Pierce Purcell

Whyner · 13-05-2011 10:39AM

thegen wrote: »

How does the PP get it's own thread????

:D

Us hackers have more time on our hands...

GreeBo · 13-05-2011 02:35PM

Whyner wrote: »

Had practice round there today, greens are lethal, think I heard someone say they were running near 12 on the stimpmeter. Looking forward to Saturday and hopefully Sunday.

Yeah we had lots of 4+ putts last Saturday after they cut the greens down to summer levels for the first time since pole forking a month or so ago.

Where are you guys hearing that its Sat and Sat? Its still Sat and then two matches on Sunday on our timesheet....

/edit confirmed that its still Sat & Sun...

Whyner · 13-05-2011 02:46PM

GreeBo wrote: »

Yeah we had lots of 4+ putts last Saturday after they cut the greens down to summer levels for the first time since pole forking a month or so ago.

Where are you guys hearing that its Sat and Sat? Its still Sat and then two matches on Sunday on our timesheet....

/edit confirmed that its still Sat & Sun...

I've been told it's 4 from 18 teams on Sat and then 1 from those 4 on Sunday

GreeBo · 13-05-2011 02:49PM

Whyner wrote: »

I've been told it's 4 from 18 teams on Sat and then 1 from those 4 on Sunday

yup, same here.
And I'm on the timesheet for following Saturday so...

Hacker111 · 13-05-2011 03:29PM

Lads its defo Sat and Sat, I just checked club timesheet again..members competition all day Sunday...

GreeBo · 13-05-2011 03:32PM

Hacker111 wrote: »

Lads its defo Sat and Sat, I just checked club timesheet again..members competition all day Sunday...

What competition do you see? Are you sure you are not looking at the wrong dates?

Sat & Sun are Pierce Purcell
Following Week is Milne Cup on Saturday.

Hacker111 · 13-05-2011 03:58PM

GreeBo wrote: »

What competition do you see? Are you sure you are not looking at the wrong dates?

Sat & Sun are Pierce Purcell
Following Week is Milne Cup on Saturday.

This Sunday in Wicklow GC is a mebers comp all day, Saturday 21st is second day of matchplay. Are we talking about same club??

Whyner · 13-05-2011 05:05PM

Hacker111 wrote: »

This Sunday in Wicklow GC is a mebers comp all day, Saturday 21st is second day of matchplay. Are we talking about same club??

No, see page 2

Hacker111 · 13-05-2011 07:56PM

LOL Thought as much

Hacker111 · 14-05-2011 08:08PM

Druids Heath, Wicklow, Wexford, St Helens Qualified

derra · 14-05-2011 10:36PM

Hacker111 wrote: »

Druids Heath, Wicklow, Wexford, St Helens Qualified

Well done to them, really enjoyed that experience today.
Got there early and watched loads teeing off on the 1st and 5th, those people living in the houses along the 1st fairway must have some amount of golf balls in their gardens, they were raining down on them

Went first and thankfully hit good drives on the 1st and 5th with loads watching, knees were shaky with all eyes on me !
Conditions got tough with swirling wind and rain at times but all in all a good day to be part of.

Hacker111 · 14-05-2011 10:59PM

derra wrote: »

Well done to them, really enjoyed that experience today.
Got there early and watched loads teeing off on the 1st and 5th, those people living in the houses along the 1st fairway must have some amount of golf balls in their gardens, they were raining down on them
Went first and thankfully hit good drives on the 1st and 5th with loads watching, knees were shaky with all eyes on me !
Conditions got tough with swirling wind and rain at times but all in all a good day to be part of.

lol, surprised so many went left, landing area is about 200 yards wide... tough into today.. glad u enjoyed it... wind made it very harsh today...
what was ur club?

Whyner · 14-05-2011 11:11PM

Grange killed the opposition, castlewarden, beech park and k club join them. Can only see Grange going through tomorrow. If you play on an wide open course good luck to you competing in a course like the grange...

GreeBo · 15-05-2011 12:58AM

Whyner wrote: »

Grange killed the opposition, castlewarden, beech park and k club join them. Can only see Grange going through tomorrow. If you play on an wide open course good luck to you competing in a course like the grange...

12 shots clear, sounds like it was a fun day for all. tees were a lot easier than I was expecting though.

thoscon · 15-05-2011 07:25PM

Anyone know who won the qualifier in Kilcock ?

BillyBoy · 15-05-2011 08:00PM

Here you go mate, all results on the GUI site

356 Dunmurray Springs
358 Knockanally
359 Woodlands
361 Mullingar

361 South Meath
364 New Forest
365 Rathmore
368 Delvin Castle
369 Millicent
372 Co. Meath
372 Newbridge
373 Kilcock
375 Summerhill
378 Castle Barna
379 Co. Longford
379 Mount Temple
387 Moate
390 Highfield

Sorry if you were talking about the matchplay, thats not up yet

thoscon · 15-05-2011 08:05PM

Cheers lad cudnt find them on the website probably didn't look hard enough

GreeBo · 15-05-2011 08:05PM

Grange came out!

337 Grange; 350 Castlewarden; 351 Beech Park; 357 K Club; 358 Slade Valley; 358 Castle; 359 Dublin Mountain; 360 Bodenstown; 360 Dublin City; 361 Naas; 362 Rathfarnham; 362 Newlands; 366 South County; 367 Killeen; 372 Citywest; 373 Ballinascorney; 382 Kilmashogue; 388 Hibernian;
Match Play Stages, Sunday 15th May
Semi-finals: 3.5 Grange v 1.5 K Club
3.5 Castlewarden v 1.5 Beech Park
Final: 3.5 Grange v 1.5 Castlewarden

Myksyk · 18-05-2011 08:22PM

Woodstock just beat Limerick GC in Doonbeg in North Munster Final. Into Munster semis now.

ProV · 19-05-2011 10:27PM

Whyner wrote: »

Grange killed the opposition, castlewarden, beech park and k club join them. Can only see Grange going through tomorrow. If you play on an wide open course good luck to you competing in a course like the grange...

Not completely true. Dublin Mountain is as open as it gets and we were only 3 shots off making the Sunday match play

LuckyGent88 · 19-05-2011 11:06PM

Myksyk wrote: »

Woodstock just beat Limerick GC in Doonbeg in North Munster Final. Into Munster semis now.

i wouldnt say beat, i heard hammered :pac: really have to watch out for them the rest of the year. serious bunch of bandits and a lot of them have won the competition before.

Mr. Larson · 21-05-2011 02:24PM

Wexford and Wicklow into the final of the Wicklow qualifier...

Semi-Finals (Saturday 21st May)
8:30 am - 1st – Wexford GC ? v ? 4th – St Helens Bay GC
9:10 am - 2nd – Wicklow GC 3 v 2 3rd Druids Heath GC

Final:
2:30 pm Wexford GC -v- Wicklow GC

Wexford have been in ages - Wicklow beat Druids Heath 3:2 with one match going to the 19th (not sure what the other result was but Wx thru).

Two best qualifiers head to head, Wexford were best qualifier and have been in for ages to dry off (many day) but Wicklow obviously have home advantage so should be a ding dong battle.

Mr. Larson · 21-05-2011 07:34PM

Wicklow go through!

irishtoffee · 21-05-2011 08:50PM

Come on Wexford.

minstrel_boy · 22-05-2011 12:06AM

Making my debut in this next sat, just got a call about it tonight, any link to the rules?
We are in Connacht, is it provincial in early rounds

Hacker111 · 22-05-2011 09:04PM

Wicklow v. Borris next.... date and venue to be confirmed... any Borris members on here?

ozymandias10 · 14-06-2011 11:49AM

just heard from a guy that he normally bets with his local paddy power on the pierce purcell. I thought this was strange . How would Paddy power figure out the odds. I know the munster finals are Woodstock against Kanturk and Frankfield against Ballykisteen. Surely they are all similar in standard to get this far and that it will all be on the day if things click. How could you get odds from that. By the way he is putting money on woodstock to win out as he said he is aware of the type of golfer they have playing and finished it with a nod nod wink wink. anyone any thoughts.

marty whelan · 14-06-2011 12:47PM

ozymandias10 wrote: »

just heard from a guy that he normally bets with his local paddy power on the pierce purcell. I thought this was strange . How would Paddy power figure out the odds. I know the munster finals are Woodstock against Kanturk and Frankfield against Ballykisteen. Surely they are all similar in standard to get this far and that it will all be on the day if things click. How could you get odds from that. By the way he is putting money on woodstock to win out as he said he is aware of the type of golfer they have playing and finished it with a nod nod wink wink. anyone any thoughts.

My thoughts would be, if they're allowing him to bet on it then his record probably isn't too good.

Myksyk · 14-06-2011 04:05PM

ozymandias10 wrote: »

just heard from a guy that he normally bets with his local paddy power on the pierce purcell. I thought this was strange . How would Paddy power figure out the odds. I know the munster finals are Woodstock against Kanturk and Frankfield against Ballykisteen. Surely they are all similar in standard to get this far and that it will all be on the day if things click. How could you get odds from that. By the way he is putting money on woodstock to win out as he said he is aware of the type of golfer they have playing and finished it with a nod nod wink wink. anyone any thoughts.

I'm a Woodstock member so have to reply here

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I think nearly everyone thinks that all PP teams probably have their share of 'questionably handicapped' golfers ... whether that is true or not is anybody's guess. Woodstock have won the Pierce Purcell once in their history despite access to more or less the same panel for years.

I will say this in their defence, and perhaps this is true of other clubs ... The Pierce Purcell panel at our club are practising at a simply incredible level. Guys are out on the course 5-6 times a week, some 8-10 times a week. I met two two of the guys on the panel at the weekend - On Friday they had played three rounds starting at 7am in Limerick GC where the Munster semis are on, then played Ennis and onto our own club for another 18 in Woodstock in the evening. The panel have already played Limk GC on at least five occasions since winning through. So while I can't prove that there aren't any potential bandits on the team (or at least more than any other team) I can tell you that they are also working their butts off to succeed in this tournament.

ozymandias10 · 14-06-2011 04:37PM

Thats a serious amount of practice...maybe thats what the guy meant. Just for the record I wasn't implying anything wrong with woodstock as a team . It was the betting angle I was amazed at. The Purcell is recognised as the hardest shield to win. Only one club has won it more than twice. You get a disparity of handicaps ..young lads on the way down ...olde lads who were single handicappers on the way out. The golf at the purcell can be of a high standard for foursomes.

Pierce Purcell

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