​From Jim Murphy:​

I received a late attempt to enter from Mick McCourt, so if anyone has to cancel ( or, conversely, if anyone else wants to play to get us to 42, please let me know ASAP)….. The first group goes out at 11:00 and consists of those not playing in the Partners. To those in that group with no official handicap., I have included a suggested handicap based on observed results ( in case a Nassau is played) Here is the line-up:

11:00 P Whelan 16 Andy Pile NH (17) Scales 24 Kein Lynch NH (13)

Group 2 Bell 11 Mulligan 15 — Firth 21 Noone 19

Group 3 Andrasick 3 Gallen 17 — Solon 10 Finnegan 15

Group 4 P Costigan 16 P O’Meara 22 —- Lafferty 11 Tuffy 24

Group 5 Maher 20 Browne 9

​From Jim Murphy:

Gents,At this time we have reached 40 players Sunday morning. I will send out pairings later today. A few reminders:

If you haven’t payed your $200 annual dues, please bring a check and give to Pat Lafferty. If not paid up by this tournament, you will be ineligible for prizes until you are paid in.

We have used this partners event as not only a qualifier for the Woodlawn Partners best ball ( low 8 teams will qualify), but as a qualifier for the MGA best ball tournament. Last year, Donal Maher and Joe Browne represented the Club. In order to participate, we must pay an entrance fee to the MGA. So in order to participate, each team must submit $20 (for those struggling with math, that is $10 per man). So this week, I will be collecting $ 20 per man at my post. The MGA event is a well-run day, played at a fine course. Anyone who has been lucky enough to qualify for it has enjoyed the experience.

There will be prizes awarded to the winning partners team, and to the individual winners, as this is also an individual stroke play event.

Finally, Damien has requested a meeting for 9:45 to discuss the tournament tees that Woodlawn will play. No matter what other clubs decide, we will be playing the blue tees at the Links. Each player will play off his handicap, which is enhanced by two shots as per USGA rule 3.5…..see you all Sunday, Jimmy

From Jim Murphy:

SIgn-ups deadline is Friday at 3 pm. At this time the following have committed:

Wallace- G Murphy
Moss-Carey
Bennett-Marshall
Solon Finnegan
Curtin-Curtin
J Murphy-McCrimlisk
P Costigan-P O’Meara
Elias- J O’Meara
Lafferty- Tuffy

Singles who have signed up, looking for a dance partner:

Maher
Firth
Bell

Single who has signed up, not looking for a dance partner

P Whelan

From the IMGA’s Facebook page is a picture of the draw for this year. Our first round match is an away game against Shamrock, the deadline is May 31st. Click on the image to make it larger. Tom Bennett will be contacting individuals to play.

At our last meeting Thierry Elias recommended that we post minutes of meetings so that people who could not attend the meeting would be aware of any matters decided at the meeting. With this in mind, there is a page added to the site under the name Minutes, where copies will be posted. I have put the minutes for the December meeting there. I will try to add some other previous minutes but many are not in digital form so that will be a little work. Decisions of note at the December meeting regarded the deadlines for the Club, ‘B’, Handicap, and Partners Championship. Those deadlines are as follows:

• End of June: 1^st Round of Handicap
• End of July: 1^st Round of Club and ‘B’, 2^nd Round of Handicap, 1^st Round of Partners
• End of August: Quarter-Finals of Club,’B’, and Handicap
• End of September: Semi-Finals of Club,’B’, Handicap, and Partners
• End of October: Final for Club, ‘B’, Handicap, and Partners

A couple of smaller changes were to not apply the penalty for winning a tournament to the President’s Prize but at the subsequent tournament played and for purposes of Player of the year points, only 1st place will be decided by tiebreaker. If players are tied for other positions they will divide up the point applicable to those position equally, rounding up to the nearest whole number. So if two players are tied for 2nd and 3rd at a tournament – worth 12 and 8 points for Player of the Year- they will each get 10 points.

There will be a special meeting at The Links before next weeks tournament. The meeting will be for the sole purpose of reviewing which tees will be used by the club at tournaments – especially in view of changes to the tees at The Links. The meeting will start at 9:45 AM. Regardless of any decision at that meeting, the tournament on May 17th will be played off the blue tees as it is the last qualifying tournament for the Championships and the previous qualifying tournament played at The Links was played off the blue tees.

From Jim Murphy:

Sign-up is open for next Sunday’s stroke-play event. It is the last opportunity to qualify for various season-long competitions. Also, it will be a partner’s better ball that will serve as the qualifying event for the 8-team Partners Championship.
Last Saturday at Split Rock we had four player come in with 69 net. Based on back-nine Tie-breaker the results were:

1-Bill Marshall 2 Steve McCrimlisk 3 Kieran O’Sullivan 4 Dominic Mulligan 5 Bob Andrasick 6 Tom Bennett and Dan Curtin

CTP 12 Brendan Flynn
CTP 16 T Bennett
LD 9 J Murphy
Low Gross B Andrasick 74

Have a good weekend and see you next Sunday

The Championships page has been cleared of last year’s results in preparation for loading this year’s competitors. You can find the results of last year’s (and previous year’s) championships in the Past Championships page.

There is a new page on the site that embeds a Google Calendar with the Woodlawn tournaments and deadlines on it. If you use Google calendar yourself you should be able to subscribe to this calendar as it is public. You can find it under the Calendar tab.

The winner of 2014’s B championship is Bill Marshall. Due to extenuating circumstances Bill and Pat Costigan did not complete their match until this spring. Bill finally won on the 37th hole as the competitors were even after both 18 and 36 holes.