Golf Ireland
€800k for Cork Clubs
Kanturk Golf Club was one of 12 Cork clubs to receive a Sports Capital Programme grant last week. Picture: Niall O’Shea
A dozen Cork golf clubs celebrated last week as they were successful in the most recent round of Sports Capital Programme grants. Over €830,000 was allocated to twelve clubs across the county, and they will now look forward to investing the funds to improve their course and facilities.
Kanturk, Mallow, Kinsale and Doneraile all received grants of more than €100,000 while another eight shared funds from €14,000 to €90,000. While golf clubs have received sports capital funding in the past, the recent announcement is by far the biggest on an individual and collective Continue reading
Early start to the season for Cork golfers
Fota Island’s John Doyle receiving the Munster U14 Order of Merit medal from Jim Long, also included is John’s Dad Barry.
It might still be the off-season for golf in Ireland but there are a few Cork golfers have already started their 2022 campaigns. John Murphy competed in his fourth tournament of the new season in South Africa last week. Murphy has had a busy start to the year, after a few weeks of preseason work in Spain he travelled to California for the AT&T ProAm in Pebble Beach. Unfortunately for John he missed the cut but it was a big learning experience for him as he teed it up alongside the stars of the PGA Tour. From there it was a sprint across the Atlantic to South Africa for the start of the Challenge Tour. He finished just inside the top fifty in his opening event three weeks ago, and after missing the cut in the second event he went on to secure a top twenty finish in Durban last week. Murphy has picked up close to €5,000 in prize money this season and he’ll be hoping for another good finish this week.
Murphy clocked up over €120,000 in his thirteen tour events last year after turning professional in June. It was a sprint for the Kinsale man over the course of five months. He played in nine different countries on three separate tours, but most importantly he finished inside the top 70 and Continue reading
2022 Inter-Club Plans
Inter-Club events are again set to be a key centre-point of the Golf Ireland calendar and a recently issued guidance document spells out some of the key features of the 2023 events. One change in Munster will see the split of home and away matches be removed and instead one team will have the home advantage for all matches. In 2020 a home and away arrangement was put in place, this was brought about due to the shortened season due to covid, and the need to move away from the traditional weekend events due to course availability. This was continued last year with all matches including the area finals being split on a home and away basis. Club surveys carried out last November saw almost two thirds of respondents in Munster favouring all matches being played at one venue. Munster was the Continue reading
Golf for Everyone, Golf Ireland’s new strategic plan
Just a year after golf’s new governing body came into being, Golf Ireland this week launched an ambitious five-year plan to build on the success of the sport over the past two years.
Golf was one of a number of sports to see a big increase in participation during the pandemic. Although courses were closed at three different stages through 2020 and 2021, the sport added over 20,000 registered players. That increase reversed a decade of dropping numbers and there are over 200,000 Golf Ireland members with golf making as the fourth highest sport in terms of participation in Ireland. Overall it’s thought that there are over 500,000 people who play golf once a year, and the governing body will be hoping Continue reading
Full Schedule for Golf Ireland
Munster Stroke Play winner Peter O’Keeffe receiving the Cork Scratch Cup from Margaret Keane, Lady President Cork Golf Club. Also included are Vincent Twohig President and Bob Savage Captain Cork Golf Club.
Picture: Niall O’Shea
For the first time in three years, the championship golf season is back to normal. Restrictions in 2020 and 2021 meant that Golf Ireland, and previously the ILGU and GUI ran a reduced calendar with championships not starting until the second half of the year. Thankfully the possibility of closing courses over the early months of the year is very unlikely, allowing clubs and the national governing body to plan for a full season. This has given the new governing body their first opportunity to plan for a complete season and the 2020 schedule will see increased opportunities for men, women, boys and girls to compete together in National Championships. Ireland’s best Senior golfers will converge on Thurles GC in May to play in the Irish Senior Men’s & Women’s Amateur Close Championships. The event will see Karl Bornemann from Douglas defend his title in the mens event. For the first time ever, the best boys and girls Continue reading
Cork’s Top Amateurs (Women)
Cork Ladies have been to the fore of Irish golf for close to 100 years, with many leading the way both in Ireland and abroad. Cork has produced major winners since the 1920’s and there’s every chance we’ll be adding a few more titles with the current generation. Due to the difference in the number of men’s events compared with women’s events, it wasn’t possible to Continue reading
Cain Claims Munster Boys Title
Morgan Cain (Cork Golf Club), Winner of the Munster Boys U18 Amateur Open Championship 2021 at Nenagh Golf Club
Picture Brendan Gleeson/Golffile
Morgan Cain is the 2021 Munster Boys champion after a super display of golf in Nenagh. The Cork golfer finished on -7, three shots clear of Douglas’ Mel Deasy to claim his first major title.
Three under par rounds of 71, 68, 70 saw him come home with plenty to spare. Cain was tied for the lead with Deasy starting today’s final round, and started in the worst possible fashion with a double bogey on the opening hole. But he battled back brilliantly with birdies in three of his next four holes to retake the lead from Deasy on the fifth. It was a lead he wouldn’t surrender, with another two birdies on the back nine. The only other blemish on his card was a bogey on 17, when his lead was five shots on the penultimate Continue reading
Gallery: Munster Stroke Play 2021, R4
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Gallery: Raffeen Creek v Spanish Point, Country Clubs Final
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