Ladies Competition Results

Sunday 25th September- Canon Fennelly Fourball

Sunday 25^th September

Canon Fennelly

1^stStephen Aherne (10) 46 pts

Stephen R Aherne (20)

2^nd Chris Boylan (3) 45 pts

Ray Crotty (8)

3^rdDerek O’Regan (7) 44 pts

Mark Byrne (8)

Two’s Results – €9 per 2

1^st Darren McCormack, Brian Fawsitt

2^nd Ray McDonnell

5^th Mark Byrne

11^th Dara Cummins, Mary Hutch, Stephen Aherne

14^th Anne Costello, Michael Farrelly, Ray McDonnell, Ashton McCormack, Mark Carwood, Sandra Cotter, Michael Farrelly

16^th Ray Crotty, Ray Hogan

Thursday 22nd of September- Ladies Hospice Team Event

Thursday 22^nd September

Hospice Team Event

1^st Deidre Ahern (11) 45 pts

Jane Addis (24)

Sylvia Plath (26)

Anne Prior (21)

Two’s €25 per 2

5th Sylvia Plath

Tuesday 20th September

Tuesday 20^th September

Singles Stableford

No Played 38

1^stAine O’Rourke (26) 40 pts

2^ndNicky Brooks (19) 39 pts

3^rdInesa O’Gallagher (11) 38 pts (back 9)

4^thPatricia Moore (26) 38 pts

Twos – €7.50 per two

5^th Helen Creedon, Orla Rush,

14^th Inesa O’Gallagher, Mary Gavin, Jacinta Deane

Tuesday 20^th September

9 Hole Singles

No Played 7

1^st Regina Hogan (14) 17 pts

Twos Draw – €7 per two

Maeve O’Connor

Three trophies decided today…..

Congratulations to Maurice & Harry Phelan, who today beat Brian & Tom Murray in a close run match to win the 2022 Father & Son Trophy. Brian & Tom were two down after six but had turned the match around by the tenth tee at which time, they were one up. The match remained tight however and Maurice & Harry fought back to win on the seventeenth, 2&1.

The Frank Talbot fourball trophy was also decided this afternoon. Veteran, Eugene Corrigan had teamed up with Pete Murray this year and they made it all the way, beating Paul Byrne & Philip Dempsey to win the final this afternoon. Eugene & Pete played well and, with the benefit of shots had their noses in front pretty much the whole way. Pete and Eugene were two up after thirteen and wins on fourteen and fifteen settled the match by a margin of 4&3.Congratulations to Eugene & Pete.

L-R: Champions, Eugene, Pete with Paul & Philip

Last out this afternoon was our 2022 Glenavy final with Mary Hutch & Henry Gilbert taking on previous winners, Aideen & Barry O’Leary. This afternoon was a tightly contested affair with the match still delicately poised after fourteen with just one hole in it, in favour of Aideen & Barry. This match also went as far as the seventeenth with Aideen & Barry holding on to their slender lead to come out on top.

Sunday 18th September – Sunday Singles

Sunday 18^th September

Sunday Singles

No Played: 23

1^stLaura Langrell (24) 40 pts

2^nd Nicky Brooks (20) 39 pts

Two’s – €23

5^th Nicky Brooks

Thursday 15th September – May Fitzgibbon Singles GOY

Thursday 15^th September

May Fitzgibbon – Singles Strokes

No Played 61

1^stGrace Dodd (38) 64

2^ndCiara Marmion (22) 70

Gross Inesa O’Gallagher (11) 85

Class 1 Jacinta Deane (16) 72

Class 2 Sheelagh Gaw (27) 72 (back 9)

Class 3 Linda Walsh (32) 71 (back 9)

Class 4 Betty Murray (41) 71

Silver Jacinta Deane

Bronze Grace Dodd

Twos – €30.50 per two

1^st Grace Dodd

5^th Audrey Tracey

Twos – €30.50 per two

1^st Grace Dodd

5^th Audrey Tracey

9 Hole Singles

No Played 26

1^st Pauline Short-Foley (22) 21 pts

2^ndCreina Smyth (22) 20 pts (last 6)

3^rdFionnuala Meehan (25) 20 pts

Twos Draw – €5 per two

Sally-Anne Dooley, Sandra Morris, Nuala Gunning, Stephanie Collins, Anna Fenston

Tuesday 13th September – Singles Stableford

Tuesday 13^th September

Singles Stableford

No Played – 45

1^st Avril O’Farrell (46) 43 pts

2^nd Nicky Brooks (21) 41 pts

3^rdSusan O’Dwyer (30) 40 pts

4^thNiamh Keilthy (10) 39 pts

5^thHelen Creedon (25) 38 pts (last 7)

Twos – € 15 per two

5^thInesa O’Gallagher

14^th Inesa O’Gallagher, Joan Kirby

Thursday 8th September – Swap Day Team Event

Thursday 8^th September

Swap Day Team Event

1^st Lisa Croke 82 pts

Trudy Bolton

Amanda Lawless

2^nd Nicky Brooks 78 pts

Von McDonald

Mary Cahill

A fourth All-Ireland pennant for Greystones….

It would have been hard to imagine that yesterday’s drama in the Challenge, All-Ireland semi final could have been topped, but today’s climax to the event was certainly right up there with it…

The team had played their practice round on Thursday, a quarter final on Friday, a semi final on Saturday and today were to play the final. A lot of golf, but that, of course is what a panel is for, and, as she did yesterday, Iris made another two changes to the team line up for today’s match. She recalled Wendy Lee and Vice-Captain Celine Joyce having given them a day off yesterday. Wendy and Celine came in for Trisha Moore and Regina Connaughton so Trisha and Regina along with Regina’s excellent campaign caddie, Geraldine Mulcahy, were cheer-leading from the sideline today.

The tee time for the final today had been brought forward from mid-day to eight AM due to the yellow weather alert which had been issued by Met Eireann. When the matches first teed off the weather was reasonable, however Met Eireann turned out to be spot on and within a few minutes the heavens began to open and the rain continued to get progressively worse right to the end of the match.

With Trisha not playing, Anne Browner, with Anne Clarke on her bag, was out first today and won the first, always a nice start. The next five holes were halved before Anne won both the seventh and eighth holes to extend her lead to three, and a loss on the ninth still had her with a two hole advantage going to the back nine. Wins on the eleventh and twelfth might perhaps have given the supporters a false sense of security with the match at four up at this stage.

Celine was out second and managed to halve the first but really struggled with the conditions and lost the second, third, fourth and fifth holes to go four down. A change to wet weather gloves at this point certainly helped as did her coming to terms with the speed of greens a bit better. Celine holed a crucial eight footer on the sixth for a half and did the same on the seventh, for another half. A first win on the eighth followed by another half and she turned three down.

Third out today was Orla Rush and, like all the players was finding it tough going in the very wet conditions. Orla played solidly however, making fewer mistakes than her opponent (the name of the game today) and was two up at the halfway point. The status quo was maintained with a loss on the tenth being followed by a great win on the eleventh for Orla. At this point the squeegees were out on the greens and it was becoming very difficult to even hold a club. Two holes later the match was back to all square, Orla having visited the water on the thirteenth. It was still looking good for Greystones however, after a half on the fourteenth and yet another win on the fifteenth. Orla lost the tricky sixteenth however and moved to the seventeenth all square.

Fourth out was Wendy Lee who was up against a wily player and would have needed to have her best game with her today to win (as she has done so often during this campaign). Today’s conditions definitely didn’t suit Wendy and she unfortunately lost on the eleventh 8&7. First blood to Headfort.

The ever dependable Grace Dodd was out last today and she started the round with three straight wins. Yesterday’s result was definitely not going to be repeated as by the eight hole, Grace found herself one down – not a regular occurrence for her. As she got more used to the conditions however Grace bounced back with a win on the ninth to turn, as they had began, all square. She found herself behind again after the tenth however, but then took control of the match, winning the eleventh and twelfth before halving the thirteenth to go just one up but now playing really well.

As the course conditions had worsened Anne’s opponents game seemed to suit them better and, after halving the thirteenth, she proceeded to win the next four holes to bring the match back to all square with just the waterlogged eighteenth to play.

On the back nine, Celine was a different player and won the tenth, eleventh and twelfth holes to get the match back to all square for the first time since the second. No match was going to won easily today and the Headfort player hit straight back on the long, water lined, par five thirteenth, to restore a one hole advantage. The match was back to all square however after a win for Celine on the fourteenth and when she cleared the water, her ball coming to a stop on the back fringe of the tricky par three, sixteenth, it loaded a little extra pressure on her opponent. A four was enough for Celine to move to one up, for the first time in the match, heading for the seventeenth. On the seventeenth Celine was unlucky to find a bunker which was pretty much waterlogged but the only relief offered was to drop within the bunker on a downhill slope. She took two to get out and the match was back to all square as the pair trudged to the eighteenth tee.

So the state of play at this stage was, one point to Headfort, Anne was on the eighteenth, all square, Celine was right behind her on the hole, also all square. Orla was playing the seventeenth, also all square while Grace was behind playing well and up in her match.

On the eighteenth, Anne’s opponent found the greenside bunker, Anne having found the front of the green. The Headfort bunker shot flew the green and landed in a bunker on the other side of the green, however, to be fair, the conditions were, at this stage bordering on unplayable. Anne stayed calm and finished out the hole really well to win our first point of the day – one all !!

News then filtered through that Grace had come up trumps yet again (she has never lost a match this campaign), after winning fourteen, fifteen and sixteen to win her match 4&2.

We now needed one match from either Celine or Orla to win our second Challenge All-Ireland in eight years. Word back from the eighteenth tee box was that Orla had lost the seventeenth to go one down with one to play, but still very much in the game.

Celine and her opponent slogged it up a fairway that offered no run on the ball whatsoever. The Headfort player had, perhaps, a fifty yard advantage, and had played one shot less as they approached the green. This advantage evaporated however when Celine hit a great rescue to the fringe on the left had side of the green and the Headfort lady’s iron shot found the same greenside bunker as her teammate had found just a few minutes before in Anne’s match. It was deja vu as she played her bunker shot to the opposite bunker and then managed to only just get out of that one. At this stage, with both players on the green, the squeegees were out in force again. As they cleared the water it appeared to replenish immediately however. Celine hit a good chip but it was a little to hard and she left herself twelve feet with two putts for the match, or three if Headfort missed their remaining five foot putt. Celine’s first putt went four feet past and when the Headfort putt failed to drop, Celine putted up the holeside – have two – take two, for the match and the overall win – All-Ireland champions !!

Manager, Iris later presented the pennant to Lady Captain, Amanda and in her speech dedicated the win to Captain Danny, a lovely touch.

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Ladies move one step closer to an All-Ireland pennant…

Our Challenge team took another step to a coveted All-Ireland pennant today with a spirited win over Ulster’s Belvoir Park Golf Club.

Manager Iris made some changes from yesterday’s team with Anne Browner and Trisha Moore coming in for Lady Vice, Celine Joyce and Wendy Lee.

First out today was Trisha Moore who faced a good operator from Belvoir Park. Trisha won the first before loosing the second and third to go one down. A win on the tough, par four fifth brought the match back all square but after two consecutive losses again on the seventh and eighth it looked like momentum might be shifting in Belvoir Park’s direction. This elicited an immediate response from Trisha who won the ninth, to turn just one down before another win on the tenth leveled the match once again. On the par three, eleventh hole Trisha found the water with her tee shot but made birdie with her second ball after a super shot in from the drop zone to get an unlikely half. It was clear that this match was going to remain close to the end.

While all this was happening Greystones were in the process of getting their first ( and fastest ) point on the board. Last out today was Grace Dodd who played some excellent golf against an opponent who was giving her seven shots. Without using a single one of these shots Grace proceeded to win the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth holes to close her match by an incredible margin of 9&8.

Second out today was Anne Browner who lost the first two holes but steadied the ship from there to win three, four and six to go one up. A further win on the ninth had her turn at two up. After halves on the tenth and eleventh holes Anne won yet another hole on twelve to go three up.

Our third player out was Orla Rush who was once again in great form and, while the match was nip and tuck for the first seven holes, wins on the eighth and ninth had her match at two up at halfway. Orla didn’t feel that she played quite as well today as yesterday but still finished her match out with some style, winning eleven, twelve and thirteen and securing an excellent half on the fourteenth to win 5&4 and have us two nil up.

Out on the course after Orla was Regina Connaughton who played so well in yesterday’s match (winning 7&6). It was clear however from the off today that today’s match could be a different proposition. Regina was two down after three before winning the fourth. The two hole margin was restored immediately however on the next hole but Regina threw in three great holes straight away and was one up after eight. A half on the long ninth ensured a small advantage for Regina moving into the back nine. The tenth was also halved before Regina’s opponent seemed to find a second gear and through a combination of some solid golf, and a little luck, won the next four holes to go three up with four holes left to play. Try as she might, Regina was unable to whittle the deficit down and halves on the fifteenth and sixteenth were enough for Belvoir Park to win a much needed point by a margin of 3&2.

Trisha’s match remained tied following further halves on twelve and thirteen before the Belvoir Park player broke the deadlock, winning the fourteenth to go one up, and at a critical point in the match. Fifteen and sixteen were also halved, with Trisha holding some clutch putts. So just one down with two holes remaining and a place in the final very much on the line, Trisha dug deep to win the seventeenth and headed to the par five, eighteenth all square.

Meanwhile, Anne’s opponent had found some rhythm from the thirteenth and had clawed two holes back with wins on thirteen and fourteen to bring the match back to one up for Greystones. Anne halted this momentum on the fifteenth, holing a thirty footer to win the hole and get back to two up. The sixteenth is a par three over water and unfortunately Anne found this water off her tee shot and lost this hole. The seventeenth was also unkind to us and Anne’s match was back to all square heading to the eighteenth tee.

So at this stage it really was all to play for despite the big wins by Grace and Orla. Greystones had two matches in the bag to Belvoir Parks one, Trisha was playing the eighteenth all square, having won the previous two holes while Anne was heading to the eighteenth tee, also all square but having lost the previous two. Nothing in it……

On the eighteenth both Trisha and her opposite number had hit good drives but both found themselves in a fairway bunker. Trisha hit a good recovery shot, advancing her ball eighty yards on while her opponent only managed to just get her ball out of the bunker and then only managed to move her ball another twenty yards with her third shot. The Belvoir Park player’s next shot was to the middle of the fairway, leaving herself a fifty ward chip to the pin which was in a very tricky position on the front of the green. Trisha pulled her third shot a bit and her ball was unfortunate to stop in a small copse of trees on the left hand side of the fairway around ninety yards from the pin. Caddie Ken could be seen pointing to a slim gap which would allow Trisha go for the back left of the green – the crowd held their collective breath. Trisha executed this difficult shot perfectly, finding the back left of the green but was still left with an incredibly tough putt, downhill with a big break to a pin so close to the front edge. Her opponent chipped to the back of the green and was unable to get up and down so after Trisha hit a great putt to six feet or so it was as good as game over, although she did have to hole out a knee trembler after leaving her second putt a little shorter than she might have liked. A wonderful finish to a great match.

Anne Browner and caddie Ann Clarke were watching the drama unfold from the fairway behind and didn’t need to be called in !!!

The ladies will face Headford Golf Club ( Kells ) in the All-Ireland final tomorrow at the early start time of 08.10 in an effort to avoid a weather front which is forecast to move in.

Live scoring is available by clicking here.

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