Breaking Points 8/3/2019 - County Sligo Golf Club

Breaking Points 8/3/2019

Mens Club Results
                                            Saturday 23rd February 16 holes
                                            1st Dermot O’Hara 36 points
                                            2nd Kieran O’Brien 35 points
                Ladies Results
                                            3rd Denis O’Sullivan 34 points
                                            2s Eamonn Creed, Dermot O’Hara, Donal Smyth,
          Saturday 23rd February 2019       Niall Stafford, Anton Murphy €11 each.
               16 Hole stableford
                                            Sunday 24th February Winter League
1           Peggy FEELY (18)     28Pts B8   Championship – Ian Hodgson/Sean Moylan 3up
    2nd      lea MCDAID (15)      28 Pts
                                            Bowmore – Terry Brady/John Feeney 22 pts B1
                                            Saturday 2nd March 18 holes
          Tuesday 26th February 2019
              13 Hole stableford            Abandoned due to weather
                                            Sunday 3rd March 18 holes
    1st        Lynette CARTY (28) 29 Pts
    2nd       Lea MCDAID (15) 28 Pts B3     1st Brendan O’Connor 42 points
3rd         Rosemarie MULLAN (25) 28 Pts    2nd Niall McDermott 38 points B9
                                            CSS 35 points
                                            2s Tom Flanagan, Ruairi O’Connor, David Brady,
                                            Pat Devaney
                                            € ? each

Mens Club Competition Schedule
9th March; Hanley Cup Qualifier GOY
Stroke – Sponsor Brooks
10th March; Round 7 Winter League –
Sponsor Wehrlys Jewellers
16th March; Team Fundraiser – Teams of
4 men or 4 women, €10 entry per player,
2 scores to count and all 4 scores on par
3s.
17th March; Singles Stfd
18th March; Singles OPEN Stfd Sponsor
Langs
23rd March; Easter Hamper Stfd
24th March; Jackson Cup Qualifier GOY
Stroke – Sponsor DNG Flanagan Ford          The Dr Michael O’Connor Cup was
30th March; Singles v Par. Sponsor Brian    played for in blustery conditions on
Fox Catering                                Saturday the 2nd of March. This is
30th March PRIZE PRESENTATION at
                                            played for at the GP Society annual
5.30PM.
31ST March; Pre Qualifier for West of       weekend meeting. The GP Society is
Ireland                                     41 years old and among its founder
                                            members is Dr Domhnal Heraughty.
Launch of West of Ireland 2019 in           Pictured is the 6 time winner Dr Donal
Radisson on 20th March at 6.30pm. ALL       Smyth playing the 12th. Sadly Dr
WELCOME.                                    Smyth fell victim to a mystery virus
                                            and only finished second this time.

Paddy Bird who plays with
County Sligo Golf Club
has been picked to play for
Cambridge against Oxford in the
annual University Match to be
played at Rye Golf club in March.
This is the oldest golf match in
world golf. Rye golf club is also a
Colt designed course and Colt
himself played for Cambridge in
this match. That’s our Paddy
standing centre on a recent
outing to Royal Porthcawl in
south Wales. Congratulations
Paddy and best of luck from all at
County Sligo. Paddy will receive a
Blue for this wonderful
achievement .

The ball room dancing lessons start on Tuesday 19th at 7.45pm
sharp in the club . 5 euro per head per lesson. It will happen every Tuesday up
to the ball.

LADIES GET INTO GOLF
ARE BACK!

County
  Sligo/Rosendaelsche
The club was approached by Lars-Peter Reumer from Rosendaelsche Golf Club in
the Netherlands with regards to a possible link up between the two clubs since
we are celebrating 125 years in existence this year and they are marking 125
years next year.
In 2017 Lars-Peter cycled 1600 km of the Irish countryside and coastline for 22
days, playing 20 courses. He arrived in Belfast and cycled 60 miles to Castlerock
Golf Club. From there he went anti-clockwise around the coastline playing in
Sligo, Galway, Kerry, Dublin before completing his adventure at Royal County
Down.
Lars-Peter took out overseas life membership of County Sligo in 2018.
The club are hosting thirty-seven members, 20 male and 17 female, from
Rosendaelsche in June. There will be a competition between the two clubs on
Friday June 7th and we will have entertainment lined up for that night. Our
visitors are staying in the Yeats Country Hotel for three nights. In 2020 members
from County Sligo will pay a return visit to Rosendaelsche.
We invited Lars-Peter to write and inform us about his renowned club and herein
we share his most informative piece. MMcN.

Dear members of Co. Sligo, Rosses Point,

            With golf not a major sport in The Netherlands, in 2010 I was
            privileged to be invited to join Rosendaelsche Golf club (further RG)
            in Arnhem. A tradition-bulked club, where in the old days the
            number of potential joiners would far exceed the number of leavers.

Letter to   Although we are still a private member club, we do encourage
            guests to come and play our beautiful course. We are one of the few
            golf course without a caddy master or tee time reservations; “play
            as you come” could almost be considered a religion. Founded in
            1895, it is (after Royal Hague and UGC De Pan) the third oldest club

   the      in NL, but has nonetheless the oldest holes in NL. The original 9
            hole course was designed by Mr A.A. Delcourt van Krimpen, in the
            70s to be stretched out to an 18 hole layout by design of English
            architect Frank Pennink. Our club has hosted the (European Tour
            event) Dutch Open in 1984, which was won by Bernard Langer. Our
            club logo consists of a (pre-brexit picked) Tudor Rose; the club

members     motto “qui va adroit ne manque”, which casually translated means
            that "those who go straight, don’t miss”: An advice better to take at
            heart on our course, which can be narrow, long and tricky: Truly a
            very different experience for members of Co. Sligo, Rosses Point.
            Some reviewers have stated, "RG is heathland golf at its very best,

  from      played over undulating forested terrain with heather-clad ridges
            creating the odd semi-blind tee or approach shot.” There is no
            water to be found (other than the occasional shower), which is
            quite unique considering large parts of NL are below sea level.
            Our club (as all clubs in The Netherlands) have one governing body

   Lars     (“Bestuur" or board), which oversees both female (374/38%) and
            male (622/62%) members, as well as all activities in and around the
            club. This is different from your female/male presidents and
            female/male captain system. Now 1 year in function, I was elected
            as vice chairman/treasurer; a regular term in office is 4 years. At
            times almost a real job, but lots of fun to see the club from both the
            inside and outside.

Besides mainly club championships and traditional
            'silver' matches, most regular club matches are mixed
            events, often played on stableford scoring. The Dutch
            handicap system is a complex mix of course, slope
            rating and stroke index, which gives us handicaps
            calculation up to the decimal. Golf as a science! Of
            our members, approximately 10% holds a single digit
            handicap. Both our mens and women top teams
            compete in the highest Dutch league.

Letter to   I cannot quite say, that our club is a mirror of the
            Dutch society. Golf in Continental Europe used to be
            for the happy few, but is opening up now with
            different formats to attract more age categories. Of

the         course Football is #1 by far, followed by tennis,
            fishing(..?) with golf at a 4th place. It would be safe to
            assume, that if there would be a ranking on age, golf
            would be first. Our club is attracting many youngsters,
            but people in the age group 20-45 have different

members     priorities. Given a further system, that newcomers
            first need to obtain a permission to play courses at
            all, this is something to work on in the coming years
            for our governing bodies.

from        As I always enjoy my trips to Ireland playing many
            links courses, I want to share some of the experience
            with some of our RG members. And what better place
            to introduce Irish golf and hospitality than at Co.
            Sligo, Rosses Point: Sláinte!
Lars        Let the games begin; we’re looking forward to 7 June!
            Lars-Peter.

D Day in the Winter league has arrived. Lots of tension on the course and banter afterwards.

                                                              9.30am start for Section 1-6

9.30am start Sect 1 -6.
12.30pm for Section 7

As we enter the final qualifying Round 7 this weekend, Round 6 resulted in many changes in the
leadership of the various sections. It is interesting to note that with the exception of 1 group the
qualifiers for each section is still up for grabs.
Section 1: Qualifying in this section is Gary Byrne & James Barnicle, The Ryan father/son pairing,
Edwards/Flaherty and the Legal Eagles Higgins/Johnson. This is the only section where all 4 qualifiers
are decided. The sponsor did not make it again this year? Is it time to pass on his partner!!! In this
section there was 1 day prize winner?
Section 2: 3 teams have qualified congrats to them Quinn/Leonard, O’Flaherty/Arnold and
Sproule/Reynolds. The last place could be decided in the match between Flanagan/Kielty and the
Curley Father/Son partnership. In this section there was 1 day prize winner?
Section 3: The Winter League favourites Feeney/Brady have qualified with Mc Dermot/Clifford
combo. The last 2 positions are between 4 pairings. 3rd and 4th place pairing are playing the 2
qualifiers so maybe Gillen/Gilligan could sneak a qualifying place. Owens/Moylan need to win with a
good score to contend for a qualifying place. In this section there was 2 day prize winners?
Section 4: Rahilly/O’Connor slipped up in Rd. 6 and could fail to qualify. All other qualifying positions
up for grabs. The Vogt/Tailly match with Mc Manus/Gaynor will decide a qualifying place. The
Hodgson/Moylan pairing must beat Mc Manus/Reilly to secure possible qualification. In this section
there was 2 day prize winners?
Section 5: Parkinson/Parkinson have qualified with Feeney/Devaney. The final 2 positions are up for
grabs. If Keyes/Horan win or draw this weekend they will qualify. I fancy Feeney/O’Neill to take final
position. In this section there was 1 day prize winner?
Section 6: Congrats to the Armstrong/Mc Elhone pairing on their qualification with the old fellas
O’Sullivan and Taylor!!! With 5 teams qualifying in this section there is 7 pairings in contention for
the final qualifying positions. My forecast to qualify are O’Brien/Davey, Quinlan/Mc Gonigle and the
Fitzpatricks. In this section there was 3 day prize winners? The strongest section.
Section 7: This is a very close section with all teams still in contention, Demmel/Burke have a bye and
will qualify. Also looking good to qualify is Glacken/Brogan and the winner of match between
Flanagan/Melia and Doyle/Harty. Final place should go to Mc Donnell/Lynch as they have an easy
match!!! In this section there was 2 day prize winners?

Favourites at this stage for Winter League 2019 is Brady/Feeney.

Brooks Sligo sponsor the Hanly Cup. The
Qualifier takes place on the 9th of March. This is   Langs on the Main street in Grange kindly
    the first GOY event of the year. Brooks are      sponsor the Mens Club first 18 hole
  based at Finisklin Road, Sligo and are leading     competition of the year. Due to poor weather,
    suppliers of Timber and Building supplies,
  Ironmongery, flooring, Plumbing and Heating        this sponsorship has been moved to 18th March.
 and Landscaping. Phone number 0719161111.           Phone number for reservations - 0719263105.
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