I belive the best ever club comp is the Fred Daly

D.R cowboy

The fred daly has to be the best scratch club comp out there
there is 7 on a team and the winners go to spain it an under 18
comp have ye ever played in it

fullstop

:rolleyes: Yes I have played it.....I played in it for 6 years. No it's not the best. What other inter-club competitions have you played in to be able to compare it to?

KombuchaMshroom

D.R cowboy wrote: »

The fred daly has to be the best scratch club comp out there
there is 7 on a team and the winners go to spain it an under 18
comp have ye ever played in it

love the fred daly, thats all ill be thinking about golfing wise for the next 6 months. all ireland finalists this year , lost in the final though to rosslare ( i think?). i was only the sub for the team but i still got my medal, gold medal and all even though we only came 2nd, but some of the boys complained cos some of us got gold while others got bronze but eventually we all got silver ones

WaldenByThoreua

All Ireland finalist 2007 here. Good times and a medal to remember it by. That trip to Spain would have been nice though!

ShriekingSheet

Yeah I played a few years of it. Even at the time I preferred Junior and Barton Cup as far as I remember. Irish Junior Foursomes (Smurfit Cup at the time) actually had more of a buzz about it I always thought. It got more of a turnout of support from the club members too.

KombuchaMshroom

ShriekingSheet wrote: »

Yeah I played a few years of it. Even at the time I preferred Junior and Barton Cup as far as I remember. Irish Junior Foursomes (Smurfit Cup at the time) actually had more of a buzz about it I always thought. It got more of a turnout of support from the club members too.

good competiton runied by having handicaps involved. i think the biggest competitions shouldnt have any handicaps involved, otherwise you get bandits playing and making it unfair competition.

one of the funniest things that happened all during my summer came during the fred daly. in the all ireland semi-final up in antrim we were playing last years winners and favourites again sligo. their fans were so confident they would win most didnt even turn up until the final only to find out they had been knocked out by our little club. it was hilarious to see there president and captain arriving in there full club gear only to discover there club was out!!

Mister Sifter

What's the Fred Daly?

ShriekingSheet

Graeme1982 wrote: »

What's the Fred Daly?

It's an under 18 interclub competition, similar enough format to Junior Cup. Strokes qualifying, think it's 7 on a team with the best 5 or 6 scores counting on the day and then it goes into singles matchplay.

Sionnachster

The Smurfit was the highlight of my junior days before the nepotism shown at my place just as I was about to take the world by storm... Honestly!

We had a good team so needless to say I rarely featured, played in a few rounds and thoroughly loved the competitive edge to it at a young age. Christ that was 12 years ago now..... It's not even the Smurfit anymore? Back in my day you played in your bare feet and used tree branches for clubs, the ball was a turnip which you had to eat on the 18th green as there was no such thing as clubhouses, as for the fairways, mudways we called em......

johnny_rambo

For me, it has to be the Senior Cup. I've played Junior Foursomes, Fred Daly, Jimmy Bruen, Junior Cup and Barton Shield. I agree with KombuchaMshroom in that comps where handicaps are part of it are no where near as prestigious as that ones without. In the Senior Cup you're playing against some of the best players around so there's that extra satisfaction if you do win.

Of course, I might be a bit biased because I've only 1 gold medal and it's a Senior Cup one

Paulusmaximus

Fred Daly is a good competition and i've a medal from that too, all the way back in 1996. Only 5 on a team back then and no trip to Spain unfortunately. However, i'd probably rank the Barton Cup as the best inter club competition because it has got to be the most competitive.Every club is able to put out 5 pairs of combined handicap of 14 whereas with Senior Cup, Fred Daly, etc it is really only ever going to be won by a select few clubs...

madds

Paulusmaximus wrote: »

Fred Daly is a good competition and i've a medal from that too, all the way back in 1996. Only 5 on a team back then and no trip to Spain unfortunately. However, i'd probably rank the Barton Cup as the best inter club competition because it has got to be the most competitive.Every club is able to put out 5 pairs of combined handicap of 14 whereas with Senior Cup, Fred Daly, etc it is really only ever going to be won by a select few clubs...

+1...Barton Cup has the biggest appeal for me. Have never played in it but have fond memories of Lucan beating Courtown in Courtown way back in 1988. We brought a huge crowd with us that day and the Courtown members could not have been more courteous in defeat. I was only 14 but that was a late night.

fullstop

Paulusmaximus wrote: »

Fred Daly is a good competition and i've a medal from that too, all the way back in 1996. Only 5 on a team back then and no trip to Spain unfortunately. However, i'd probably rank the Barton Cup as the best inter club competition because it has got to be the most competitive.Every club is able to put out 5 pairs of combined handicap of 14 whereas with Senior Cup, Fred Daly, etc it is really only ever going to be won by a select few clubs...

Was that the year City of Derry won the All Ireland with McGeady and David Jones in the team?

SalthillGuy

Is the Fred Daly a national comp, or regional.?

Paulusmaximus

fullstop wrote: »

Was that the year City of Derry won the All Ireland with McGeady and David Jones in the team?

They didn't win the All Ireland that year, we beat them in the Semi Final but they were on that team.

jampotjim

ShriekingSheet wrote: »

Yeah I played a few years of it. Even at the time I preferred Junior and Barton Cup as far as I remember. Irish Junior Foursomes (Smurfit Cup at the time) actually had more of a buzz about it I always thought. It got more of a turnout of support from the club members too.

Smurfit use to be great... Use to have a fierce rivilary with Baltray and Blackbush in that....

Use to end up with either or both of them every year.... Gannon brothers gave me a lesson off how to play baltray out there one day 4 birdies in a row from the get go and had us beaten by the 14th LoL..

ShriekingSheet

jampotjim wrote: »

Gannon brothers gave me a lesson off how to play baltray out there one day 4 birdies in a row from the get go and had us beaten by the 14th LoL..

Haha, yeah I used to hang out with one of them at the boys the odd time. Hilarious guy - completely tuned to the moon. Scrawny little whippit at the time but knocked it by us all.

I met him on the bus down to Munster boys one year. Looked and talked like a total journeyman. Played the practice round with him and didn't think much of him and his oul' set of blades and grubby jeans... until I asked him how he was getting on the the previous boys that year.

The answer was something like "alright yeah... 4th, 4th and 2nd...".

Me and my clean clubs and tucked in t-shirt duely shot 80 the next day. Lesson learned!

jampotjim

ShriekingSheet wrote: »

Haha, yeah I used to hang out with one of them at the boys the odd time. Hilarious guy - completely tuned to the moon. Scrawny little whippit at the time but knocked it by us all.

I met him on the bus down to Munster boys one year. Looked and talked like a total journeyman. Played the practice round with him and didn't think much of him and his oul' set of blades and grubby jeans... until I asked him how he was getting on the the previous boys that year.

The answer was something like "alright yeah... 4th, 4th and 2nd...".

Me and my clean clubs and tucked in t-shirt duely shot 80 the next day. Lesson learned!

I remember 1 of the brother had won a amature the other a boys and the other was European champion or runner up u15's all at the same time....

The sister is a Irish international aswell Jenny I think it is...

ShriekingSheet

jampotjim wrote: »

I remember 1 of the brother had won a amature the other a boys and the other was European champion or runner up u15's all at the same time....

The sister is a Irish international aswell Jenny I think it is...

Yeah sure the dad was still off 1 or something well into his 60s.

Not exactly the kind of family that would worry about lie angles or shaft flex. You could give any of em an umbrella and a snooker cue and they'd probably break 80.