Greystones Golf Club

Co.Wicklow, Ireland

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Professionals Prize for Juniors – 17 August 2024

We hosted our second major of the year, Davie’s Professional Prize for the Juniors, today. We had 71 boys and girls playing (possibly a new record?) and there was a great evening in the clubhouse after for the prizegiving.

Our Mens Captain, and former Junior Convenor, Mark McAleer was on hand to introduce Davie and our Junior Boys Captain, Dylan Holmes, to call out the results and present the prizes. The overall winner was Ruadhán Murray with 38 points / 71 gross, beating Jane Lumley on countback. Well done Ruadhán on a great score. The gross prize was won by Will O’Riordan who topped off a great week having also won the Wicklow Boys on Tuesday!

Well done to all of our prize winners and our category winners – James Ward in Reds, Ava Melody in Whites and Sean Hughes in 7Ups.

A big thank you to Davie who gives so much time to our Juniors, and also to Ben and Keith. The year round coaching which they provide is evident to see in the progress all of the boys and girls are making. Thank you also Ali, Liz, Olivia and Holly for feeding everybody, and Paul, Áine and the team behind the bar.

Also thank you to all of our starters and card markers today – we can only run weekly competitions for the Juniors with the help of parents!

Best of luck this week to Karl, Pete, Michael and all of the Fred Daly panel – Dylan Holmes, Jamie Anderson, Will O’Riordan, Toby Murphy, Jack McGovern, Milo Doyle, Ruadhán Murray and Marc Lawless – who play Edenderry in the All-Ireland quarter final on Tuesday in Warrenpoint GC. The whole club is behind you guys!

And finally, best of luck to Shauna, Isabella, Toby and Ruadhán who play the final round of inter-provincial matches for the Leinster U18, U16 and U14 teams this week in Roscrea. Play well guys!

Blues (18 holes):

  1. Overall winner – Ruadhán Murray 38pts (back 9)
  2. Jane Lumley 38pts
  3. Aoife Dempsey 36pts

Best Gross:

  1. Will O’Riordan 72

Reds (9 holes):

  1. James Ward 23pts
  2. Noah Thompson 22pts
  3. Hugh Taylor 22pts

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Ava Melody 14pts (last 3)
  2. Jack Delmar Anderson 14pts
  3. Evan Barry 13pts (last 3)

7Ups:

  1. Sean Hughes 15pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. James Ward 30 to 20
  2. Noah Thompson 20 to 12
  3. Hugh Taylor 18 to 10
  4. Ava Melody 42 to 36
  5. Jack Delmar Anderson 45 to 39
  6. Evan Barry 27 to 25
  7. Sean Hughes 42 to 31
  8. Vanessa Gulliver 39 to 36
  9. Charlie Dodson 21 to 18
  10. Alex Hamilton 32 to 26
  11. Alex Porter 28 to 26

There will be some category changes also this week with details to follow.

The Junior Committee

Junior Results – 10 August 2024

Blues (18 holes):

  1. Ollie Packman 41pts
  2. Daniel Garvey 39pts
  3. Garrett Keogh 36pts

Reds (9 holes):

  1. Max Mahady 21pts (last 3)
  2. Patrick Murray 21pts
  3. Sal Maxwell 20pts

Whites (6 holes):

  1. William O’Neill 17pts
  2. Evan Hatton 14pts
  3. Hugo Henley 12pts

7Ups (6 holes):

  1. Elijah Davis 13pts
  2. Bobby Tierney 13pts
  3. Sean Hughes 11pts

Handicap Cuts:

  1. Max Mahady 26 to 20
  2. Patrick Murray 32 to 26
  3. Sal Maxwell 36 to 32
  4. Daniel Cunningham 28 to 26
  5. Mason Melody 34 to 32
  6. Hugh Taylor 20 to 18
  7. William O’Neill 54 to 39
  8. Evan Hatton 27 to 21
  9. Elijah Davis 27 to 24
  10. Bobby Tierney 48 to 45

Congrats to all winners. Please pick up your prize next Saturday if you missed the prizegiving.

The Junior Committee

Junior Results – Captain’s Prize – 13 July 2024

We hosted our first major of the year today, Ciara and Mark’s Captain’s Prize for the Juniors. We had an incredible turnout of 67 boys and girls playing in great playing conditions, as evidenced by the fantastic scoring across all of our categories.

Our Junior Girls Captain Sophie Lumley and Junior Boys Captain Dylan Holmes were on hand to call out the results and present the prizes with Ciara and Mark, ably assisted by our Junior Convenor Neil Lawless who did a great job in organising our first major of the year.

Congratulations to Emma Haugh who won Ciara’s prize for the girls with a great score of 38pts, and to Cillian McInerney who won Mark’s prize for the boys with a brilliant score of 43pts! A Captain’s Prize is an incredibly hard prize to win, so well done guys.

Blues:

1 (Boys) Cillian McInerney 43pts

1 (Girls) Emma Haugh 38pts

2 John O’Boyle 40pts

3 JP Lynch 39pts

Gross: Conor Dignam 39pts

Reds (9 holes):

  1. Chloe Creedon 26pts (last 3)
  2. Devin Kelly 26pts
  3. Sinead Seifried 24pts

Whites (6 holes):

  1. Noah Thompson 16pts
  2. Sean Farrell 15pts
  3. Sean Nunan 14pts

7Ups (6 holes):

  1. Farrah Keogh 16pts
  2. Oran Guilfoyle 14pts
  3. Ben McFadden 13pts

Handicap Cuts (a long list!):

  1. Devin Kelly 36 to 20
  2. Noah Thompson 33 to 21
  3. Sean Farrell 33 to 24
  4. Farrah Keogh 48 to 36
  5. Oran Guilfoyle 27 to 21
  6. Ben McFadden 54 to 48 (first cut, well done Ben!)
  7. Jack Daly 22 to 20
  8. Matthew Byrne 36 to 34
  9. Robbie Watchorn 36 to 26
  10. Annie Dillon 48 to 39
  11. Amy Murphy 33 to 27
  12. Conor O’Farrell 33 to 27
  13. Iseult Naidoo 51 to 48
  14. Charlie Dunne 54 to 51
  15. James Ward 33 to 30
  16. Donnacha Cribben 54 to 51

Category Change:

  1. Sean Nunan to Reds (well done Sean!)

Congratulations to all of our winners, and thank you to all of the parents and boys and girls who attended the prizegiving in the Clubhouse after the competition. Our majors are special days and it was great to see everyone after.

A huge thank you to Ciara and Mark, for both your prizes today and your ongoing support for Junior golf in GGC. We have a Junior Section that is the envy of many clubs!

Thank you also to Paul, Jackie and the team behind the bar and also to Ali, Liz, Olivia and the team in the kitchen who fed and watered everybody.

We also had a busy week in the provincial championships. Will O’Riordan was just pipped at the finish line when he was beaten in a play-off for the Munster U18 Boys after shooting a great final round of 2 under par 69, playing his last 6 holes in 3 under par. This followed Will’s 3rd place finish in the Leinster U18 Boys a few weeks ago – great golf Will! Dylan Holmes was tied 22nd, while Jamie Anderson and Toby Murphy also played. And well done to Dylan, Jamie and Will who played for our Mens Senior Cup team today in a great win over Lucan in the Leinster South Area quarter-final.

Isabella Stewart shot a final round of 73 to finish tied 5th in the Munster U18 Girls and Shauna Seifried finished in 12th place after a final round of 79 (Sinead is following you Shauna after a great score today!). Well done ladies!

Up in Tyrone, Ruadhán Murray shot a 77 to finish in 8th place in the Ulster U14 Boys. Ruadhán will make his interprovincial debut in 2 weeks time for the Leinster U14s when they play Ulster. Well done Ruadhán!

The Junior Committee