Results:
Open Singles, Thursday 3rd June 2010
1st Pat Cummins (18) Gowran Park – 44 pts
2nd Bobby Barron (11) Gowran Park – 40 pts
Fixtures:
The Open Singles continues on Thursdays. Visitors: €20 per person. Members: €5 per person.
On the weekend there will be an 18 hole singles competition, the last singles competition before the Captain’s Prize on Saturday June 26th. Remember, to be eligible to win the Captain’s Prize you must have competed in a club (weekend) singles competition earlier in the season.
Inter-Club Golf:
Congratulations to the Gowran Park Jimmy Bruen team who finished in first place on Sunday in the strokeplay portion of the regional qualifying. Dave Kearney & Ted Hoyne carded a 76, Nicky Cleere & Enda Cleere 79, Tony Treacy & Eoin Jordan 82, Ger Treacy & Luke Kelly also had an 82 and Seán Kiely & Martin Donnelly posted an 83. Taking the best 4 scores into account, Gowran’s total of 319 was enough to put them in first place and they will now face Bunclody in the (matchplay) semi-final on Saturday morning. Kilkenny and Carlow will face each other in the other semi-final and the winners of each semi-final will play each other later in the day in a final to see who goes through to the Leinster play-offs.
Midweek 9-Hole:
The 9 hole competition continues throughout the summer. It’s a great social evening and a chance to get some practice in before the more serious competition on the weekend!
Just show up on the Wednesday evening (around 5pm) and you’ll always get someone to join up with. There is also a special 9-hole menu laid on in the bar upstairs afterwards.
Ladies Results:
Ladies Results –2nd June.
1st Niamh Connolly (15) 38pts.
2nd Geraldine Hickey (20) 37pts.
Fixtures – Wednesday 9th June, 18 Hole Stableford – Draws at 9:45am 1:45pm and 3:15pm.
Junior Golf:
Junior golfers are reminded that the weekly coaching and competitions for juniors commences on Wednesday next 9th June at 10:30am and continues each Wednesday throughout June, July and August. New members are most welcome and should now join to get full benefit of all coaching sessions.
The Irish Junior Foursomes takes place at Callan Golf Club on 23rd and 24th of June and it is planned to have practise rounds in foursomes before this competition. Another date to note is the Captain’s Prize for Junior golfers which takes place on Sunday 15th August. Juniors doing exams this year will not lose out on coaching this summer as their lost time can be made up with sessions on a Saturday morning.
Club Matchplay Competitions:
The Draw has been made for the Club Fourball Matchplay and it’s now posted at the club and also on the club blog.
The first round proper is to be played by June 23rd.
The 2nd round of the Club Singles Matchplay is to be played by June 9th. You can track the progress of these competition through the Club Blog where the draw and results are published and kept up to date – go to the members area in the golf section of the gowranpark.ie website.
Online Booking:
The Online Booking facility is now active for members.
Select the ‘Members Area’ under the ‘Golf’ section of the gowranpark.ie website and follow the instructions to register using your 8 digit GUI number which can be found on the back of your swipe card.
New Swipecard:
A New GUI/Golfnet Card has now been received for each male member of Gowran Park Golf Club. These Cards are held in the shop at the Golf Club and are available for collection.