CSGC BP No 44 S - The County Sligo Golf Club

Breaking Points # 44
CAPTAINS LOG
This Sunday, the final big event of the year the Competitions Committee Competition takes place.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the members of the Competitions Committee who have put
In a huge effort and given of their time to ensure that all our competitions are run effectively and efficiently
I would especially like to thank Gerry McManus for his leadership and support during the year
Aidan Doyle
Competitions Committee Competition This Sunday the unofficial 3rd Major and final strokeplay GOY
event, will take place. It affords the Competitions Committee the opportunity to say thank you to our members for
their support in Competitions during the year. The number of prizes for this competition will be extensive with 1 st,
2nd, 3rd Best Gross Cat. 1, 1st Nett, Cat 2, 1st Gross & 1st Nett, Cat 3, 1st and 2nd Nett and Best back 9. The Best
gross will be crowned Champion Golfer and the best Cat 2 Gross will be the Intermediate Champion golfer.
We hope that many members will be able to compete.
Singles V Par
Saturday 26th September
1st
David O’Donovan(5)
3 Up
B6
2nd
Steffan O’Hara (0)
3 Up
B9
3rd
Kieran McDonagh (14)
4th
Neill Gaynor(10)
3 Up
2 Up
B9
Singles Stableford
Sunday 13th September
1st
2nd
3rd
Tom Ford (3)
Kevin Dufficy (5)
Tony Mullen (18)
38
37
36
No. of Entries: 66 CSS : 73
JUNIOR
BOYS
A big welcome back to the winners circle for our
General Manager David O’Donovan after a 9 month
layoff following knee surgery. He won by virtue of a
better B6 from Steffan O’Hara who held off Kieran
McDonagh on the B9. David got off to a great start
with birdies on the 1st, 4th, and 7th . His only blemish
being a bogey on the 3rd where he drove into the
bunker. On the back nine he bogeyed the 11th,
16th and 18th so it all rounded off to a 72 gross. David
notes that “ someone remarked to me since I got my
knee done that I am not able to hit it as wild as I used
to”. So every cloud as they say !!
A great win by Tom Ford (pic left) in the Sunday Singles
with 38 points from Kevin Dufficy in 2nd with 37 points.
Tom birdied the 3rd and the 12th and dropped shots on
4, 10, 13 & 15. A great finish however into the wind of
par par and birdie on 18 sealed the deal.
Tom reliably tells me that he is a descendent of the
outlaw Bob Ford who killed his gang leader Jesse
James. So there is a history of bandits in the Ford
family!
The 36-hole Sean Fallon Scratch Cup for boys with a handicap of 10 or less was played on Sunday Sept
27th on the championship course. Difficult cold and windy morning conditions left the scoring high with most
players improving in the afternoon round. The winner was 2015 boys Captain, David Brady with excellent
rounds of 73 and 75 while defending champion Conor Wynne finished in the runner-up spot.
1st David Brady 148;
2nd Conor Wynne 158;
3rd Cian Feeney 159.
GOLFING SLANG
Circus Tent
A big top
Cuban
Needed one more revolution
Maradona
Nasty little five footer
Elin Nordegren Smashed an iron into woods
IRA
A provisional
James Joyce
A difficult read
Katherine Jenkins A perfect pitch
Pharoah
Buried in the sand
Ryanair
Flew OK, but landed miles away
Son-in-law
Not all you hoped for, but it'll have to do
Bill Clinton
A succession of poor lies
MYSTERY MEMBER
Last week it was Peter Maquire
(shown in the original picture)Any ideas on this weeks?
A big welcome to Full members Denis Joyce & Liam
Carey, Juvenile Nathan Gray and Bomore member
The you
Score
Card
Clive Slevin. We hope
have
a long and enjoyable
time as members of Co Sligo
SCORE CARDS
Immediately after finishing his round a
player, R Day, returns the card shown.
a) May the hole numbers 8 & 9 be
altered if the scores have been recorded
in the wrong boxes?
b) Does the alteration for the score on
hole 17 have to be initialled by the player
and/or the marker?
c) The player has calculated the total
score for the back nine holes incorrectly.
Do the Committee have to accept this
higher total or must they correct it?
d) The player has signed in the space
provided for the marker and vice versa.
Is this acceptable?
e) Is the initialling of the score card by
the marker and/or competitor sufficient?
The selection of the 2016 Vice Captain and 2016/17 President will take place shortly. To nominate a Vice Captain to the
Men’s Committee. a meeting chaired by our past Captain and attending by the 10 Captains takes place. The selection of the
President is similar except the current President chairs the meeting which is attended by the 4 previous Presidents.
Co Sligo GC Male Voice Choir Practice begins in earnest on Thurs 1st @
8pm under the Musical Direction of Niamh Fitzpatrick. New members very
welcome. Golf Outing. 12:30 Saturday 3rd Oct
One of Rickie Fowlers young fans watching animatedly as a long putt from Ricky just misses at the final US PGA Tour event
MEN’S
AGM
Sunday 29th Nov
Captain’s Dinner
Friday20th Nov
COURSE MANAGER
REPORT
Work carried out in Aug/Sept
Tees & Collars
 Sprayed with a Selective Herbicide for
weed control (Second app)
 Top Dressed tees with around 15 Ton
sand (Light Dressing)
 All tee’s have been seeded with fescue
seed
 Collars has all been seeded
Fairways
 Sprayed with Herbicide for weed control
(Second app) Bomore as sprayed also
 Sprayed with Fertiliser Sulphate of
ammonia @ 50kg ha – Pot ash @ 25kg
ha – fe @ 8kg ha
Other Work
 Sprayed Roundup in bunkers to help
with weed control
 Sprayed Roundup around car park
 Banks flymo and strimmed
 Rabbit holes and Divot 10,11,& 12
fairways
 Ball washers painted
 New tee signs at 16 (any feed back)
 Bridge at 8 has been relayed with
Astroturf
 Fertiliser on turf nursery’s
 Seeded out two areas at Bomore to be
used as a turf nursey next year
Revitalisation Work has started on the extension of the 7th green. Pat Ruddy was in for two days to build the new part of the green.
The green and surrounds have now been shaped out and is almost ready for seeding. New pipe work for the irrigation is being
installed today and will hopefully be working by the end of this week. Seeding of the green will be done on Wednesday with the
surrounds being seeded by the end of this week. The new 8th Tee will be turfed and should be ready for use come the west. Next work
to get started will be on the 3rd approach and should start around the 19th October. A new tee has been installed at the 5th to the left of
the shelter. This tee will be used during the week in winter play. This will give members a different feel of the hole. This tee is only a
small tee put will be ok for the winter.. The new 3rd Green has been Hollow cored last week and will be overseeded this week
and sanded. I am trying to push this green on to get it ready for opening in March next year. The surround is also
getting topdressed and working on to get ready.
Greens The Greens have been running consistent over the past couple weeks running around 9ft on the stim which would be a little
slow. This should improve over the next couple weeks with doing a little brushing and double cutting which will give a better cut. Greens
are still being cut at 4.5mm in height which will give the new fescue seed the best chance. It is important to keep the greens as strong
as possible with good grass coverage leading into the winter. There is a good fescue sward starting to appear on most greens and is
important the keep the good work and overseeding program up. The 4 greens that were sprayed with Rescue 6,7,9,11 have well
recovered and is now clean of any undesirable grasses. This has worked really well and I think there was not too much pain caused to
the golfer. I will be pushing hard next year to spray all 19 greens in the one blanket spray. This will really benefit the greens in the long
term. There is not a links golf course in the country that is not using rescue in some form. I recently visit Portstewart golf club and they
have blanket sprayed 9 fairways this year. They have already sprayed there greens 3 years ago. You could say we are 3 years behind.
Work Planned Sept/Oct
Greens
o Possible overseeding (Dependent on weather)
o Hydro jet – aeration
Other work
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Seeding of 7th green and surrounds
Install Irrigation on 7th green
Patching wear areas with new turf
Turfing of new 8th tee
Finishing turfing new 11 tee
Returfing path ways at 13,17 & 18
(Possible making 13th path wider)
o Start cutting back long rough (3rd week in
October)
Bomore greens have been sprayed with moss killer
and will be Hollow cored this week.Greens have been
sprayed with Fertiliser to help the new fescue seed
establish. Using a liquid feed of sulphate of ammonia
and iron. There has also been around 12 ton of top
dressing sand put on.
Sprayer The new sprayer was delivered last month
and already is saving money and time on the Links. I
would like to take this opportunity to thank the club for
the purchase of the sprayer. With a little TLC and
looking after the sprayer will last a long time.
STRI visit Thursday 15th Oct
Anyone interested on coming around and
listing on what Conor has to say you are
more than welcome (9am in the car park)
LADIES
BRANCH
Catherine Frazer
RESULTS
Saturday 26th September Single v Par
1st Catherine Collins (20) Level B9,
2nd Una Gleeson (21) Level, CSS 73 37 pts
Tuesday 22nd September Stroke Medal
1st Martina Sherlock (24)
72 nett,
nd
2 Grainne Demmell (17)
74 nett,
rd
3 Deirdre Connolly (12)
75 nett,
Front nine Attracta McGettrick (20) 38 nett,
Back nine Irene O’Donovan (15) 34.5. CSS 74
The Summer Cup 2015 has been won by June Coulter
in a win over Catherine Roche
The next Presentation will take place on
Tuesday 6th October. A two course meal will be
available so please book with the restaurant.
All prize winners and Cup winners are asked to
attend for this presentation.
GOLF QUIZ ANSWERS
a) Yes. Decision 6-6a/3. b) No. Decision 6-6a/6.
c) The Committee must correct the error as they are responsible for the addition
of scores and application of the handicap. Decision 6-6d/2 and Rule 33-5.
d) Yes. Decision 6-6b/1. e) Yes. Decision 6-6b/2.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday 3rd October Singles Stableford
YAHS CUP Monday 21st September :
1st Mary McGowan
2nd Grainne Demmel
3rd Maire Dufficey
17 pts back 9
17 pts
16 pts
Ann Daly, Mary McGowan, Lilian Brennan
CHALLENGE CUP – ALL IRELAND QUARTER FINAL
Our Challenge Cup Ladies golf
team’s winning run came to an end
when they met East Cork GC in the
quarter finals of the AIG Cups and
Shields All-Ireland Finals on
Thursday 24th September in
Knightsbrook GC. East Cork were an
excellent team and went on to
become the overall winners, having
won in 2013 previously. Two
members of their team are also AllIreland under 19 2015 winners. Our
team competed strongly and put up a
brave fight against East Cork GC and
probably gave them the toughest
match on their run. Everyone on the
team was very disappointed having
put in immense preparations and are
very appreciative of the unfailing
support from members of the club.
The team consisted of Valerie
Booker, Jenny Demmel, Jean Barr,
Rosie Mullan and Catherine Frazer
with subs Maire Dufficey and Patsy
McElhone with Captain Deirdre
Connolly and assisted by Lea
McDaid. All arrangements were
brilliantly organised by Carmel
McGrath, team’s co-ordinator.
A feathered fourball being
called through in
Knightsbrook courtesy of Patsy
The practice round of golf in
Knightsbrook hit a hugely
successful note when Jenny
Demmel only thirteen years
of age had a hole in one on
the extremely difficult 18th
hole which is over water!!.
JUNIOR GIRLS – Patricia McLoughlin
Last Saturday was the first of a series of 5 group lessons for the
girls held before the Saturday 9 hole competition in Bomore. The
first weeks lesson focused on pitching. A big thanks to Niamh
Cronin and Maeve Rooney who both provided the girls with great
tips before and after the lessons with Keith.
The next lesson will concentrate on bunker shots.
Girl Captain Niamh Cronin’s Day 30th Aug
Anna Flanagan
Eve Scanlon
Saturday 26th Sept We got a beautiful fresh afternoon for the
Saturday competition with maiden victories for both Keela
Scanlon with 12pts in the 9 hole Red Tees and Sophie
Reynolds with 16pts in the 9 hole Green Tees. Well done girls.
9 Hole Red Tees
1st Keela Scanlon
2nd Kate Armstong
3rd Ella Rose Feeney
9 Hole Green Tees
1st Sophie Reynolds
2nd Maebh McLoughlin
3rd Ruth Flanagan
Faldo Series Grand Final
Sporting Club Berlin - 29 Sep to 01 Oct 2015
Good Luck to Maeve Rooney competing in the 19th Faldo Series
Grand Final. 66 of the world’s most talented young amateurs from
18 countries will join Sir Nick Faldo at the A-ROSA Scharmützelsee
resort in Bad Saarow, Germany for the World Amateur Golf
Ranking event. Maeve qualified by winning the Girls U16 qualifier in
Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh on 30th April.. Off the course Maeve
will spend time with Faldo and his personal coach Keith Wood. For
19th Faldo
live scoring updates during the
Series Grand Final please
visit www.faldoseries.info/tic/tmtic.cgi.
Connaught Schools Golf
Co. Sligo girls, Niamh Cronin & Ella McDermott retained the Senior Cup (despite being down 1
team member. Maeve Rooney).Niamh (12) & Ella (35) beat hot favourites Roscommon by 6 gross
shots. Niamh shot 8 over for her round securing 28 gross points and Ella had 8 gross points which
was superb scoring off a handicap of 35. Conditions were very tough with no run on the fairways.
This will be Niamh's 5th year in a row qualifying for the All Ireland Finals. Maeve, Niamh & Ella
won the 2014 All Ireland Junior Cup. Jenny Demmel & Anna Flanagan missed out this year for the
JuniorCup title, with both girls eligible next year the experience gained will be invaluable.
Jenny Demmell
Jenny Demmel, Ella McDermot,
Maeve Rooney
Kate Armstrong
Niamh, Lady Captain &
Girls Committee
J Kelly
R Gaynor