This Sunday Greystones welcome Woodbrook Golf Club for the next match in the Darcy Cup campaign. Manager Karl Holmes has selected the following team: Alan Condren, Adam Packman and Dylan Holmes will be playing singles while David Byrne/Jamie Anderson and Dan O’Byrne/Toby Murphy will be playing foursomes. First tee off is 8.20am and all support would be welcome. If you cannot make it you can always follow the match on the Smart golf scoring app.
Interclub News
Darcy Trophy vs Old Conna
On a day which was more suited to indoor pursuits as Storm Isha crossed the country Karl Holmes sent out his Darcy Trophy team to do battle away to Old Conna. Our line up was as follows: playing singles were Shane O’Connor, Will O’Riordan and Dan O’Byrne and playing foursomes were Alan Condren with Toby Murphy and David Byrne with Darren McCormack.
Old Conna got the better of the first two singles matches by 5 & 4 and 4 & 3, while Greystones won both foursomes matches by 5 & 4 and 4 & 3. Dan O’ Byrne earned a half point on the 18th to leave the overall match tied 2.5 pts each.
So that’s a draw to go with the win over Blainroe before Christmas.
The next match is next Sunday at home versus Woodbrook with first tee off at 8.10am. All support would be greatly appreciated.
New date for Darcy Trophy v Old Conna
The rescheduled third round of the Darcy Trophy v Old Conna takes place this Sunday in Old Conna, with first tee-off at 09.50am.
Any and all support will be welcome.
Match Off!!
Todays Darcy Cup(Mens) match at Old Conna was cancelled due to Old Conna’s course being closed. The match will be rescheduled for another day.
Darcy Trophy v Old Conna
This Sunday Greystones travel to Old Conna for the third round of the Darcy Trophy. The team will play singles (Shane O’Connor, William O’Riordan, Daniel O’Byrne) and foursomes (Alan Condron, Dylan Holmes, David Byrne, Darren McCormack) matches, with first tee-off at 10.00am.
Any and all support will be welcome.
Darcy Trophy v Blainroe
This Sunday Greystones travel to Blainroe for the second round of the Darcy Trophy. The team will play singles (David Byrne, Alan Condron, Dylan Holmes) and foursomes (Jamie, Anderson, Toby Murphy, Daniel O’Byrne, Adam Packman) matches, with first tee-off at 8.20am.
Any and all support will be welcome.
Grand Masters Trophy retained (4th Sept 2023)
Congratulations to David J Kelly and his Grand Masters team who retained their Grand Masters Trophy yesterday with an emphatic win in the final.
The final took place in Milltown Golf Club yesterday with Rathfarnham G.C., Woodenbridge G.C. and Milltown G.C. competing with Greystones G.C. for the title.
The final comprised of six four ball pairs per club with the top three scores counting towards the overall team score. There is also the coveted Claret Jugs for the best overall four ball score on finals day.
Nigel Robinson & Tom Purcell produced the best Greystones score of the day and also won the Claret Jugs as the overall four-ball winners. Nigel & Tom shot 47 points, narrowly beating David Kelly & Ronnie Cotter (46 points) into second place. The third counting score for Greystones was that of Pat O’Regan & Kevin Cahill who had an excellent 42 points, giving a team total of 135 points and the overall victory by some margin.
Non counting scores were from Pat O’Dowd & Pat Raftery, Quentin Teggin & Jim Ryan and Eddie Murtagh & George Hughes.
Well done to David and his squad.
A Win for the All Ireland Fourball Team
Many congratulations to Gerry Browner and his All Ireland Fourball team on a fine victory against local rivals Delgany. The team now march on to the Quarter Finals of the Leinster South Section.
The match results were as follows:
Michael McDonnell & Colm Drew. Won 1 Up
Charles Tarter & Andrew Keating. Won 4 & 3
Leo Dalton & Declan Murphy. Won 3 & 2
Ally Taylor & Conor Lucey. Lost away 3 & 2
Michael McNaughton & John Smith. Lost away on 20th
Keep an eye on the Noticeboards for information on the next round.
Dates set for Junior Boys matches
The Junior Boys have upcoming games in this year’s Golf Ireland interclub events. First up this Sunday May 22nd, is the second round Irish Junior Foursomes tie with Killiney GC. The format is aggregate matchplay with one match at home and away and we tee off at 2pm in what should be a closely contested affair.
Next Sunday May 29th, the Fred Daly team take on Elm Park in the Leinster South Quarter Final. The format is is five singles matches and we have three at home and two away. Again the matches tee off at 2pm. This competition is scratch matchplay with some good golf in prospect against a strong Elm Park outfit.
The boys would welcome your support, home or away for what promises to be another exciting couple of weekends.
Under 15s lose out to Malahide in final
Well it was a big ask and in the end our Under 15s weren’t able to pull off a “miracle in Malahide” this afternoon despite their best efforts.
The task was made as difficult as it was by virtue of the agonising defeat in the first home leg of the final in Greystones earlier this month when we lost 4:1. On that day Marc Lawless lost out by a margin of 3&2, William O’Riordan went down 4&3 while both Jamie Anderson and Dylan Holmes both lost their matches on the eighteenth. Jack McGovern held firm on the day to clinch a 2&1 win to give a glimmer of hope to the team. The real difference on the day was on the greens with the Malahide players coming to grips with our greens from the get-go while our players seemed to struggle.
To be fair the team set off today for Malahide full of fight and determination to not roll over and to their credit each and everyone of them gave their all over the two legs.
To make matters worse for the team Jack McGovern had to withdraw from the team for the second leg of the match due to a shoulder injury.
First out today was once again Marc Lawless who was getting three shots. Marc started well with a win on the first but his opponent found his rhythm and got himself into a good position with wins on the third, forth and sixth holes to go two up. Marc pegged him back to one up with a good win on the seventh but the Malahide man responded with wins on the eighth and ninth to get to three up. The tenth and eleventh were traded and then Marc pushed hard claiming both the twelfth and thriteenth holes to be back within touching distance. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be Marc’s day and loses on fourteen and fifteen sealed the deal for Malahide 3&2.
Our second man out today was Toby Murphy who didn’t play in the first leg but has been a stalwart of the team over the season. Toby was giving three shots to his opponent and it was nip and tuck for the first nine holes with Toby winning the second and fifth while his opposite number won the third and the seventh. All square after nine holes.
Our number three today was Jamie Anderson who made it clear from the off that he was going to do his damnedest to avenge his loss from the first leg with wins on the first two holes. He wasn’t going to have it all his own way however. He lost the third and won the fifth before loosing the seventh for the match to be all square through seven. Wins on eight and eleven saw him back in control however and he was playing some very solid golf.
William O’Riordan struggled a bit today off the tee and despite and excellent win the the second and a stunning half on the forth involving a fantastic up and down, found himself one down after five and three down and the turn. Despite his very best efforts he wasn’t able to recover and his opponent only needed and half on the tricky fourteenth to win the match 5&4.
Almost simultaneously, Toby, after a very difficult back nine watched as his opponent, not for the first time on the day, held a raker of a putt on the fifteenth to win the match 4&3.
The top match saw a rematch for Dylan Holmes who was once again giving one shot to his opposition. This was a match of the highest quality with holes being won and halved with birdies. Malahide took the early lead and were two up through four holes but Dylan steadied the ship and more with wins on the fifth, sixth and eighth holes to go one up. Malahide won the ninth to have an even match once again standing on the tenth teebox. There was nothing to separate either player over the first three holes of the back nine but Dylan who, like Jamie was eager to avenge his loss in the first leg, hit some magnificent shots to win the thirteenth and fourteenth and held a two hole lead with four to play when called in.
Jamie halved the twelfth and but a fine win on the thirteenth had him three up with five left to play. He and his opponent halved the fourteenth and Jamie was looking odds on to win his match on the fifteenth when called in.
All in all we should be extremely proud of this team and they have certainly given us lots of great golfing moments this year. Hard luck to managers Peter Anderson & Karl Holmes and to the entire squad.
