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Captains prizes x3

  • 19-06-2012 8:35pm
    #1
    Sully59
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    A guy in our club won his 3rd captains prize last week.
    1st. 2005 off handicap 8.
    2nd. 2011 off handicap 5.
    3rd. 2012 off handicap 2.
    Just wondering if anyone out there has won more. It's something that every golfer would love to win and i think 3 in 7 years must be hard to beat...


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  • #2
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,300 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    Sully59 wrote: »
    A guy in our club won his 3rd captains prize last week.
    1st. 2005 off handicap 8.
    2nd. 2011 off handicap 5.
    3rd. 2012 off handicap 2.
    Just wondering if anyone out there has won more. It's something that every golfer would love to win and i think 3 in 7 years must be hard to beat...
    There is a gentleman in Donegal who spent most of his life playing off scratch who has won 16 captain's prizes.


  • #3
    Sully59
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭Sully59


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    There is a gentleman in Donegal who spent most of his life playing off scratch who has won 16 captain's prizes.

    Holy s**t. Here was me thinking 3 was good.


  • #4
    Kace
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    downthemiddle wrote: »
    There is a gentleman in Donegal who spent most of his life playing off scratch who has won 16 captain's prizes.

    2 more and he equals Nicklaus' record right ? ;-)


  • #5
    mike12
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    Hi,
    Have won 2 myself 1 when i was off 15 and 1 when i was off 12 currently off 10.
    Won both with 68's so was lucky there was no crazy scores either time. The years before and after were won with 64,59,65.
    It's really the luck of the draw that you have your good round of the year on that day.
    Was 4th in the vice captains last weekend with a 72 had a trable on the 16th and 69 won so was in with a chance.
    Mike


  • #6
    mag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,239 ✭✭✭mag


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    There is a gentleman in Donegal who spent most of his life playing off scratch who has won 16 captain's prizes.

    what club?


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  • #7
    TheDoc
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    Don't think anyone has won more then one in our club.

    I did a clean sweep one year as a Junior winning all three majors, was brilliant at the time as there was a very vibrant junior section with some good golfers and the prize givings got integrated with the adult ones aswell.

    I've only actually played in one adult major, our Captains where I qualified into the last 16 or whatever it was.

    Heres to hoping!


  • #8
    GreeBo
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    I won 2 in 7 years, off 17 in 2004 and then off 11 last year.
    They are strokes over 2 rounds and I was -3 and -6.

    There is a lot of luck involved with winning though, you have no idea really how you are doing relevant to the rest of the field until you see the scoreboard behind the 18th and its usually too late by then anyway!

    Winning off 5/2/scratch is good going though.


  • #9
    downthemiddle
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    mag wrote: »
    what club?
    Most of them have been won in Dunfanaghy but afaik he has also won Captains' Prize in Rosapenna.


  • #10
    mag
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    downthemiddle wrote: »
    Most of them have been won in Dunfanaghy but afaik he has also won Captains' Prize in Rosapenna.

    think i know who youre talking about, jb ?. think he was off 4 most of the time i saw him paying (mid/late 80s). a handy 4 at that!


  • #11
    Dr_Colossus
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    mike12 wrote: »
    Hi,
    Have won 2 myself 1 when i was off 15 and 1 when i was off 12 currently off 10.
    Won both with 68's so was lucky there was no crazy scores either time. The years before and after were won with 64,59,65.
    It's really the luck of the draw that you have your good round of the year on that day.
    Mike

    Jees a 59? Even if the course was a par 69 that's still 10 under, crazy scoring especially since there are usually tough pin positions on captain's day.


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  • #12
    Tones69
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    Winning captains prizes off 2 hcap is some achievement!


  • #13
    downthemiddle
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    mag wrote: »
    think i know who youre talking about, jb ?. think he was off 4 most of the time i saw him paying (mid/late 80s). a handy 4 at that!

    That's him. If he was off 4 at the time he was one of the best 4 handicappers in the country. A beautiful golfer.


  • #14
    mag
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    downthemiddle wrote: »
    That's him. If he was off 4 at the time he was one of the best 4 handicappers in the country. A beautiful golfer.

    yep, woosnam like.


  • #15
    Sully59
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭Sully59


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    That's him. If he was off 4 at the time he was one of the best 4 handicappers in the country. A beautiful golfer.

    If he was that good then surely he wouldn't have been off 4 for very long?


  • #16
    downthemiddle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,300 ✭✭✭downthemiddle


    Sully59 wrote: »
    If he was that good then surely he wouldn't have been off 4 for very long?
    His first handicap was 7. Spent a lot of his life off scratch. Is still in single figures in his 70's. Won 16 Captains' Prizes. I'd say he was fairly handy.


  • #17
    Sully59
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭Sully59


    downthemiddle wrote: »
    His first handicap was 7. Spent a lot of his life off scratch. Is still in single figures in his 70's. Won 16 Captains' Prizes. I'd say he was fairly handy.

    I don't disagree. He obviously had some serious talent to win that many captains prizes. What i'm saying is that if he was one of the best 4 handicappers in the country he couldn't have been off that number for as long as mag thought.


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