2014 Cups & Shields

Lisheen Springs bt Castle in Barton Cup 3-2.

Barton Cup

Dun Laoghaire bt Old Conna
Glencullen bt Bray

Winners to meet.

any results in munster for the Jimmy bruen held at the weekend
conditions seemed horrendous everywhere

Druids Heath beat Tulfarris on Sat 4-1

thebigbandit wrote: »

so spanish pt won their jimmy bruen section, i wonder how many of last years pierce purcell team lined out? from what i hear half the team are junior cup standard. i know ive said im a sandbagger in the past but i know someone who came up against them last year and im told the same team would win the j bruen, not forgetting the purcell and bruen teams are not that far apart when it gets to latter stages. my advice...STAY AWAY FROM GUI COMPS!!!!! too much attention

Would you care to translate that into readable english whilst basing it solely on fact? It would make for easier reading although probably not as interesting.

Connacht Barton Shield qualifiers were on the weekend there.

I was captain of the Athlone team and we were leading qualifiers after the Saturday Strokeplay with a combined score of 152.

When it came to the matchplay, we were up against Athenry in the Semi-Finals...... they were just way too strong for us. Both our pairings were +4 each for 16 and 15 holes respectively, but Athenry's pairings were -2 and level par.

Athenry then went and beat portumna in the final.

Bit of a write-up on it here on the GUI website.

http://www.gui.ie/connacht/news/athenry-crowned-barton-shield-winners-in-connacht


Senior Cup now in 11 days, which I am captain for again. Bring it on!

Redriddick wrote: »

I believe our Purcell team are playing ye on Saturday for the Zone final!!
Am up your way tomorrow afternoon for a puck around,should be lovely,need plenty of sun cream!!!

You definitely will need the sun cream! Enjoy the game in Athlone, course is in excellent shape, though greens are a little slower than they have been of late.

Good luck in the zone final, though not too much luck, Athlone are going to win!

Connacht Senior Cup qualifiers were on the weekend there in Connemara golf club.

Serious spot but the wind on Saturday was unreal. It was carnage out there for a lot of the teams.

I was captain of the Athlone team and we finished in the top 4 (4th) on Saturday to qualify for the matchplay stages today.

When it came to the matchplay, we were up against Co. Sligo in the Semi-Finals...... and they were just too strong for us. Their team was everyone scratch or better and our lads were averaging 2-3 handicaps. But we gave them a real good run, our first match lost on 19, our second match was coming up 18, 1up. But the last 3 matches were a little bit down. Overall far better than we were expected to do.

Sligo then went ahead and won their first 3 matches against Galway in the final.

Well proud of the lads though. Nobody rated us to do anything and we go leading qualifiers for the Barton shield and qualify for Senior Cup aswell. Hopefully get asked to be Captain again next year because it's been class

Full results here for Connacht Senior Cup.

http://www.gui.ie/connacht/results/results/aig-irish-senior-cup


Junior Cup now in 13 days in Oughterard, which I am playing in and as fun as its been, looking forward to not being captain.

Bring it on!

PARlance wrote: »

Was out for a few pints with a non(ish) golfing mate a couple of weeks ago.


Mate: how's the golf ?
Me: Great, moving in the right direction. Down to 16 now.
Mate: I was playing with a work colleague off 16 there last week at one of our work outings. He shot +2 over.
Me: Any chance he's a member of X club?
Mate: how'd you guess that?

Lad in question had absolutely no shame telling him about the craic that goes on.

2 over off 16 is a ****ing joke.

Ronney wrote: »

Have the GUI ever published or looked in to the winning H/C's of teams in cups/ shields? Yes with out doubt, I'm sure they have.

What sort of standard wins Senor cups? Not relevant as there is no lower limit.

Logic/common scenes would suggest for a team to be playing well enough to win Purcell/Bruens etc.should have each dropped a shot or two over the season. Perhaps, but how would you apply it fairly when the result of the match is as dependant on how good or bad your opponents play as it is on how the winning team plays?.

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I believe the 5 players from Carton House who beat Dun Laoghaire in the local final on Sunday had a combined total handicap of plus 7 compared to Dun Laoghaire's combined of 3, a difference of 10.

Rikand wrote: »

Athenry and Galway qualify out of the south zone section of the Junior Cup in Connacht.

Roscommon are in there too!!!!