Golf

Co Cavan Golf Club Results from Captain"s (Mr. Padraig McEntee) Prize weekend Saturday and Sunday 2nd & 3rd August; 1st Frank Glancy, 2nd Timmy Fitzpatrick, 3rd Ed Kellett, Gross: Terry Smith (5) 75, 1st Saturday, Bernard Geoghegan 67 (21), 1st Sunday, Jimmy Sheridan (15) 70, Past Captains Oliver Malone. Beginner Finbar Boyle, C.S.G.S. 1st Mary Donohoe, 2nd Gaye Condon, Visitors John McEntee, Student Gavin Tobin, Juvenile Cat.1: 1st Conal Donohoe 2nd Terry Brady, Cat.2 : 1st Nial McHugh, 2nd Ross O"Reilly, Girls 1st Rebecca Brady, 2nd Yvette Shutten. Ladies: 1st Eilish Mulhern (35) 68, 2nd Colette Smith (28) 69, 3rd Cathy O Hanlon (28)70, Gross Finola Smith (9)79 Upcoming fixtures -Sunday 17th August : 18 Hole stroke sponsored by Tyre Depot Ltd., Athlone; Wednesday 13th August: Ladies 18 hole Singles stableford. Thursday 14th August: Open 18 Hole singles stableford. Best of luck to Donal Crotty and the Jimmy Bruen team in the Ulster final which will be played at 2:40pm in Portadown on Friday August 15. All support very welcome. Coming up later this month the Co. Cavan golf club Classic, 1st nine holes in the new Farnham Estate GC finishing with the back nine in Co Cavan Golf Club. An event no to be missed. For further details please contact a member of committee. Congratulations to Philip and Helen McMahon who defeated Maura and Fergal Dunne to win the Farnham Cup on the 18th Hole. Please note There will be a Course Ranger on duty at the weekends throughout the summer. Players/ Competitors are asked to cooperate. For all the Club news/results please visit our website at www.cavangolf.ie Virginia The monthly medal competition on Sunday 10th August was won by Tom Kirwan with a net.58, Cat.1 winner was Vivian O"Connell net.62; Category 2 Fergal Kenny net 58; Category 3 Gerry McKenna net 63; 2s winners Seamus Sheridan. Next Sunday 18 hole v par competition, entry sheet for captain Paddy McCabe prize day one on notice board, draw for same takes place on sunday 18th august. Ladies Results Lady President Ms Marese Callaghan"s Prize; 1st Nora McCullen 60 net, Runner-up Eilish Reynolds 62 net, Best Gross Brid Halloran 83 gross, 3rd Catherine Denning 63 net, 4th Marian Smith-Clancy 67 net, 5th Ann Fox 69 (B9), Past President Helen O Reilly 71, Category 1 1st Freda McDonnell 69 (B9), 2nd Marie Gillic 69, Category 2 1st Meta Kinnear 69, 2nd Sara Loftus 70, Cat 3 1st Ann Tully 70, 2nd Angela O" Dwyer 71, Front 9 Margaret Bowles 34, Back 9 Aoife Galligan 33.5, 9 Hole Competition Sara Moore, Visitors Competition Lorna Shaffrey, Mens 1st Pat Loftus 57, 2nd Declan Smith 58, Best Gross Dave Hickey 70. Mannan Castle The Captain"s Prize 2008 - Qualifier Competition. Overall Winner: Frank Kelly [12] 41 pts.; Div 1 - First: John Hughes [10] 39 pts. Div 2 - First: Tom White [16] 40 pts; Second: Sean Crawley [13] 39 pts. Div 3 - First: Richard Sheehy [21] 39 pts. All on 31 pts and higher qualify and some on 30 pts also Congratulations to our "Mail On Sunday" Team who qualified for the All Ireland Final last Saturday. To our "Ulster Cup" Team who qualified for the final beating Ballyclare in the semi final.. Juvenile News - The bad weather did not deter the 60 Juveniles from playing for the President Prize on Tuesday morning. A big "Thank You" to Jim Hanratty for the beautiful prizes and also for his presence on the day. Winners were as follows; Beginners - Niall Caraher, Laura Corr, Grainne Duffy, Seanan O"Gorman, Aoife Hamill, Jamie O"Connor, Adam White and Daragh O"Connor. 10 hole - 1st Odhran Kieran, 2nd Padraig McGuigan and 3rd Sean Morris, 4th Jack Corr and 5th Diarmuid Boylan. 17 hole competition -1st Andrew Boylan, 2nd Kevin McMahon and 3rd Jack MacNamee. Don"t forget next week is the Captain"s Prize and BBQ on the 12th August and ALL are welcome to come along, it will be a great day. If you have forgotten to put your name down for the Adult Juvenile Competition which takes place on the 23rd August, you still have a chance, the sheet is nearly full. Come along and join in the fun as there will be fun and games in the Club House afterwards. Lessons continue on Thursday morning with Joe Frawley for the up and coming stars and also with Cathal Barry on Thursday evening for the bigger stars. Coaching is underway for the boys on the Norman Cinnamond team, as the competition starts this week.  Great news in that the Mothers have also decided to grasp the nettle and are enjoying the 1hour lesson from 7.30 to 8.30 with Cathal Barry on Thursday nights. I wonder is it the lesson or the goodies after the lesson that is the attraction. Well done to all concerned and keep up the good work. Bent Elbow Golfing Society The Bent Elbow Golfing Society had a successful outing recently at Rossmore Golf Club. We are very grateful to our kind sponsors on the day, Cavannet Computers Ltd. and McEnroe Kitchens Ltd. The prize winners were as follows: Category 1: 1st P A O" Reilly, 2nd Bernie Lynch, 3rd Eddie Kellett; Category 2: 1st Seamus Watters, 2nd Sean Dunne, 3rd Sean J Smith; Category 3: 1st Brendan Clarke, 2nd Jim King, 3rd PJ Smith; Front Nine: Donal Brady; Back Nine: Paul Brady . Our Captain, Michael Daly, holds his Captains Prize Day on Saturday 16th August at County Cavan Golf Club from 10.00am. We invite all members to play and there is a time sheet in operation.' Blacklion Club Captain Mel McLoughlin won his first competition of the year, scoring 42 points in the Garda competition last Wednesday. In second place was Frank McCabe with 40 points, pipping Gerry Hickey with a better back nine. Jimmy Donovan claimed the Gross prize with a four over par 76. Open week got underway on Saturday with a singles competition, and it was new member Kevin McPartland who prevailed, shooting a n impressive 45 points. Sean Flanagan and Dermot Love took second and third places respectively, both with 42 points. Visitor Frankie Coffey won the Gross prize with a nett 40 points, with Packie Reilly claiming the visitor"s prize. Teddy Henderson"s Conway Cup side travelled to Castle Hume on Friday needing three points to secure a place in the final against Omagh. They needed to play only nine holes to achieve this target, all pairings reaching the turn ahead in their matches, a magnificent achievement against a very good team. Open Week ends on Sunday, 17th August with a Mixed Foursomes competition, with a singles stableford competition on every day until then. Clones Young Guns" Classic Golf Clones Golf Club"s own Classic is over for another year and it proved to be very successful despite the weather threatening to force a different outcome. The Classic ran over five days into the Bank Holiday Monday due to the torrential rains on Friday and thankfully all teams were accommodated and managed to get their rounds finished in relatively condusive conditions. The presentation of prizes took place last Tuesday and Pat Connolly (classic convenor) and Captain Paul Fitzpatrick got proceedings underway by thanking all involved. However Pat Connolly the Classic convenor said he would like to particularly thank Bank of Scotland (Ireland) our main sponsor; everyone was sorry that George Duke was unable to attend the presentation of prizes this year and Tom Cassidy kindly stepped forward to represent both George and the bank. Pat also thanked his team (they know who they are) they did such sterling work in staging this mammoth occasion. Congratulations go to Fergal Connolly, James Connolly, Jack McCarron and Ethan Audley winning the Ping Drivers with a score of 103 points (team sponsor Margaret Quigley). Just pipped into to 2nd spot also on 103 points were Ray McCarron, Hugo Clerkin, Jack McCarron and Ethan Audley (Team sponsor Scanbitz). 3rd with 100 points were Stevie McCaffrey, J. Brown, Brendan Allen and Noel McElroy their prize-Padraig Harrington designed suit bags, Sponsor Ollie Swift. In 4th also with 100 points were K. Finlay, E. Finlay, K. Duffy and D. Lennon their prize-Golf club travel covers. Sponsor Leonard Engineering. In 5th spot also 100 points were C. Herron, P. Trappe, A. Trappe and D. McMahon winning Footjoy shoes, sponsor Hillgrove Hotel. 6th place 99 points, went to Joe Smith, George Crowe, Seamus Brady and Mike Keane. Prize watches, sponsor Univet. In 7th place with 97 points winning golf tops were Gary Sexton, Gary Smith, T. McKenna and J. Sexton, sponsor Conagra. The ladies team prize went to the McCarthy sisters Jo, Sinead, Ann and Beezy, (team sponsor Ann McCarthy) who were delighted with their watches (sponsored by Liptons of Clones) and particularly thanked Pat Connolly for having a ladies team prize. Nearest the pin went to Hugo Clerkin, men"s longest drive Joe McCann and the ladies longest drive went to Mary Trant. These prizes were kindly sponsored by Ciaran Smith professional from Rossmore. Winners of the golf bags (sponsored by the club) were Francie Lynch and Paddy Devine. The wine (sponsored by Supervalu Cavan) went to Niall Wrafter and Shane Morgan. The golf themed ornaments (sponsored by Gerry & Mary Trant) went to Jim Monaghan and Carmel Lynch. Captain"s Prize Draw You only have a few more days to put your name on the list if you wish to be included in the big event of the year Paul Fitzpatrick"s Captain"s Prize. The draw for playing partners will take place on 21st August. The completion will be held on Saturday August 30th. President"s Prize -The results and photo"s for this year"s President"s Prize (Mr. Paul Flynn) will be in next week"s issue. Juveniles Recommence - The juveniles once again take to the course on Tuesdays from 7pm and will have the benefit of a professional for a few weeks. Fee €30.00 Rossmore Cup. Congratulations to Clones who beat Armagh at home last Saturday in the Rossmore Cup. Clones are now through to the semi finals. Ladies Club Gemma"s First Win. Gemma McMahon(36) won"t forget her first win in a hurry. Gemma started with the Learner Ladies programme in the summer of 2007 and has become a very keen and enthusiastic player, desperate to reduce her handicap and feature in the prizes. Gemma carded a fabulous 39 points to claim the Monaghan Property Sales Trophy for 2008 and was delighted to receive both the trophy and her prize from Willie McKenna from Monaghan Property Sales. Gemma also received a cut to her handicap of 2.5 shots. Congratulations Gemma! In 2nd spot , also one of our success stories from last year"s Learner Ladies programme was Eileen Maguire(33) with 38 points, Eileen was also visited by the handicap secretary and losses and other 2 shots off her handicap now off 31 and the winner of the gross was Joy Cassidy. Section A (0-20) winner Irene Rooney 30 points , Section B (21-28) Ann McCarthy 32 Points and Section C (29-36) Celeste McKiernan 34 points. Our learner ladies continue to progress with their golf each Wednesday from 6.30pm . We will shortly be running a few competitions for them to take part in to keep them focused. Indeed it is great to see so many of the ladies already committing to the game by purchasing their own clubs. They must be hooked already! What"s on This Week Thursday 14th August the ladies will be competing in a single stroke medal GOY DRAW and the following Thursday 21st August is the Captain"s Prize to the ladies. Ladies please make sure you are on the list is this competition is a pre-drawn for playing partners event. Matthews Semi-Open Weekend We are delighted that Matthews of Clones are sponsoring our semi open weekend again this year and this event will run from Friday 15th August until Sunday 17th August. Visitors are invited to come along and play with a member €15.00. This is a repeater, so gent"s no fear of handicap reductions before the all important Captain"s Prize! Genie & Mary McCaughey always give such generous sponsorship so please come along members and visitors alike and try for the Ladies and Gents prizes and support this weekend of golf. Timesheet in operation Friday, Saturday and Sunday tel: 047 56017 Belturbet Belturbet Golf Club Festival Open winners as follows - First prize: Hugh Monaghan, 43 pts; Second place: Martin Duffy (Cavan), 38 pts; Visitors: Gerry McGerty (Cavan), 35 pts. Next Sunday"s competition is an 18 Hole Single Stableford. Sunday, 24th August, Monthly Medal. All singles and double matchplay third round must be played by Thursday, August 21st. Crover House Golf Society Crover House Golf society next outing is the Captains Day at the Slieve Russell on Thursday, 28th August. Time sheet in operation. Please ring John Higgins on 086-8667550 to book. There are a lot of names already on sheet so don"t delay in making contact. We only have two and a half hours to get everyone out so don"t be late. There will be no extra time given by the Slieve Russell. The Captain would like all our members and visitors to come along and enjoy the day. Note: The date for Headford New Course has been changed to 18th September. Tee off time 10am to 12 noon. Slieve Russell Ladies Results and Fixtures Saturday 9th August - Winner Deirdre Forde 71Nett Saturday 16th - Captains Prize See notice board for tee times. Mens Results. 18 Hole Stableford (August 4th) Winner: Ciaran Mc Cauley (37pts). 18 Hole Stableford (August 9th) Winner: Joe O" Reilly (35pts, 19 back 9) Mens Fixtures . Saturday 16th August - Mens Captains Prize (Mr Michael Gilmartin) 18 Hole Stableford competition. Members are required to enter names on draw sheet posted on noticeboard, Members can then contact pro shop for exact tee time and playing partners. Fourball matchplay has reached semi finals and has thrown up two fascinating matches. Holders - Michael Power Snr & Brendan McGowan v Dermot Lavin & Darragh Donohoe and previous winners Seamus Martin & Packie McKiernan v Seamus Haverty & David Shiels. Singles matchplay has also reached semi final stage. Dermot Lavin (Holder) awaits winner of Michael Power Jnr v"s Mark Sheehan. Other semi final Seamus Martin v"s Justin Gaffney. Sunday 17th August 18 Hole Stableford, Friday 22nd August - Club Scramble. Ladies and Gents please support. Saturday 23rd August - 18 Hole Stroke . Sunday 24th August - 18 Hole Stableford . Draw times for August continue on Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm.