18 Hole Parkland
Course Facts: Address
Bray
Co. WicklowSecretary/Manager: Alan Threadgold Captain: John Tough Lady Captain: Cathy Reid Telephone: 01-2763200 President: Pat O'Donnell Public No: 01-2763200 Vice-Captain: Gerry Baker & Olive Murphy Fax: 01-2763262 Hon. Secretary: Lar Gilmore & Denise Deane E-mail: info@braygolfclub.com Club Pro: Ciaran Carroll Website: www.braygolfclub.com Hon. Treasurer: Jim O'Hara & Beryl O'Donnell Founded: 1897 Designed by: Des Smyth & Declan Branigan Membership: 626 Course opening hours: Daylight hours Green Fees Midweek: €15/20 Clubhouse opening hours: 7.30am to 11.30pm Green Fees Weekends & B.H.: €25/40 Mobile phones: Not on course or in clubhouse Green Fees With a Member: €15/20 Dress Code: Neat casual, no denim Green Fees For Opens: €15 Catering: Full catering facilities Practice Area: Yes Days to Avoid: Sundays Club Hire: No Green Fees and Societies Welcome: Other days Buggy Hire: Yes Pre-booking for open tournaments: 14 Days in advance Soft spikes: Yes
Course Description:
Bray Golf Club have recently moved to its new location on the other side of town where Des Smyth & Declan Branigan have constructed a magnificent new 18-hole Championship course that is maturing rapidly and has all the signs of developing into yet another superb golf course to be found in Wicklow. The members must find a huge difference with the relocation to the other side of town. The old 9-holes which are still in play until the planning problems are sorted (in my opinion as an architect in my former life, this may take a long time if ever? There is a water table to be considered for starters.) The club has constructed a state-of-the-art clubhouse providing the golfer with all the facilities the golfer could ever wish for.
Bray Golf Club operate a Five-Club Pass together with Greystones, Charlesland, Glen-of-the-Downs & Delgany for €165 in 2008
Open & Major fixtures 2008: Event
Start
Finish
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Duration
No fixtures until 2009.
Club History
Instituted 1897 affiliated 1898.
There is evidence to suggest that golf was played at Bray in the eighteenth century along where the present promenade is; its first known member was Elias De Butts. It would appear he lived at Ravenswell.The Bray Golf Club as we know it today was founded at a meeting in the Grand International Hotel. Sir R. Fanning proposed, and the Rev. Mr. Glenn seconded “That this meeting approves the formation of a golf club in Bray."
The Irish Golfer carried the following report on 13th December, 1900. "Bray G. C. owes its existence mainly to the enterprise of Mr. J. S. Robson and Mr. D. J. Stewart, who having induced the Rt. Hon. Lord Plunkett to act as President, spared no pains in arousing the inhabitants of Bray and surrounding district. The club has just completed its second year and can boast of a membership roll of 325 having procured the grounds laying around Ravenswell"Bray has relocated to a site near Bray Head, and become an eighteen-hole course.
Location
The golf course is on the Bray/Greystones road on your left-hand-side at the south end of the town.
Members Achievements
Bray Golf Club won the All-Ireland Irish Junior Cup in 1928, when the squad was W. B. Howe, R. C. Williamson, Wentworth Allen, G. M. Power, R. Hamilton-Hunter, P. K. Conway, J. L. Morgan, C. W. Huet, F. A. Kennedy, A. B. Kidd, W. H. Dowse, George Price.
Keith Nolan played Walker Cup at Quaker Ridge in 1997, and participated in the Home International matches from 1992, to 1996, playing 28 matches. He won the Joe Carr Perpetual Award in 1992 with 140 points, and the Boys in 1990 and 1991, and won the Tom Montgomery Perpetual Award in 1991, with 95 points. Keith played Leinster Youths, in 1992.
Card of the Course (yards)
Hole No Blue White Yellow Par Index Red Par Index 1 401 389 331 4 1 382 5 5 2 164 152 140 3 5 116 3 12 3 410 380 340 4 6 340 4 7 4 182 161 132 3 11 149 3 16 5 440 430 402 5 16 351 5 14 6 480 466 460 5 4 410 5 1 7 369 340 313 4 9 313 4 3 8 341 316 282 4 13 264 4 10 9 169 154 142 3 18 142 3 17 Out 2,956 2,788 2,542 35 2,467 36 10 300 288 282 4 14 279 4 9 11 322 291 286 4 12 256 4 11 12 357 338 280 4 8 330 4 6 13 177 150 108 3 10 158 3 15 14 382 360 330 4 7 330 4 13 15 440 428 420 5 17 383 5 8 16 162 149 144 3 15 128 3 18 17 398 385 380 4 2 326 4 4 18 496 468 416 5 3 440 5 2 In 3,034 2,857 2,646 36 2,610 36 Total 5,990 5,645 5,188 71 5,077 72 SSS 72 71 69 72
Men's Course Record:
Ladies Course Record:
Roll of Honour Polly Power 1998 Ladies Captain Maeve McLoughlin 1998 Ladies President Ken Lambe 1998 Men's Captain V. Farrell 1998 President Ronnie Corrigan 1999 Ladies Captain 1999 Ladies President J. Butler 1999 Men's Captain 1999 President Maureen Treanor 2000 Ladies Captain 2000 Ladies President Paddy McLoughlin 2000 Men's Captain 2000 President R. Vance 2001 Ladies Captain 2001 Ladies President S. Reynolds 2001 Men's Captain 2001 President Aoinette Morton 2002 Ladies Captain 2002 Ladies President Barry Kealy 2002 Men's Captain 2002 President 2003 Ladies Captain 2003 Ladies President Denis Walsh 2003 Men's Captain 2003 President Ann Breen 2004 Ladies Captain 2004 Ladies President Paddy O'Sullivan 2004 Men's Captain Paddy Murphy 2004 President Catherine Lawlor 2005 Ladies Captain 2005 Ladies President Ian Ring 2005 Men's Captain Paddy Murphy 2005 President Vicky O'Connor 2006 Ladies Captain 2006 Ladies President Jerry Grant 2006 Men's Captain Gerry Baker 2006 President Sheila Gilmore 2007 Ladies Captain 2007 Ladies President Richie Roche 2007 Men's Captain Gerry Baker 2007 President
Holes-in-One Person Date Hole No. Club Used Distance D. Hinchin 19 August 2001 15th N. Ahern 6 May 2001 13th John McKenna Jnr. 13 May 2000 6th 155 m Maeve Crean 23 October 2000 6th 137 m Thomas Treanor 21 August 2000 4th 148 m Malachy Prunty 2 July 2000 4th 148 m
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