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Again a fantastic response from the Lakewood Members and Friends of Lakewood with the continued support to St Mary’s School. This Competition was started by the late Jim O’Shea with his wife Rene over 30 years ago and over the years generated funds that are put to development use for the children attending the school.…

Monday saw the return leg of the Summer Leagues with Rocklodge visiting Lakewood, with 38 shots of an advantage it was a formality for Rocklodge however on the night Lakewood rose to the challenge and with some excellent play from Valerie Leahy, John Ahern, Pat Moore, Frank Riordan, Rick O’Mahony and Mick O’Leary(Best on the…

Wednesday the club hosted the return visit from our friends in Inniscarra which saw a large contingent arriving but when all the names were entered there was an equal balance with 27 members from each club. Some great scoring on the night but the 19th hole was the best with the lovely cakes and pastries…

Wednesday saw Pat Moore anchoring Margaret Bowen taking the nett with 39 beating John Ahern and Michael Healy on the back nine who had to settle for second nett and coming in with 6 gross with Noel McCarthy to take the gross. The drop of rain is starting to green up the fairways and put…

Wednesday saw Frank Riordan and Mick Healy returning an excellent 50 points to take the nett while Pat Conway and J P Murphy were the gross winners leaving 2nd nett to Billy Fitton and Catherine O’Keeffe. Saturday Catherine O’Keeffe was back in the winners enclosure with Gentleman John with 41.5 nett while P J Curtin…

The final of the qualifying match’s in the Summer Leagues took place on tonight Monday with the return visit of Inniscarra. Lakewood performed and returned an overall score of 280 to get them into the semi-final. Noel Mac took the 1st nett with a magnificent score of 44 beating PJ Curtin on the back nine…

Saturday saw Val O’Leary in great form taking the nett with Gentleman John Curtin while Rick O’Mahony took the gross with Pat Moore, Sunday morning Mr Bogey made an appearance and sorted out the good from the bad. Leading the good were the public sector duo Paddy Dennehy former ESB and Tim Linehan, CCC who…

Last week one could be forgiven for thinking that we had moved lock stock and barrel to Spain what with the sun and the large numbers playing on the scorched grass in Lakewood but the greens were nice and green almost like a wool carpet. This is all down to the grounds staff, John Ahern,…

Wednesday the Club travelled to Inniscarra for the annual visit and while the 18 hole course was very challenging the 19th was definitely worth travelling for. As usual the Inniscarra Ladies hosted a magnificent spread, sandwiches , all types of delicious goodies and good strong tea/coffee to wash them down. One of the spare courses…

For those of us who travelled to Inniscarra tonight for our annual visit it was interesting and very frustrating as the going was pretty hard. Fair dues to Neilius Daly and the ground committee the course is in great shape, the greens are standing up to the fine weather and if one could pitch the…