Author: Lakewood Pitch & Putt Club

The Gods were good to us over the weekend, while the rest of the Country were experiencing showery, windy and cold weather , play im Lakewood was very pleasant with mild dry conditions.. As PJ said its perfect conditions for a score and with the course in excellent condition this was the case for Saturday yours…

The Club AGM was held on Thursday last with some new faces elected and some of the old guard staying in situ. Dave Linehan’s term of office sadly came to an end but John Curtin  was elected as a worthy replacement. Best wishes to Gentleman John for his forthcoming term of office and we have…

Wednesday P J Curtin and Mary O’Donovan took the nett while Gentleman John and John Ahern were the gross winners. This was a practice run for them as they bagged the bird on week 2 of the Christmas Competition taking the nett with an excellent score of 51 points while Alan Kelly in shooting form…

Interesting weekend, some good pitch and putt, reasonable weather, mighty craic and intellectual conversation. PJ Curtin and Josie Twomey had a great card with 37 nett, interesting seeing that they were both complaining about their putting and ended up 6 under. Noel Mac was in great form on Sunday morning and combined with Val O’Leary…

The Christmas Competitions got off to a fine start with nice dry weather, cold at times but once on the course it was very pleasant playing, There were some interesting combinations that on paper wuld be expected to bring home the bacon and in this case the hamper but it was not to be. Good…

Wednesday saw the Lakewood Response Unit springing into action under the skilled leadership of John Ahern when Paddy Dennehy damaged his calf muscle coming off the 5th Green and was unable to self propel himself to the Club House. In an interview with George Bolton he said that the team were reminiscent of a scene…

Wednesday John Ahern and Mary O’Donovan  were blessed with Sheila O’Leary as the anchor as she was looking for the extra spending power for her sojourn to the Sunny Canaries and upped her game to bag the nett and gross with Mary and John respectively. Paddy Dennehy and George Bolton took second nett having lost…

Hard to believe the evenings are closing in, seems like yesterday that we were having the evening fourball but time is moving so fast. Wednesday last Paddy Dennehy had a huge advantage with the senior pairing of Margaret Bowen and Mary O’Donovan in his corner he was a comfortable entrant into the winners enclosure with…

September and the afternoons are starting to get shorter and heading into the final quarter of 2019 is the month that sees the fourballs slacking off with reducing numbers, some members catching the rays of sunshine in far off lands while others are lighting the fires and settling down for the long nights  but thankfully…

Wednesday while the crowd was small the standard was high with Noel Mac and JP Murphy shooting a nett of 36 and taking the nett by a shot from Pat Conway and Mary O’Donovan. The forecast for the weekend was appalling with Saturday appearing to be the best but as it turned out there was…