Mount Juliet Golf Notes

The last of the Golfer of the Year competitions was played last Saturday and this was the final of the McCalmont Cup match play between Amelia Drumm and Jeff Howes. Amelia was in receipt of 13 strokes based on handicaps and this proved to be too much of a burden for Jeff who had to succumb on the 17th hole, but not after a match of some drama and fluctuating scores. Amelia was 3 down after three holes and the signs were ominous but to her credit she fought back in determined fashion to turn her deficit into a winning lead of two holes after the completion of nine holes. She then continued her winning ways by standing on the 13th tee four up only to lose the long par four but hit back straight away by winning the par three 14th to be dormie in the match. But Jeff was not to capitulate so easily and he proceeded to win the 15th and 16th to reduce the deficit but to be fair to Amelia she closed out the match on the long 17th with a half to end what was a fantastic year for her and she also clinched the Golfer of the Year.

Amelia scored a total of 87 points in the G.O.Y. competition and her best six cards came to 64 and was a massive 19 points clear of her nearest challenger for the title Sandra Carr.

In the men’s section of the competition Alan Hearne was the runaway winner at the finish. He accumulated a total of 63 points and his best six cards totalled 55 points and he was 18 points clear of John Keane in second place. Congratulations to both winners on their outstanding success.

The Lady Captain’s(Margaret Twomey) Team took on the Captain’s(James J. Brett) Team in the annual challenge last Sunday with the format being over 18 holes singles stableford. The best eight cards of each team counted and the Lady Captain’s Team prevailed on the day by a score of 266 points to 260 points. Best score of the day was returned by John Browne with 39 points with Lynda Hickey returning the best score of 32 points for the ladies and Frank Kelly scoring 37 points for the men.

The last round of the Summer Series was played last week and this resulted in an emphatic win for a team of Cork based golfers from Kanturk Golf Club who returned a great score of 99 points to win by a margin of 5 shots from their nearest rivals. The winning team had scores of 50 points and 49 points respectively for each nine holes as against the runners-up score of 46 points and 48 points for their nines. The runners-up team, again almost all Cork based, got through by virtue of a better back nine holes score. The first round of the Winter series commences in October with the same format as heretofore i.e., four person team event, any combination, with two scores to count on all holes.

Results Summer Series Wednesday 21st September

Winners          M. Hickey (17) (Kanturk)

                          D. Kiely (17) (Kanturk)

                          J. Tobin (22) (Kanturk)

                          T. Walsh (16) (Kanturk)                     99 points

Runners Up   K. Anderson (17) (Fermoy)

                          J. Baker (15) (Fermoy)

                          G. Dolan (16) (Ring of Kerry)

                          K. Gould (19) (Mitchelstown)             94 points

Kanturk

The last of the Golfer of the Year competition was played last Saturday and this was the final of the McCalmont Cup match play between Amelia Drumm and Jeff Howes. Amelia was in receipt of 13 strokes based on handicaps and this proved to be too much of a burden for Jeff who had to succumb on the 17th hole, but not after a match of some drama and fluctuating scores. Amelia was 3 down after three holes and the signs were ominous but to her credit she fought back in determined fashion to turn her deficit into a winning lead of two holes after the completion of nine holes. She then continued her winning ways by standing on the 13th tee four up only to lose the long par four but hit back straight away by winning the par three 14th to be dormie in the match. But Jeff was not to capitulate so easily and he proceeded to win the 15th and 16th to reduce the deficit but to be fair to Amelia she closed out the match on the long 17th with a half to end what was a fantastic year for her and she also clinched the Golfer of the Year.

The Lady Captain’s (Margaret Twomey) Team took on the Captain’s (James J. Brett) Team in the annual challenge last Sunday with the format being over 18 holes singles stableford. The best eight cards of each team counted and the Lady Captain’s Team prevailed on the day by a score of 266 points to 260 points. Best score of the day was returned by John Browne with 39 points with Lynda Hickey returning the best score of 32 points for the ladies and Frank Kelly scoring 37 points for the men.

The last round of the Summer Series was played last week and this resulted in an emphatic win for a team of Cork based golfers from Kanturk Golf Club who returned a great score of 99 points to win by a margin of 5 shots from their nearest rivals. The winning team had scores of 50 points and 49 points respectively for each nine holes as against the runners-up score of 46 points and 48 points for their nines. The runners-up team, again almost all Cork based, got through by virtue of a better back nine holes score. The first round of the Winter series commences in October with the same format as heretofore i.e., four person team event, any combination, with two scores to count on all holes.

Results Summer Series Wednesday 21st September

Winners

M. Hickey (17) Kanturk G.C.

D. Kiely (17)

J. Tobin (22)

T. Walsh (16) 99 points

Runners-Up

K. Anderson (17) Fermoy G.C.

T. Baker (15)

G. Dolan (16) Ring of Kerry G.C.

K. Gould (19) Mitchelstown G.C. 94 points

The first round in the Summer Series was played on Tuesday 26th May and on a sunny but blustery afternoon the scoring did not match the warm conditions. The winners all hailed from Kanturk Golf Club in County Cork and posted a very achievable target of 81 points. The format of the competition was, as usual, a 4 person team event with two scores to count on the first 17 holes and three scores to count on the 18th hole only.

As it was a shotgun start there was no delay in finding the winning team and they only just got home by a point from two sets of brothers from Galway. The winners scored consistently enough but could only muster 2 points on the last hole where they expected to score at least six points. They had nines of 43 and 38 respectively to pip the team of brothers who returned 80 points.

The prizes for the day were sponsored by Titleist/Footjoy and were presented immediately afterwards. The next round in the Summer Series takes place on Wednesday 24th June and places can be booked by phoning golf reservations at 056/7773064 or 7773071 and again it will be a shotgun start at 2pm.

Results, Tuesday 26th May

Winners

Tony McAuliffe (7)
John Corbett (9)
Donal Begley (16)
Anthony Browne (18)
(Kanturk Golf Club)

81 points

Runners-Up

Paul Keane (11)
Kevin Greally (11)
(Cregmore Park Golf Club)
Alan Greally (11)
(Headfort Golf Club)
Derek Keane (14)
(Loughrea Golf Club)

80 points

On the Inter-Club scene the last surviving team in the men’s section played Castlecomer in the Leinster Fourball Trophy. This resulted in a win for Castlecomer by the odd match of five and only on a tie hole at Castlecomer. The advantage of the home draw lay with Castlecomer so they had three matches at home and two were played at Mount Juliet.

At Mount Juliet Kevin McCartan and Ken MacDonald won after a very tight match but unfortunately Padraic O’Connor and Ronan Murphy lost. But the real drama was played out at Castlecomer where the Captain, Billy Murphy and his partner Dermot Divilly, making their debut, won handsomely. Tommy Butler and John Mulholland were dormie 5 down but took their opponents to the 18th before succumbing. In the last match, Chris McHugh and Arthur Hickey then went to the 19th before victory was secured by the home team.