Hibernian Golf Association

Fellow Hibernians,

On our last event the boys took our annual trek to Danbury to play Richter Park and compete in the first round of the Doubles Championship. It was an excellent day of golf despite the rough being high enough to lose a VW bug.Results:

Doubles:

Pascal Doran and Noel McNamara 44 points

Brendan Brady and Dermot Flynn 43 points

Singles:

Noel McNamara 39 points

Low Gross:

Martin King 79

Closest to the Pin

Third hole: Martin King $50

Fifth hole: John Fahey $50

Tenth hole: Derek Williams $50

Seventeenth hole: Joe Duffy $50

It was the start of the play in the Doubles Championship and the match of the day was the contest of PJ Tynan and Sean Collins vs. Ian Duggan and Troy O’Sullivan.

Collins in particular was hot on the front nine. Using the skills he learned at the McNamara Golf Academy, he repeatedly sent shots flying into trees only to have them obediently roll back onto the fairway. He saved his most skillful shot for the ninth. Short of the green, and with an extreme uphill lie, Sean and his partner decided that a bump and run was the wisest play. Sean pulled his club back, struck the ball, and sent it soaring about eighty feet in the air, landing five feet from the pin, then sunk the putt. A search of the HGA record book reveals that to be the highest hit bump and run in club history. Duggan and O’Sullivan played well, but they had no answers to that kind of shot making.

The shot of the day was a McQuillanesque effort on the par-three third by Dennis Conroy. The third was playing about 160 yards. The rapidly deteriorating golfer stepped up to the tee with his seven-iron. Then, mid-swing, he felt a jolt of hurting wind, and like Noel McQuillan just weeks before him changed plans, and skulled the ball on a line drive into the water. The ball took one skip, then settled gently on the green for an easy two-putt par.

The pretty lady surrounded by all of these unsavory men in the picture below is Chris Quinn (standing between Brenden and Noel). Some of the boys were having a post round pint or two at Sterling when Chris and some of her family came into the restaurant to have a bite. Chris, along with her husband John played with the Hibernians for years. In fact, she proudly represented the club in at least one inter-club outing. Also, a couple of her grandsons joined the Hibernians this year.

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Finally, Happy Birthday to Paul and Brendan, born on the same day fifty-six years ago last week.

Pay no attention to that sinister looking man lurking in the background.

See you this Sunday at Orange Hills where will play the next round in the Singles Championship.