Golfbuddies golf Society

Well September is upon us and the season will start in earnest on 17th September for The Friendship Trophy.
Haste pronto amigos.

The North of Ireland branch of Golfbuddies plus a Dub (me) and two Welsh Shuna & Barry with a few friends who were invited to share Kerry Dunlops Lady Captains Day in Galgorm Castle, where we were all treated like royalty thanks to Mark & Kerry. Followed by a Day 2 in the stunning Ardglass links where Jack Murphy looked after everyone incredibly well and sponsored all the prizes!!!
If you ever get the chance to play there don’t miss out it is stunning!

Congratulations to David Hunter (16) who won today in Santana with 36 points, 2nd Maree Fallon (22) Guest 34, Simon Ledger (18) 34, and 4th Bob Thompson (23) also with 34.
NTP w**e very kindly sponsored by Alan Cairns and won by Alan Cairns, Mags Robinson and Miriam Cannon.
Thanks to Miriam for the photos.
From July onwards until September there aren’t a lot of people playing so I’m going to take a break from social media…
We will be back in September when we look forward to seeing lots of our members back in Santana.
Billy will send the scores by email as usual! Happy summer everyone! ☀️🏌🏾‍♂️🏌️‍♀️

Congratulations to Peter Lawlor (14) who won on Thursday with 39 points, 2nd Aidan Lawler (11) with 37, 3rd Alan Cairns (16) 36, and Miriam Cannon (27) 34.
NTP w**e very kindly sponsored by Miriam and won by David Hunter, Peter Lawlor and Johnny Wright.
No evidence of the Wooden Spoon so maybe it has been retired for the summer!!!!

Smaller gang playing in Santana today but yet again a good winning score of 38 points by Alan Cairns (16), 2nd Simon Ledger (18) 35, 3rd Camille MacDonald (33) 34, 4th Tony Mallon (19) 34 and 5th Johnny Wright (29) 30.
NTPs Simon Ledger x 2 and Alan Cairns.
Not sure who sponsored the vino but thank you to whoever!!!!
Looks like Alan MacDonald was awarded the wooded Spoon.
Thanks to Simon Ledger for the photos…

Congratulations to our winner today Tony Mallon (21) with 39 points! 2nd Marion Phillips (24) 35, 3rd Peter Lawlor (14) 33, 4th Alan Cairns (16) 32, 5th John Kent (16) 32.
The Wooden Spoon was awarded to Karl Meulema (22) with 19 points.
Visitors prize was won Maree Fallon (22) with 31 points.
NTP w**e very kindly sponsored by Peter Lawlor and won by David Hunter, Miriam Cannon, Maree Fallon and Peter Jordan.
Thanks to Karl for the photos and safe travels!

Another great winning score by one of our lowest handicapped players Morton Bayliss (6) with 39 points….👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
2nd Michael Mahony (23) 35 points, 3rd Tony Mallon (21) 34, 4th Charlie Hanna (11) 33 & 5th Graham Evers (24) also with 33.
The wooden spoon was awarded to last Sundays winner David Richard (13) with 23 points, a lucky escape for Captain Billy!!!! Don’t we just love golf!!!
The team w**e ( Cha cha cha) was very kindly sponsored by Morton Bayliss and won by Michael & Vivien Mahony, John Wright & Tony Mallon.
NTP w**e very kindly sponsored by Graham Evers and won by Morton Bayliss, Miriam Cannon, John Kent and Graham Evers.

Peter Jordan (9) was yesterdays winner with 35 points b9, 2nd David Hunter (15) 35 points, 3rd John Kent (16) 34, 4th Morton Bayliss (6) 32, 5th Charlie Hanna (11) 32 and 6th Billy Reddie (14) 31.
The wooden spoon was awarded to Vivien Mahony (36) with 23 points.
Team w**e very kindly sponsored by Simon Ledger and won by Graham Evers, Charlie Hanna, David Hunter and Gordie Barry with 118 points.
NTP w**e very kindly sponsored by Barry & Marion Phillips and won by Peter Lawlor, John Kent and Morton Bayliss.
Thanks to Karl for the photos!

Well another day of challenging slowish bumpy greens but guess what 4 scores of 40 points…. I can’t believe it…
Our winner with 40 points (23b9) was David Richard (14) who played amazing golf.
2nd Gordie Barry (28) 40 (b9), 3rd Morton Bayliss (7) 40 points (18 b9, 11 b6), 4th Charlie Hanna (12) 40 points (18b9, 10 b6), 5th Frank O’Brien (26) 39, 6th Frank Barton (26) 37.
Wooden Spoon was awarded to Simon Ledger (17) with 25.
Visitors prize won by Martin Bailey with 32 points.
Team w**e very kindly sponsored by David Richard and won by Michael Mahony,
Karl Meulema, Charlie Hanna & Gordie Barry with 151 points… 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
NTP w**e very kindly sponsored by Karl Meulema and won by Morton Bayliss, Charlie Hanna, John Kent & Mags Robinson.
The photographer is heading back to Dublin for the summer so hopefully Simon Ledger and a few others will keep the photos coming over the summer months!
Happy summer days to all the Golfbuddies…. ☀️☀️☀️🏌🏾‍♂️🏌🏾‍♂️🏌🏾‍♂️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♀️🥂🥂🥂