Month: December 2024

Blarney honour Tom McKibbin

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Blarney’s Paul O’Neill and Ronan O’Riordan presenting Tom McKibbin with a momento of his win in Blarney in the Munster Boys

Officers from Blarney Golf Club travelled to Antrim recently, to mark the exploits of a 14 year old golfer back in 2017.  That golfer was current PGA Tour Card holder Tom McKibbin, and when the Co Down star was 14 he won the Munster Boys Under 16 in Blarney.  McKibbin came from one behind after the opening round to win the event by three shots after a closing 69.  It was one of the first Munster Championships to be hosted by Blarney and the 2017 President Paul O’Neill was delighted to recall the

Led by 2024 Captain Ronan O’Riordan, the club decided to honour the DP World Tour winner, making a presentation to him and with the support of Blarney Golf Club owners, they also made him an Continue reading →

Sustainability to the fore for Golf

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While golf is often considered to be environmentally friendly, there is now a major drive to make the sport more sustainable.  Golf Ireland has positioned sustainability as one of its key programmes.  Drive the Green is the plan that was launched earlier this year and has the aim of advancing sustainability and climate action through the sport.

The view on Ireland’s golf courses can be mixed.  Some take the view that courses are already environmentally friendly with others countering that the active management of the course limits the ecological value of the land.  Ireland’s golf courses cover an estimated 20,000 hectares of land with over half of this estimated as “out of play” landscape available for nature.  Just 5% of golf course land is designated intensively maintained such Continue reading →

Work Continues at Fermoy Golf Club

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The back nine in Fermoy Golf Club
Pic: Niall O’Shea

Fermoy Golf Club was a busy spot all summer, and that has continued through the Autumn as the club embarked on an impressive course improvement programme.  This included an intensive sanding programme in addition to some work on tee boxes and the irrigation system.  Fermoy manager Denis Twomey has been overseeing the progress and he gave some details of the current work and the next phases.

“We completed the installation of a new irrigation system on all 18 holes plus practice area in 2024” said Twomey.  “We also upgraded six tee boxes and have connected irrigation to the new tee boxes. The plan is to start connecting irrigation to all tee boxes on a phased basis over the next three years.”

When this is added to the sanding programme, you can see that Fermoy is building towards providing members and Continue reading →