74th World One Armed Championships

74th World Open One Armed Championships

June 13th -17th 2011

The Championships are open to one armed golfers of all handicaps. The format we use is practice on Saturday and Sunday with a match against the host club. On Monday and Tuesday everyone plays off scratch with the top 16 going through to the knock-out stages. Within that competition there are also handicap prizes. 

A stableford competition follows on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for non qualifiers whilst the top 16 qualifiers compete for the World Open title.

During the week there are also long driving, chipping and putting competitions. Where possible a match against the host clubs' ladies and a foursomes stableford over 9 or 12 holes.

Whatever your handicap come and join us for some great golf and a lot of camaraderie in the evenings.

Click here to download an Entry Form

For more information on the local area www.meathtourism.ie

County Meath Golf Club

Newtownmoynagh

Trim,

Co. Meath,

www.countymeathgolfclubtrim.ie

EUROPRO Tour at Fota Island in July

Fota Island Golf Club

The PGA EuroPro Tour will one of the 2011 season at the prestigious Fota Island Golf Club in Cork, Ireland. This will be the first time the Tour has held a tournament at the venue, which is widely regarded as one of the finest golf courses in the country.

The tournament will take place from Wednesday, July 6th to Friday, July 8th and will feature some of the brightest young golfers in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

“It’s fantastic news that Fota Island will be on the schedule this year and we’re very proud to announce this as it shows our commitment to adding quality courses to the calendar each year,” said Danny Nickless, Operations Manager for the PGA EuroPro Tour.

“Fota will be one of the highest quality venues that the Tour has ever visited and the players will be met with a world class golf course.

“Fota has staged the Irish Open in the past and Jonathan Woods and his team are very keen to support up and coming professionals as well as those playing on the main tour, I would like to thank Jonathan for giving the tour the opportunity to visit Ireland again. Our members should be extremely excited about visiting such a great golfing venue.”

The EuroPro Tour is the leading golf developmental tour in Europe and a host of former players have gone on to lift some of the biggest titles in the world.

Louis Oosthuizen won the 2010 Open after playing on the EuroPro Tour in 2003, while Ross Fisher was a member of the winning European Ryder Cup team only five years after playing on the EuroPro Tour.

A number of players, including Lloyd Saltman and Daniel Gaunt, will also be playing on this year’s European Tour after playing on the EuroPro Tour in 2010.

Gaunt’s story should act as an inspiration to any hopeful golfer. He lost his European Tour card in 2004 but practised hard and was determined to get back. He won the first EuroPro Tour event of 2010 – at Wensum Valley in Norfolk – and then struck a rich vein of form that saw him also finish twice on two occasions and third three times.

His performances on the EuroPro Tour saw him get a sponsors’ invite in to the English Challenge on the second-tier Challenge Tour and victory on that ensured he would spend the rest of the season playing on the Challenge Tour.

He then finished in the top 30 in nine out of ten Challenge Tour events to secure a return alongside the European golfing elite.

www.europrotour.com

Lee Valley Senior Scratch Cup - Scoring

LIVE SCORING

Check Out 3 Club Pass

Three of the country's leading golf clubs – Waterford Castle, Faithlegg, and Mount Juliet - have combined to offer exceptional value to golfers as the season gets in to full swing. The now established and original Three Club Golf Pass will allow holders to play one full round of golf on each of the three championship courses. The pass is priced at just €123 with a weekend rate supplement (this may differ per club).

The pass, the original and market leader, offers a significant saving to golfers visiting the region and is also designed to appeal to regular golfers in the south-east who are not members of the three clubs involved but who wish to sample their excellent courses. According to Gary Breen of South East Tourism, who are helping to promote the pass in overseas markets, it is vital that clubs such as the three involved in the pass work together.

"It is now more crucial than ever that service providers look at the situation afresh and strive to offer real value-for-money. In this instance, it is particularly significant to see three competing clubs uniting to develop and market a pass which allows golfers visiting the region to play three exceptional courses in their own time at a very reasonable price."

"Our marketing of the pass will be focused on areas of the UK where awareness already exists among many golfers of what is on offer in the superb golfing triangle created by Faithlegg, Mount Juliet and Waterford Castle. The current sterling-euro exchange rate makes this pass especially appealing to golfers originating in Wales and Northern Ireland while I know that many Irish golf societies and individuals will also be attracted by the great value on offer while the passes will also interest those buying corporate gifts."

Waterford Castle

A unique island golf course surrounded by the River Suir and accessed from Ballinakill in Waterford city by private ferry, Waterford Castle opened in 1992 and was designed by Des Smyth. The superbly-located course set on an historic island has water features on the second, third, fourth and sixteenth holes.

As Des Smyth himself commented after he first viewed the site in 1988, "The Island has a natural undulating landscape with mature forestation and beautiful views of the river. To develop a golf course there was a natural decision for anyone with a keen love of the game."

Faithlegg

Opened in May 1993, Faithlegg was designed by renowned Irish golf architect Patrick Merrigan and boasts a superb setting on the banks of the River Suir in east county Waterford with the course taking full advantage of a wonderful landscape of mature trees, flowing parkland and lakes.

At a championship yardage of 6,674 and a regular yardage from the white markers of 6,284, distance is rarely the main problem for those seeking to card a good score there. Rather, the perils of the course lie in its clever layout and slick, often wickedly contoured greens. (www.faithlegg.ie)

Mount Juliet

Created by Jack Nicklaus and opened in 1991, the course at Mount Juliet is synonymous with golfing excellence and has played host to the world's leading golfers including Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia, Davis Love III and Vijay Singh, along with countless others, including Ireland's Pádraig Harrington and Darren Clarke.

The layout certainly delivers on the promises made by Nicklaus when he first explored the rich pastures near Thomastown, Co Kilkenny and exclaimed, "I think Mount Juliet gets high marks…It's just a beautiful piece of property on which to build a golf course." (www.mountjuliet.com)

The 3 Day Golf Pass is available from Golf Reception – contact 051 871633 or email golf@waterfordcastle.com. (Vouchers will be available from November 2008)

2 Club Golf Pass €75

Should you not have the time to avail of the 3 Club Pass then the 2 Club pass is for you. Exceptional value @ €75.00 to include golf at Waterford Castle and Faithlegg €15.00 supplement for each course if used on weekends. These two courses offer an enjoyable yet challenging test for golf, particularly Faithlegg where it's undulating greens will test anyone's short game.

3 Club Pass

Kilkea Golf Resort On Offer

Clubhouse

Kilkea Castle, Countyu Kildare, one of Ireland's best known historic hotels, together with its golf resort.

When the owner Arnosford Ltd placed it on the market last year the asking price was €16m. Now the receiver Jim Hamilton of BDO is asking for €6m.

Sitting on 140 acres the sale includes its 18 hole golf course and clubhouse as well as 27 of the 33 lodges. With its scenic castle backdrop, the hotel catered for up to 160 weddings a year at its peak attracting business from Dublin as well as the nearby towns of Castledermot, Athy and Carlow.

Paul Collins of agents CB Richard Ellis points out that it is conveniently located between junctions three and four of the M9 motorway linking the capital to Waterford and also linking to the M7 and Kildare's major towns.

A four star hotel, its accommodation includes 36 en suite bedrooms, a dining room, bar, two function rooms, a leisure centre with a 15m swimming pool and a fully equipped gym.

Of the 27 lodges included in the sale, nine have been completed each with three en suite bedrooms. Some of the others are substantially completed while others are at various stages of construction.

Other properties on the estate and included in the sale include a 27-bedroom staff block, an attractive stone cut gate lodge and an extensive disused nightclub and bar.

Arnosford was headed by American Dave Conway and had a lease agreement with another company Leoville which operated the hotel before it separately went into liquidation.

The 18 hole championship parkland golf course facilities include a three-storey purpose built clubhouse which includes a restaurant, bar, pro shop, snooker room and meeting rooms. The golf course was also very popular having approximately 135 members when it closed down from a peak of 290.

Originally built in 1180 by Norman warrior Hugh de Lacy, the castle is one of the largest inhabited castles in Ireland.