We held our 27th and final Junior Competition of the 2024 season this afternoon. Nearly 70 boys and girls played in near perfect conditions and we managed to get 15 of the 17 groups in before the light faded. The final two groups just about finished before total darkness fell!
It was great to see so many stay for the prizegiving, and a big thank you from everyone in the Junior Section to our Lady and Men’s Captains, Ciara and Mark, for their attendance.
The prizegiving started with a very special presentation from Lady Captain Ciara, who presented Aoife Dempsey with a Golf Ireland Gold Medal for the best Girls WHS handicap progression over the season. Aoife had a phenomenal year on the course and this is a very well deserved award. Well done Aoife, we are all very proud of you!
Then over to our Junior Convenor, Neil, who announced next year’s Junior Captains. Shauna Seifried will hold the office of Junior Girls Captain, with Will O’Riordan taking over the reigns as Boys Captain. Two upstanding Junior members who have both had great seasons on the course!
And then on to the results, expertly called by our Boys Captain, Dylan Holmes. Big congratulations to our winning team, a mix of Blue, Reds and White, covering all of our Junior categories. Well done Ruadhán, Max, Tom and Caoileann on a great score led by some LPGA tourlike putting from Caoileann!
- Ruadhán Murray, Max Mahady, Tom Lawlor & Caoileann Murray
- Will O’Riordan, Patrick Murray, Seán Nunan & Bobby Tierney
- Jamie Anderson, James Power, Mason & Ava Melody
- Dylan Holmes, Aaron Byrne, Tom Farrell & Ben McFadden
The proceedings ended with some lovely words from our Mens Captain, Mark, who as a former Junior Convenor has always been a massive supporter of Junior golf in GGC.
As ever, a big Junior Section thank you to Jackie, Freddie and all the bar staff for keeping everybody watered and Ali, Olivia and all in the restaurant for feeding everybody!
So that’s a wrap on 2024 team and tournament golf. We will be in touch soon regarding our Winter coaching programme and in the meantime, we hope to see you all in the Club next Saturday evening for the pennant awards, where our Junior’s provided the Club with three pennants this year, including our first ever Green Pennant from the outstanding Fred Daly team.
We hope to see you all back for the 2025 season with competitions starting in late March or early April. With the huge number of Juniors playing every week, we will need more support from parents to ensure that we can continue to successfully run our weekly competitions. We averaged 60 boys and girls playing every Saturday and we really need to broaden the parent support group involved in this.
The Junior Committee
