Leinster Branch AGM

HonSec

For those of you that might have an interest,

Results of Leinster Branch Annual General Meeting 2009

Below are the results of the motions and elections decided at the Leinster Branch AGM held on Tuesday 24th November 2009 at Westmanstown Sports Centre:-

ELECTIONS
Officers
Chairman - Fintan Buckley (Hermitage)
Hon. Secretary – Kevin McIntyre (Ardee)
Hon. Treasurer – John Ferriter (Castlewarden)

Provincial Council
Metropolitan Area
Jerome Clancy (Clontarf)
Richard Cusack (Greystones)
Jack Dempsey (Malahide)
Bill Dunne (Newlands)
Tony Goode (Lucan)
John Joe Maher (Forrest Little)
J. J. Murphy (The Royal Dublin)

Provincial Area
John Long (Rosslare)
Joe McNamara (The Heath)
Colm Madigan (The Curragh)
Conor Maguire (Blainroe)
Aidan Marsden (Tullamore)
Dominick Murphy (Kilkenny)
Gerry Renehan (Headfort)

Trustees
Fintan Buckley (Chairman)
Kevin Mc Intyre (Hon. Secretary)
John Ferriter (Hon. Treasurer)


Central Council Delegates
Tony Goode (Lucan)
J. J. Murphy (The Royal Dublin)
Aidan Marsden (Tullamore)

Auditors appointed
Hayden Brown (Chartered Accountants), 34 Grafton Street, Dublin 2

Motions

Notice of Motion proposed by Blessington Lakes Golf Club
“Blessington Lakes propose the motion that the Leinster Branch of the GUI should implement a singles matchplay competition (s) that facilitates the mid to high handicap golfer”.
Motion defeated by majority.


Notice of Motion proposed by Ballinascorney Golf Club
“In all Fourball Betterball competitions, players receive their FULL handicap allowance i.e. their playing handicap instead of a reduction thereof”.
Motion defeated. 130 to 128


Notice of Motion proposed by Carton House Golf Club
“That the Leinster Branch enters a lower age limit of 18 years of age on 1st January of the competition year to the conditions of entry to play in the Metropolitan Cup”.
Motion defeated by majority.


Notice of Motion proposed by Carton House Golf Club
“That the Leinster Branch enters a lower age limit of 18 years of age on 1st January of the competition year to the conditions of entry to play in the Junior Cup”.
Motion withdrawn in view of the vote on the previous motion


Notice of Motion proposed by Waterford Golf Club
“That all rounds of the Irish Mixed Foursomes be played on a zoned basis over a number of weekends as done in Munster in order to facilitate more players and cut down on costs”.
Motion defeated by majority.


Presentation to Order of Merit Winners for 2009 as follows:- (pic attached)
Senior (Over 21) Cian Curley (Newlands)
Youths (Under 21) Rory McNamara (Headfort)
Boys (Under 18) Daniel Murphy (Portarlington)
Boys (Under 15) Gavin Moynihan (Donabate)

jimjo

Motions defeated all round! Would have thought the singles matchplay would have appealed to a lot? Realise the calendar is fairly full but a lot of members would be in favour of this IMO.

Bluefoam

Please don't change the text colours, they don't come out on certain configurations.

PLEASE

HonSec

Sorry if the text didn't come up right it was copied from an email converted to a word document.

The higher handicap competition was lost on the basis that clubs are looking to cut back on competition entries in the coming year due to financial restraints.

The proposal on reuturning to full handicaps for fourballs wouldn't have made any difference if it was passed as it would have to be approved firstly by GUI congres and secondly by CONGU both of which have consistantly in the passed not voted in favour.

Again the motion on the mixed was lost because to carry out that proposal would have required another 9 venues on top of the already required 100+ venues need to run inter club competitions.

dnjoyce

surprised the 4-ball handicap motion was so closely contested - the notion that it is as difficult to play singles on your own, as it is to play with a team-mate is laughable. Even with 3/4's the winning scores are often in the high 40's for 4-balls, give full handicap and your pushing the 50 point mark!!:eek:

Mister Sifter

I'm surprised at Carton House looking to make the Junior Cup an +18 event. The day we played in them in qualifying they had a young kid around 14 in their squad who by all accounts was very handy.

I know they were knocked out in the finals, so perhaps they were undone by a few young lads?

ShriekingSheet

That's a contentious couple of motions from Carton, trying to block kids out of the Metro and Junior Cup.

We played two teams with some very young guys but I think that's just the way it's gone now. Encouraging young players will stand to any club who wants to do well in interclub. Sure, some may have "false" handicaps as they improve so quickly. But that's down to the system (1st Jan rule). Besides, there's as many middle aged guys lurking around 5 or 9 for a long, long time without dipping below, and that's nothing to do with the system!

madds

Mister Sifter wrote: »

I'm surprised at Carton House looking to make the Junior Cup an +18 event. The day we played in them in qualifying they had a young kid around 14 in their squad who by all accounts was very handy.

I know they were knocked out in the finals, so perhaps they were undone by a few young lads?

I know the lad you're talking about. He's also a junior member of Lucan and switched allegiance halfway through 2009 to play for Carton. He's 16 and down to 2 now I think. Very tidy short game.

HonSec

Sure, some may have "false" handicaps as they improve so quickly. But that's down to the system (1st Jan rule).

This was part of Cartons point, it wasn't that they were really trying to stop juniors it was more to the fact that they can come down so quickly from the 1st of January, and would have preffered that handicaps were current, rather than the way all GUI copms are now which is the 1st January

f22

madds wrote: »

I know the lad you're talking about. He's also a junior member of Lucan and switched allegiance halfway through 2009 to play for Carton. He's 16 and down to 2 now I think. Very tidy short game.

I played with him in Portmarnock, short because of his size but pure magic inside 120 yards.

madds

f22 wrote: »

I played with him in Portmarnock, short because of his size but pure magic inside 120 yards.

Yeah, he's broken my heart on a number of occasions with his wedge and putter.