Rathbane Golf Club
18 Hole Parkland   


Course Facts:
Address
Crossagalla
Limerick
Secretary/Manager:  
Captain: Sean Curran
Lady Captain: Teresa Stack
Telephone: 061-313655 President: Jude Byrne - Billy O'Doherty
Public No:   Vice-Captain: Mairead O'Connell - Martin Ennis
Fax: 061-313655 Hon. Secretary: Michael Quinn - Noreen Campbell
E-mail: info@rathbanegolfclub.com Club Pro: No Golf Club Pro
Website: www.rathbanegolfclub.com Hon. Treasurer: Declan O'Connell & Marie Costelloe
Founded: 1998 Designed by: James Healy
Open for membership. Societies are welcome and group rates are available.
Membership: 500 Course opening hours: Daylight hours
Green Fees Midweek: €10/20 Clubhouse opening hours: 7.00am to 10.00pm
Green Fees Weekends & B.H.: €20/25 Mobile phones: Not on course
Green Fees With a Member: €10/20 Dress Code: Neat casual, no denim
Green Fees For Opens: €15 Catering: Coffee shop
Practice Area: Yes Days to Avoid: Members only on Sunday from opening until 1.00 pm
Club Hire: Yes Green Fees and Societies Welcome: Other days
Buggy Hire: Yes Pre-booking for open tournaments: 14 Days in advance
Soft spikes: Yes    




Course Description:

Rathbane is a municipal golf course founded in 1998 and designed by James Healy. It has developed into a fair test. The golf course measures 5476 metres off the blue stakes with a Par 70 and a standard scratch of 68, it is somewhat shorter for the ladies at 4834 metres with a Par 70 and a standard scratch to match. The club continues to make improvements both to the course and the clubhouse facilities, combining in a challenging round of golf. A warm welcome is extended to one and all in this Limerick golf club in a city where sport plays a major part in everybody's life. Redevelopment of the course is due to take place in March 09 with new bunkers and tee boxes being built.




Open & Major fixtures 2008:

Event

Start

Finish

Type

Duration


No fixtures until 2009.
       




Club History

Founded 1998, affiliated 1998.




Location

Southern outskirts of city, going towards Tipperary, coming from Limerick, take a right at the roundabout, then a left at the next and it is well signposted from there.





Members Achievements


Jude Byrne won the All Ireland Bronze Medal in Gort Golf Club in 2004.

The Ladies club lead the honours with a magnificent win in the AA All Ireland Junior Foursomes Challenge in 2008. The team of Jude Byrne/Marie Barker, Ann Byrnes/Anne Marie Kilroy, Marie Bartlett/ Margaret O'Sullivan was manged by Mary Traynor. The team had one change from the team that won the Southern District Final, Margaret O'Sullivan replaced Oonagh O'Brien who had left for a two year stint in Fiji.

The Ladies of Rathbane Golf Club won the Southern District of the ILGU Munster Cup in 2004, when the team was Maura Seymour (10), Shirley Real (12), and Patricia Kelly (14).

The Mixed Foursomes Team won the North Munster Title in 2008 and had to defeat some very strong opposition along the way, Woodstock in the final and Nenagh, Castletroy and Adare Manor. The team of Jude Byrne/Eddie Costelloe, Shirley Real/ Tom Ryan, Marie Barker/John 'Bunny' O'Neill, Ann Byrnes/Michael Collopy and Sarah Vaughan/Barry Lipper was managed by John Purcell.

On Saturday 23rd of May 2009 Marie Bartlett was inducted into the sporting 'Hall Of Fame' for achievements in Hockey. Marie is also the most capped Irish International.

A men's team representing the club were Munster Champions in the Musgrave Sponsored Crumlin Hospital Rumble at Nenagh and went on to the All-ireland finals in Portugal in the first week of October 2008. The team of John 'Bunny' O'Neill, Tom Ryan and Billy O'Doherty were beaten by a solitary point by Castleblaney Golf Club.

The Men of Rathbane Golf Club won the Regional Final of the Pierce Purcell Shield, in their first appearance at East Clare Golf Club on 7th May 2000, when the team was, John Twomey, Philip Byrne, James Keane, Conor O'Brien, Sean McGuirk, David Byrnes, Leonard Fitzgerald, Eamonn Ryan, Paul Hogan, James Ford, John Cooke, Larry Johnson and Noel Slater.

John Purcell the Captain of Rathbane Golf Club in 2007 holds the Course Record at Shannon Golf Club, as a member back in 1983 John shot a 63 playing off a handicap of 7 he shot the lights out, recording 3 Eagles out of 4-holes, the 5th, 6th and 8th (Is this a World record?) While doing my research I have come across some remarkable Golf Achievements but this one is definitely in the top deck, as John tells me before he shot his record that stands to this day, he had back-to-back Eagles on the previous Wednesday, is it any wonder he got the name "The Eagle Man."





Card of the Course (metres)
 
Hole No Blue White Yellow Par Index Red Par Index
1 341 319 304 4 9 311 4 5
2 337 332 317 4 3 276 4 7
3 174 168 164 3 11 159 3 11
4 449 431 423 5 15 392 5 15
5 342 325 316 4 13 313 4 3
6 299 293 289 4 17 283 4 17
7 476 460 453 5 7 378 5 9
8 377 360 351 4 1 377 5 13
9 181 156 162 3 5 131 3 1
Out 2976 2844 2779 36   2620 37  
 10 324 318 313 4 8 292 4 6
11 147 143 123 3 18 130 3 16
12 373 348 339 4 2 373 5 18
13 183 171 147 3 10 163 3 4
14 347 343 330 4 6 323 4 2
15 140 142 139 3 14 129 3 14
16 483 478 459 5 12 406 5 12
17 303 299 278 4 16 284 4 8
18 383 377 351 4 4 383 5 10
In 2683 2619 2479 34   2483 36  
Total 5659 5463 5258 70   5103 73  
SSS 70 69 68     73    

Men's Course Record: 64 Noel Cassidy
Ladies Course Record:


Roll of Honour

Lady Captains

 

2000 Mary MacCormac

2001 Mary MacCormac

2002 Judy Purcell

2003 Patricia Kelly

2004 Shirley Real

2005 Patsy O'Connor

2006 Jude Byrne

2007 Mary Traynor

2008 Marie Costelloe

2009 Marie Barker

2010 Marie Bartlett

2011 Noreen Campbel

2012 Teresa Stack

 

Men's Captains

1998 Jack Bourke

1999 Jack Bourke

2000 Denis Doyle

2001 Anton O'Carroll

2002 Eamon Ryan

2003 Leonard Fitzgerald

2004 Billy O'Doherty

2005 Seamus O'Driscoll

2006 Eddie Costelloe

2007 John Purcell

2008 Michael Nolan

2009 Shane Hogan

2010 Pat Hannon

2011 Kieran O'Shea

2012 Sean Curran

Lady Presidents

 

2000 Mary Lawless

2001 Rose Moore

2002 Rose Moore

2003 Mary MacCormac

2004 Mary MacCormac

2005 Patricia Kelly

2006 Judy Purcell

2007 Judy Purcell

2008 Shirley Real

2009 Shirley Real

2010 Patsy O'Connor

2011 Patsy O'Connor

2012 Jude Byrne

 

Presidents

1998 Bobby Byrne

1999 Bobby Byrne

2000 Jack Bourke

2001 Jack Bourke

2002 Mike Nolan

2003 Mike Nolan

2004 Larry Johnson

2005 Larry Johnson

2006 Anton O'Carroll

2007 Anton O'Carroll

2008 Eamon Ryan

2009 Eamon Ryan

2010 Leorard Fitzgerald

2011 Leorard Fitzgerald

2012 Billy O'Doherty

Shirley Real (6) 2011 Lowest Ladies H'cap

Paul Fitzgerald (3)

2011 Lowest Men's H'cap


Holes-in-One
Person Date Hole No. Club Used Distance
Joe Waters 6 August 1998 11th   142 m
Eddie Deedigan 10 April 1999 11th   142 m
David Hartigan 25 June 1999 6th   158 m
Mark Lennon 12 September 1999 6th   153 m
Leonard Fitzgerald 15 June 2000 3rd   151 m
Robbie Broe 01 April 2001 15th   139 m
Tom Mullins 26 May 2001 3rd   160 m
Dermot Fitzgerald 30 May 2003 11th   143 m
Stephen Ryan 05 June 2003 11th   139 m
Austin McInerney 26 March 2004 11th   151 m
Eddie Chamney 25 July 2004 15th   142 m
Joe Leahy 16 June 2004 3rd   160 m
Eugene Kennedy 18 September 2005 3rd   165 m
Eddie Costelloe 10 September 2008 3rd   160 m




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