Dalglish scores at Royal Dublin

Captain’s Day at The Royal Dublin Golf Club was another outstanding success for the society. Captain Vincent and Vice-Captain Stephen, with plenty of committee help, are to be congratulated on the detailed organisation and smooth running of the day. We had 68 golfers teeing it up on an otherwise very busy day in the club and thanks to our starter Bryan and RD management, everything ran very smoothly. The links were in magnificent condition with the greens rolling beautifully. Catering at RD is to be complimented for looking after our members from early morning with breakfast and lunch as required, but particularly for the wonderful 3-course meal – the food and service were absolutely delicious.

A pat on the back for myself – plenty of luck mixed in with some golf and managed to produce 41 points to take the much-coveted Captain’s Cup of 2022 and a fabulous Captain’s Prize. Congratulations to Cian Bennis in 2nd place beating Michael Brennan into third place on a countback with 38 points each. Very well done to all the prize winners and the full results are as follows:

2022 Captain’s Cup Winner – Conor Dalglish (17) – 41pts

2nd – Cian Bennis (15) – 38pts

3rd – Michael Brennan (29) – 38pts

Class 1 (scr-13) – David Cassidy BM (7) – 37pts

Class 2 (14-19) – Kieran Montgomery (16) – 33pts

Class 3 (20-36) – Kevin Griffin(21) – 36pts

Seniors – Enda McDermot (20) – 33pts

Past-Captain’s – Tony Judge (6) – 36pts

Sponsors Prize – Michael Norton (31) – 33pts

Front 9 – Sean Finnegan (19) -22pts

Back 9 – Mick O’Flynn (12) – 15pts

NTP – Declan Murphy

Longest Drive – David Rice

Visitors – John Clarke

Eagle 2 @ 3rd hole – Tony Clarke

2’s – Philip Scallan, Tony Judge & David Cassidy BM.

We were honoured to have Captain Brendan O’Malley of RDGC as our guest, who spoke very kindly of our society and its long connections with the golf club. We were also delighted to have Enda O’Meara and Aidan Crowe from Clontarf Castle as our guests and Enda also spoke highly of the society and its founding members. After our lovely meal and prize giving we retired to the Christy O’Connor room where we were wonderfully entertained by The Wobblies, a great band who managed to cajole many of our members into doing their party piece with the backing of the band.

Belvoir Park

In the best traditions of the society in playing new and interesting courses, our next trip takes us north to the beautiful Belvoir Park Golf Club in Belfast on 9 September 2022. Ranked in the top ten courses in Northern Ireland, the outing to this Harry Colt-designed course will be kindly sponsored by first-time sponsor Phil Scallan & Stoneseal. With tee times from 11.30am, it’s a handy drive on new roads to the club that is on the south side of Belfast.

Sign on night is this coming Thursday 1 September in The Indigo Lounge in Clontarf Castle at 8.00pm. Through great connections in the club, we can offer this outing at great value for €55.00, which includes your charity donation, two’s competition entries and a fabulous Ulster Fry! Remember, this is the discounted price for those who enter on sign-on night and the best way to get the tee-time you prefer is to be at sign-on yourself.
The prize giving will be 30 minutes after the last group finish, so it would be worth arranging a nominated driver for the return.

POY Standings

Here are the latest standings after Royal Dublin, showing the best 5 scores out of 6 played.

Conor Dalglish – 163pts

Sean Reid – 162pts

Ian Mackey – 158pts

Niall O’Reilly – 153pts

Mick O’Flynn – 152pts

Brendan Fagan – 152pts

Kevin Maher – 150pts

I’m sure there’ll be a few changes before our final outing in The Links.

Matchplays

Matchplays are getting down to the nitty-gritty stages with some players into the semi-finals. Make sure you keep Mick Kenny (087 2438502) advised of any results.