Greystones Golf Club

Co.Wicklow, Ireland

Junior News

Dates set for Junior Boys matches

The Junior Boys have upcoming games in this year’s Golf Ireland interclub events. First up this Sunday May 22nd, is the second round Irish Junior Foursomes tie with Killiney GC. The format is aggregate matchplay with one match at home and away and we tee off at 2pm in what should be a closely contested affair.

Next Sunday May 29th, the Fred Daly team take on Elm Park in the Leinster South Quarter Final. The format is is five singles matches and we have three at home and two away. Again the matches tee off at 2pm. This competition is scratch matchplay with some good golf in prospect against a strong Elm Park outfit.

The boys would welcome your support, home or away for what promises to be another exciting couple of weekends.

Good experience for Isabella Stewart in Portstewart

Isabella teed it up on the Riverside course in Portstewart yesterday for the qualifier of the Ulster Under 18 Matchplay Championship.  With only the top sixteen to qualify for the match play it was going to be difficult for the fifteen year old.  The qualifier was won by Evelyn Park from Edmonstown who shot a fantastic 66 on the day to win by 4 shots but it was the player from neighbouring Portrush Golf Club, Olivia Currie who eventually lifted the Fred Daly Trophy after the matchplay was completed.

Isabella finished in 26th place in the qualifier with an 83 and played great in the consolation Clandeboye Goblet net event today to finish joint 4th with 35 points.

Isabella still has another three years at this age level !

Well done to Toby Murphy

Another good performance from our junior section this week with Toby Murphy finishing tied 8th today in the Ulster Under-14 Boys Open Championship which was played in Ballycastle Golf Club today.

Well done Toby….

 

Well done to our Junior boys in Leinster Under 16’s

Four of our junior boys traveled to Mullingar this week to compete in the Leinster Boys ( U16s ).

Jamie Anderson shot 5 over on Thursday with Dylan Holmes shooting one worse at +6, both making the cut.  Unfortunately William O’Riordan and Toby Murphy missed the cut (Toby by a single shot).

On Wednesday Jamie again played some solid golf and maintained his form, shooting a very creditable six over par to finish on +11 and in 23rd place overall in a strong 125 man field.

Dylan had been disappointed with his first round and dug deep on day two to shoot a level par 70, a round that was only bettered on the day by the eventual event winner, Michael Wilson from Massereene Golf Club.  Dylan’s score moved him up from 25th after day one to 7th place overall.

Well done to all four Greystones players.

 

Well done to Mia and her team-mates

Congratulations to our Girls Captain,  Mia Walsh and her two team mates, Lilly and Joanna who came second overall in the Leinster Golf Championships which took place in Rathfarnham earlier this month.

 

Irish Schools Junior Girls championship

Well done to Shauna, Grace, Stella, Isabella and Sophie competing in the Irish Schools Junior Girls championship last week. Special congratulations to Shauna on finishing 6th. 49 girls played from other clubs in Leinster. Well done all!

Junior Quiz Night

On Friday last we had our Quiz night in support of the Junior section.  The evening was very well attended and enjoy by all 16 or so teams that participated.  A big thanks to Conor Fleetwood and Cormac O’Byrne for a very entertaining, interesting and fun quiz.  A special thanks to everyone who sponsored the Quiz and Raffle prizes – Medfit Proactive Healthcare, Just Eat, Amanda, Barry, Davie, Eddie, Karl and Philip.

Quiz Winners were:

1st: Joe Aherne’s Team
2nd: Cathal Cooney’s Team
3rd: Des Moriarty’s Team
Raffle Winners were:

Peter Burke
Michael Joyce
Cathal Cooney
Conor Keown
Ray Crotty

Leinster U15 – Winners Malahide

Greystones U15 squad came out second best to a very strong Malahide U-15 team in the 2021 Leinster U15 final.  Both sides place really good golf over the two 5-match legs, with Malahide proving to be the stronger side and a deserving winner.  It is worth noting that none of their squad are available for next year, whereas five of our squad will be itching to have a go once again next year, and hopefully go one step further.

A big thanks must go to the following for the effort they put in, their commitment and their togetherness and support they showed for one another:

Jamie Anderson
Milo Doyle
Dylan Holmes
Marc Lawless
Toby Murphy
Jack McGovern
William O’Riordan
and of course to Peter Anderson and Karl Holmes for their management skills.

Roll on 2022.

Leinster U-15 Final on 3rd October

This Sunday at 1pm our Under 15 squad take on Malahide in the final of the Leinster U-15 .  It will be play over two weekends – with 5 matches at home on 3rd October and 5 matches away on 17th October.  All support would be very much appreciated – it promises to be an exciting afternoon of great golf.

Best wishes to:

Jamie Anderson
Milo Doyle
Dylan Holmes
Marc Lawless
Toby Murphy
Jack McGovern
William O’Riordan