Interclub News

Golf Ireland have created a new interclub competition which has been named the Irish Mixed Fourball. The qualifying criteria is as follows:

1. No individuals handicap index in 2023 can be lower than 10.

2. The pairs combined handicap can be no lower than 27 and no higher than 40.

3. Over 18 years old on 1st January 2024.

Our first round match is against Elm Park at 2.30pm on Sunday. There will be 2 matches at home and 2 away. In the event of a draw Greystones have the home draw and therefore the deciding match will be played in Greystones if needed.

All support welcome on the day, wear your club colours too. Live scoring will be available on the live scoring app.

With apologies to the Men’s Leinster Trophy team and manager Mark Byrne, we are delighted to report on a great win with a delay due to editor enjoying sun and alcohol!!

In what was a tough draw away to Lucan the team performed admirably especially in winning 3 full points away from home. Despite conceding two matches at home Greystones ran out comfortable winners by 4.5 to 2.5. Results were as follows:

Away

• Fergal Duffy won 2 up
• Colm Mulcahy won 3&1
• Eddie Davis 2up through 16 when called in
• Paul Keane won 4&3

Home

• Ruadhan Murray lost 2 down
• Henry Gilbert lost 2 down
• Keith McDonnell won 5&4

Congratulations to Mark and his team and the report of the next match will be on time.

On Thursday afternoon our JB Carr team traveled to Powerscourt in a second round match. It looked like a tough match and so it proved to be. Despite the final score, 4-1, looking like an easy win for Powerscourt in reality the matches were a lot closer than that. The results were as follows:

Walter Gilbert/Gerry Browner lost on 18

Colm Mulcahy/Gavan McGirr lost on 18

Paul Keane/John Burke lost 5&4

Kevin Barry/Jim Wood all square through 17 when called in

Dom Crotty/Ray Houlden one down playing 18 when called in.

Hard luck to Michael Whelan and the team.

Our JB Carr team move on to their 2nd round match on Thursday against Powerscourt.

The JB Carr is a Scotch foursomes matchplay format with the away side receiving a courtesy shot in each match.

All matches will be played away in Powerscourt with a 3.30pm start.

All support welcome and scoring can be followed on the live scoring app.

The Super Seniors finally got their campaign going after a couple of false starts due to the recent weather.

A scotch foursomes event with 5 matches in Greystones. The visiting side were afforded a courtesy shot in each match as well as the handicap allowance.

It proved to be a tight affair with the final result being 3-2 to Killeen. The results were as follows:

• Alan O’Sullivan/Stephen Aherne lost 2&1
• Walter Gilbert/Pete Murray lost 2&1
• Cathal Cooney/Jerry Teehan lost 2&1
• Tom Purcell/Eddie Joynt won 5&3
• Kevin Cahill/Sean O’Gorman won 3&1

Hard luck to the team and managers Joe O’Brien and Pat O’Dowd. As it’s a round robin system, all is not lost and they live to fight another day.

After reaching the Semi-final last year our Best Cup team took on Elm Park with high hopes of progression especially as we had three matches at home and two away.

However it became clear early on that this was going to be a difficult task. In Elm Park, where the tie teed off an hour ahead of matches in Greystones, the home side built a substantial lead and were 5 up through 9 holes, Greystones did get one back but a birdie on 14 for Elm Park gave them the first point. In the second match Greystones fought hard and in a nip and tuck game won on the 19th.

Meanwhile in Greystones Elm Park were up in two matches early on while Greystones claimed an early lead in the other match. Elm Park ran out comfortable winners by claiming two points in Greystones and the last match was called in with Greystones one up.

Final result Elm Park 3.5 – 1.5 Greystones.

Away

Quentin Teggin/Dermot Whiston lost 5&4

Jim Kinsella/Martin McNulty won on 19

Home

Pat Tracey/George Hughes lost 4&3

Jimmy Hempenstall/Maurice Bracken lost 4&3

Joe Grennan/Nigel Robinson 1 up when called in.

In the competition formerly known as the Metropolitan Greystones will take on Lucan on Sunday at 2.30pm. With 3 matches at home and 4 away it will be a tough task.

Mark Byrne has selected the following team.

Home: Ruadhán Murray, Henry Gilbert, Keith McDonnell

Away: Fergal Duffy, Colm Mulcahy, Eddie Davis and Paul Keane.

All support welcome home and away. Also you can follow the match on the scoring app.

After getting to the semi-final last year Pat O’Dowd and Joe O’Brien will be hoping their Best Cup team can have another good campaign this year.

Our first round match is against Elm Park on Friday 19th April. There are five fourball matchplay ties to decide who progresses to the next round. Greystones have the home draw so will have three matches at home. Kick off in Greystones is at 1pm and in Elm Park at 11.55am.

All support welcome and scoring can be followed on the live scoring app.

Today at Greystones Golf Club we hopefully had the beginning of better weather for the coming season.

We played host to Old Conna and Powerscourt Golf Clubs who were competing in the final of the Fitzgibbon Cup. This was the 51st edition of the tournament.

In what turned out to be a one-sided match Powerscourt won the first three matches 5&4, 5&4 and 4&3 and were up in the last two matches when they were called in. The final score was 4-1.

Officials from both clubs were very complimentary about the condition of the course and the food provided after the match. Thanks were also expressed to Paul Keane and Colm Mulcahy for the organisation of this year’s completed.

Ken Fitzgibbon (son of competition founder) was on hand to watch the match and to make the presentation to the victors along with our Captain Mark McAleer.

As winners this year Powerscourt will now take responsibility for organising the competition and hosting the final. Hopefully Greystones can be there.

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Greystones are delighted to be hosting the 2024 Fitzgibbon Cup final on Sunday. The final will be contested by Old Conna and Powerscourt Golf Clubs. There will be five  matches of foursomes golf to decide the winner.

First match tees off at 1.30pm with presentation to the winners at 7.15pm.

Hopefully the weather behaves itself and we will see some entertaining golf on display.

Best of luck to both teams.