A successful Sunday for the club
A busy Sunday was on the cards with Senior Cup qualifying, Mixed Foursomes, Ladies Junior Cup and Men’s Leinster Fourball taking place.
At 7.50am Greystones started the day off with Alan Condren hitting the first tee shot on a cool overcast morning. Will O’Riordan, Dylan Holmes, Jamie Anderson and David Byrne completed our side. Eight other teams were also taking part. Greystones produced five really good scores ranging from 2 under to 2 over. Alan and Will both shot 2 under, Jamie 1 under, David 1 over and Dylan 2 over. Our best 4 cards gave us a grand total of 4 under par. This proved to be more than good enough as the next best cumulative score was Blainroe with 10 over. Congratulations to Karl and his team as they go onto the next round.
Ladies Junior Cup were up next against Dun Laoghaire represented by Jennifer Moore, Mary Lockhart, Deirdre Ahern at home and Niamh Keilthy and Iris Haughton away. Greystones ran 3-2 winners winning the 3 matches at home.
Next up was the Irish Mixed Foursomes against Milltown. At home we had Des Hickey with Helen Creedon, Alan Keane with Geraldine O’Shea and away Walter Gilbert played with Aine O’Rourke and Ray Nolan played with Sandra Cotter. Alan and Geraldine had a superb win by 9&8 with the highlight being a 25 foot birdie by Geraldine on the 9th hole. Des and Helen won on 15. Meanwhile in Milltown Aine and Walter won 2&1 which meant Ray and Sandra were called in while 1 up after 16 holes.
Greystones won 3.5 to 0.5. Congratulations to Regina Barry and Paul Keane and their team.
Last up were Gerry Browners Leinster Men’s Fourball against Rathfarnham. At home Macdara Cummins and Michael Whelan were with Andy Nolan and Brook Mangan while away were Michael O’Neill and Conor Lucey with Dermot Barry and John Smith.
A tight match ensued with both sides picking up a point away from home. At home Macdara and Michael lost 2&1 after a very tight affair, meanwhile Andy and Brook were 4 up through 9 and eventually ran out 5&4 winners. Away in Rathfarnham Michael and Conor were narrowly beaten by one hole. John and Dermot were all square through 9 holes but then surged into a 3up lead by winning 3 holes in a row. Rathfarnham quickly took back 2 holes but a win on the 17th gave Greystones the point to make it 2-2.
The drama now returned to Greystones were the playoff match would take place. Brook and Andy were a nominated play off pair and they halved the 19th. On the 20th hole Brook found the long grass on the left at about the 150metre mark and with his partner in trouble he played a remarkable shot which hung onto the green from where he made a solid 2 putt to move Greystones through to the next round.
Congratulations to Gerry and his team.
Another successful weekend for the club with hopefully more to come.