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UCC GS win on the double

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The UCC Staff Golf Society did a rare double recently, winning the 2023 Intervarsity Trophy.  Having won in St Margaret’s in Dublin in 2022, the society did a rare double with a win last month in Athenry.

Atlantic Technological University were the hosts this year and Athenry Golf Club was in great condition to host the tournament. As usual there were 9 teams taking part in the competition; Atlantic Technological University, University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Galway, University College Dublin, Dublin City University, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Munster Technology University, Technological University of the Shannon.

Each team had ten members and the UCC Team members were society President Eddie McCarthy who played with Dan Walsh.  Captain Aileen Finn played with Maria Carroll, Maurice Conway played with Pat Quinn, Frank Morrissey played with Dr Owen Jump, Barry O’Brien played with Conor McCarthy.  UCC won by a margin of Continue reading →

UCC win Inter-varsity League

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There was an exciting finish to the Cork colleges inter-varsity league on Sunday as the overall result was decided on a sudden death play-off.  The organisers had hoped for a competitive series and after four events the scores were tied on 20-20.  It was another surprise though when Sunday’s final series of matches in Lee Valley was also tied 5-5.  The draw looked unlikely as UCC had an advantage going onto the final hole but CIT’s Tristan Coakley won his match with superb 10-foot par putt on the 18th green.  That brought the day’s score to 5-5 and meant that after a total of 50 matches the series was still tied.  A sudden death play-off followed with Coakley continuing for CIT and John Boylan getting the nod for UCC.  The first hole in Lee Valley saw both golfers take irons off the tee, Boylan went over the trees on the left to leave himself with a short approach that he duly hit to within 15 feet of the flag.  Coakley had a longer approach and finished up on the Continue reading →

Cork IT level Inter-Varsity series, Results from Douglas Golf Club.

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cork-it-logoDouglas Golf Club hosted the third round of the Cork inter-varsity league last week, and Cork IT leveled the contest with a narrow one point win over UCC.  Although Cork IT have won two of the three rounds, UCC’s margin of victory in the first round meant that Cork IT were playing catch-up in the aggregate scoring format.  The golfers have a quick turn around with the fourth event scheduled for Monkstown on Thursday.  The final round is scheduled for Lee Valley where the overall league winners should be decided.

Cork IT GC 5.5-4.5 UCC GC

Tristan Coakley beat Adan Ahern 3&1
Adam McSweeney beat Sean Desmond 2&1
Luke Cummins beat Paul Tobin 3&2
Darragh Herlihy lost to Darren Hourihan 3&2
Conor Roche lost to John Boylan 3&2
David O’Sullivan lost to Colm Power 4&3
Jack Boyd beat Aoife Ni Thuama 4&3
Cathal O’Carroll halved with Grace McGrath
Darragh Cashman lost to Deirdre Galvin 2&1
Rory Dineen beat Paula Walsh 6&4.

UCC GC are hosting a charity golf classic in aid of the popular college charity, the Surgeon Noonan Society.  The event takes place on Friday 24th March in Lee Valley and some times are still available.  A three person team (including meal) is €200 and enquiries or bookings can be made by contacting any one from the committee or surgeonnoonangolf@gmail.com

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UCC win first Inter-Varsity League Event

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Adam McSweeney (Cork IT)

UCC Golf Club gained the bragging rights over Cork IT after the first inter-varsity league event in Cork Golf Club.  The first event was a huge success, ten matches were played with seven of them reaching the 18th green.  UCC won six of the matches, Cork IT claimed three with one matched halved after 18 holes.  Cork IT took an early lead thanks to wins from Adam McSweeney and Jack Murphy

The matches proved to be very close with the organiser’s idea of matching handicaps working out very well.  The event has proven that both UCC and Cork IT have a great depth of quality golfers, and the competition provided a platform for competitive golf very early in the year.  The league came about after Cian Kidney and Dave O’Sullivan got together with the hope of creating a competitive format for both colleges.

Following the success of the first event, the next round is scheduled to take place in Muskerry Golf Club in two weeks time.  Five events in all are planned for series of events that are being kindly hosted
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UCC and CIT set for New League Competition

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Cork Golf Club will host the first event

Cork is set for a new inter-varsity competition with an innovative winter series starting this week which will see UCC and CIT students do battle over a five round league for the first time.  UCC’s Cian Kidney and CIT’s Dave O’Sullivan have come together to get competitive varsity golf back on the agenda for golfers attending Cork’s two leading colleges.  While both institutions have long and proud histories in many sporting codes, golf has been somewhat of a poor relation in recent years in terms of competitive golf.  Maynooth University have been leading varsity golf in Ireland with their Harrington Scholars golf programme, but the Cork colleges have taken the first step to building a competitive intervarsity programme.  Cian Kidney is the Captain of the UCC Golf Club and he has collaborated with the UCC PGA coach Fred Twomey and his counterpart in Cork IT to get the new competition off the ground.  “Myself and Dave O’Sullivan [Cork IT GC Captain] along with the help of Fred Twomey decided to set up this tournament for a few reasons” explained Kidney.  “Firstly due to the Varsity matchplay Continue reading →