Junior News

Today in Tipperary Golf Club Emma Haugh was representing Greystones GC in the Ryan Cup. In a field of 29 Emma finished tied 14th with a score of 33 points. In the gross competition Emma finished 9th with a score of +14.

The tournament was won by Eileen Sheehan (Doneraile) with 45 points while the gross prize was won by Ella Cantwell (Esker Hills) with a score of +3.

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Our own Will O’Riordan lead the field in to day 2 of the Wicklow Boys. Will extended his lead after round 3 and was in command heading into the 4th and final round.

Despite finishing with a treble bogey and a double bogey in his his last few holes WIll held on to win the Wicklow Boys by a shot over fellow Greystones member Dylan Holmes.

Congratulations to Will who has been playing some great golf lately and can add this win to the Fred Daly and Senior Cup pennant he has been involved in over the last couple of weeks. Will recorded the following scores over the four rounds: 72, 62, 71, 76.

The prize winners were as follows:

1st Will O’Riordan +5 (281)

2nd Dylan Holmes +6 (282)

3rd Tom Glennon (Kilkenny) +9 (285)

4th Rafael Poli (St Helens Bay) +10 (286)

Round 1 & 2 Gross Conor McCarthy (Headfort) +1 (139)

Round 4 & 4 Gross Mark Muldoon (Royal Dublin) +5 (143)

Best Gross Rd 1 John Delahunty (Kilkenny)   -2 (67)

Best Nett Rd 1 Brodie McNeil (Woodbrook)   -3 (66)

Best Gross Rd 2 Sean Sheehan (Kilkenny)   Par (69)

Best Nett Rd 2 Oliver Packman (Greystones) -1 (68(

Best Gross Rd 3 Tadhg Murphy (Royal Curragh) +1 (70)

Best Nett Rd 3 Dylan Cavazza (Greystones)  +1 (70)

Best Gross Rd 4 Sam Shepard (Castle) +1 (70)

Best Nett Rd 4 Jamie Dowdall (Carrickmines) +1 (70)

Congratulations to all the prize winners over the two days.

Thank you to the Catering staff, bar staff, administration office and everyone in the pro shop for all their assistance in making the event run so smoothly.

Great appreciation to Tom Byrne and his assistants who run this event with great efficiency.

Congratulations to our Head Greenkeeper Keith and his staff on the superb condition of the course.

Finally thank you to the Wood Group Homes who generously sponsor this annual event.

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The Wicklow Boys, sponsored by Wood Group Homes, began early this morning and to the delight of players, organisers and sponsors the weather was playing ball too.

For the first time the competition is recognised by WAGR (World Amateur Golf Rankings) and a top class field was assembled. From a field of over 80 players, 35 had a handicap of 2 or less.

As well as our own young members there were representatives from 35 other clubs as follows:

Ashbourne, Baltinglass, Blainroe, Bray, Carrickmines, Carton House, Castle, Castleknock, Cill Dara, Cork, Courtown, Delgany, Dooks, Edenderry, Elm Park, Esker Hills, Grange Castle, Headfort, Hermitage, Killeen, Killiney, Kilkenny, Malahide, Milltown , Portmarnock, Roganstown, Rosslare, Royal Curragh, Royal Dublin, Royal Tara, St. Helen’s Bay, Stackstown, The Island, Wexford, Wicklow.

After a day of superb scoring our own Will O’Riordan is at the head of affairs with 36 holes to play. Will recorded a superb 62 (-7) in his second round to have a day one total of 4 under par.

There is a 5 shot gap to two players from Headfort, Conor McCarthy (71 and 68) and Tadhg Burns (67 and 62). Next up is William Walshe from neighbours Delgany at +2 (70 and 70). Rounding out the top 5 is Tom Glennon of Kilkenny at +3 (68 and 73).

Greystones members making the cut were:

• Toby Murphy tied 10th at +7
• Dylan Holmes tied 19th at +10
• Jamie Anderson 24th at +14
• Dylan Cavazza tied 36th +19.

The cut came at +19 and 42 players progress to the 3rd round.

The 3rd round begins on Tuesday morning at 7.12am with the leaders teeing off at 9.09am and after a brief break for refreshments the 4th round will take place followed by a presentation of prizes.

So if you want to see plenty of good golf get yourself down to the club and support all the young players.

You can also follow the scoring on the link below or via a link on the club website.

Live Scoring – Wicklow Boys

The Munster U-16 Boy’s Amateur Open Championship took place today at Shannon GC.

88 players were taking part from all over the country. Toby Murphy who was representing Greystones had a score of 9 over which left him in tied 57th.

The Championship was won by John William Burke (Ballyhaunis) on the first playoff hole defeating both Adam Barr(Kinsale) and Harris Fleming (Galgorm Castle). All three had returned a 2 under par round.

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The Munster U-16 Boys’ Amateur Open Championship will get underway tomorrow at Shannon GC.

Greystones will be represented by Toby Murphy who will tee-off at 1pm. There will 96 players from around the country teeing off.

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Toby Murphy ended up being our only representative today as unfortunately Ruadhan Murray had to withdraw from the U-14’s section.

Toby returned a score of 79 today to finish with a total of 19 over and in tied 36th.

The U-16’s championship was won by Eoin Burrows (Belvoir Park) with a score of level par.

In the U-14’s Championship Ollie McEvoy (Ballycastle) ran out the winner with a three round total of 7 over.

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