Author: niall@corkgolfnews.com
Gallery: Irish Schools Junior Championship Munster Final
Pictures from the schools junior championship final at Charleville GC: Continue reading
Aimpoint Express Class – Douglas Golf Club
Draw made for EMC Lee Valley Senior Scratch Cup
The draw for Saturday’s two rounds was made today with 81 golfers making to to the start line. Robin Daswon is the lowest handicapped golfer in the field, playing off a +4 mark. He will be joined by Dave O’Donovan and Peter O’Keeffe on the first tee. A waiting list of 9 reserves is in place.
Reserves:
- Seamus Stack (Doneraile)
- David O’Sullivan (Monkstown)
- Cian Kidney (Lee Valley)
- Jack Boyd (Lee Valley)
- Danny Brassil (Lee Valley)
- Conor Meade (East Clare)
- Gary Morris (Macroom)
- Kieran Farrell (Ballybunion)
- Stephen Minihane (Bandon_
Rescheduled Fred Daly Trophy matches
RESCHEDULED ROUND 1 FRED DALY MATCHES
South Munster At Muskerry GC Continue reading
Fred Daly Trophy Round 1 – Rain Stops Play
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
Frank to help Fight for Fionn
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
Sugrue wins Muskerry Senior Scratch Cup
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
Muskerry Senior Scratch Cup – Round 1 Scores
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
Fred Daly first round matches start today
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.
Continue reading
Cork Golf News 