On Friday evening, Lady Captain Eilish Walsh & Captain Sean Quinn presented the Dunfanaghy Beach Wheelchair Project with a cheque for €3,594. The contribution was greatly appreciated, Thank you to all who gave so generously of their time & money. There will be a new Beach Wheelchair launched in March.

Captain Sean Quinn & Lady Captain Eilish Walsh held their Charity Day on Saturday. The event had been delayed a number of times due to weather & thankfully Saturday turned out to be a lovely autumn day with nearly 100 players taking part. The Captains' Charity this year is the Dunfanaghy Beach Wheelchair Project - it costs around €3,500 to purchase one of these wheelchairs & with the Charity Day proceeds from entry fees & raffle, proceeds raised from the raffle of the fabulous quilt & donations on both Captains Days we are very close to this figure. A final figure of funds raised will be published once we have it. 

Thank you to everyone who donated to this very worthwhile cause & thank you to everyone who helped behind the scenes with fund raiding, ticket sales, donations & taking part in the competitions. A great project to support & something we can all be proud of.

The wonderful quilt which featured local wildlife scenes was raffled in the Club on Saturday Evening & was won be Eugene Magee.

The prize winners for the raffle on Saturday were:
1st Prize    Golf Bag                             Jimmy Kelly (Armagh Golf Club)
2nd Prize  4-Ball at Slieve Russell    Una Diver
The following people won various smaller prizes which can be collected from the Shop for men and from the Ladies Office for women: Don Sheridan, Clif Lenehan, Carmel Klein-Kelly, Niall Slevin, Martin McKenna, Jill McCorkell, Gerard McGinley, Deirdre Farry, John Chambers, Sadie Marie Curran, Chris McBride, Paddy Farry, Mary Lafferty & Liam O'Hara.

Ladies Competition Prize Winners
1st             Mary Lafferty              (23)    37 Pts
2nd           Breda Wood                 (31)    35 Pts BOT
3rd            Carmel Klein-Kelly    (26)   35 Pts BOT
4th            Mary McColgan           (16)   35 Pts
Front 9    Sandra McGinley         (25)   16 Pts BOT
Back 9      Aisling McFadden       (48)   20 Pts

Gents Competition ​Prize Winners
1st            James Sweeney                                    (09)   38 Pts
2nd          Neil Gallagher                                      (25)   37 Pts
Gross      Lee Totton - Faughan Valley              (03)   31 Gross Pts
3rd          Dion McDermott - Faughan Valley   (09)   36 Pts BOT
Front 9   Tommy Friel                                         (23)    20 Pts
Back 9     Andy McFadden                                   (29)   21 Pts

Wow! We raised in the region of €6.5k for the Sheephaven Course Improvement fund and close to €1600 raised for Donegal Hospice via raffles, quiz and putting competition. The Organising Committee would like to thank:

Golfing members and visitors

Our generous sponsors

Mary, Megan, Igor, Cathy, Lucas, Conor, Ger Dalton and the club for their hard work and support to make the day a great success.

​Congratulations all winners and we will give a more accurate figure on the totals in the coming days. A great couple of nights at the clubhouse.

Congratulations to Paula Grant on a new ladies course record for Dunfanaghy Golf Course. Playing in the Charlie Robinson Cup Open Stableford on Saturday 3rd Aug, Paula, playing off +3, carded 7 birdies and 5 pars to shoot an incredible 68 and set a new Ladies Course Record. The previous record of 69 held by Laura Grant had stood from August 2009. Everyone at Dunfanaghy Golf Club would like to congratulate Paula on this fabulous achievement. Paula took the Gross prize in the Charlie Robinson Cup Open Stableford.
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Both records broken over Open Week - fabulous achievement Paula & Sean.

Congratulations to Sean Duffy Jnr on a new course record for Dunfanaghy Golf Course. Playing in the Sigma Wireless Open Stroke on Saturday, Sean, playing off 1, carded 7 birdies and 11 pars to shoot an incredible 61 and set a new Amateur Course Record. The previous record of 62 held by Michael Wilson had stood from August 2007. Everyone at Dunfanaghy Golf Club would like to congratulate Sean on this fabulous achievement.
Needless to say that Sean also won The Sigma Wireless Open Stroke!

Congratulations to Team Captain Mary Lafferty and our Ladies Maire O'Donnell team who advance to the Semi Finals with a convincing win over Ballyliffin. The first leg took place at Ballyliffin on Monday 15th July and we came away all square 2.5/2.5. The second Home leg took place on Monday 22nd July in Dunfanaghy were we took the win 4/1 (2 matches called in and declared halfed). Thank you to the Ballyliffin ladies for their hospitality & the great spirit in which the matches were played. Next up we meet either Redcastle or Letterkenny.
Pictured are the Home & Away teams: Home Team: Theresa Farrell, Vice Captain Daphne Tease, Margaret Witherow, Gillian Robinson, Siobhan Bogues, Natalie Cummings, Olivia Moore, Captain Eilish Walsh, Team Captain Mary Lafferty, Sandra McGinley & Barbara Eakin. Away Team: Olivia Moore, Natalie Cummings, Deirdre Farry, Theresa Farrell, Cheryl Chambers, Sandra McGinley, Grace McFadden, Margaret Witherow, Team Captain Mary Lafferty & Gillian Robinson

Sean Quinn's Captain's Day got off to a soggy start. Fortunately the weather improved as the day went on. The play off was played in beautiful evening sunshine. President's Day champion, Daniel Devine put himself in pole position with a opening nett 61 and held his nerve during the play-off to win the Captain's Prize, completing an incredible double which Daniel had predicted in his President's Prize victory speech. For the second time this season, Daniel 'shot the bar'. Well done Daniel!

Captain's Day Full Results
1st place: Daniel Devine (22) 95
2nd place: Hugh Coll (13) 99.5
Gross: Sean Duffy Jnr 106
3rd place: Eamonn McGrath (20) 102
4th place: Eamon Davis (11) 102.5
5th place: Ian Forrester (15) 103.5
6th place: John McNulty (11) 104.5 BOT
7th place: Paul Smyth (13) 104.5 BOT
Non-Qualifying: Michael Cannon (20) 104 
1st 18 holes: Eamonn Hunter (21) 66 BOT
1st nine: Jamie Gillespie (21) 30.5
2nd nine: Boyd Robinson (12) 32.0
Past Captain’s Prize: Keith Lapsley (07) 105.5
Committee prize: Raymond Shields 69
Longest Drive: James T. Sweeney
Nearest the Pin: Pat Bonner
Visitors:
1st place: Sally Ann McFadden (32 Pts)
2nd Place: Mark Taggart (29Pts) BOT

Captain’s Shoot-Out:
1st: Tony Diver
2nd: Evan Hogg

Mixed foursomes Competition 18/07/2024:
1st: Patrick Farry & Amanda Witherow 61 Nett

Captain’s Scramble 19/07/2024:
1st: James Doherty, David Tease, Teresa Farrell, Danny McColgan 39.5 (6 under 14 holes)

Captain's Prize to the Ladies 13/07/2024:
1st           Gaye Regan                 (24)    42 Pts
2nd         Paula McCallion         (23)    40 Pts
Gross     Alex Barnes                 (03)    28 Gross Pts
3rd          Eleanor McKelvey      (18)    39 Pts BOT
Front 9  Carmel Klein-Kelly    (26)    21 Pts BOT
Back 9    Kay Wilson                   (27)    22 Pts