Greystones Golf Club
Co.Wicklow, Ireland
The interclub season carries on this weekend with the following matches lined up.
Sunday 21st July
Barton Cup v K Club at 1.30pm 3 matches at home and 2 away.
Junior Cup (Ladies) v Castle GC 3 matches at home and 2 away.
Leinster Fourball at 3.10pm 2 matches at home and 2 away.
Monday 22nd
Boys U-15s v Wicklow all matches at home.
So record the action from Troon and get out and support our teams and wear your club colours too.
A sad day for our Challenge Trophy Team today – Kilmashogue golf course proved too difficult a challenge for our dedicated players. Deirdre and I would like to thank our whole panel, those who played, caddied, subbed or supported, we very much appreciated your time and efforts and were delighted to involved with this fantastic group. Onwards and Upwards
We had 6 young golfers representing Greystones Golf Club at the Connacht U-18 Championships this week which is taking place at Castlebar Golf Club.
Shauna Seifried and Isabella Stewart are taking part in the girls section while Will O’Riordan, Jack McGovern, Jamie Anderson and Dylan Holmes are in the boys competition.
After day 1 Will is at level par and tied 9th. Jack and Dylan are both 1 over and tied 15th while Jamie is +2 and tied 24th.
Isabella shot +5 to be tied 12th and Shauna returned a score of 10 over to be tied 22nd.
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One of our young members, Toby Murphy, has traveled to the UK to take part in the McGregor Trophy at the West Essex Golf Club.
The field is made up of 144 competitors from Australia, Spain, Denmark, England, Czechia, Northern Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Austria, Netherlands and Republic of Ireland are taking part.
Toby started with a one over par 72 on Tuesday and followed it up with another 72 on Wednesday.
He has comfortably made the cut which came at top 40 and ties. The final 36 takes place on the one day. Toby’s progress can be followed on the link below.
As we all know it’s a small world and sure enough a former Greystones Golf Club member was present at West Essex GC. Steven Massey is a member of the club and can be seen wishing Toby all the best below
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Playing in Greystones Michelle Knapp with her caddy Patricia O ‘Sullivan won 5 and 4. Grace Dodd and her caddy Áine O’Rourke won 7 and 6. Trudy Bolton with her caddy Orla Rushe, who was also sub were one up on 14 and happy to be called in when we won 2 away matches.
Our Lower HC ladies played in St Helen’s Bay, Wexford. Marguerite Hamill had comfortable win, her caddy Jean described Marguerite’s golf “ poetry in motion” (she is her sister in law!)
Ger O Shea, with her son Fintan on the bag fought well but unfortunately lost.
Amanda Lawless & caddy Janet Redmond stood on 18th all square. Amanda hit an “out of sight shot”. Is it OB or in the sea? Opponent laid up, short tricky par 4. Fortunately Amanda was safely on the green and secured a birdie.
Sub in St Helens. Jacinta Deane
Managers. Mary Cahill and Polly O Reilly
Quarter final next v winners of Dun Laoghaire and Rathfarnham.
Our young members are on their travels again this week. This week sees the Connacht U-18 Boys and Girls Amateur Open Championship take place in Castlebar. First round starts on Wednesday morning.
Representing Greystones are Isabella Stewart, Shauna Seifried, Dylan Holmes, Will O’Riordan, Jack McGovern and Jamie Anderson.
Scoring will be updated here each evening however you can follow it on the link below.
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Open Week’s Junior Singles, kindly sponsored by Aubrey and Angela Shaw of Provident Insurance Group, took place today for boys and girls.
Prizes were awarded as follows:
Our Men’s Leinster Senior Interclub team were playing there 3rd round against Naas Golf Club. Trevor Phillips was looking after things in Naas while Stephen O’Brien was in charge at home. The team selected were as follows:
Home:
Away:
Naas got off to a good start in the first game and we’re two up after 7 holes. They added another win on 9 to be 3 up against Neil and Paul.
In the second game Michael and Macdara were two down after 3 but won 4 of the next 5 holes. Naas pulled one back on 9 for Greystones to be one up at the turn.
Meanwhile away in Colm and Conor were up first and got away to a steady start and were all square after 4 holes. They won 2 and lost one of the next three and were one up after 9.
Dermot and Andy had a tough start and found themselves 2 down after 4 but steadied the ship and remained 2 down after 9.
At home Paul and Neil were looking to reel in their opposition and started well by winning the tenth. However wins by Naas on 13 and 16 meant Naas went one ahead after a 4&2 win
Macdara and Michael also won ten to go 2 up. Another win on 13 put them in control but two quick wins by Naas on 14 and 15 made things interesting again. A win on 17 closed the match out 2&1 and levelled the tie at one all.
All eyes now were on Naas as they had started half an hour later.
Andy and Dermot won the tenth to trim the deficit to one. Unfortunately that was as close as they got as Naas pressed home their advantage by winning 12, 15 and 16 to win 4&2. Naas now were 2-1 up.
Last match out were Colm and Conor. They extended their lead to 2 by winning the 11th. Naas had their backs against the wall and came out fighting and won the 13th, 15th and 16th to go one up. A half on 17 was all Naas needed to guarantee the half point they needed to progress to the next round.
Commiserations to Trevor and Stephen and the team and best of luck to Naas in the next round.
If you are wondering what all the screaming was this morning at about 11:30am you will be pleased to know that it was not a crowd of Taylor Swift fans let loose on the golf course.
It was in fact Ray Crotty’s fourball celebrating his first hole in one on the 14th hole. I believe the celebrations could be heard up on the 7th green.
Congratulations Ray and I hope you enjoyed the pint from Lady Captain Ciara.
Our Senior Cup team were up against Lucan Golf Club in the quarter finals of the Leinster South Area. The venue for all four quarter finals was Edmondstown Golf Club.
Karl Holmes named the following team Dylan Holmes, Will O’Riordan, Alan Condren, Jamie Anderson and David Byrne.
First away was Dylan and in a tight game was all square through 9 holes after winning the 8th. Will was up next and after an eventful week in Cork he was in difficulties on the front 9 and was 2 down at the turn.
Alan was out 3rd and was 3 up after 4 holes and after losing the 8th was still 2 up heading for the 10th hole. Jamie was 4th in line and got off to a great start and was 3 up after 9 holes.
Finally David took to the tee and was level through 3 but then took over the match and won 4 holes in a row. David then swapped holes with his opponent and was 4 up after 9.
So with Greystones up in 3 matches things were looking good but you can never count your chicken’s in golf.
Dylan won 4 of his next 5 holes to take command of his game and gained the first point after winning 16 to win 4&2.
Will could not wrestle control of his match back from his opponent and was defeated 4&2. One all.
Alan won the 12th to go 2 up again and swapped a couple of holes with his opponent before closing the match out 2&1. Two one to Greystones.
David won the 12th to go 5 up and finished the match off 5&4. Three one to Greystones and Jamie was called in while 2 up with 3 to play.
Congratulations to Karl and his team. The next round will be on the 11th August at Rathfarnham Golf Club where the opponents will be Blainroe. Dun Laoghaire and Elm Park were the other winners on the day.
Further details will be posted here when available.
