Old County Pitch & Putt Club

The 2016 season is now underway and one of the biggest prizes of the season will be the Champions Chase, our Ladies & Gents Player of the Year.  The gents has been dominated by Tom O’Reilly for the past 3 years and I am sure a lot more players will be keen to make it hard work for Tom getting 4 in a row.  The Ladies has been shared around between Claire Keatinge, Pauline Balfe and Vera Glennon who are the lowest handicap players in the Ladies.  Can the higher handicap ladies show the consistency to topple these 3 top players?  It should be an interesting and tense season in the Champions Chase.

The Fr Pat Trophy was a Chase 50 event and valuable points were available in all the grades.  The early leader in the Gents is Frank Gallaher after his great win in the Fr Pat and in the Ladies Vera Glennon has started off the quickest winning in the first two competitions.

Standings

Player of the Year System

The Player of the Year Champions Chase for the Ladies and Gents was decided before the weekends Anniversary Trophy but both Pauline and Tom increased their points tally as both won prizes in the Anniversary Trophy to round off their excellent seasons.  It was second place that was up of grabs in both chases and in the Gents, the 3 men chasing the runner up spot didn't make the winners enclosure so Kevin Bermingham finished as they started.  In the Ladies despite not winning, Vera Moore finished runner up.

This is the 3^rd year in a row that Tom has won the Player of the Year, a fantastic achievement and testament to his level of consistency and scoring that increases year after year.  For Pauline it is her first Player of the Year, hard to believe given her standard of play but this was overdue and her level of play this year has been second to none.  We have certainly got two very deserving winners, congrats Pauline and Tom.

The presentation will take place at the Xmas party on the 19^th December.

Final Standings

We head into our last competition of the season this weekend but the Player of the Year Champions Chase in both the Ladies and Gents is over.  The Gents has been won by Tom O’Reilly for the 3^rd year in a row, a great achievement by Tom to go with the other achievements he has made over the past few seasons.  The Ladies has been won by Pauline Balfe for the first time, she is a very deserving winner and has been playing at a very high level of consistency for the past few seasons.  Both players will be presented with their awards at the annual Xmas night.  The runner up slot in the Gents is between three players and all three are in separate grades so an intriguing weekend awaits.  The Ladies is also between three players all of which are playing in the Ladies A section so there is plenty to play for this weekend.

Current Standings

The points available this weekend are as follows;

Anniversary Trophy: Winner 50 pts, 36N: 35 pts, 36G: 30 pts, 18N: 20 pts

The updated player of the year points table for both the ladies and gents is below.  The table now shows that the Tom O’Reilly cannot be caught in the gents which mean he has now completed a hat trick of player of the year titles, fantastic achievement.  The runner up spot looks a 4 man battle and should be interesting to the end of the season.  The ladies player of the year shows Pauline Balfe out in front and looks odds on to win be first player of the year title, a well-deserved win.  Pauline can be caught but for that to happen Vera Moore must win the handicap matchpaly and Anniversary Trophy.

The remaining events are as follows;

Singles Strokes

GAA/Ladies Handicap Matchplay

Singles Stableford

Anniversary Trophy

Current Standings