GREEN IS THE COLOUR – FREE GOLF IN GOWRAN
Go golfing in Gowran Park this weekend and celebrate St. Patrick’s weekend with an Open Singles on both Saturday 16th and Monday 18th March. Visitors €20.00 Members €5.00. Participants wearing a green garment will receive a voucher to play during the month of April in our weekly open singles competitions commencing on Thursday 4th April and every Thursday thereafter until the end of September 2013.
Rumble For Crumlin
The Annual fundraising event for Crumlin Childrens’ Hospital takes place in Gowran Park this week. The competition is an 18 hole 3 person Rumble for Gowran Park members and runs through the whole week. Members are invited to play as many times as they wish during the week with the rumble continuing into next weekend’s competition. Winners will go through to a regional qualifier at a later date. The rules are as follows – 1 score to count on holes 1 – 6, 2 scores on holes 7 – 12 and 3 scores on the remaining 6 holes.
Spring Series
The Spring Series resulted in new club member Paddy McGuinness, (10) taking the leading qualifier spot with 37 points from more experienced club members John Skehan (17) and Danny Joyce (13). One more qualifying round remain with the competition continuing this Thursday and Friday with the final on 22nd March.
Open Fourball
Sunday saw another Open Fourball take place with a large entry and competition was strong. Age won out over experience with young guns Oising Dunne (14) and his brother Fearghal (18) Abbeyleix Golf Club securing victory with 44 points from Gowran Park members Matty Byrne (14) and Kevin Fennelly (9) 1 behind with 43 points. Third place was taken by another Gowran Park pairing of John Barcoe (13) and James Doyle (17) with 41 points. Our next Open Sunday competition will take place on Sunday 14th April and in order to aid practice for club matches, the competition will be an 18 hole Scotch Foursomes.
LADIES NEWS
Ladies Results – 2 club & putter competition – 6th March, 2013
1st Eileen Walsh (20) 25pts
2nd Nora Barron (14) 20pts
Congratulation to Kate Hennessey and Maura Coe who were prizewinners in the Squirrels Winter Alliance in Killerig.
Please support the Rumble for Crumlin generously as proceeds are for a very good cause. There will not be a singles competition this week but Sunday is the alternate day for next week’s competition as normal.
Golden Golfers – 11 hole Singles Stableford Friday 8th March 2013
1st Liam O’Dwyer (10) 24pts
2nd Paddy McGuiness (10) 23pts
3rd Kieran Mahon (12) 22pts
FIXTURES
Members Rumble for Crumlin Monday 11th – Sunday 17th March
Spring Series – Open Singles Thursday 14th & Friday 15th March
St. Patrick’s Weekend Open Singles Saturday 16th & Monday 18th March