22nd March 2026

Captains ‘Drive In’ 17th March 2026

A huge attendance of 157 players (40 Teams) played in good weather, with the Captains all safely negotiating their drives to kick start the season.

 

Front 9:

1st Place : Eddie Madden, Timmy Walsh, Patricia O'Dwyer and Paddy Mulcahy ( 3 Under par) (9.95 Handicap) score 24.05

2nd Place: Alex Ryan, David Mulcahy and Aoife Lowry ( 6 under par) (6.78 Handicap) score 24.22

Back 9:

1st Place: Eamon Mulcahy, Barbara Leahy, Aodha O'Keefe and Ciaran Gannon

(5 under par) (7.81 Handicap) Score 22.19

2nd Place: Patrick Kennedy, Scott Perry, Mary Whelan and Gerry Gannon

(3 under par) (7.2 Handicap) Score 24.8

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Spring League Final: Sunday 22nd March 2026

We started our Spring League on January 12th where we had 114 players in 19 teams of six. This years competition couldn’t have been tighter, where six teams qualified for the nine hole playoff. Until seven o clock the previous night the lineup was in doubt. The last placed team to qualify were Team ‘S’ and were the underdogs in most people’s books! This made no difference to James Collins and his men as they came home convincing winners by two shots and the team in second led by Sean Cummins held on to the second spot, thanks to the last card in from Billy O Reilly.

This competition has been a great success and has generated a lot of banter over the last few months. Next year’s Winter league will commence next November, so hopefully

anyone who missed out this time will get in on the next league. A spring league will follow again in January 2027.

Winners: Team ‘S’ – Martin Ryan, 15, Nicholas Cooke 20, Eugene O'Sullivan 18,

Pat Dawson, James Collins 21 and Joey O'Dwyer 19 - Total 78

Runners Up- Team ‘N’ Sean Cummins 17, Eric O'Connor 17, Billy O'Reilly 20,

Pat Sheehy 21 and Ignatius Walsh 18. - Total 76

 

Individual Winners :

Category 1 : Michael P Ryan, Category 2 : Sean Jackson, Category 3 : Maurice Power

and Category 4 : Paddy Mulcahy

 

Open Singles – Saturday 21st/Sunday 22nd March.

We were back to 18 holes last weekend with the bunkers in play with the ball being dropped in the rough. This made things more difficult for most except our winners who displayed tremendous talent. Top of the pile was Galbally man, Joe McGrath with a huge score of 42 points which included two birdies on the front nine. Pat Flanagan from Waterford, similarly had a great round with three birdies on the front nine. Birdies were the order of the day for Murroe's Patrick Ryan who had six of them to win Category 1. Aherlow was represented again by Patrick Kennedy who also had a crucial birdie on the 17th to sweep past the opposition in Category 2. Jack O'Halloran is keeping up the family tradition of success in golf with another crucial birdie on the 18th hole. Timmy Walsh from Ballylanders got the job done in Category 4 with a score to match the days best, to show that he is still a golfer of note.

Sat 21st /Sun 22nd Open Singles 18 hole

Best Sat : Pat Flanagan (7) 39 pts

Best Sun : Joe McGrath (13) 42 pts

Cat 1 : Patrick Ryan G (+1) 39 pts

Cat 2 : Patrick Kennedy (11) 38 pts b9

Cat 3: Jack O Halloran (17) 39 pts

Cat 4 : Tim Walsh (21) 39 pts

 

 

Upcoming Fixtures:

Our weekend competition will hopefully be counting as we had drop in the rough only last weekend with the bunkers in play. Great credit to Eddie Ryan and his team for the fantastic condition of the course. If the weather holds out, we should be on schedule for the coming weekend.

We are running an open singles on Saturday and Sunday followed by Tuesday Open singles. On Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of April (Easter weekend) we are holding our Murray Fourball qualifiers which also doubles up as an Open Fourball. Any player who has ambitions of playing on our club teams will have an opportunity to to impress the various managers, where the top 16 qualifying pairs will go through to the knockout stages. There will be separate prizes for the weekend winners as well as the normal prizes for the matchplay winners.

From April 1st, all prizes will be kept for our first Presentation Night on Friday 1st of May, where we will be officially launching our Summer Series which starts on Tuesday 21st of April (the timesheet is open for booking).

Easter Monday Open Team of 3, the timesheet is also open for for this event on April 6th. Book early to avoid disappointment.

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