Greystones Golf Club

Co.Wicklow, Ireland

Junior News

Greystones Juniors Leading the Charge in Leinster Schools Qualifying Events

We had a lot of our Junior members playing in Leinster schools junior and senior events in recent weeks with more Greystones players in the prizes as the season draws to a close.

Last week in Lucan in the senior qualifying event, Chloe Creedon won the girls net prize with an amazing score of 43 points, while Will O’Riordan came fourth in the boys gross with a 74. Two GGC representatives out of 96 and both in the prizes! Well done guys.

https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/10975421602178562420

This week in Bray in the junior qualifying event, Ruadhán Murray won the best gross with a two over par 73 (out of 65 boys) while Aoife Dempsey and Emma Haugh came second and third in the girls gross (out of 35 girls). Great golf guys! Some great scores also from our other junior members.

https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/10917248054914480352

Under 15s triumph in Baltinglass

Our Leinster Under 15s Interclub team were in a wet and wild Baltinglass GC this morning to take on Carton House in their final.

George O’Briens team were as follows: Ruadhán Murray, Dylan Cavazza and Conor Dignam.

Both Conor and Dylan got off to great starts with both lads being ahead at the turn. Dylan was 2 up and Conor 1 up.

Ruadhán found himself one down at the turn and his opponent extended it to a two hole advantage on the 10th. Two halves on 11 & 12 left the Carton House player two up.

Dylan Cavazza extended his lead to 3 up on the 10th and put the first point on the board for Greystones with further wins on 12 & 13 which gave him a 5 & 4 win.

Meanwhile Conor Dignam also put further distance between him and his opponent with wins on 10 & 11. Despite his opponent winning two holes, Conor won 14 & 16 to win 3 & 2 which gave Greystones the 2nd point they needed to win the pennant.

At this point Ruadhán Murray was called in as his teammates had the points in the bag.

To get to the final the team had beaten Killiney, Wicklow, Castle, Newbridge and Edenderry.

Congratulations to George O’Brien who was assisted through the year by Ben Crowley and Chris Lawless. Thanks also to Davey Lewis and his team and the junior convenor Neil Lawless.

Well done not just to the lads today but also Ollie Packman, John O’Boyle and JP Lynch who played and won matches throughout the campaign.

 

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Schools triumph for Greystones boys

The Leinster Post-Primary Schools Senior Boys and Girls Championship took place at Old Conna GC last Thursday. Their was both a gross and nett competitions for both girls and boys. There was a field of 17 in the girls and 83 in the boys.

The great form of our young players carried on with Greystones players filling first place in both the boys gross and nett sections.

The nett prize was won by Conor Dignam with 38 points to win by one from another Greystones player John Byrne and Delgany member William Walshe. Other Greystones members finished in the following positions:

Dylan Holmes tied 4th 36 pts

Jamie Anderson tied 16th 33 pts

Milo Doyle & John O’Boyle tied 22nd 31pts

Ruadhan Murray tied 34th 29 pts

Toby Murphy tied 43rd 28 pts

The gross prize was won by Dylan Holmes with a gross score of 38 pts to win by one from William Walshe. Jamie Anderson finished in tied 3rd with 32 points.

Milo Doyle tied 12th with 27 pts

Toby Murphy and Conor Dignam tied 15th with 26 pts

John O’Boyle and Ruadhan Murray tied 21st with 24 pts

John Byrne tied 25th with 23 pts

In the girls section Shauna Seifried finished 2nd in the gross section with a score of 23 pts, the winner was Maebh McLoughlin with 30 pts. In the nett section Shauna finished 13th with 28 pts.

Congratulations to all the prize winners and the future looks good for our junior section.

The scoring can be viewed on the link below.

https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/10978530836076329020

Congratulations Isabella!!

Congratulations to our past girls Captain Isabella Stewart who has been awarded a golf and academic scholarship to Seton Hall University in New Jersey which commences in the autumn of 2025.

Isabella plans to study Quantitative Economics and Econometrics as well as play Division 1 golf in the Big East Conference.

Isabella has been a junior member since 2019 and has continued to improve under the guidance of the then junior girls convenor Iris Haughton and then assistant pro Barry Davis. Isabella always had her sights set on going to the US to play collegiate and she is determined to do everyone proud.

Congratulations again to Isabella, her parents and everyone who has helped her on the journey so far.

 

Underage Interprovincial results

Underage Interprovincials for 2025 were played over the course of the summer at a few different locations as opposed to previous years when they would all be played over 2 or 3 days at one location.

The Leinster U-18 Girls finished 1st and both Isabella Stewart and Shauna Seifried played on that team.

Toby Murphy was on the U-16 team who also finished 1st and Ruadhan Murray represented the U-14 boys as they also topped their category.

Leinster U-18 Boys finished 4th with both Dylan Holmes and Will O’Riordan on the team.

Congratulations to all from Greystones GC on  representing their province.

The overall results can be found on the following link.

https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/10747559894233151638

Chance of more pennants!!

On Sunday 29th September at Baltinglass GC two Greystones teams have a chance to pick up two more pennants.

First up are the Ladies team at 10am in the Women’s Leinster Trophy Final against Malahide GC.

At 11am our Under 15s Interclub team take on Carton House in the Leinster Under-15 Interclub final.

All support welcome and wear your club colours.

Live scoring can be followed on the scoring app.

Leinster Development selection for Greystones Pair

Golf Ireland panels for 2025 have been announced and it’s great news for two of our young members. Will O’Riordan and Toby Murphy have both been selected Golf Ireland development and high performance panels for the 2025 season.

Toby has been selected in the Under 17 boys South East Performance Development panel and Will in the Under 18 boys high performance panel.

Congratulations to both boys and their families and best of luck for the 2025 season.

Further details available with the link below.

https://www.golfireland.ie/news-detail?newsarticleid=1531&tags=High%20Performance

Leinster Under 15s through to final

George O’Briens young team are one step from another pennant for the club this year.

On Saturday they took on an Edenderry team who came with a great reputation.

Representing Greystones were Ruadhan Murray, Dylan Cavazza and Conor Dignam.

Ruadhan was all square after 5 holes but then took control of the match winning six of the next 8 holes and despite losing the 14th he won his point on 15 with a 4 & 3 win.

Dylan was up next and even though he was two down after 5 holes he did not panic and won 7 of the next 8 holes and with a half on 14 ran out the 5 & 4 winner.

Conor was all square after 6 and then won 7, 8 and 10. His opponent fought back to one down with wins on 11 & 13. They swapped holes on 15 & 16 for Conor to remain one up. At this point Conor was called in as Greystones had the two points they required to advance to the final.

The final will be held in Baltinglass GC on Sunday 29th September with further details to follow.

Best of luck to George and all the team.

 

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3 winners 51 years apart

A nice moment was captured in Greystones Golf Club when three former winners of the Woodbrook Scratch Cup met.

Jimmy Hackman was victorious in 1973, Alan Condren in 2015 and most recently Dylan Holmes this year.

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