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This weekend the Gents Lynch cup Qualifier Sat 11th sun 12th May 18 Hole Stableford White Tees Only £10 euro entry. Top 32 to Qualify for matchplay.
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As we are now in “full swing” in the golfing season, I wanted to update you on a few important and exciting initiatives and events that are happening in Carrick on Shannon Golf Club. *Clubhouse Revamp* As you will have seen extensive works have now been completed in the clubhouse so that our premises are compliant with all fire safety regulations. This was important as the fire safety officer of Roscommon County Council mandated it before he would recommend the renewal of our license. I’m pleased to say that he has done so now, and the court has approved our license renewal. Huge credit and thanks go to Jim King for project managing all of these works to completion. I think you will agree that the clubhouse is looking well now. *Driving Range* You will have seen extensive damage to the poles and netting in our driving range after a recent storm. I’m pleased to advise that we have placed an order with a contractor to complete new poles and netting around much of the driving range. This work is expected to be completed in the coming weeks. There may be a period where we will have to close the driving range to complete these works. This will prove to be a great and worthwhile investment. *Course Drainage Works* The club has applied for a Sports Capital Grant to complete some drainage works on the course. There is no update on the approval of these grants as yet. However, we are hopeful that some initial works may commence soon. The extent of this work will be linked to grant funding obviously. *Murphy Cup.* Last weekend was one of our highest participation rates in a long time in one of our competitions. It was a great weekend with a great buzz around the club and it really kicked off the golfing calendar for real. Well done to Dympna Butler and Colm (Meath) Griffin who won the ladies and gents competitions. *OBN Series.* You will have seen communications about an exciting series of competitions coming up, the “OBN Series”. We are grateful to OBN Financial Services for their kind sponsorship of this. This will be aligned with five of our weekly competitions and is an open golf series with a grand final taking place on 7th September. There are great prizes to be won for this series, so please take part. *50/50 Draw* A reminder that a new and exciting 50/50 draw commences this coming Friday 8th May and will continue on a fortnightly basis. This is an opportunity to win some good cash prizes. You can sign up to this by setting up a fortnightly standing order, of €5.00 to the club’s bank account. You will then be entered into each draw. The club bank details are; Carrick on Shannon Golf Club * A.I.B. Bank Carrick-on-Shannon BIC: AIBLIE2D IBAN: IE81 AIBK 93706104034624. *You can alternatively enter each of the 26 draws for the full year by paying a cash total of €130.00 in one of the envelopes in the club house with your details on it. We obviously are encouraging all members to join this and indeed your family, friends and work colleagues. *Annual Club Classic 2024* The annual club classic is a key fundraiser for the club to help us to continually invest in the course and to showcase our golf club to non members. This will take place over the June Bank Holiday weekend. I’m pleased to say that the Landmark Hotel have kindly agreed to be the main sponsor for this year’s classic once again. We urge all members to arrange to put in a team with non members in this year’s event. Please arrange to book early on the timesheet with your planned team and time. *The Lynch Cup* This weekend one of our key competition qualifiers takes place, the Lynch Cup. Again, we encourage everyone to take part in this and to book your slot on the timesheet. Let’s get another great weekend of participation going again. *Club Annual Membership 2024.* It is great to be able to advise that once again, we have experienced a year on year increase in our total membership. We are “bucking the trend” of many golf clubs. Thanks to most members who have paid their annual fees or have signed up to a payment plan. We have a cut off date of May 14th 2024 whereby all outstanding fees must be paid. At that point we will have to disable non paid members, as we are obliged to pay the required Golf Ireland Affiliation Fees. These can be easily paid online. There will also be a presence in the office again, this coming weekend to facilitate payments. *Closing Comments* I hope that you find this information helpful. I know that after a long winter we are all looking forward to a wonderful year of golf ahead. I wish you all the best for 2024.

The following are the results of the Gents Club Fourball which was held last weekend. 1st Kevin McDermott & Steven Daly 46pts. 2nd Eoin Gibney & Paul Keaney 45pts. 3rd Jim King Adrian Beirne 44pts. The following is the draw for the 1st round of the fourball which must be played before 31st of may 2024. Kevin McDermott & Steven Daly v Declan Loftus & Colm Loftus. Eamon Masterson & Frank McGrath v Albert Hogg & Chris Lowe. Niall Loftus & Jimmy Egan v Leo Mulvey & Robert Donaldson. Desmond Murphy & Tadhg McKenna v Tommy Ahern & Shane Loftus. Eoin Gibney & Paul Keaney v Noel McKenna & Lee McKillen. Stephen Sheerin & Damien Quigley v David McDermott & Fiachra Neary. Jim King & Adrian Beirne v Ryan Duffy Duignan & Garry Hartigan. Philip Martin & John Coffey v Niall Keaney & Tom McGuinness. Good Luck to all the players in the 1st Round.

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The parent committee of the golf club has agreed to cease our current club lotto and to move to a new 50/50 draw. A dedicated 50/50 committee has been established to set this up and to oversee the same. This will be an exciting opportunity to significantly increase the prize money to the winners and eliminate the club costs paid to our current lotto third-party providers. The key principles of the draw are as follows. Each draw will take place fortnightly. Ideally, people would pay fortnightly through a bank standing order. However, there will also be envelopes in certain locations for one-off entries. A minimum entry of €5.00 per person each fortnight. However, there is no limit on the number of entries that you may wish to make for each draw. We encourage all members to sign up for the new 50/50 draw. The more that is in…the more you can win! It is intended that the first 50/50 draw will take place on Friday, 10th May. Those set up at that stage by standing order will enter the first draw automatically. You can, of course, join at any stage after that, but we would encourage you to get in from the start. To sign up by standing order, of €5.00 per fortnight, the following are the Golf Club bank details; Account Name: Carrick on Shannon Golf Club. IBAN: IE81 AIBK 9370 6104 0346 24 BIC: AIBKIE2D So please sign up and ask a family member or a friend. And remember, “It could be you”!

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This Bank Holiday Weekend From Friday 3rd May to Monday 6th of May the club will host the Damian Murphy Memorial Cup open to both Ladies and Gents 18 hole open Stableford competition.Please support this competition.

Club Lotto no Jackpot winner this week the £30 euro weekly winner was Fiachra Neary.

As you will be aware, the Club Classic is a really important event in our golfing season. It is an important fundraiser to help maintain and invest in our club. It is also a great time to showcase our club to non-members. We would like to ask you all, well in advance, to make every effort to invite friends and/or family to come along and play and for each member to ensure to play and enter a team. We will keep you updated over the next while; we can make this a really successful weekend for the members and for the club.

The Presentation of prizes took place in Flynn’s Bar last Thursday Night. Congrats to all the winners. Also big thank you again to Shane Fitzpatrick for the very generous sponsorship. Pictured are all the winners and club officials with Shane Fitzpatrick at Flynn’s Bar. [image: image.png]

A very successful outing took place to Castle Dargan on Monday the 22nd April. It was a Texas Scramble Stableford competition. Six teams of four players took part. It was an extremely close competition with only a two point difference between the highest and lowest scoring team. The overall winning team members were: Leo Mulvey; Leo Kavanagh; Dermot McNamara and Francie Foley with a score of 45 points. In second place also with 45 points was Pat Gannon; Kevin O’Rourke; Joe Keville and Dermot Monaghan. Third place was won by Tommy Mulvey; Chris Lowe; Damien Duignan and Seamus Sheeran with 44 points. The overall winner last Thursday was Leo Mulvey with a score of 39 points. Category one winner was Gerry Emmett with a score of 35 points. Category two was won by Charlie Farrell with 36 points and Category three was won by Gerard Fitzgerald with 31 points. The front nine was won by Michael Comerton with 18 points and the back nine was won by Robbie Donaldson with 18 points, golf as usual next Thursday.