Congratulations to Ray Crotty, Collie Dunne, Brian Frawley and their Junior Cup team who, despite having three matches away to Arklow today ran out as relatively easy winners, watched by Lady Captain Celine and Vice Captain Mark.
There was no room for error in terms of our home matches nor any room for complacency given the calibre of opposition, so Collie put out William O’Riordan and Chris Boylan as our two home matches, while away from home he opted to play Cian Gilmore, Toby Murphy and Harry Kirk.
The Greystones leg teed off forty five minutes ahead of the away leg and before a ball had been hit in Arklow, William was five up through six holes while Chris was also up, by one, after six.
In Arklow Cian won the second but lost the next two holes to go one down but this was the only point in his match that he would be behind.
Toby was in a tough match and found himself two down after four. He won six but seven went to Arklow and it took a spectacular win on nine to reduce the deficit to just the one hole at the halfway stage of the round.
Harry won the first and was playing well but his opponent had a purple patch from there to the seventh, winning four holes with three being on the trot from five through seven. At three down Harry had to fight hard to stay in the match, he won eight, lost nine and then reeled off two consecutive wins on ten and eleven to get his match to one down.
Back at home William was putting on a show, turning six up before loosing ten. He bounced back with a win on eleven but lost twelve after attempting a miracle recovery shot after his drive found the trees on the right, no doubt he might have selected a more cautious shot had he not been six up at the time. Thirteen also went to Arklow after an uncharacteristic three putt from William but he only needed a single putt on fourteen to make birdie and win his match 5&4.
Within minutes Chris had added a second point to the board after playing some great golf to prevent his opponent winning a second hole in the match. Wins on eight, eleven and twelve had him four up and his match finished on fifteen, 4&3.
Meanwhile, in Arklow, Cian had gone from one down after four to one up by the tenth tee box and he took total control from there, winning ten, eleven, thirteen and fourteen to close his match out 5&4 and the overall tie.
Toby was one up playing fourteen and Harry was one down after eleven when called in.
Congratulations to Ray and all involved.
