Hibernian Golf Association

Fellow Hibernians,
The boys traveled north to one of our favorite destinations, Tashua Knolls. In addition to the usual silliness, there were two incredibly exciting and close club championship semi-final matches and a disturbing run-in with nature.

The winners:
Jarleth Carroll 39 points  $200Craig Mahler  37 points  $125Kevin McColgan  37 points  $75

Closest to the pin:
Third hole, Liam Moylan, 9’3.5”  $50Sixth hole, Chris Fratarolli  9’6”  $50Twelfth hole, Dermot Flynn  12’7”  $50Seventeenth hole, Liam Hickey  7’1”  $50
Low Gross:Craig Mahler  78  $50

The first semi-final match of the day was a tight one as Jarleth Carroll and Craig Mahler were tied through seventeen holes. Jarleth was in pretty good shape on eighteen. He was in with a bogey, and he was getting a stroke on the hole. A two-putt by Craig would send the match into extra holes. But instead, Craig sent a dagger through Jarleth’s heart with a clutch twelve-footer to win the hole and the match.The second semifinal match between Kevin McColgan and Declan Docherty was a contrast in styles. Docherty the mad bomber and McColgan the human metronome were tied after eighteen and were off to play extra holes. Declan was feeling pretty good about his par on the first hole until Kevin sunk a breaking eighteen-footer to take the hole. Barely hanging on, Docherty managed to win the second with a par and then followed up with a beautiful tee shot to within fifteen feet on the par three. Kevin also hit the surface, but his ball slid to the back of the green and settled into some sticky rough. Kevin made a good chip, but he was left with a tricky downhill slider for par. Decko was up next, and he made his two-putt par. McColgan sent his speedy putt down the hill, and it looked good for a moment, then slipped just past the lip. Docherty moves on to the finals.
The finals of The Club Championship are set. It’s Declan Docherty facing Craig Mahler.
When Jamie Duggan sliced his drive on eighteen into the woods, Paul Atkinson and John Carroll lent a hand in trying to find the ball. This good deed did not go unpunished because nature had its own plans. Paul stepped on a hornets nest, and, as it turns out, hornets don’t like that, as Paul and John soon learned. The hornets attacked, and all the two lads could do was run around like lunatics jumping and swatting and swatting and jumping. Paul got the worst of it, and John tried to help by giving  him the occasional swat while continuing to smack his own torso and head. Finally Paul channeled his inner Chippendales dancer by taking off his shirt and whipping  it around his head. This unusual tactic seemed to do the trick, as the hornets lost interest. On a happier note, Paul got a nice tip from one of the ladies on the practice putting green.

They may not be Chippendales, buy you can’t have too many Bradys on the golf course.
See you this Sunday at ThreePuttnam where Jarleth will get another chance at glory when he and Eric MacDonald vie for the doubles championship against those upstart Duggan boys, James and Ian Jr.