Junior News

We kicked off this year’s Wicklow Cup in amazing style with an away fixture in Dun Laoghaire golf club yesterday afternoon.

Co-managers Declan Murphy (on-course) and Declan Murray (off-course, on holidays!) fielded a mixed team of varying experience levels and our six boys and four girls delivered an incredible 5 away wins!

We got off to fast starts in all five matches and all played some brilliant golf in the scotch foresomes format. With the away team starting one-up in each match, we were never down in any match at any stage.

The final match results were:

1. Sophie Lumley and Tom Murphy beat Jane McElligot and Emily Charlton on the 13th
2. Shauna Seifried and JP Lynch beat Mark Fitzgerald and Sean Nolan on 14th
3. Marc Lawless and Aoife Dempsey beat Max Flynn and Noah Byrne on the 11th
4. Milo Doyle and Emma Haugh beat Harry Ryan and Elijah Kim on the 13th
5. Leo Murphy and John Byrne beat Dave MacMahon Jnr and Max Finley on the 13th

To win all five matches away from home by the 14th is an incredible achievement! We fielded a team of eight Blues and want to give special mention to Emma Haugh and Aoife Dempsey, our two Reds who played. Aoife won Davie’s professional prize for Whites last week and will be playing her first Reds 14 hole competition today. This was Aoife’s first inter-club match and she played great golf yesterday with the experienced Marc Lawless. Well done Emma and Aoife!

We play our next match at home against Wicklow before 6 August.

Well done again guys, we are incredibly proud of you all!

Well done to Shauna Seifried who came second in the gross competition of the Ria Kenny today at Elm Park. Shauna shot 22 points gross ( 35 nett ) and was one behind the winner.

In the nett competition, Doireann Dowdall shot an excellent 39 points to finish sixth.  Daisy Jo Jolly, from Dun Laoighaire shot 48 points today off a handicap of 34 to win the overall nett event.

Please see link below for this year’s draw for the Dermot Wheeler Matchplay. First round matches to be played by 30 June 2023.

Dermot Wheeler Matchplay Draw 2023

The Junior Committee

For All Junior Parents:

Please see a link below to the current gradings for each junior member across our Blue, Red, White and 7Up categories.

Junior Categories – May 2023

Blues play an 18 hole competition every Saturday, while Reds play 9 holes (will be 14 holes during the summer) and both the Whites and 7Ups play 6 holes. The timesheet is set up by category, so a Red for example can only play in the Red competition in the designated time slots with two other Red category members. Please note that Whites and 7Ups cannot mix either.

The boys and girls move between categories as their handicaps reduce:

1. 7Ups – start with a handicap of 54 and move to Whites when their handicap reduces to 24
2. Whites – start at 54 and move to Reds when their handicap reduces to 18
3. Reds – start at 36 and move to Blues when their handicap reduces to 18 (subject to Junior Committee assessment)

The Junior Committee manages handicaps for all 7Ups, Whites and Reds. All handicap cuts are based on completed competition scores only. All Blues receive WHS handicaps and their handicaps are managed accordingly.

Any changes in handicaps and category will be advised in our weekly competition results post which follows every Junior Competition.

Thanks,

The Junior Committee