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March 8th 2010:
2010 GENTS 18 HOLE COMPETITIONS GET UNDER WAY.
Gents, the 1st full 18 hole competition of the 2010 season has begun. Due to ground conditions, your competitions committee are running the competition, the PADDY BRADY Memorial, as an 18 hole singles stableford,RE-ENTRY, running from Monday 8/3 to Sunday 14/3. The "local-rule" of LIFT, CLEAN and PLACE, within 6", will be in operation for this competition. All gents members please note that a local-rule is being brought in to play for all competitions this year, as follows: RETURNING OF YOUR SCORE IN TO THE COMPUTER IS COMPULSORY. NON RETURNED SCORES WILL NOT GAIN .1 IF NOT REACHING STANDARD SCRATCH BUT WILL BE CUT IF EXCEEDING STANDARD SCRATCH. NON RETURNED WINNING CARDS WILL BE INELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE THEIR PRIZE. For those members who play with the Intermediate Alliance please note that the next outing is scheduled for next Sunday, the 14th, @ Knightsbrook in Trim with the tee reserved from 9am to 12 noon. The Senior Alliance are scheduled for Maurice Kelly's Captain's prize in Killeen GC, Naas on Sunday March 28th.

March 8th 2010:
RUNNING 13-HOLE COMPETITION RESULT
This week's winners and the final week of this format for this season were: Cat1, Paul Coughlan (5) 33pts, and Vincent Shelley (7) 31pts. Cat2, Sean Ganley (11) 33pts and Adrian Hiney (13) 31pts. Cat3, Dermot Sheehy (22) 33pts and Padraig Muldoon (17) 31pts. Congratulations to all the winners since January.

March 8th 2010:
WINTER LEAGUE FINAL!!!!!!!!
Well, the Winter League for 2009 / 2010 drew to its conclusion yesterday with 16 teams braving the wonderful sunshine that the day provided. After the floods of November and early December and the snow and ice of December, January and February, all 16 teams of 5 players were treated to sunshine, full tee boxes and full greens. Scoring was "HOT" and in the fianl analysis the team of stalwarts of Hugh Flanagan, Paddy O'Brien, Leonard Donaldson, Rory Minagh and Damien Farrell won the shoot-out with a team score of 152pts (best 4 cards). Runners-up were, Mick Mc Loughlin, Fergie Mc Cormack, Adrian Hiney, Damien Milton and Davy Colgan with 149pts. 3rd was the team of J.O'Brien, J. Slevin, J.Cassidy, J.Kirby and D.Hogg with 147pts. 4th were the team of M.Power, M.O'Brien, K.Claffey, P.Fox and T.Coughlan with 144pts winning on the tie card from in 5th, P. Tooher, D. Bracken, J Buckley, J.Dolan and A.Dolan. The 2 highest score returns for the League were James Coughlan and Adrian Hiney. A heartiest well done the Mick Mc Loughlin and all his crew for their huge effort on behalf of the club and the members for their running of this competition which goes from strenght to strength each Winter. To our Sponsor, Seery Distributors a major thank you for your wonderful support. Bragging rites for the year are with the 16 teams that qualified for the final. The rest of the teams that took part in the qualifiers will no doubt being sharpening their 'game' for the end of season league for next Winter!

March 7th 2010:
LADIES CLUB
The first weekly competition of the year took place on Wednesday 3rd March. It was a 16 hole competition and was won by Geraldine Coughlan (17) with 31 points while runner up Mary Rohan (18) had 29 points. The winner of the Monthly running competition for January/February was Veronica Colgan (28) with 58 points. On St. Patricks Day the usual White Elephant Competition will be played. The time sheet is from 11am until 1.30pm and is available in the clubhouse. Any outstanding prizes will be presented afterwards. Congratulations to all who qualified for the quarter finals of the Winter Spring League. Matches must be played by Wednesday 24th March. Well done to all concerned in the organising and running of the club Winter League and congratulaations to the winners and all who received prizes on the day.

March 4th 2010:
WINTER LEAGUE (SEERY CASH & CARRY)
This is the list of teams that have qualified for the Winter League Final on Sunday. Team 9 - 460 (Mike Hiney), Team 24 -459 (Paul Ravenhill), Team 32 -455 (Mick Rabbitte), Team 15 - 454) (Paul Fogarty), Team 14 - 447 (Johnny Foster), Team 43 - 447 (John O Brien), Team 21 - 443 (Mick McLoughlin), Team 5 - 442 (Frank Kiernan), Team 39 - 441 (David Cummins), Team 29 - 441 (Paul Tooher), Team 10 - 441 (Hugh Flanagan), Team 3 - 441 (Dom Fitzpatrick ), Team 31 - 441 (Declan Mullally), Team 35 - 440 (Mick Power), Team 12 - 440 (JJ Colgan), Team 41 - 440 (Eugene Boland). Because of the risk of frost, there is also a change of time for the winter league final. A shotgun start will now take place at 12.45 all players are asked to check in before 12.15.

Commiserations to all of the teams who did not make the cut and well done to the Committee and participants who struggled to complete this years much interrupted Winter League.

Winter League Final Tee Box Draw


March 3rd 2010:
LADIES CLUB
LADIES WINTER SPRING LEAGUE 2009/2010 The teams who qualify for the Quarter Finals are -
  • Team N (Beth Dunne, Sinead Healy, Mary Allen) v Team C (Carmel Connolly, Eilish Keegan, Pamela Favenhill)
  • Team I (Ger Coughlan, Maura Igoe, Eileen Seery) v Team F (Eleanor Fitzpatrick, Marie Dolan, Anne Magee)
  • Team E (Eileen White, Teresa Cleary, Kathleen Leech) v Team L (Amy Farrell, Veronica Colgan, Mary Higgins)
  • Team A (Veronica McCormack, Clodagh O'Dowd, Aideen Jordan) v Team K (Mary Rose Coughlan, Carmel Scally, Anne Healy)
The quarter final matches to be played by Wednesday 24th March.

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