Greystones Golf Club
Co.Wicklow, Ireland
Best of luck to Davie Lewis’s under 15 team tomorrow in the first (home) leg of their Leinster final. The team face very tough opposition from Roganstown Golf Club but hopefully our boys can get a good start tomorrow in the home leg.
Tee off is at 12.30 and live scoring will be available but all on-course support will be most welcome.
Congratulations to Maurice & Harry Phelan, who today beat Brian & Tom Murray in a close run match to win the 2022 Father & Son Trophy. Brian & Tom were two down after six but had turned the match around by the tenth tee at which time, they were one up. The match remained tight however and Maurice & Harry fought back to win on the seventeenth, 2&1.
The Frank Talbot fourball trophy was also decided this afternoon. Veteran, Eugene Corrigan had teamed up with Pete Murray this year and they made it all the way, beating Paul Byrne & Philip Dempsey to win the final this afternoon. Eugene & Pete played well and, with the benefit of shots had their noses in front pretty much the whole way. Pete and Eugene were two up after thirteen and wins on fourteen and fifteen settled the match by a margin of 4&3.Congratulations to Eugene & Pete.
Last out this afternoon was our 2022 Glenavy final with Mary Hutch & Henry Gilbert taking on previous winners, Aideen & Barry O’Leary. This afternoon was a tightly contested affair with the match still delicately poised after fourteen with just one hole in it, in favour of Aideen & Barry. This match also went as far as the seventeenth with Aideen & Barry holding on to their slender lead to come out on top.
Best of luck to our Junior Sixes team who have made it to the finals of this Golf Ireland competition this Saturday.
These are our youngest team who will no doubt feature in years to come in our senior Greystones panels.
Best of luck to our six players:
Emma Haugh, Dylan Cavazza, Jane Lumley, Ben Beggan, Sinead Seifried and John Byrne.
Congratulations to David Lewis and his team who, yesterday, progressed to the final of this Golf Ireland Leinster competition.
The boys faced an uphill battle yesterday, playing Carlow with three matches away but they came up trumps with an excellent win and some fine individual performances. Davie looked after the home pairs while Ben Crowley traveled to Carlow with the team. President Neville, Lady Captain Amanda and Vice Captain John were all at the matches to lend support.
At home we had William O’Riordan out first. William is one of a group of players who have been so unlucky in the past 3 years not to win this pennant and he was well up for the fight. Turning three up after wins on the eighth and ninth holes, he went four up with another win on the tenth and managed his match well from there to win 3&2 after a fine win on the fifteenth hole and a lip out for a birdie half on the sixteenth.
This wasn’t the first point on the board for Greystones however. In Carlow, Ruadhán Murray was playing a blinder. He won the first hole before loosing two on the bounce to go one down through three holes.He then went on to win the next nine holes to close his match 8&6.
Toby Murphy was playing second at home and turned two down, losses on eleven and twelve took the match to four down but Toby being Toby, he dug in, winning the next three holes before an unfortunate loss on the sixteenth had him dormie two down.
Our second man out in Carlow was Milo Doyle who like Toby, was down at the halfway stage. Milo turned three down and, also like Toby, Milo fought hard to get the match back to one down with four to play with wins on the thirteenth and fourteenth. He lost the fifteenth and could only halve the sixteenth and was, again like Toby, dormie two down.
It was all getting very tight…
Our final match saw Marc Lawless playing third in Carlow. Marc is having a great year and played well again yesterday. He was two up through nine but from there the match got extremely tight with both sides perhaps sensing that it could be the decider. Holes were halved from the tenth through the thirteenth before Marc exerted a little extra pressure with a win on the fourteenth to go three ahead with four to play. The fifteenth was halved but Marc found trouble on the sixteenth to go back to two up but crucially with only two holes let to play.
So… two points in the bag and dormie two down in two and dormie two up in the final match – all very exciting for those lucky enough to be there.
The first of the remaining points went to Carlow with Toby coming up just short, winning the seventeenth but only halving the eighteenth to loose 1 down.
Milo also won his seventeenth to take his match to the eighteenth tee but didn’t have to finish as Marc came up trumps with a well earned half on his seventeenth to win his match 2&1 and the point that takes the lads to the Leinster final..
May congratulations to David, Ben and all the squad.
Best of luck to David Lewis’ Under 15 boys team who face a tough draw tomorrow in the semi final of this Golf Ireland event.
The boys play an always strong Carlow team and have three matches away from home.
This is the fourth year in a row to reach this stage and hopefully the team can get the job done tomorrow.
Live scoring for the Boys Leinster Under 15 semi final match is available by clicking here.
Today saw the inaugural Wicklow Girls event take place in Greystones. The Wood family have kindly sponsored the Wicklow Boys event for many years and suggested last year that they would also like to sponsor a Wicklow Girls event. Needless to say, Junior Convener, Peter Anderson and the Junior Committee were more than delighted to jump on board with most of the heavy lifting being done by Patrice Dowling with assistance from Iris Haughton and Peter.
Greystones welcomed players from fourteen clubs today for this event, from as far afield as Craigavon and Westport.
Golf Ireland were also on hand, in the form of Neil Kilgallon, who ran a Girls Development Hub event in conjunction with the main Wicklow Girls competition. In fact, this turned out to be the biggest Girls Development Hub event across the country this year.
As ever, behind the scenes, club OM Liam Moulton made sure that the day ran perfectly.
Carmel Wood was on hand to present the winner, Ellen Larkin from Powerscourt Golf Club, with the beautiful trophy. Ellen shot 43 points off 28.
Isabella Stewart won the May Fitzgibbon plate for the best score by a Greystones player.
We look forward to welcoming all the players, and more, next year for the second running of this excellent competition.
Full results are below;
Winner of the inaugural Wicklow Girls – Ellen Larkin (Powerscourt Golf Cub) (28) – 43 points
2nd – Kayleigh Doyle (Wicklow) (26.6) – 42 points
Gross – Ellen Lonergan (Westport) (5.7) – 30 points
3rd – Darcy Pemberton (Blainroe) (32.5) – 40 points (back 9)
4th – Isabella Stewart (Greystones) (11.1) – 40 points
Longest Drive – Annelie Rafferty-Green (Athenry)
Nearest the pin – Isabella Stewart (Greystones)
Congratulations to David Lewis and his squad of Under 15 boys who, on Friday beat Tulfarris 3 1/2 to 1 1/2 to move to the Leinster Semi finals.
Ben Crowley stood in to manage the team with David being on parental leave. Junior convener Peter Anderson, looked after the home players with Ben travelling to Tulfarris.
Big wins for Ruadhán Murray ( 7&5 ) at home and Toby Murphy ( 8&7 ) away, set the scene but the tie was still far from over with our other away matches far from being in the bag. In Tulfarris, Will O’Riordan lost by a margin of 3&1 and Marc Lawless was also behind in his match. It fell to Milo Doyle at home, who was one down after five holes to stay resilient, which he did, winning his match 4&3, to settle the tie for Greystones. Marc was two down through fourteen when called in.
Well done to all involved.
President Neville’s prize to the junior boys took place this afternoon in brilliant sunshine (for the most part) and thankfully we dodged the heavy rain which had been forecast.
We had a great turnout and saw some excellent scoring. Many thanks to our President Neville for his continued support of the Greystones Juniors and well done to the prize winners, and to all those who took part.
Thanks to Paul and his team in the bar and to Ali and Lukas in the kitchen who made sure all the boys were fed and watered after their rounds and of course to Junior Convenor Peter Anderson, and his team on the day of Brian Murray, Declan Murphy and Anto Byrne who made the day possible.
Of course, the biggest congratulations are reserved for our winner JP Lynch.
WINNER of President Neville’s prize to the junior boys: JP Lynch (32) 44 points (full results below)
Full results:
Whites (9 hole):
3rd Patrick Murray (54) 14 points (back 6)
2nd Evan Barry (54) 16 points
1st Harry Greenan (51) 16 points (back 6)
Reds (14 hole):
3rd Hugh Taylor (34 23 points
2nd Ewan MacAdam (36) 23 points (back 7)
1st Ben Beggan (33) 23 points (last hole)
Blues (18 hole):
Gross Toby Murphy (4) 72
4th Tom Murray (11) 38 points
3rd Marc Lawless (8) 39 points
2nd Finn Gilmore (16) 41 points
WINNER of President Neville’s prize to the junior boys: JP Lynch (32) 44 points
Isabella Stewart and Sophie Lumley continued the excellent performances by our junior girls today. Playing in the Munster U18 Eileen Roughan Trophy, hosted by Lahinch this afternoon, Isabella shot 43 points to finish an excellent tied second in the competition while Sophie had 38 points to finish just outside the top ten in eleventh place.
