Interclub Comps 2015

ballyk · 03-09-2015 8:19pm

Ballykisteen won the county final of the Belvedere Cup (scotch foursomes competition for handicaps 18 and up) on Tuesday night, beating Slievenamon in Cahir Park. It's the first ever win in this competition for the club. We got beaten in the county final a few years ago when I was on it.

Golfgorfield · 07-09-2015 11:33am

Played the o meara yesterday, bit of an early practice round with the rest of the Muskerry Barton Shield team, the place is in lovely nick again, greens amazing so hopefully the weather is as good as last year, anyone else on here going is in for a treat that's for sure!

Rikand · 07-09-2015 11:59am

Golfgorfield wrote: »

Played the o meara yesterday, bit of an early practice round with the rest of the Muskerry Barton Shield team, the place is in lovely nick again, greens amazing so hopefully the weather is as good as last year, anyone else on here going is in for a treat that's for sure!

We've been up for a practice ourselves in Athlone for the Senior Cup. Course is in great shape. Really looking forward to next week. When we're up for our practices, I'll see if i can get out to watch ye play in the Barton

Golfgorfield · 07-09-2015 12:10pm

Rikand wrote: »

We've been up for a practice ourselves in Athlone for the Senior Cup. Course is in great shape. Really looking forward to next week. When we're up for our practices, I'll see if i can get out to watch ye play in the Barton

Great, were off at 11.00 Wednesday in the Semi final hopefully the GUI learned from the mistakes of last year and it runs a bit better.

pinkdoubleeagle · 07-09-2015 12:16pm

Golfgorfield wrote: »

Great, were off at 11.00 Wednesday in the Semi final hopefully the GUI learned from the mistakes of last year and it runs a bit better.

What were the problems last year?

Golfgorfield · 07-09-2015 12:54pm

pinkdoubleeagle wrote: »

What were the problems last year?

1 Toilet on the whole course. Hundreds of spectators, women, children etc

Extortionate food/accomodation prices.

Presentations taking an hour per comp.

Teething problems for the first year hopefully.

pinkdoubleeagle · 07-09-2015 12:56pm

Golfgorfield wrote: »

1 Toilet on the whole course. Hundreds of spectators, women, children etc

Extortionate food/accomodation prices.

Presentations taking an hour per comp.

Teething problems for the first year hopefully.

Jaysus. The course is so far away from the clubhouse that they need to get sone portable ones in obviously.

Agree on the condition of the course. Never seen it looking so well. A great course for matchplay

Rikand · 16-09-2015 11:39am

Best of luck to our own Golfgorfield who is playing for Muskerry in the Barton Shield today. They are playing against Royal Dublin. You can follow the live scoring here ::

http://gui.intelligentgolf.co.uk/barton

The All Ireland Junior Cup is also on today, the scoring can be followed here ::

http://gui.intelligentgolf.co.uk/junior

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Disclaimer :: Dont mention Golfgorfields' real name on boards.ie - He's easy to figure out, but dont mention it anyways. Cheers

Rikand · 16-09-2015 2:46pm

Barton Shield

Muskerry beaten by Royal Dublin in one semi-final
Galway beat North West in the other Semi-final

Galway Vs Royal Dublin tomorrow. Will hopefully get to see some of that when I'm up there tomorrow

Rikand · 16-09-2015 2:48pm

The GUI also have a twitter feed going for anyone who wants to see pictures, blogs, other things from all the matches

https://twitter.com/GUIGolf

AGC · 16-09-2015 3:49pm

Rikand wrote: »

Barton Shield

Muskerry beaten by Royal Dublin in one semi-final
Galway beat North West in the other Semi-final

Galway Vs Royal Dublin tomorrow. Will hopefully get to see some of that when I'm up there tomorrow

Very good comeback by the Galway lads in match 2. They were 4 down at one stage.

Ben1977 · 16-09-2015 7:13pm

Rikand wrote: »

Barton Shield

Muskerry beaten by Royal Dublin in one semi-final
Galway beat North West in the other Semi-final

Galway Vs Royal Dublin tomorrow. Will hopefully get to see some of that when I'm up there tomorrow

What time are you out tomorrow Rikand?

Rikand · 16-09-2015 7:24pm

Ben1977 wrote: »

What time are you out tomorrow Rikand?

Just practicing tomorrow ben. Senior Cup is on 8 am Friday morning though for anyone who is around and wants to come cheer on athlone

Ben1977 · 16-09-2015 7:36pm

Rikand wrote: »

Just practicing tomorrow ben. Senior Cup is on 8 am Friday morning though for anyone who is around and wants to come cheer on athlone

Good luck, hoping to pop in at some stage

pinkdoubleeagle · 17-09-2015 1:22pm

Royal Dublin running away away with the Barton Shield

Rikand · 17-09-2015 3:45pm

RD won it well in the end.

Greenisland beat Westport on the last green. Fella had to hole a tricky downhill 4 footer.

Gort play Thurles in the pierce Purcell final tomorrow

Golfgorfield · 17-09-2015 4:15pm

Rikand wrote: »

RD won it well in the end.

Greenisland beat Westport on the last green. Fella had to hole a tricky downhill 4 footer.

Gort play Thurles in the pierce Purcell final tomorrow

Good luck to ye tomorrow, ye will have plenty of the neutral support

pinkdoubleeagle · 18-09-2015 8:13am

Club golf is nearly finished at the elite level of this form of golf. When you see packed teams like Maynooth today playing with a team of internationals with no club base, you have to wonder what is going on with GUI affiliation.

Would be interesting to see how many of the Royal Dublin team that won the Barton Shield were juniors in the club?

Kingswood Rover · 18-09-2015 9:10am

Yea, never understand the Uni's have golf teams, do they actually have ciomps and use another clubs facilities? If not are they not just golf societies.....time to stretch the point..... so could one not register their golf society with the GUi because there is a load of really talented artisans from say Grange, Foxrock or where ever that drink here in Mulligans of Poolbeg st....I can see the headlines now...Inner city pub beats countries elite golf clubs. Joking aside great win for Greenisland a fellow nine holer reminds me of Vartry Lakes GC winning the Barton Cup from nowhere in 2001.

Golfgorfield · 18-09-2015 9:18am

pinkdoubleeagle wrote: »

Club golf is nearly finished at the elite level of this form of golf. When you see packed teams like Maynooth today playing with a team of internationals with no club base, you have to wonder what is going on with GUI affiliation.

Would be interesting to see how many of the Royal Dublin team that won the Barton Shield were juniors in the club?

Athlone
Skerries
Stackstown
Cork
Co Sligo
Rosslare
The island
Balcarrick

These clubs are to be thanked for the junior development of their squad.

They have 12 players all who would get on most club teams, its a terrifying prospect for the future. Not any fault of RD they are entitled to take as many good players as they like, its the system that allows them to.

pinkdoubleeagle · 18-09-2015 9:30am

Golfgorfield wrote: »

Athlone
Skerries
Stackstown
Cork
Co Sligo
Rosslare
The island
Balcarrick

These clubs are to be thanked for the junior development of their squad.

They have 12 players all who would get on most club teams, its a terrifying prospect for the future. Not any fault of RD they are entitled to take as many good players as they like, its the system that allows them to.

Agree, There are nearly more annual transfers than you would see in the Premiership. I see it in Carton. Players coming and going every year

AGC · 18-09-2015 11:40am

I know it looks like that Maynooth team are going to get to the final but are they as strong as they can be today?

Rikand · 18-09-2015 4:19pm

AGC wrote: »

I know it looks like that Maynooth team are going to get to the final but are they as strong as they can be today?

I think we could have had them today.

To be fair Ronan Mullarney in the top match played out of his skin. Our fella never had a chance. Mullarney hit him with 7 birdies in his first 12 holes or something like that.

And Jack Walsh in the last match was level after 9 and then went -4 for the next 6 holes.

Our 3 matches were where we had a chance and matches 3 and 4 were both dormy up when they were called in. Match 2 was nip and tuck for a lot of the way but our fella found the water on 15 and that was the swaying in the match.

It'll be very close between Knock and Maynooth tomorrow in the final.

We definitely appreciated the Neutral support Gorfield. We would love to have taken it home. I think in the end, it was a little bit of course knowledge rather than player strength, that caught us today.

charlieIRL · 18-09-2015 4:33pm

Well done on getting that far Rikand, a great achievement on its own.
Hard to beat that level of golf.

Rikand · 18-09-2015 6:04pm

charlieIRL wrote: »

Well done on getting that far Rikand, a great achievement on its own.
Hard to beat that level of golf.

I have me Senior Cup Connacht Gold Medal and me Senior Cup All Ireland Bronze and no-ones taking either of them away from me

Ben1977 · 18-09-2015 7:06pm

Rikand wrote: »

I think we could have had them today.

To be fair Ronan Mullarney in the top match played out of his skin. Our fella never had a chance. Mullarney hit him with 7 birdies in his first 12 holes or something like that.

And Jack Walsh in the last match was level after 9 and then went -4 for the next 6 holes.

Our 3 matches were where we had a chance and matches 3 and 4 were both dormy up when they were called in. Match 2 was nip and tuck for a lot of the way but our fella found the water on 15 and that was the swaying in the match.

It'll be very close between Knock and Maynooth tomorrow in the final.

We definitely appreciated the Neutral support Gorfield. We would love to have taken it home. I think in the end, it was a little bit of course knowledge rather than player strength, that caught us today.

Hard to beat them, as it's there home course

pistol_75 · 21-09-2015 12:19pm

Ben1977 wrote: »

Hard to beat them, as it's there home course

Fair play to them winning with their 2nd team :rolleyes:

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