Junior News

Sponsored by Wood Group Homes, the 2022 Wicklow Boys got under way this morning with a strong field teeing it up from 07.30 in round one of this 72 hole event.

After two rounds of this 72 hole competition, defending champion, Dylan Holmes holds a narrow lead of one shot over Castle Golf Club’s David Lawley. Dylan followed his 66 of this morning with a 70 this afternoon for a two under par two round total.  Despite a blistering front nine of four under, David also shot a round of 70 this afternoon following his opening round of 67.

A level par 69 this afternoon saw Jack McGovern shoot up the leaderboard by five places, to third, on a total of five over for the tournament. Adam Allahbachani (Powercourt) dropped two shots on the eighteenth (losing his ball off the tee) on his way to shooting a five over second round and dropped a place to forth on a six over total. Jamie Anderson fills out the top five spots, one shot further back, with Toby Murphy in sixth on nine over, one shot ahead of Rory O’Shea (Elm Park).

Best of luck to all the players tomorrow in the final rounds.

The leaderboard can be accessed by clicking here.

Sponsored by Wood Group Homes, the 2022 Wicklow Boys got under way this morning with a strong field teeing it up from 07.30 in round one of this 72 hole event.

Defending Champion, Dylan Holmes (Greystones) teed it up alongside Adam Allahbachani (Powercourt) and David Lawley (Castle) and these three have set the early pace with Dylan making a fine up and down from the sand on the 18th to complete a three under 66 while David Lawley birdied sixteen, seventeen and eighteen to finish just one behind on 67.  Adam also birdied the last hole to finish on one over (70).

The leaderboard can be accessed by clicking here.

The Junior Committee held a fun day for all Juniors on Thursday afternoon with Ali & Olivia on hand to run the barbecue.  The sun shone and it was a great day.  Congratulations to the winners and to all those who took part – we’ll definitely do this again !

The winning team was Adam Moore, Cameron McConnell, Isabella Stewart and Sophie Lumley who narrowly beat Marc Lawless, John Byrne, Sinead Seifreid and Taylor Quinn in to second place.

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Many congratulations to David Lewis and his Leinster Under 15’s team who this afternoon pulled off a great win against Edenderry in the fourth round of thLeinster Under 15’s Championship.  With three games away from home in Edenderry this was never going to be a walk in the park for David’s team.

As the match unfolded, three of the games were decided early doors with Toby Murphy winning 7&5 at home having played some great golf, including a chip in for birdie and a win on the eleventh. Marc Lawless continued his fine recent form with an excellent win away 5&4 but unfortunately for Conor Dignam, who was a late draftee after Jack McGovern was injured, he came up against a strong opponent in Edenderry and lost 6&4.

As always in these matches it was a nail biting finish. We needed one of, home player William O’Riordan, who turned all square but was two up after fifteen or Milo Doyle, who was in Edenderry having turned two down but who had got his match back to one down with two to play, to win their matches.

As it turned out, William lost sixteen and seventeen (where he was giving a shot to his opponent) and was all square on the eighteenth tee box.  Milo, in contrast, won his seventeenth to go all square. So two chances to get a win…

William hit a great drive down eighteen, leaving himself a seventy yard pitch from the rough to the pin which was on the lower level of the eighteenth green while his young opponent was twenty yards out in two. William hit a wonderful shot to six feet and, when his opponent left his chip short and William lipped out for birdie it was time to shake hands.  Milo’s match continued to the finish in Edenderry and he won the final hole with an excellent birdie to complete an excellent 4:1 victory for Greystones.

A great win for the team, and many congratulations to David and the whole squad.

Under 15 V Edenderry

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15S V EDENDERRY

 

 

Best of luck to David Lewis and his Under 15’s team who play Edenderry this weekend in the second round of the competition. After a good win against Powerscourt  in round 1, the lads face a tough task with three matches away on Saturday.

Tee off is 15:30 on Saturday and all support is welcome.  Live scoring is also available by clicking here.

Hard luck to our Under 19 Girls team who put up a brave effort but just came up short in 3rd place in the Leinster Qualifier of this Golf Ireland event.

The format of this qualifier was stableford, with the best two scores to count.   Our girls, Isabella Stewart, Sophie Lumley and Shauna Seifried shot two creditable 38s for a 76 total.  Lucan won the qualifier with an unbelievable score of 85 ( 48+37) with Carton House in second on 83 ( 44+39 ).

Best of luck to our three remaining representatives in the Irish Boys competition which is being held at Lucan Golf Club today and tomorrow.

In the under 16s event Dylan Holmes is tied 15th on 4 over par after shooting 75 yesterday followed by a very good, level par 71 today.  Jamie Anderson also made the cut on 8 over after rounds of 77 yesterday and a much better 73 today.

Toby Murphy is lying tied 5th 4 shots behind the leader in the Under 14s competition after shooting rounds of 76 & 74 for an 8 over total.

Unfortunately Jack McGovern missed the cut in the Under 16s event.

Well done to our young junior team who competed at Grange Golf Club today and WON the event.  This is a great format for our younger players and is an great initiative by Golf Ireland.  The format sees three teams of two each playing a scramble competition with the best two scores to count.  Greystones were leading qualifiers from the event today.

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Davie had a great turn out for his prize to the juniors this afternoon and we had some fantastic scores in what were very windy conditions.

David McKeown won the Whites with Ryan Goff in second place.

Elliott Nolan shot a fantastic 35 points to win the Reds’ 14 hole competition and Ryan now moves to the Blues.  Hugh Taylor was second with 29 points and gets cut to 34 and John Byrne shot 26 points to secure third spot and has been cut to 28.

In the main Blues event Jamie Anderson won the Gross with 30pts. Dylan Cavazza off 24 was third with 40 points ( winning on the back 9 ), while Ethan Smith off 25 was second with 41 points.

The winner of Davie’s Prize was Marc Lawless who shot a fantastic score of 41 points off 10 in high winds.

In his speech David thanked Pete Anderson the Club Junior Convenor for all his hard work and encouraged the boys to come up to the club to practice, pointing out that the lads that do are the lads who improve the most.

Well done to David and all who played today.

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