Another very successful Open Weekend with a large number of visitors and members taking part, indeed it was a close call for the number 1 spot with the win going to Paul McQuaid on count back from TrevAnother or Turnbull from Lurgan both with 42 points. Congratulations to Paul on shooting such a fine score on a course playing its full length with difficult rough to contend with. Third was the ex-officio Willie Cullen who shot an excellent 41 points and is surely heading for single figures. I am sure that a sedate pace suits Willie. The gross went to the irrepressible Ronnie Berry with 38 points. 

Open Thursday

The winner last week was the ever improving Kyle Breakey, who shot a fantastic 44 points, and won by a single point from Daniel McCrossan (43 points), third was committee man Liam Treanor, 39 points, and the gross was won by the ultra consistent Ciaran Lavery with 36 points. Kyle is surely heading for single figures and the next fortnight should see him achieve his dream of a single figure handicap. 

Rossmore Cup Day

Sunday 15th August sees the eagerly awaited Rossmore Cup Final Day when the remaining Ladies and Gents Junior and Senior finals will all take place on the one day. This is a new idea playing all on the one day and should ensure a large crowd and a brilliant atmosphere. 

The Men’s Rossmore Senior sees last year’s winner Jim Keogh, the favourite for the event; take on low handicapper Sean Moyna. There is a big handicap difference between the pair and could be decisive in helping Jim retain his title.  Sean reached the same final a few years ago and would dearly love to see his name on the trophy, but best wishes to both parties. The Men’s Junior final has not been decided before this went to print but is between Ciaran Haran who will meet the winner of Packie Murphy and Kenny Breakey. 

Best wishes to all the Ladies in their finals. 

Please note that the presentations will take place to all the prize winners on Sunday night and please look at the notice board for the exact starting time, there is entertainment on offer this evening with a courtesy bus available. The final draw for the overall winner of the very successful Club Draw will also take place on Sunday prior to the presentations.

Treanor Storms Through To Claim Captains Prize

A bumper crowd, fine weather, the course in magnificent shape, a great winner, what more can be said about Captains Day in Rossmore only “FANTASTIC”. Well done team Nugent. Firstly just a few words of thanks to Captain Michael Nugent and his family for the wonderful effort that was put in to make this a truely memorable event, but enough of that this is how the story unfolded.

Friday 30^th: 

The scores on this afternoon were ticking along nicely but with no course records being set, and looking likely that a 67 might lead when the Leitrim legend Bernard Gilbane signed for a 66 and this kick started the event. Not to be outdone, up steps the first of the Ballinode challangers Seamus Deery who fired a magnificent 65 and held the over night lead.

Saturday 31^st:

And you could feel the excitement in the air. I had a nervous spin from Donegal myself and thought this could be my time and produced the goods for a 66, my travels were short when I heard a plane had arrived from America carrying a gun slinger by the name of Connolly and he was teaming up with three amigos in the last group out and what a score he produced to set the place alight with a brilliant 64 and carried the bookie PC to a 66 who hadn’t even backed himself.

Sunday 1^st:

Sunday morning August the 1st, you could cut the tension with a knife and what a morning it turned out to be. J.J Mc Gettigan roared into contention with 66 to add to his impressive first 67, Alan Finnegan headed towards the top of the leader board with another 66 to add to his first score of 66, but man of the moment Sean Treanor spread eagled the field with a round of the year performance an incredible 60.

The final nine: It was thought by many to be a victory parade for Sean but things don’t always go to script and the pressure exerted by JJ, Terry and Alan kept us guessing till the final putt dropped and Sean Treanor was victorious for the first time in Captains Prize, a worthy winner he was. He had been in the last eighteen a number of times and kept plugging away and got his just rewards, well done Sean. Congratulations to everybody who contested the final nine, especially these guys who didn’t make the prizes, Des Kinsella Pauric Reilly Eddie Whellan James Corrigan Bernard Gilbane John HahasseyPaddy Murray

The presentation took place in the Clubhouse after the event and what a night was had by all especially the Keady contingent. The speeches by the winners were magnificent and full of praise for the Captain, the green staff, the bar and restaurant staff and Rossmore Golf Club was the big winner on the night. Congratulations to everybody who took part, and finally congratulations to Ronnie Berry who won the gross once again playing in his 44th Captains Weekend.

Full Results as follows:

1^st Sean Treanor

2^nd John Mc Gettigan

3^rd Terry Connolly

4^th Alan Finnegan

5^th Norman Mullen

6^th Michael O’ Reilly

Leading Qualifier Seamus Deery

2^nd 18 Liam Mone

Last nine Greg Leonard

Commitee Jim Fanning

Past Captains Paudge

Gross Ronnie Berry

2^nd Gross Shane Stirrat

Ladies cat 1: Betty Blemings cat 2: Monica Macklin cat 3: Pat O’ Connor 11 hole: Ethna Smyth

Juvenile: Adam Treanor Junior -14: James Owen Junior +15: Ciaran Lavery 

Visitor: Johnny Mc Skeane Senior: Jim Connolly  

A great turnout for this prestigious event the J.Sleator Cup (GOY) and what a deserving winner we had in Paul Ward who played superbly and returned a magnificent 67. One of his playing partners Pat Walshe was in the winners enclosure lately, so if your looking for a good draw for Captains prize watch out for those two names. The runner up was Declan Murphy 68 who really is lighting the place up at the moment and playing some great golf. Third was J.Murray 68 one of my tips for Captains prize. The gross was won by Ronnie Berry 71 and the second gross was claimed by J.Morgan 76. The junior prize won by a young man who is now a regular in the winners circle who shot a fantastic 67 well done Kyle Breakey.

Rossmore Cups

Both the senior and junior events have reached the quarter final stage and your guess is as good as mine as to who the winner will be. I do see a number of past winners lurking and getting themselves set. Best wishes to everybody.

Team News

Open Week

Monaghan Bottlers sponsored singles stableford Saturday 3-7-2010

What a start to open week with the Monaghan Bottlers sponsored singles stableford event attracting a huge crowd of members and visitors. The winner of this event was none other than Steven Curley with the fine score of 40pts. It was great to see this man back in the winners enclosure after enduring some tough times on the golf course, but he dug in and has got his reward. Steven was very gracious at the presentation and said his front nine score usually was his 18 hole total, so once again well done Steven. Runner up was young gun Myles Dwyer also on 40pts. This young man has a brilliant swing and is sure to go on to greater things on the golf course. Third on this occasion was Ronnie Kane on 40pts, who got a rousing reception from his usual fourball, who reckon Ronnie is peaking for Captains Prize. The gross went to the irrepressible Ronnie Berry with 34pts. Presenting the prizes Captain Michael Nugent emphasied the importance of our sponsors and the willingness of these sponsors who support Rossmore Golf Club year on year, we could not continue without your generosity, once again thank you.

1st Steven Curley 40pts

2nd Myles Dwyer 40pts

Gross Ronnie Berry 34pts

3rd Ronnie Kane 40pts

Open Thursday

Congratulations to this weeks winner of the Open Thursday Paul Leonard 40pts, could this man could be the leading Clontibret contender for the Captains Prize?. Second was a young man used to the winners enclosure Kyle Mc Kenna 39pts. We had a different gross winner this week with Dylan Mc Mahon 31pts muscling in to a grab a share of the spoils. Darren Connolly 38pts finished third. Well done to all.

1st Paul Leonard 40pts

2nd Kyle Mc Kenna 39pts

Gross Dylan Mc Mahon 31pts

3rd Darren Connolly 38pts.

Captains Prize

The talk is now of the Captains Prize and the likely winners. The bookies boards and secret whispers of who is playing well and what their handicap is leaves my mind racing as to who maybe the likely winner. I’ll come back to that next week.

July Newsletter

Anybody looking to have something included in this Months Newsletter please contact Cannon Mc Quaid or leave the information in the clubhouse.

Team News

Well done to our Ulster fourball and Sam Rutherford teams who advanced to the next rounds.

Congratulations

Congratulations to our Green Staff on the brilliant job they continue to do on our course. Indeed our greens are the talk of the golfing world so well done lads, keep it up.

Open Week Results

The Topkapi sponsored fourball betterball results as follows,

1^st L.Treanor and J.Corrigan 41pts

2^nd J.Murphy and C.Cunningham 38pts

3^rd M.Mc Quaid and E.Mc Ginnity 37pts

And Finally

Apologies for no notes last week due to unforeseen circumstances

Credit Union Scratch Cups (updated 23/06/10)

Two great competitions the Credit Union Junior and Intermediate scratch cups were played on Sunday the 20-6-2010 with a big turnout for both events. Winner of the Junior Cup was P.Mc Carville Clones 73, runner up was Leo Costello Cavan 76 , third was our own Barry O Gorman 76 and best net was Martin Mc Kenna 68. It was great to see so many visitors playing and indeed for the second year in a row this prize went to Clones. The Intermediate cup was won by our own P. Murphy with a great 77 and indeed this could have been much lower only for a hiccup on the 7^th. Runner up was James Murphy 80 who is obviously benefitting from playing with Bernard Connolly. A cracking result for David Mullen in third with a fine 82 and Michael Fitzpatrick took the net with a 64.

Open Thursday (17/06/10)

Somebody asked me had the Open Thursday changed to a 27 hole competition? im afraid not, but one could be forgiven for thinking that after S.Mc Govern accumulated the magnificent score of 48pts. Congrats Sean, Big Ben wondered where it all went wrong in Donegal. Runner up with 41pts was Oliver Clerkin who may have presumed his moment had come. Third was Phil Mickelson look-a-like Martin Mc Kenna 39pts who is really finding his form of late. The gross went to Mr consistency Ciaran Lavery 38pts.

Team News

Congratulations to our Howell Cup Team and their new team members who secured five points away form home last week in Crover House.Another smooth display by our Ulster fourball team who had a convincing win over Edenmore.

Drayne Cooks Up A Storm (updated 16/06/10)

Kevin Drayne shot a superb 65 to capture the Healy Cup, his first golfer of the year event. With the greens running fast and true putting was the key to this success, one will have to note his name when conditions like this prevail, well done Kevin. Runner up this week was the ultra consistent G. Berry who is like his dad continuously in the winners enclosure. Speaking of the man himself Ronnie Berry once again secured the gross with an excellent 70. Third with a fine 67 was Mark Macklin and the juvenile went to Conor Friel also with 67.

1^st: Kevin Drayne 65

2^nd: G. Berry 66

Gross: Ronnie Berry 70

3^rd: Mark Macklin 67

Juvenile: Conor Friel

Open Thursday (10/06/10)

Nice to see Mr Captain Michael Nugent receiving rather than presenting when he secured the win with an excellent score of 42pts, “will he be a single figure captain by the end of the year? “ . Michael Fitzpatrick was the runner up with 37pts. Ciaran Lavery secured the gross with 37pts and Mr Paddy Smith was third with 38pts.

1^st: Michael Nugent 42pts

2^nd: Michael Fitzpatrick 37pts

Gross: Ciaran Lavery 37pts

3^rd: Paddy Smith 38pts

Hotel Hilgrove Fourball Betterball Final

Congratulations to Liam Treanor and Sean Mc Govern on capturing this doubles title, commiserations to beaten finalists the Murray Brothers. Speaking to both teams after the event they all agreed it was a great game and that putting was the difference between the two teams.

Connolly Set Tone For Weekend With Keady Cup Win

Bernard Connolly set the tone for the weekend when he captured the Keady Cup on Saturday with a fine 65 to ensure the first of Monaghans weekend wins. Playing with his usual fourball and with pride and bragging rights at stake and no little banter on the sixteenth  regarding his handicap, Bernard maintained his composure to claim his first GOY  event of 2010. Sponsored by the Keady Golf Society this is now one of Rossmores premier events and this was reflected by the large turnout over the two days. Runner up was long distance member Colm Buggy who played superbly throughout his round and it’s great to see a long distance member in the winners enclosure. The gross went to Philip Cassidy who returned a fine 70. Damien Treanor was third with a 66 and the juvenile went to Kyle Mc Kenna 66.

1^st Brendan Connolly 65

2^nd Colm Buggy 64

Gross Philip Cassidy 70

3^rd Damien Treanor 66

Juvenile Kyle Mc Kenna 66

Open Thursday - 03/06/2010

This scribe played his first Thursday open of the year a and had a first hand and “pocket ” experience when playing with the winner Francis Beggan who amassed a fine score 42pts. Francis played beautifully from tee to green and putted superbly, he had only one hiccup throughout the round at 15. Well done Francis but “i’ll be back”. Runner up was Austrailian visitor Brendan Agnew with 41pts. Third was Aidan Deighan and the gross went to Conor Friel 30pts.

1^st Francis Beggan 42pts

2^nd Brendan Agnew 41pts

Gross Conor Friel 30pts

3^rd Aidan Deighan 39pts