Boards Golf Society 2025

Great 1st post as Captain @Kiith and the very best of good wishes for your year.

Fantastic selection of courses, I have only played slightly more than half of them, so lots of homework and exciting times ahead.

I presume accommodation will be arranged for the overnighter in September, have every intention of being right in contention and earn my spot by right not misfortune this time around so will defo be up for overnighter.

Dont worry too much about not qualifying for Jug, sure you can follow tradition with your picks😆..tho I suspect you wont need to.

Again, best wishes and let the good times roll, and above all, enjoy your year.

Happy new year everyone. Excellent first post @Kiith captain. Lovely selection of courses and some new ones to mark off my to play list. Really looking forward to this golfing year.

Best of Luck for the coming year Captain. 3 maybe 4 new courses for me to hack around this year. I'm looking forward to them already, Hard to believe we are nearly ready to go again.

I wouldn't stress too much about the organising on the day. Clubnet was a gamechanger in the past few years, gone are the days collecting money on the day, paying bills and getting abuse because someone had a 2 but never entered the comp.

You'll have major back up in Seve and Space who never fail to step up.

Enjoy, it's a great year.

Good luck for the coming year Captain Kiith.

There's a bit of work ahead, but it's rewarding work and I think you'll get plenty of enjoyment out of the year...even if your own golf at outings might suffer (the Captains curse) 😄

A lovely set of courses there. Some that are overdue a return (Portumna, Curragh), others new to me, (Fermoy and Woodenbridge).

As always, looking forward to another great year of golf with the society, and the battles for GOTY and the Jug

Its been a long winter but the 1st post of the year about the upcoming season always makes things feel better. A nice spread of courses from our new overlord @Kiith . A few I've played and a few if heard only good things about, so looking forward to some new challenges.

Here's to another good year of golf. Hoping to get out a bit more myself this year (last year was an awful golf year outside the society) and to be a bit more competitive.

See you all in a few short weeks

Lovely balance of course there captain - a mix of links , heathland , parkland etc.

In fact must be most links in a year ever. (well Roadrunner did have a Links swing - but think that mix might have a slight lead on that year)

2 great courses for captains - and courses all can enjoy and get around the place . Interesting that there are 2 totally different styles of golf for the captains weekend - a new and very successful concept from last year.

Tricky year for me - have an injury I'm working on , but not a quick fix thing.

Hope to see ye all at some point. For info, I'm not on committee this year, a few things on, outside of golf and injury doubts - looking forward to being a hurler on the ditch and looking for my 2s money every time I go out. Also a few shots more, someone to get my food from the kitchen and tell me what time my tee time is that I booked and am late for.

Anyone looking in - a must join. You meet fantastic golfers who love this game and get great access great golf at great value

Best of luck to this years Captain @Kiith. Ive played 4 of these courses and there great courses to play so i will be looking forward to going back to them again this year.

I havent played a lot over the winter but i was out twice over the xmas holidays and the buzz is back😂. I cant wait to get back playing and actually compete for the jug team this year as i havent got near to it since ive first joined.

Hope to see yous all at Portmarnock!

Thanks for all the hard work through difficulties and illness @Kiith. Great list, can't wait to get started!

That is a great mix of courses.

Rathsallagh and Portumna are two courses that I really enjoyed on my only visit but it has been years since I played either of them.

3 new courses for me in Seapoint, Grange Castle and Curragh. I do have good memories of playing Seapoint Pitch and Putt club and had one of my best ever results there before switching to golf. I am taking that as a sign of a good round for me that day 🤔

Fermoy is a bonus as it is the nearest course to my house. Approximately 4km as the crow flies. However it has been at least 3 years since I last played there. The greens are usually in brilliant condition there.

Great Post @Kiith. Some great choices of courses. Really looking forward to this year. I'm constantly playing the game looks like it's starting turn slightly for the better. I'm delighted not to see corballis on the list😂

Well done Captain Kiith and Co for putting together such an attractive fixture list for the year. I've only played two from the list - Portmarnock links which we're all familiar with and Woodenbridge. Woodenbridge is an absolute pleasure to play - one of those really enjoyable rounds. Plenty of challenge, but out to get you. And it's a beautiful setting in the valley.

Of those I haven't played half them are on my (admittedly long) shortlist of courses to play. Seapoint - supposed to be a lovely links not far up the road from me. Rathsallagh was my wedding venue, so has been on the list since, I just haven't managed to get there. The Curragh I've heard wonderful things about and Portumna is constantly referenced when talking about the best parkland courses in the country. And Grange Castle and Arklow supposed to be terrific tracks too. I don't know anything about Fermoy, but courses you don't know anything about can turn out to be the most enjoyable.

But alas, pink note has fallen pregnant again. So I'm hoping to make the first three outings. The next two not a chance for me. I might chance my arm and see can I get to Portumna, but highly unlikely. And I will try to make at least one of the Captains weekend days. But if I get to play as much as expect in the year what I miss out on in terms of rounds I'll make up for in shots.

Anyway, looking forward to seeing you all in the links in February. I definitely intend to stay for pints after too!

Welcome aboard. Great craic, great slagging..but serious trying to qualify for the Jug.

Great bunch of people involved.

Mad they are.

I am the only sane one 🤣🤣

“Laced with pine trees……heather strewn terrain” - might bring a few extra balls that day 😀

It's one of the great things about the society that you'll end up playing great courses that you might not otherwise have heard of. It's even a positive about the cost of golf going up that there's more of these courses on the itinerary these years. You'll always seek out the likes of carton house or druids glen, but you might never play the likes of fermoy or nenagh if they weren't on the list.

Now when the pendulum swings the other way and the cost of golf goes down that'll be a positive too. Variety is the way to do it. We should all play corballis and the island, adare and adare manor.