Old County Pitch & Putt Club

Ladies and Gentlemen the Results are in for last Weekends Stableford Competition. We ended up with over 100 cards played. Thank you to everyone who played.

Some excellent scores across the grades. We had 2 players with the magical 50 points in the Gents Junior Grade, Denis and Charlie very well done. Shout out to our Club Chairman Peter Walsh just pipping his pal Gerry on back 9's for the Gents Inter Gross Prize. Well done Peter, another 0.2 knocked off your handicap, keep that up and you will soon reach your lifetime goal to be as good as Gerry. The full results are as follows:

Gents Senior 18 Nett: Brendan Fitzpatrick 45 points (o.b.9.)

Gents Senior 18 Gross: Tom O'Reilly 47 points

Gents Inter 18 Nett: Ian Glennon 48 points

Gents Inter 18 Gross: Peter Walsh  40 points (o.b.9)

Gents Junior 18 Nett: Denis Grace  50 points (o.b.9)

Gents Junior 18 Gross: Patrick Charles 37 points

Ladies A 18 Nett: Dolores Mason 45 points (o.b.9.)

Ladies A 18 Gross: Pauline Balfe 38 points

Ladies B 18 Nett: Lucy Quinn  48 points

Ladies B 18 Gross: Kathleen Condron 28 points.

The Buffer Zone calculated by the PPI National Handicap System was 46 to 49 Nett.

Congratulations to all the winners, Great Pitch and Putt.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen the Old County Christy Broe Scratch Cup will take place on Sunday 3^rd October 2021. The Competition is kindly sponsored by Capital Credit Union (More than a Bank, A Community). Their website can be located at www.capitalcu.ie  On behalf of everyone in Old County and the Pitch and Putt Community as a whole we thank you for your generous support of this event.

A link to our Scratch Cup poster and Time Sheet can be found below:

Old County Scratch Cup Poster

Old County Current Time Sheet

Those wishing to book a time slot can do so by texting (preferably on WhatsApp) Kevin Bermingham on 0874135814 with your name, club and registration number please.

As at Now (Wednesday 22nd at 2pm)  the following 2 places are available:

15.36 – 1

15.48 – 1

Unfortunately we cannot offer refreshments and food on the day, as we would have done in pre Covid times. There will of course be access to toilet facilities.

Thank you for your support.

Ladies and Gentlemen our AGM is planned for the first week in November 2021. If you have any motions you wish to put to the AGM we would ask that members put them in writing and send to our Club Secretary, Gerry Clarges, by 04 October 2021. With the AGM of 2020 cancelled, we would ask that any members who put in a motion in 2020 could resubmit them in order that they can be put on the Agenda for the 2021 AGM. Thank you.

Ladies and Gentlemen tonight was the Ladies and Gents GAA Matchplay Finals. After a week of many matches we were now down to the last 2.

Ladies Matchplay Final

This was a very sporting match between Deirdre (Be Cool, Lets Chill) Curran and Dolores (Speedy Gonzalez) Mason. Two fine players who had come through some very competitive matches during the week. After the first 18 Dolores turned 1 up. This was immediately pulled back on the 19th with Deirdre winning to square the game. However Dolores dug deep and regained the lead again and as the match went on grew stronger and stronger. Dolores went 2 up after 27 and despite some good shots by Deirdre on the back 9 Dolores was just that 1 step ahead eventually closing out the match 4&3. Well done Deirdre, great to see you in a Final again. You played excellent all week but tonight you came up against a lady in excellent form. Congratulations Dolores, what a week, winner of the Anne Keane Cup last weekend and now finishing off the week as Ladies Handicap Matchplay Champion for 2021. Superb achievement.

Gents GAA Matchplay Final

Well this was going to be an interesting one. Tom (ouch that ear ring must hurt) Blair versus Stephen (what a week, you made us all proud) Murray. The first 18 saw Tom play some superb pitch and putt with an excellent display of putting (never misses from 6 foot in) to take a 3 up lead after 18. Stephen would have to dig deep but this entertaining match could be summed up on the 29th hole alone when Stephen pitched to 2 feet and Tom stood up and put the ball in the hole for a hole in 1. In the end Tom went on to win by 5&4. Well done Stephen it was always going to be a tall order tonight conceeding that number of shots against a man in form. Congratultions Tom, you played some superb pitch and putt all week, defeating 1 Inter and 3 Seniors along the way. Thoroughly deserved and a great Champion.

Well thats it folks for our "during the week" competitions for 2021. Plenty of more Pitch and Putt Competitions to be played for each weekend between now and the end of the year. Thank you very much to Kevin Bermingham, our Competitions Secretary, for another well run competition. Thank you to our President, Agnes Redmond, for helping out at the presentation and being referee in the Ladies Final and making many notes on the Ladies Match that I completely ignored for this report:-)  Thank you to everyone who came out to watch the matches tonight and during the week, it all adds to the occasion.

Thank you to John O'Shea on doing a fantastic job on renovating the very old GAA trophy, what a surprise, a fantastic piece of workmanship.

As the great Mr Fred Cogley from RTE Sports used to say "Sin a bhfuil i gcorsai sport anocht" (I bet I spelt that wrong) Thank you and Good Night.