Home Internationals,10-12th august Co Sligo GC

liam12989

The team selected by the Golfing Union of Ireland to compete in the Home Internationals at Co. Sligo Golf Club from 10th – 12th August is:
Eoin Arthurs (Forrest Little)
Paul Cutler (Portstewart)
Alan Dunbar (Rathmore)
Paul Dunne (Greystones)
Niall Gorey (Muskerry)
Aaron Kearney (Castlerock)
Eddie McCormack (Galway)
Gary McDermott (Co. Sligo)
Dermot McElroy (Ballymena)
Richard O'Donovan (Lucan)
Kevin Phelan (Waterford Castle)

The Team Captain is Dr. Kevin Flanagan (Co. Sligo)


Ireland have a fairly strong team for this... Should be very good many heading to watch the golf?

f22

Buddy of mine playing so I'll head up for at least one day. Some future stars there.

mag

strange no pick for pat murray...seemed to be there or thereabouts in most events this yr?

goodgolfer64

mag wrote: »

strange no pick for pat murray...seemed to be there or thereabouts in most events this yr?

mouth dropped when i seen kearneys name and mcdermott....few good reults this year but both had several MCs....hardly international material!!!!!
suppose mcdermott had strong interpros and wets but they are on his home course!!!!

pinkdoubleeagle

Heading up on the Thursday and Friday

cackhanded

mag wrote: »

strange no pick for pat murray...seemed to be there or thereabouts in most events this yr?

He seems to be struggling with his game a bit of late, think he lost all his matches in Portugal last month and then going out in the first round of matchplay at the South of Ireland didn't help.

shabalala

Well murrays form was poor in europeans and has never performed in sligo, losing 3 singles in interpros 7/6 5/4 3/2 was the end for him! Looks like we have a really strong team and given how familiar we are with the course should be in with a shout!

shabalala

goodgolfer64 wrote: »

mouth dropped when i seen kearneys name and mcdermott....few good reults this year but both had several MCs....hardly international material!!!!!
suppose mcdermott had strong interpros and wets but they are on his home course!!!!

What cuts did they miss????

Mcdermott 6th in irish close, 1/4 final in north,semi in west, and in case u havnt noticed the homes are in sligo so would you not think its a good idea to select a guy thats performed well there?

Creasy_bear

McCormack poundit:

madds

pinkdoubleeagle wrote: »

Heading up on the Thursday and Friday

Both days?? Suppose you're also playing on Wednesday. Jammy git.

sausagehead

competition now started with live updates

http://www.gui.ie/news_detail.asp?id=3123&area=5

come on ireland!

ciarancummins7

Best of luck lads, especially to Eoin Arthurs who is a member at my club. RTE should have highlights of this on the telly or maybe even TG4, local sport just doesn't seem to get a look in.

LuckyGent88

Looks like a really tight match with England in progress. Alan Dunbar is after getting a big beating there.

Webbs

LuckyGent88 wrote: »

Looks like a really tight match with England in progress. Alan Dunbar is after getting a big beating there.

Not surprising as he was playing Andrew Sullivan who should be on the Walker Cup team with no problem this year

liam12989

ya but that guy dunbar was playing was s-5 thru 6 holes incredible stuff.. i would think cutler and phelan are definates for walker cup/...

Great coverage by gui

fionnsda

liam12989 wrote: »

ya but that guy dunbar was playing was s-5 thru 6 holes incredible stuff.. i would think cutler and phelan are definates for walker cup/...

Great coverage by gui

well cutler is, phelan a good chance!

mag

gorfield a/s going down 18. needs a half to beat england!

ciarancummins7

Unbelievable stuff, the last putt of the day seals the win for Ireland over England. Amazing, well done to all the lads.

Myksyk

Brilliant stuff. Congratulations to the team and especially to Gorfield!

LuckyGent88

thats a great win today. it was so tight and i would expect us to kick on now and win the competition.

f22

Fantastic win but the Scottish wont be easy to beat

Sligored

f22 wrote: »

Fantastic win but the Scottish wont be easy to beat

or wales

mag

Sligored wrote: »

or wales

wales beaten, just scotland to go!

L.O.F.T

fionnsda wrote: »

well cutler is, phelan a good chance!

Kevin played really well today again and doing himself no harm whatsoever. I would have said he had an outside chance but his playing the last few weeks in Sweden and Sligo will have helped.

LuckyGent88

fairly convincing win for Ireland today. In pole position now to win but i'm sure the Scots would love to spoil the party.

sausagehead

L.O.F.T wrote: »

Kevin played really well today again and doing himself no harm whatsoever. I would have said he had an outside chance but his playing the last few weeks in Sweden and Sligo will have helped.

just checked his WAGR its 433, not sure they would pick someone ranked that low, but if they're thinking of him partnering paul.......that might work!

LuckyGent88

not the greatest of starts today. not up in any of the matches so far. weather is horrible though.

LuckyGent88

disaster of a morning foursomes for the Irish. lost first four matches and only got a half in last one.

need a monumental effort in the singles now. think they will need to win at least 7 of them.

LuckyGent88

Curtains for Ireland now in trying to win the Home Internationals. They have lost the 1st 3 single matches all 2/1 so for Ireland to win they need to win the remaining 7 matches.

LuckyGent88

England have won the Home internationals. The Irish have just come up short but today's morning foursomes was the reason we havent won.

f22

Shame, there was some really good golf played. I had a feeling the Scots might ruin the party!

PhilipMarlowe

Good comeback by gorfield to remain unbeaten... 1 up thru 17

gorfield

Sincere thanks to all the pm's from last week and posts here, it was a great week but very tough to take the result, the standard is frightening, an example being the Irish team were 46under par in the singles against Wales, a good experience all the same!
Many thanks again.... NG