Mount Juliet Golf Notes

Summer Series – 4 Person Team Event

Wednesday 16th June 2010

Winners

Ted Kennedy (15)

Jack Louby (17)

Dessie Hennessy (13) – (Templemore Golf Club)

Seamus Kennedy (14)   – (Thurles Golf Club)  

89 points (back 9)

Winter Series

The final of the Winter Series was played last Thursday and it resulted in a victory for regular competitor, Pat McEvoy, who hails from Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny but plays his golf at Thurles Golf Club. Pat returned an excellent 38 points off the white tees. It was intended that the final would be played from the blue tees but because of the present spell of wet weather the finalists felt that the course of almost 7000 yards was long enough from the whites.

Some of the scoring on the day was of a very high standard and none more so than the winner who had nines of 17 and 21 points respectively.

The runner-up, Trevor Gough, scored 21 points on the first nine holes and 15 points on the last nine holes. In third place came Matty Byrne with 32 points. All qualifiers in the final were entertained to dinner and presented with their prizes and the overall winners on the day received very attractive prizes compliments of Mount Juliet Golf Club.

Results Winter Series

Winner : Pat McEvoy (14)      Thurles G.C.           38 points

Second : Trevor Gough (17)  Clonmel G.C.            36 points

Third :     Matty Byrne (15)     Gowran Park G.C.   32 points

Inter Club Competitions

The first round of the Inter Club Competitions was played last weekend when the club was pitted against Waterford in the Leinster Fourball. Unfortunately after winning the two home matches they lost all three matches away in Waterford. This was a disappointing result for the manager of the team, Kevin McCartan, who had put so much effort into preparing his charges.

One of the highlights of Bryan Phelan’s round in his match with his partner, Frank Kelly, at Mount Juliet was holing out his second shot at the 12th which helped both of them to a convincing victory over their southern opponents. The other home pairing of Padraic O’Connor and Ken MacDonald won their match on the 16th. At Waterford the home team was in control throughout and Jim Blanchfield and his partner Ronan Murphy came nearest to causing a surprise by bringing their opponents to the 17th before succumbing. The next match in the Inter Club series is in the Barton Cup against neighbours Kilkenny.

Last Sunday saw the last of the Member/Guest competitions over the full course before the daylight hours are shortened this week. The competition was an 18 holes singles stableford and the scoring matched the nice Autumnal weather we are experiencing over the past few weeks.

The best score of the day was returned by a County Tipperary guest, Ronan Spain, who had a magnificent 44 points off his handicap of 13. Ronan played very consistently throughout his round with nines of 21 and 23 points respectively. He covered the first nine holes in 39 shots and his back nine in 38 shots for a gross of 77 shots which is only five over par. He dropped shots to par on the back nine at the par three, 14th and the par five, 17th with pars on the other seven holes. He registered a double bogie five at the par three, 6th hole. For the remainder of his round he was consistency personified. Ronan had three shots to spare over Ted Hoyne from Gowran Park, who must have thought that he was in with a real chance of first prize by returning 41 points. Local member John Enright scored 37 points for third place with a number of similar scores failing to reach the winners rostrum.

The Ladies section was won by Powerscourt member, Ursula Dowling, with 36 points. This is Ursula’s first prize at Mount Juliet. Ursula played steady throughout her round and recorded nines of 18 points for her total.

The next competition will be a hamper competition over 16 holes for members only and the format will be a singles stableford.

Results Member/Guest 18 Holes Singles Stableford 18th October:

Winner Ronan Spain (13) (Thurles G.C.) 44 points

Second Ted Hoyne (9) (Gowran Park G.C.) 41 points

Third John Enright (17) 37 points

Ladies Ursula Dowling (21) (Powerscourt G.C.) 36 points