Hibernian Golf Association

Fellow Hibernians,The lads were ready to Rumble. Last Saturday we played our final event of the year, a modified Irish Rumble. The weather was great and everyone had a grand time. Some of the individual Stableford scores were also very impressive, but maybe that’s what happens when someone else hits your tee shot. The winners:Irish Rumble:First-place team:…

Fellow Hibernians,It was a beautiful day for golf last Saturday as the boys traveled up to Puttnam County Golf to play a bunch of important singles matches and compete in our annual President’s Day event. Puttnam has a reputation for difficult, slick and undulating greens, but this year they threw in a new wrinkle. They…

Fellow Hibernians,Last Saturday the boys returned to Sterling Farms for an exciting day of doubles, and bitching about the greens. It was grand.The Winners:Doubles:Donacha O’Dwyer and John Fahey: 46 points, $100 per man Troy O’Sullivan and Ian Duggan: 45 points, $50 per man Singles:Noel McQuillan: 39 points, $0Brendan Brady: 38 points, $100Low Gross:Andrew Butterworth: 78,…

Fellow Hibernians,For our second event of the year, we returned to our second home course, Sterling Farms, for an old fashion rumble. The winners:Rumble first place: Pascal Doran, Declan Docherty, Paddy McArdle and Adrian Lappin, 87 pointsSecond place: Jarleth Carroll, Eric McDonald, Sean Collins and PJ Tynan, 81 pointsSingles: Paddy McArdle, 38 pointsLow gross: Martin…

Fellow Hibernians, It was the final event of the season and the lads ended on a high note.  First was the wind and the leaves and the Irish Rumble. Then off to three hours of open bar. Not surprisingly, the turnout was large.The winners: Brendan Brady 41 points  $100Low Gross:Martin King 76  $50Irish Rumble:Winners: Liam Hickey,…

Fellow Hibernians,It was championship Sunday last weekend at Sterling as three titles were settled: the Memorial Cup, the Club Championship and the Player of the Year. It was a bit windy, and the leaves were waist high, but with liberal use of the leaf rule, the boys had a grand time. The Winners:Singles: Brendan Brady…

Fellow Hibernians,We were back at the golf course formerly known as Hubbard Heights, where we competed in the always popular Irish Rumble. Sure the fairways were rock hard, and the grass that was there was thin at best, but some of our drives rolled really far, so there’s that. The Winners: Irish Rumble:  88 pointsCyril…

Fellow Hibernians,Last Sunday we took the long and winding road to Putnam County Golf Course to have a few laughs, lose a few balls, and crown a couple of lads as the doubles champions of 2024. The greens at Putnam are known for their difficult undulations, but on Sunday they were also slow, wet and…

HGA history was made today.John “Fairways” Fahey was playing in his regular Wednesday match with fellow Hibernians Kevin McColgan, Jerry Brennan and Aiden Kilcoyne. John was playing great, and his team had long since won the match, when Kevin took a look at John’s scorecard. John had only seventy strokes through sixteen holes. John Fahey is…

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,…

Fellow Hibernians, The boys traveled over the Hudson River for our annual trip to Philip $ Rotella Memorial Golf Course in beautiful Mount Ivy, New York. In addition to the usual, we played the semi-finals of the doubles and a big club championship match.The Winners:Ian Duggan Jr.  44 pointsDeclan Docherty   43 pointsJarleth Carroll  40…

Last Saturday we were back at the friendly confines of E. Gaynor.  In addition to the usual shenanigans, we competed in out biggest major of the year, The Presidents Cup, which included increased prizes and Player of the Year points to the winners. The Winners: John Carroll 42 points  $300 Liam Moylan 39 points  $200…

Fellow Hibernians, We were back a Sterling Farms on August 4th for another round of field-wide doubles, plus a bunch of matches and other silliness. Sure, the round might have been a little long, but it was also wet. The Winners: Doubles: Craig Mahler and Troy O’Sullivan  49 points  $100 per man Martin King and…

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…

Fellow Hibernians, The weather finally cooperated and despite some grumbling about the greens, the boys had a grand time at Sterling Farms.The Winners:Doubles:Jim McEvoy and Kevin ValentineJarleth Carroll and Eric McDonaldSingles:Kevin ValentineLow Gross:Kevin ValentineMartin KingClosest to the Pin;Fifth hole: Kevin ValentineEighth hole: Jay LevyFifteenth hole: Brendan BradySeventeenth hole: For the second outing at Sterling in…

Fellow Hibernians,Last Saturday at E Gaynor Brennan the conditions were brutal.  It was cold.  It was rainy. And the wind was pushing the balls all over the place. But on opening day for the Hibernian Golf Association, that’s just when the fun gets started.The winners:Irish Rumble: Eric MacDonald, Jarleth Carroll, PJ Tynan and Sean Collins.  $75…

Fellow Hibernians, Last Saturday at Tashua Knolls wasn’t a fit day out for man nor beast. But it was a perfect day of golf for a bunch of lunatic Hibernians, and a great time was had by all those who braved the elements.  Truth be told, some of our less rugged members decided that they…

Fellow Hibernians, Well, that was a strange one. The folks at Richter Park welcomed us to play their wonderful golf course, only to pull us off the course for a few minutes due to excess  sunshine, then let us back out, then pull us off again for the day when it actually started raining. A…

Fellow Hibernians, A couple of important Club Championship matches were played in the last couple of weeks, and they were doozies.  It was a damp and dreary day at EGB for the match between former champs Noel McNamara and Eric McDonald. McNamara was up one striding onto the sixth tee box when he hit a…

Fellow Hibernians, Last Saturday the Hibs visited Fairchild Wheeler for competitions in doubles and singles, as well as some important individual matches. After some unfortunate traffic induced hiccups, the boy went out and enjoyed the Wheel’s patchy fairways and greens that were as bumpy and slow as the Merritt Parkway.The Winners: Doubles: Mark Otis and…