18 Hole Parkland
Course Facts: Address
Garryhinch
Portarlington
Co. LaoisSecretary/Manager: Maura O'Donoghue Captain: David Hainsworth Lady Captain: Pat Cunningham Telephone: 057-86-23115 President: Michael Moore & Joan Murphy Public No: 057-86-23115 Vice-Captain: Kevin Kennedy & Carmel Fitzpatrick Fax: 057-86-23044 Hon. Secretary: Jerry Savage & Mary Kavanagh E-mail: portarlingtongc@eircom.net Club Pro: Shop 057-86-42916 Website: www.portarlingtongolf.com Hon. Treasurer: Frank Smith & Kathleen Booth Founded: 1908 Designed by: Eddie Hackett Membership: 857 Course opening hours: Daylight hours Green Fees Midweek: €35 Clubhouse opening hours: 8.00am to 11.30pm Green Fees Weekends & B.H.: €40 Mobile phones: Not on course or in clubhouse Green Fees With a Member: 50% Dress Code: Neat casual, no denim Green Fees For Opens: 50% Catering: Full catering facilities Practice Area: Yes Days to Avoid: Weekends Club Hire: No Green Fees and Societies Welcome: Other days Buggy Hire: Yes Pre-booking for open tournaments: 14 Days in advance Soft spikes: No
Course Description:
Portarlington Golf Club are looking forward to celebrating their Centenary your in 2008.In 1987, the club embarked on an ambitious program to extend the course to 18-holes. They retained the services of the late Eddie Hackett, with a budget of £300,000 they converted an already beautiful 9-hole into a magnificent 18-hole course which compares with the best courses in the country. Opened in June 1992, a well designed clubhouse, once the old gate-lodge, c. 1660, brilliantly blends with the new surroundings. The excellent presentation of the course starts at the entrance and is maintained for the entire 18-holes. Nor has the environment been disturbed. Here, you’ll find deer wandering calmly in the woods close by. A sanctuary for pheasant and mallard duck right in the centre of the course gives a breathtaking view in this most charming 5,879 m gem.
Tranquil ponds adjacent to the fairways offer a challenge to the golfer and invite the teeming wildlife of Garryhinch to their clear waters.Bordered by the meandering river Barrow, for all golfers keen to tackle a tough inland course Portarlington is a must and, for a very reasonable Green Fees, will be found just about everything a parkland course can offer.Situated near the national road and railway networks, offering easy access, this alluring and enchanting golf course captivates the golfer, ensuring his/her return. The warmest of welcomes is assured to the visitor and a memorable game of golf is garneted.
Open & Major fixtures 2008: Event
Start
Finish
Type
Duration
No fixtures until 2009.
Club History
Instituted 1908, affiliated 1911. The "Irish Field" on the 5th December, 1908 carried the following report: "Portarlington, although a favourite residential town for leisured or retired families, has been long in taking its place in the ranks of provincial towns possessing golf courses, a demesne of liberal extent has been rented within an easy cycle run, or even walk of the town. Lord Portarlington, the Rev. Father Beauchamp, Hon. Secretary of the club, with a number of others, have heartily taken up the promotion of Portarlington Golf Club."The old Gate Lodge is nucleus of the present clubhouse and the original location of the course is still the home of the club.
Location
Three miles out of Portarlington on the Mountmellic Road the golf club is on a bend in the road on your left hand side.
Members Achievements
Margaret Flanagan (16) with Olive Conroy (6) Co. Longford G. C. won the Lancome Scotch Foursomes qualifying round at Mullingar Golf Club in August 2002.17 year-old Conor McCusker, playing off a handicap of 2 became the first by to defend the Midland Boys' Championship at Birr Golf Club in September 2001.
Portarlington won the All-Ireland Jimmy Bruen Shield at Royal Portrush G. C. in 1999. When the squad was Seamus McCuskey, Phil Raynor, Andrew Turley, Mark Kennedy, Shane McMahon, Conor McCuskey, Dermot Conlon, Alan Dunne, Colm Murphy, Joe Holland, Liam McMahon, David Murphy, Padraig O'Dea, David Lawlor and Tom Kemmy. They were managed by, Noel McMahon and Tom Kennedy.
The won the Barton Cup at Carlow Golf Club, beating Portmarnock in the final in 1950, when the squad was M. J. Finnegan, T. M. Canning, J. P. Scally, P. J. Conran, T. J. Kirby, R. Cottor, Sir. G. Holand, J. J. Daly, J. C. Canning and J. C. Howley.
They also won the Leinster Final of the Independent Mixed Trophy in 1976 and Michael Moore Cup in 1998.
Mark Kennedy won the Irish Boys' Amateur Close Championship under-16 Trophy at Kilkenny Golf Club in 1999.
Millennium Lady Captain Patricia Egan (20) and her Captain's Prize winner Mary Finlay (19) were runners-up in the Volkswagen-Irish Independent Lady Captains Classic at Druid's Glen on the 2nd of October, 2000, with a score of 36 points.
Marie Mansfield played for the Irish Girls against Wales in 1965 and 1966.
Card of the Course (metres)
Hole No Blue White Yellow Par Index Red Par Index 1 341 337 332 4 7 332 4 3 2 398 387 377 4 3 377 4 15 3 165 157 153 3 13 149 3 13 4 378 372 367 4 5 304 4 11 5 128 117 103 3 17 97 3 17 6 353 346 325 4 11 320 4 1 7 414 402 384 4 1 379 5 9 8 434 419 410 5 15 384 5 7 9 355 341 327 4 9 312 4 5 Out 2,966 2,878 2,778 35 2,668 36 10 464 456 447 5 18 433 5 4 11 150 145 141 3 14 136 3 18 12 411 395 383 4 2 374 5 14 13 411 404 398 5 16 333 5 6 14 356 348 342 4 4 252 4 16 15 311 297 281 4 8 248 4 10 16 323 306 293 4 6 269 4 2 17 167 161 152 3 10 146 3 8 18 347 333 322 4 12 293 4 12 In 2,940 2,845 2,759 36 2,484 37 Total 5,906 5,723 5,537 71 5,152 74 SSS 71 70 69 74
Men's Course Record: Am. 66 Ivan Lawlor (4) 22/08/1999
Ladies Course Record:
Roll of Honour M. Walsh 1989 Ladies Captain N. Coffey 1989 Ladies President P. Lyne 1989 Men's Captain M. Morrissey 1989 President M. Flanagan 1990 Ladies Captain N. Coffey 1990 Ladies President P. M. Egan 1990 Men's Captain M. Morrissey 1990 President M. Whelehan 1991 Ladies Captain M. Cannon 1991 Ladies President W. D. Dempsey 1991 Men's Captain J. V. Brady 1991 President M. Conlon 1992 Ladies Captain E. Culliton 1992 Ladies President F. J. Keating 1992 Men's Captain J. V. Brady 1992 President M. O'Callaghan 1993 Ladies Captain E. Quinn 1993 Ladies President J. G. Cannon 1993 Men's Captain P. A. Dunne 1993 President E. O'Rourke 1994 Ladies Captain G. O'Sullivan 1994 Ladies President A. Colgan 1994 Men's Captain P .A. Dunne 1994 President P. Cunningham 1995 Ladies Captain N. O'Dea 1995 Ladies President S. Walsh 1995 Men's Captain P. Lyne 1995 President F. Mullins 1996 Ladies Captain M. Culliton 1996 Ladies President M. S. Turley 1996 Men's Captain P. Lyne 1996 President M. Conroy 1997 Ladies Captain E. Culliton 1997 Ladies President M. Moore2 1997 Men's Captain W. Dempsey 1997 President M. O'Donoghue 1998 Ladies Captain E. Dunne 1998 Ladies President B. Hutchinson 1998 Men's Captain W. Dempsey 1998 President M. Finlay 1999 Ladies Captain M. Whelehan 1999 Ladies President D. Cunningham 1999 Men's Captain Tom Hainsworth 1999 President Mrs. Patricia 2000 Ladies Captain Celeste Sweetman 2000 Ladies President Willie Ward 2000 Men's Captain Tom Hainsworth 2000 President Mrs. Mary Kavanagh 2001 Ladies Captain Bridie Higgins 2001 Ladies President Joe Bolton 2001 Men's Captain J. Cannon 2001 President Mary Olive Conroy 2002 Ladies Captain M. Finlay 2002 Ladies President Martin Turley 2002 Men's Captain J. Cannon 2002 President Mary Egan 2003 Ladies Captain Marie Walsh 2003 Ladies President P. J. Dempsey 2003 Men's Captain Francis Mullins 2003 President Ann Bates 2004 Ladies Captain Marie Conlon 2004 Ladies President P. J. O'Donoghue 2004 Men's Captain Don Cunningham 2004 President Anne Delaney 2005 Ladies Captain Patricia Cunningham 2005 Ladies President Arthur Lambe 2005 Men's Captain Aiden Colgan 2005 President Ann Turley 2006 Ladies Captain Patricia Egan 2006 Ladies President Patrick Carlyle 2006 Men's Captain Joe Bolton 2006 President Margaret Watchorne 2007 Ladies Captain Nora Purcell 2007 Ladies President Pat Byron 2007 Men's Captain Michael J. Turley 2007 President Noreen Granard 2008 Lowest Ladies Handicap Conor McCusker (2) 2008 Lowest Men's Handicap
Holes-in-One Person Date Hole No. Club Used Distance M. Kennedy 16 June 1998 5th 134 m Eile Robinson 1 September 2001 11th 149 m K. Booth 6 October 2001 5th 134 m
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