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Learn to play Golf. Lessons for beginners and newcomers to the game are starting during the month of May. The Club together with the ILGU and the Irish Sports Council are offering aspiring Lady Golfers the chance to take up the sport. This unique programme offers women of any age the most comprehensive introduction to the game and is open to everyone. Women who wish to take part in the programme don't need to be a member of a Golf Course or even own a golf club as all equipment will be provided. Starting on Thursday May 14th 2009, PGA professional Eddie Treacy will be hosting 3 coaching sessions covering all aspects of the game. The sessions run over 3 consecutive weeks. The Programme has been running for several years in Clubs throughout the country. It has proved to be very successful in making it easy for women to start playing golf and for them to progress to a level where they can compete with others and enjoy playing a healthy, relaxing sport for the rest of their lives. This has now completed and was thoroughly enjoyable and successful with 28 ladies participating. Inevitably some ladies fell by the wayside but some 13 followed through and are now active members of the club A Summer School for 8 - 18 year olds was held early in July and some 30 young folk participated. The School was run by a former member of the club, Conor Lavin, who is now a Teaching Professional at the K Club at Straffan. This was a huge success and has opened up a new tier of players within the club. All the youngsters attending the courses were given Junior membership for the rest of the season and many are enthusiastically playind on a daily basis. Competitions are held for them each Saturday between 9 - 11am |
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Starting on May 9th the Pierce Purcell Shield first round match will be against Ballinasloe. Sadly we werer knocked out in the first round. Good experience for next year May 25th sees a local Derby for the Seniors against Castlerea.They will be hoping to improve on last year and reach their Zone final and who knows get even further. Once again the old contemptables soldiered on only to be defeated in a very close match versus Mountbellew who sadly screwed up on their handicap declaration and we were reinstated only to be defeated, as last year, in the zone final against Athlone June 3rd, another local derby, this time against the old enemy Carrick on Shannon for the Mixed Foursomes. The old enemy proved too strong and we were eliminated at the first hurdle. June 20th battle will commence against Strandhill in the Junior Cup followed by the opening round of the Jack O'Sullivan Competition agains Boyle on June 25th. Sad to report but in each of these competitions we fell at the first fence The Cecil Ewing Shield and the Connacht Shield Competitions commence on July 11th and August 4th. Finally, again sad to report, we fell at the first fence in both these competitions . Whilst the success rate in competitions appears to be bad the amount of fun generated by competitive play has given all our team members a new found enthusiasm to tackle the challenges with vigour next year - watch this space
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