Match results Sunday 28th May

Following our Fred Daly win over Edmonstown yesterday we had three more matches out this afternoon.

First out were our Men’s Junior Cup team who played Rathfarnham but with three away matches. Managers, Ray Crotty & Brian Frawley and their panel have been working hard in preparation for this tie and, with three matches away needed their players to be at their best.

Brain Frawley was out first in Greystones and got off to a slow start, finding himself four down through five holes and four straight losses from the second. Wins on seven and nine bookended a loss on the eighth and Brian headed to the tenth, three down.  Brian was finding his rhythm at this stage and get good halves on the tenth and eleventh and go back to just one down with wins on twelve and thirteen. His tee shot on the fourteenth found the bunker however, he was just inside his opponent after two and back to two down after the Rathfarnham man held his birdie putt.

The very experienced match player, Chris Boylan was second out at home and had to polar opposite of starts to Brain. Chris was four up after five and turned three to the good. Wins for Chris on the tenth and eleventh had him in full control and a par on thirteen was enough to win the hole and the match 6&5.

1-0 Greystones

Meanwhile in Rathfarnham, Toby Murphy took up where he left off yesterday in the Fred Daly. Toby played excellent golf by all accounts, like Chris at home, Toby turned three up and also won the tenth and eleventh holes to go five up. Halved holes from there to the fourteenth and the match was won, 5&4.

2-0 Greystones

Second out away was Harry Kirk who played great and was two up after the front nine and was playing great.

Our final player in Rathfarnham today was Chris Lawless who, like Toby and Harry started well to go three up after five. Chris was pegged back to one up after nine but after winning ten to get a two hole buffer looked like he was in control of his match also.

Back at home, Brian halved the ninth but lost the sixteenth to a par and his match 3&2.

2-1 Greystones

As this was happening, Harry had hit the pro button and won ten, eleven and twelve to go to five up and just needed two halves on the thirteenth and fourteenth to win his match 5&4 and the tie for Greystones.

Chris had won the thirteenth to go three up with five to play when called in.

An excellent performance all round by all involved.