Interclub News

After a very busy weekend of interclub competitions last week the men’s section only have two teams doing battle on Friday and Saturday.

On Friday the Leinster Senior Men’s Team will take on Woodenbridge with 2 matches at home and 2 away. The team is managed by Trevor Phillips and Stephen O’Brien. It is a fourball matchplay competition. Kick off is 4pm in both venues.

On Saturday morning at 8.20am our Barton Shield team will be taking part in the qualifying section in Blainroe. Format is foursomes strokeplay and the combined aggregate of both cards will count.

All support welcome for both teams and please wear your colours.

Live scoring will be available for Friday on the app.

Jim Wood with the assistance of John Burke sent his Pierce Purcell team out to take on Straffan. At home Michael Joyce was paired with Shane Power while Robert Clarke joined Colm O’Neill. Away from home Rob Tierney was with Stephen O’Brien and Gavan McGirr joined Neil Lawless. It turned out to be a tough day at the office with Straffan edging ahead overall at the half way point.

Straffan went further ahead as the evening progressed and won the match 3.5 to 0.5 or so it seemed. The drama was not over as it emerged that Straffan had erred with their handicaps and Golf Ireland awarded the match to Greystones. An unusual way to get through to the next round but hopefully the team can use this piece of luck and go on a run in this competition.

The match results were as follows:

Home

Robert Clarke/Colm O’Neill list 2&1

Michael Joyce/Shane Power lost 6&5

Away

Gavan McGirr/Neil Lawless list 5&3

Rob Tierney/Stephen O’Brien were 2 up through 15 when called in.

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Ray Crotty’s Junior Cup team took to the course on Sunday to play Hermitage Golf Club. Hopes were high with a home draw meaning we had 3 matches at home and 2 away.

There was early change to the team when Chris Lawless had to withdraw from the team. This resulted in Milo Doyle changing from away to home and Brian Frawley replacing Milo away.

At the half way point things were looking good with both George O’Brien and Brian Frawley both ahead and Chris Boylan ahead at home. Diarmaid MacGabhann and Milo Doyle were in arrears at the turn but hopeful of a turn around on the back nine.

However nothing is certain in golf and while Chris and George both won their games well Hermitage proved too strong on the day and ran out 3-2 winners.

Results were as follows:

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Milo Doyle lost 2&1

Diarmaid MacGabhann lost 5&4

Chris Boylan won 3&1

Brian Frawley lost on 18

George O’Brien won 4&3

Commiserations to Ray and the whole panel. We are sure Ray will be planning for 2025 already.

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Mark Byrne with the assistance of his brother Anthony sent his Leinster Men’s Trophy (formerly Metropolitan) team out in their 2nd round match against Powerscourt. Today we had the home advantage of 4 matches at home and 3 away.

On a beautiful sunny day with a stiff breeze from the north Keith McDonnell led the team out at home and was in a strong position of 3 up after 9. Second out was Eddie Davis and he took was in a similar position of 3 up through 9. The youngest member of the team was up next and Ruadhan Murray was 2 up at the turn. Last up at home was Henry Gilbert, this was a much tighter affair and Henry turned 1 down.

Away from home Fergal Duffy was level, Paul Keane 1 down and Peter Nolan was 6 (yes 6) up all through 9.

So at the turn the overall match was still close. However Greystones turned on the style from there on.

Peter finished his game off quickly 8&6. Next to finish was Eddie winning 4&3 followed by Keith winning 2&1 despite his opponent fighting back. Ruadhan then clinched the winning points on 16 3&2. The remaining matches were called in with Henry 2 up through 15, Fergal all square through 14 and Paul 2 up through 14.

Final result was 5.5 to 1.5 in favour of Greystones. On to the 3rd round for Mark Byrne and his team.

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This weekend is a busy weekend for the mens section with 3 teams representing the club on Sunday afternoon.
The Leinster Men’s Trophy (formerly Metropolitan) team managed by Mark Byrne  take on  Powerscourt at 1.20pm  4 matches at home and 3 away.

Our Junior Cup team Sunday managed by Ray Crotty are up against Hermitage Golf Club at 2.10pm at home and 2.30pm away. 3 matches at home 2 away.

Finally our Pierce Purcell team under the guidance of Jim Wood are paired against Straffan at 3.40pm 2 matches at home and 2 away.

All support welcome and please wear your club colours. If you can’t attend you can still follow the games on the live scoring match.

Also on Sunday our ladies are up against Milltown in the Boyne trophy at 3pm.

On Friday afternoon Joe O’Brien brought his Super Seniors side to Delgany hoping to get their campaign on track after losing the first match against Killeen.

Unfortunately it wasn’t to be and Delgany powered into early big leads in 3 of the matches. Delgany ran out 3-2 winners overall with the match scores as follows:

Walter Gilbert/Pete Murray lost 6&5

Stephen Aherne/Tom Purcell won 6&4

Peter Burke/Eddie Joynt lost 2 down

Cathal Cooney/Jerry Teehan won 4&3

Kevin Cahill/Sean O’Gorman lost 5&4

Hard luck to Joe and his team. It will be difficult to progress from the group stage now but I’m sure they will keep fighting and hope other results go out way.

Our Jimmy Bruen, Barton Cup and Fred Daly team begin their 2024 campaigns this weekend.

Starting on Saturday Karl Holmes will send his team out against Blainroe with 3 matches away and 2 at home. Kick off in Greystones is 3.15pm and 3.30pm approx in Blainroe. Hopefully this is the start of another long campaign for the lads after getting all the way to the All Ireland final last year

On Sunday first up will be our Jimmy Bruen team managed by Gerry Kenny and Michael Keating. Kick off in Greystones at 1.40pm and Dun Laoghaire at 1.50pm with 2 matches at each venue.

Next will be our Barton Cup team managed by Ray McDonnell. Kick off in Greystones and Macreddin is at 2.20pm with 2 matches at home and 3 away.

Support would be greatly appreciated and please wear your club colours. If you can’t make it to the venues you can still follow on the scoring app.

Best of luck to all the teams.

Our Super Seniors team take on our near neighbours on Thursday hoping to get their campaign on track after a defeat in their first match. Kick off is 1pm with all matches in Delgany. Best of luck to Joe O’Brien and his team. As usual all support welcome. Scoring will be available on the app also.