Castletroy GC. It was a phenomenal achievement to get to the final as we beat the very fancied Douglas GC in the quarter-finals. Having got the better of Lurgan GC in the morning semi-final, it just wasn’t to be against Portrush who won by the slimmest of margins, 3 matches to 2. We also came up short against Monkstown GC in the quarter-final of the All-Ireland Foursomes on Tuesday afternoon, who went on to lose in the final against Baltinglass GC. The standard of golf in Castletroy was breathtaking and we are incredibly proud of our ten man panel of Dylan, Jamie, Toby, Jack, Stephen, Will, Marc, Milo, Ruadhán and Conor. Your time will come guys!

The Junior Committee would like to say a big thank you to Pete and Karl, and Team Manager Michael Joyce, for the fantastic achievement of winning two Leinster South pennants and getting to two All-Ireland finals this year. We are luckly to have people who are so dedicted, committed and passionate about junior golf in GGC and put in a huge amount of work behind the scenes.

See you all next Saturday

Junior Results – 26 August 2023

Blues (18 holes):

  1. JP Lynch 47pts
  2. Leo Murphy 42pts
  3. Dylan Cavazza 41pts

Reds (14 holes):

  1. Garret Keogh 33pts
  2. Aoife Dempsey 27pts
  3. Jane Lumley 25pts

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Tom Farrell 15pts
  2. Devin Kelly 14pts
  3. Sam Kavanagh 10pts

7-Up (6 holes):

Rained off, no entry fee next week if you played and paid today!

Category Change:

  1. Garret Keogh from Reds to Blues
  2. Tom Farrell from Whites to Reds

Handicap Cuts:

  1. Devin Kelly 33 to 27

Congrats to all of our winners on some great scoring today in pretty wet conditions, and to Gar and Tom on moving categories – great golf guys! Please collect your prize next week if you missed the prizegiving.

It has been a great season for our Junior section and we broke our 2023 attendance record today with 62 boys and girls playing. The Junior Committee believes this is the most juniors to ever play in a Saturday competition in GGC in our 128 year history!

The Week Just Gone…..

It was another momentous week for the Junior Section with Dylan Holmes and our Boys Junior Captain, Jamie Anderson, leading the charge as the Leinster U-18 team were crowned 2023 All-Ireland Provincial Champions. Dylan and Jamie played 6 matches each, including winning 2.5 points from the three foursomes matches they played together. Cousins in arms!

Not to be outdone by our “senior” juniors, our Junior Sixes team of Aoife Dempsey, Jane Lumley, Emma Haugh, John O’Boyle, James Long and Jack Daly, under the astute management of Martin Haugh, qualified for the All-Ireland finals which take place at Grange Golf Club on 17 September. Brilliant work guys!

And then to cap all of this off, Emma Haugh won the 2023 Wicklow Girls on Thursday with a great score of 41 points. Emma is the first Greystones winner in the second year of what we hope will turn into a big Girls event, with Shauna Siefried placing second and Sophie Lumley just behind in third. Well done ladies on filling the podium!

Then finally, our U-15 Boys team of Toby Murphy, Ruadhán Murray and Conor Dignam put in a great performance to beat Stackstown 3-0 to reach the semi-finals and keep the dream alive for another year. An impressive win from all three under the youthful and energetic management team of Ben Crowley and last years Junior Boys Captain, George O’Brien.

And the Week Ahead……

As we reach the business end of the golf season, we have a massive week ahead.

Toby Murphy, Will O’Riordan and Jack McGovern tee-off tomorrow when our Mens Junior Cup team play Monkstown GC in the All-Ireland quarter-finals in Youghal GC with a 12.00 tee time. Three juniors starting in a five-man team! The very best of luck lads.

Then on Tuesday, our 10-man squad, ably led by our star U-18 interprovincials Dylan and Jamie, play the All-Ireland quarter-finals of both the Fred Daly (Boys U-18 at 9.10) and Irish Junior Foresomes (Boys U-18 at 13.27) at Castletroy GC in Limerick. Best of luck to Dylan, Jamie, Toby, Jack, Will, Stephen, Marc, Milo, Conor and Ruadhán. With Karl Holmes and Peter Anderson managing both squads, this is a fantastic achievement for everyone at GGC as we chase a Green pennant on two fronts.

The Junior Committee

 

Junior Results – 19 August 2023

Blues (18 holes):

  1. JP Lynch 38pts
  2. Tom Murphy 36pts
  3. Daniel Garvey 34pts

Reds (14 holes):

  1. Davie Harmon 36pts
  2. Garret Keogh 30pts
  3. Doireann Dowdall 21pts

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Sam Kavanagh 16pts
  2. Michael McCormack 14pts (last 3)
  3. Darragh Cullen 14pts

7Ups (6 holes):

  1. Emily Murphy 12pts
  2. Vanessa Gulliver 11pts
  3. Elsa Doyle 10pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. Davie Harmon 31 to 21
  2. Garret Keogh 24 to 21
  3. Sam Kavanagh 51 to 39
  4. Michael McCormack 51 to 45
  5. Darragh Cullen 48 to 42
  6. Aoibheann Dowdall 54 to 48

Well done to all. Please collect your prizes next Saturday if you missed the prizegiving in the Clubhouse after the competition. Three weeks to go to the last major of the year, President Marguerite Hamill’s prize for the Juniors which will take place on Saturday, 9 September 2023. Timesheet will go live on Tuesday evening for next Saturdays Junior Comp.

The Junior Committee

 

Junior Results – 12 August 2023

Blues (18 holes):

  1. JP Lynch 41pts
  2. Ruadhán Murray 37pts
  3. Matt Smullen 36pts

Reds (14 holes):

  1. Hugh Taylor 32pts
  2. Davie Harmon 25pts
  3. James Power 22pts (last 7)

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Tom Lawlor 14pts
  2. Iseult Naidoo 13pts (last 3)
  3. Harry Gormley 13pts

7Ups (6 holes):

  1. Freddie Gormley 19pts
  2. Olivia Holmes 15pts
  3. Emily Murphy 14pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. Hugh Taylor 29 to 24
  2. Tom Lawlor 42 to 36
  3. Iseult Naidoo 54 to 51
  4. Harry Gormley 39 to 36
  5. Freddie Gormley 48 to 33
  6. Olivia Holmes 51 to 42
  7. Emily Murphy 48 to 42

Congrats to all and great to see seven boys and girls getting their handicap cut, with three of the Blues also getting cut I think! Some great scores in very windy conditions. Please collect your prize next weekend if you missed the prizegiving. We had 57 boys and girls playing today, including a few new members playing their first Junior comp in GGC. Timesheet will go live for next Saturday on Tuesday evening.

Best of luck to Toby, Ruadhán, Conor and Dylan in their Leinster U15s match away to Edenderry tomorrow, and to our Juniors who are playing in the Wicklow Boys on Monday, including our defending, and two time Champion, Dylan Holmes.

And finally, congratulations to Dylan and our Junior Boys Captain, Jamie Anderson, who were both selected for the Leinster U-18 Inter Provincial Team for the InterPros which take place in Tipperary on 23-25 August. Well done guys, a fantastic achievement for two very talented and dedicated golfers. Everyone in GGC will be cheering you on (and please leave a little in reserve for the Fred Daly final!).

The Junior Committee