Junior News

On the 2nd day of the Munster U-18s Amateur Open Championship took place today at Muskerry Golf Club.

In the boys section Will O’Riordan went into the day tied for the lead. In round two Will shot a 73 to leave him on level par and tied for 3rd place.

Dylan Holmes made the cut on the number at +7 and tied for 26th.

Toby Murphy and Jamie Anderson both unfortunately missed the cut. Toby shot 77 to finish on +8 while Jamie carded a 78 to finish at +13.

Leading the boys is Daniel McKenna (Co. Louth) with a 2nd round 65 leaving him on -8 with a 6 shot lead.

In the girls section Isabella Stewart and Shauna Seifried went into round 2 in 4th and tied 12th respectively. After a 2nd round of 83 Isabella is now tied 7th at 9 over. Shauna Seifried shot an 82 to be +13 and tied for 12th place.

Leading the girls section is Lucy Grattan (Tralee) at 5 under.

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Muskerry Golf Club, designed by the legendary Alistair McKenzie, is the venue for the Boys and Girls Munster U-18s Amateur Open Championship this week. Greystones have 6 young golfers representing the club over the next few days. There are 46 competitors in the girls and 94 in the boys.

Isabella Stewart and Shauna Seifried in the girls and Toby Murphy, Will O’Riordan, Dylan Holmes and Jamie Anderson in the boys.

After round 1 Isabella is in 4th place on level par while Shauna is tied 12th at 5 over. The lead is held by Lucy Grattan (Tralee) and Gemma McMeekin (Royal Portrush) at 3 under.

Over in the boys championship Will O’Riordan is tied for the lead after the first round with a wonderful round of 2 under. Will is tied with 3 others. The joint leaders with Will are Daniel McKenna (Co. Louth), Rory Gallagher (Galway Bay) and Ronan O’Keefe (Monkstown).

Next up is Toby Murphy at 2 over in tied 19th. Dylan Holmes is +4 in tied 35th and Jamie Anderson is 6 over in tied 45th.

Tomorrow is cut day and the tee times for our boys and girls are as follows:

• 8.30am Jamie Anderson
• 10.30am Will O’Riordan
• 11.10am Dylan Holmes
• 12.50pm Toby Murphy
• 2.00pm Shauna Seifried
• 3.50pm Isabella Stewart

Best of luck to them all.

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On Monday Greystones had four players representing Leinster in the Boys and Girls U-18s Interprovincial matches at Muskerry Golf Club. On the boy’s panel were Dylan Holmes and Will O’Riordan while Isabella Stewart and Shauna Seifried were on the girls team. On the day Will was listed as a sub.

Both Leinster teams were taking on Connacht. In the Boys, Dylan won his match on 17 to clinch the match overall 3-2. Over in the girls match, Isabella and Shauna played together and won on 18 in a comprehensive 5-0 win.

Congratulations to both sides and our players on their victories.

Today in Newtown Stewart Golf Club Ruadhan Murray was representing Greystones in the Ulster U-14’s Amateur Open Championship.

In a field of 47 players Ruadhan shot 7 over for a very creditable tied 8th place. Ruadhan was 4 over on the front 9 and 3 over on the back 9.

The Championship was won by Ollie McEvoy (Ballycastle) with a score of 2 over.

Well done to Ruadhan on a very good performance.

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On Sunday afternoon our U-15 boys team took on Killiney under the management of George O’Brien.

John O’Boyle, Conor Dignam and JP Lynch were representing Greystones. All 3 players got off to great starts and were all in commanding leads after six holes. They kept the accelerator down and all increased their leads before the turn. JP was 7 up, Conor 8 up and John 6 up as they made their way to the back 9.

All 3 matches were finished quickly with the following results:

JP Lynch won 9&7

Conor Dignam won 8&7

John O’Boyle won 7&6.

Congratulations to George and his team and best of luck in the next round.

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On Friday our Boys Junior Foursomes team went over the head to take on Bray Golf Club. Representing us were Will O’Riordan with Milo Doyle and Toby Murphy with Marc Lawless. The format combines the scores of both matches.

Will and Milo were one down through 9 holes while Toby and Marc were two down after 9 holes. So that meant Greystones were a combined 3 down with 18 holes to play.

In Toby and Marc’s match Bray quickly won 3 holes early in the back 9 to go 5 up. In Will and Milo’s match Bray got to 3 up after 14 holes. Despite Toby and Marc winning the 15th hole Bray won the match overall 7 up with 6 to play

The Irish Boys Interclub Leinster South Area Finals took place in Delgany on Thursday. There were 16 clubs represented with 5 players on each team.

Representing Greystones were John Byrne, John O’Boyle, Leo Murphy, Tom Murphy and Adam Moore. The 3 best cards counted towards each teams total.

Greystones finished in sixth place with a total of 102 points. The day was won by Blainroe with an excellent total of 119.

Our scores on the day were:

John Byrne 38, John O’Boyle 33, Leo Murphy 31, Tom Murphy 24 and Adam Moore 23.

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On the final day of Ulster U-18’s Amateur Open Championship we had 5 players representing Greystones.

In the girls championship Isabella Stewart and Shauna Seifried had made the cut after 2 rounds. In the third round Isabella shot 78 and Shauna shot 86. As a result Isabella finished up on +16 in 9th place and Shauna up with a score of+30 in tied 14th.

The Championship was won by Kayleigh Mulholland (Moyola Park) with a score of +4.

In the Boy’s championship Jamie was the leading Greystones competitor going into the 3rd round at level par and 2 off the lead.

In the 3rd round Toby Murphy shot 80, Dylan Holmes had a score of 79 while Jamie Anderson carded a 75.

This resulted in Jamie gaining a very creditable 6th place at 3 over. Dylan finished with a total of +12 in tied 34th while Toby finished tied 38th with a score of +13.

The boys championship was won by Stuart Nesbitt(Royal Portrush) at level par.

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