Kanturk Golf Club
Kanturk Golf Club Still Swinging in its 50th Year
Kanturk Golf Club celebrates it’s Golden Jubilee in 2023. Thanks to the initiative of two local business men, Derry Fitzpatrick and Andy Keating in the early 1970s, sufficient finance was raised which ensured that a deposit was placed on land for sale by the Finn Family in the townland of Garraveasgue. The purchase was completed by a business group – Kanturk Golf Association - which organised the construction of a 9 hole golf course, the building of a clubhouse and in the early nineties extended
the course to eighteen holes. Nowadays the clubhouse is the location for ‘Bobs on the Green.’ Membership of the club – male and female – is drawn from the town itself and surrounding areas and has grown from an original number of less than thirty to a present day number of over 550 including a thriving junior section of 162. The club caters for all age groups, and teams range from junior right up to senior level. In its fifty year existence, Kanturk Golf Club has experienced success at
county, provincial and All Ireland level. Club Officers for the Jubilee Year were Captain Conor Madigan, Lady Captain Ursula Desmond, President Michael Browne and Lady President Breda McElligot. A successful book-launch of a history of the club was held in August and copies of Kanturk Golf Club 1973 - 2023, can be purchased from the from the club itself and from all local shops.
ABOVE: The beautiful greenery of Kanturk Golf Club in its early years. RIGHT: Tony Walshe’s wonderful publication.
Back row: l-r Ursula Desmond (Lady Captain 2023), Bert Murphy (Club photographer), Derry Fitzpatrick (Chairman Kanturk Golf Association), Denis O’Riordan (Founding member), Jim Long (President Golf Ireland), Conor Madigan (Captain 2023), Michael Browne (President 2023), Desmond Daly (Kanturk Credit Union –Sponsors). Front row: l-r Dick O’Brien (Founding member), Tony Walshe (Author of Club History), Breda McElligott (Lady President).
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Issue 104 December 22nd, 2023
