Greystones Golf Club
Co.Wicklow, Ireland
On Sunday 29th September at Baltinglass GC two Greystones teams have a chance to pick up two more pennants.
First up are the Ladies team at 10am in the Women’s Leinster Trophy Final against Malahide GC.
At 11am our Under 15s Interclub team take on Carton House in the Leinster Under-15 Interclub final.
All support welcome and wear your club colours.
Live scoring can be followed on the scoring app.
Maria Madigan winner of the Presidents Prize to the Ladies. Amazing score of 44 points.
On Friday our Captains hosted the Annual Visiting Captains day. Nine local clubs were represented on the day. The teams were made up of visiting Captains, Captains Mark and Ciara along with representatives from the ladies and men’s committees and Council.
After a light lunch an 18 hole champagne scramble took place followed by a lovely meal provided by Ali.
All the visitors were very complimentary about the course and welcome they received.
Captains Ciara and Mark would like to extend their gratitude to Jim and Jenny in the office, Davey and his team in the pro shop, Paul and the bar staff and Ali, Olivia and Liz in the restaurant for all their work on making the day go so well.
Day 3 saw Ireland up against England and on a tough morning England won all 3 foursomes matches. Alan Condren and his partner David Mulholland lost their match 4 & 3 to Stuart Brown and Kevin Parkes. The other two foursomes matches were lost 1 down and 5 & 3.
So a mountain to climb in the afternoon singles. In the afternoon Alan was playing against Ian Ashenden. In a very tight match where there was never more than two holes in the difference Alan eventually won his point with a one up victory. Alan’s foursomes partner also won his match along with Steve Graham. However it was not enough to overhaul the lead England had established in the morning foursomes.
It meant England won the mens section while the Irish ladies won their section.
England were the victors overall in the combined standings.
Congratulations to Alan on a great performance overall winning 5 points from 6 matches.
The scoring from the whole competition can be viewed on the below link.
https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/10950402901310208265
Captain Ciara’s team admiring the prizes for todays competition. Thank you sincerely to Greg Darcy from Bluebird Care for your generous sponsorship.
Bluebird Care Hospice Day for mulligans and donors….the winning number being chosen by Mary Cahill using modern technology and the winner of the box of wine is Kathryn McAleer. Thanks to all who supported us today.
On day 2 Alan Condren was again paired with David Mulholland for their match against the Welsh pairing of Mike White and Chris Dinsdale. The Irish pair won their match 4 & 2 but unfortunately Ireland lost their other two foursomes matches this morning so are 2-1 down heading into the afternoon singles.
Alan Condren took on Alan Jones in the afternoon singles and again recorded another win by the margin of 6 & 5 to pick up his fourth point from four matches. Singles wins by Tony Cleary, Karl Bornenann and David Mulholland gave Ireland a 4-2 winning margin in the singles and an overall victory over Wales by 5-4 on the day.
Tomorrow brings another match, this time against England who have also won both previous matches. Alan is again paired with David Mulholland in the morning foursomes and they are up against the English pairing of Stuart Brown and Kevin Parkes.
Scoring can be followed on the below link.
https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/10955673583774366156
The Revive Active Fourball Team played their Leinster Semi Final on Sunday 15th September against Killeen Golf Club, not to be mistaken for Killeen Castle Golf Club. The weather was good and the sun shone for the most part.
The pairings at home were Jennifer Moore & Emma Haugh and Shauna Seifried & Anne Browner.
And playing away were Amanda Lawless & Sophie Lumley and Mary Lockhart & Joyce Kirwan.
This being a semi final it was, as expected, tight most of the way but Greystones got an early point on the board with Jennifer & Emma winning the first home match 6 and 5, what a fabulous early point on the board. After that it was neck and neck with Sophie & Emma being 1 up through 17 they halved their match on 18 for a ½ point on the board. Mary & Joyce played their hearts out but when you are losing holes to straight birdies and pars what can you do. They were superb taking the home team to 18.
Back in Greystones the last match was Shauna and Anne. It was nip and tuck all the way but the great duo finally managed to finish the game 2 up on the 17th. What a great score for Greystones who are now in the Leinster Final in Mullingar on Saturday 5th October. We wish them the very best and details of the start time will be sent out to all members once we have been informed by Golf Ireland.
In the meantime don’t forget the Leinster Women’s Trophy Final is on Sunday 29th September at 10am in Baltinglass Golf Course. I’m sure the team would love to have as much support as possible and sure isn’t it only over the mountains!
The Senior Men’s Home Internationals are taking place at Castlerock Golf Club in Northern Ireland on the Mussenden course.
This morning Alan Condren was paired with David Mulholland in the morning foursomes against the Scottish pair Derek Paton and Stewart Henderson. Alan and his partner were never behind and won their point with a 4 & 2 win. This contributed to Ireland bringing a lead of 2 to 1 into the afternoon singles.
Alan faced Derek Paton again in the singles and just like the morning foursomes he was never behind and completed a 2 & 1 victory.
It was a good day for the Irish who won the singles 5 to 1 which made the margin of victory 7-2 against the Scottish.
Tomorrow morning brings another celtic derby against the Welsh. Alan is again selected with David Mulholland and they will take on the Welsh pairing Mike White and Chris Dinsdale.
Scoring can be followed on the link below.
https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/10955673583774366156
