Today’s four Fred Daly matches fell foul of the weather, and that won’t be too much of a surprise for anyone to hear. Muskerry, Douglas and Monkstown were all due to host matches today.
Cork GC hosted two games yesterday. Fota Island had an impressive 4-1 win over Muskerry in the first match. The second match proved to be a tighter event, it took two tie holes to decide the winner, with Bantry Bay winning Continue reading
Charleville PGA Professional Frank Holly is involved in a pretty unique and demanding fundraiser at the end of this month. Frank along with a few friends is holding a golf marathon on Saturday 23rd April and he’s planning on playing golf for a full day to raise funds for 2 year old Fionn Barry. Frank reckons that the group will play 100 holes during event: “We will tee off at sunrise, aprox 6am, and play until dark (just after 9pm). We will have a 3 club rule, no honour on the tees (even though Cathal Hawe in the group is a stickler for the honour). There won’t be any Continue reading
James Sugrue backed up his good form at the Munster Youths by winning the Muskerry Senior Scratch Cup today. The 70+ golfers faced very testing conditions with frost
Sugrue led going into the afternoon thanks to a three under par 66 this morning. He backed that up with a level par 69 in the afternoon for a winning total of 135 (-3). Cork’s Gary O’Flaherty shot the low round of the afternoon, his 67 saw him jump for tied 7th to second place on -1. Andrew McCormack from Newcastlewest also finished on -1 and took third place with 68,69.
Muskerry’s Conor Riordan took the best nett prize with 134 (-4), he also had the 4th best gross score. Nenagh’s David Reddan Jnr was 4th in the gross standings with 138.
The Mallow man continues the trend of youth winning in Muskerry, Conor Coyne (Youghal) won in 2015 and John Hickey (Cork) won in 2014. More details to follow.
Muskerry Senior Scratch Cup, sponsored by Shane Sadler, final standings: Continue reading
TOP 10 after Round 1:
James Sugrue (Mallow) 66
John O’Brien (Castlemartyr) 67
John Corcoran (Muskerry) 68
Andrew McCormack (Newcastlewest) 69
Pat Murray (Limerick) 69
David Reddan Jnr (Nenagh) 69
Ronan Twomey (Muskerry) 69
Mark Ford (Cork) 70
John Hickey (Cork) 70
Gary O’Flaherty (Cork) 70
Interest in junior golf is building up as this weekend the first round of the Fred Daly Trophy takes place. Cork, Monkstown, Douglas and Muskerry will all host the matches as Ireland’s premier junior golf competition gets underway. This year the competition format has changed.
The GUI Annual General Meeting voted to reduce the number of players from seven to five. Seven first round matches take place on Saturday and Sunday. Munster holders Mallow are in action in Monkstown on Sunday, where they will face Mahon. Kinsale were Munster finalists in 2015 and they will face Douglas on Sunday. That is without doubt the most interesting match of the first round. Both clubs were also paired early on in the competition last year and Kinsale won only after the match went to playoff holes. Kinsale went on to contest the Munster Final while Douglas won the Fred Daly Plate.
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Mallow’s James Sugrue got his season off to a solid start last week when he finished in third place in the Munster Youths at Monkstown. Sugrue shot 71,71 over the two days and he was closing in on the lead when play was suspended on Friday, and the third round was eventually abandoned. The 2014 Munster Youths winner was the best of the Cork finishers as 11 local golfers made the cut for the final day. Kinsale were well represented on the final day, Cathal Butler finished in 6th place with Eric Rumley and John Murphy both finishing in 12th place. Rumley too the 2nd net prize while Murphy won the Under 18 prize. Adam McSweeney (Douglas), Alan Riordan (Muskerry) and Brian O’Connell (Bandon) were all in the top 30. Paul Tobin, Greg O’Mahony, Mark Healy and Darragh O’Connor all made it through to the final round. The event was won by Jack McDonnell from Forrest Little. The Maynooth University student shot an opening 66 to lead by two strokes. A second round 73 saw him take a two shot lead into the final round. Unfortunately the rain beat everyone on Friday. All 47 golfers who made the cut for the final round started at 8.30am on Friday. The high winds couldn’t keep th rain from gathering on the greens and after just an hour of play reports were coming in of several flooded greens. The course staff and tournament committee did their best to clear the standing water on several greens but at 10am they were forced to suspend play and abandon the final round. The result was declared on the basis of the scores after 36 holes. Continue reading
Paul Coleman is one of the hardest working guys in golf, and the Lee Valley based retailer has launched yet another initiative. Paul is behind the new Facebook page, Used Golf Clubs Cork.
In addition to selling his large range of clubs, clothing and accessories, Paul has been selling clubs for customers for a while, and this gives his customers access to a very large base of Cork golfers.
Many golfers continue to tinker with their sets, often changing and adding clubs. As a result most golfers will have several used and nearly new clubs lying around. This gave Paul the idea to turn the spare unused club into cash – or maybe even another new club: “We looked at the market and decided that there was a lot of quality clubs sitting in sheds and attics across cork that needed to be sold.”
Given Paul’s active profile from his Lee Valley base, and his very popular social media channels, he’s ideally placed to manage the sales process: “We will stock, promote and sell your quality used hardware. Once it’s value has been realised you can take the sale price in cash less a fixed fee, or the full value of the sale as ColemanGolf credit.”
Anyone interested in buying used clubs should check out the Facebook page, and if you want to sell your clubs contact Paul in Lee Valley.
The Coleman Golf shop in Lee Valley is fully stocked with a wide range or new season clothing, new clubs, Oakley eyewear and a wide range of accessories.
Mahon played host to the second last round of the South East League yesterday and there were good wins for East Cork and Cobh. East Cork beat Fermoy 8-4 and Cobh had the same winning margin over Mitchelstown.
East Cork have now completed their four matches and they are in a strong position to qualify for the final. Cobh and Mahon will both need to win all six matches and win 12 points to overtake East Cork. In the event of a draw, a nominated Bruen pairing from each club will play off for a spot in the final.
East Cork:30 pts (played 4)
Cobh: 19 pts (played 3)
Mahon: 19pts (played 3)
Fermoy: 14pts (played 3)
Mitchelstown: 14 pts (played 3)
Section A was completed a few Continue reading
Wayne O’Callaghan ran a very successful junior camp last week, on the last week of the Easter holidays. The camp ran from Monday to Wednesday and Wayne was delighted with how it went: “We held a very successful Easter junior camp in Fernhill with 20 junior golfers taking part. The aim of the camp was to create a fun learning experience where the juniors learned all aspects of the golf while playing fun challenges making new friendships along the way. Fernhill has a dedicated practice range for the junior academy with various target greens and short game Continue reading
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