PRO’s Weekly Report – 19th April 2010
PRESIDENTS PRIZE.
All roads led to Collinstown Pitch Course over the past weekend for our Presidents Prize. Play commenced on Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. and there was a great turnout of members all evening. Play commenced again on Sat. at 10 a.m. and continued at a brisk pace until dusk on that evening. Sunday morning saw a steady stream of players from 10 am onwards until last card at 5p.m. There were somewhere in the region of 270 rounds played over the three days with over 30 of our members playing numerous rounds. This was a great tribute to the esteem in which our President this year is held and he is Tommy Archbold. Tommy is a great clubman and takes part in all our competitions. The following is a list of the prizewinners:-
LADIES; Winner Liz Quinn; R/UP. Anne Kelly.
GENTS; Winner: Martin Carter; R/UP. Liam Buckley; 36 Nett Paddy Gorman (on break of a tied with Liam Hetherton) 36 Gross. Peter Dolan.
Thanks to our President, Tommy Archbold for his wonderful prizes. Well done to Martin Carter who has won this prize for the second time as he also won last year. Thanks to Colm and Sean who are our groundsmen and who had the course in great condition. The new T Boxes and mats are lovely. Thanks to anyone who helped out in any work on the course in recent days. Of course there will be plenty more work to be done over the next 6 weeks when we host the Leinster Matchplay Championships. Thanks to all who sponsored Tee Boxes . It is greatly appreciated. Thanks to Mary Carroll who looked after our catering needs. There was plenty of grub for everyone. Thanks to anyone who brought goodies to eat. Thanks to Tommy Archbold, Larry McGinn and John Browne who did the desk and board and checked all the cards. Thanks to John Flanagan who is looking after the flowers. Finally thanks to the good Lord for blessing us with wonderful weather over the weekend.
COMPETITIONS.
Player of the Year continues on Weds next 21st. at 6 pm. The draw for our Matchplay Doubles will be made on Weds night next so please make sure your name is on the Entry sheet. Please note that there will be NO P. O. Y on Weds. 28th inst. as most of our members will be in Custume for the qualifying rounds for the Leinster Matchplay.
GOOD WISHES.
We send best wishes to Liz Quinn & Larry McGinn who are playing in the Irish International Open in RGSC this coming weekend.
MEETING.
Our next meeting takes place on Fri. 30th inst. at 8.pm.