18 Hole Parkland
Course Facts: Address
34 Springfield Lane
Dungannon
Co. Tyrone BT70 1QXSecretary/Manager: Carol Burnside Captain: Jim Burnside Lady Captain: Sarah Rafferty Telephone: 028-87-722098 President: H. I. McCourt & Mary Shields Public No: 028-87-722098 Vice-Captain: Cassie Hughes Fax: 028-87-727338 Hon. Secretary: Sean T. Hughes & Anne Coulter E-mail: dungannon.golfclub@btopenworld.com Club Pro: Vivian Teague 048-87-727485 Website: www.dungannongolfclub.com Hon. Treasurer: Lewis Gibbon & Hazel Annesley Founded: 1890 Designed by: Sam Bacon Membership: 791 Course opening hours: Daylight hours Green Fees Midweek: £20 Clubhouse opening hours: Varies Green Fees Weekends & B.H.: £25 Mobile phones: Not on course or in clubhouse Green Fees With a Member: £14/£16 Dress Code: Neat casual, no denim Green Fees For Opens: £8/10 Catering: Full catering facilities Practice Area: Yes Days to Avoid: Tuesdays & Saturdays before 1.30 pm Club Hire: No Green Fees and Societies Welcome: Other days Buggy Hire: Yes Pre-booking for open tournaments: 14 Days in advance Soft spikes: No
Course Description:
The present course was designed by the Knock golf club professional Sam Bacon. The course is located in typical drumlin countryside, with the skyline of Dungannon as a backdrop to the east. The course structure reflects the different acquisition dates of the front and back nine holes, in that the first nine are reasonably flat whilst the terrain of back nine starts testing the fitness and psyche of the average golfer, where his morale is most vulnerable, through contrasting, short and fairly steep drumlin slopes and little - if any - pin visibility. Fairways are wider than most throughout the course, the intention being to let the ponds, bunkers and course structure challenge both player and his skills.
Just prior to the development of its new Clubhouse - opened on 9th June 2000 by Darren Clarke, a former member and now an Honorary, life member, Andersen Match play Champion 2000 - the Club reconstructed three holes to tighten the course and make it a greater challenge to the average golfer. One of these (the ninth) is now called "Darren Clarke" which features a (fairly) narrow, ribbon-like crescent shaped green, completely protected from the tee by a pond.
Open & Major fixtures 2008: Event
Start
Finish
Type
Duration
No fixtures until 2009.
Club History
Instituted 1890, affiliated 1891. Dungannon Golf Club was founded in 1890 and is one of the nine founder clubs of the GUI. It began as a nine hole course and subsequently leased additional land to extend to the eighteen holes it presently holds. In common with other clubs of its vintage, its clubhouse facilities were small and primitive with an on-going process of building bigger and better, until in year 2000, the clubhouse was completely rebuilt on the site of its predecessors to provide the best facilities possible for the new millennium.
Location
One quarter of a mile from Dungannon, off the B43, on the Dungannon/Donaghmore Road.
Members Achievements
Fergal Rafferty was selected to represent Ireland at the Boys' Home Internationals played at Woodhall Spa, Lioncolnshire from 2nd to 4th August 2005.Fergal Rafferty was selected on the Ulster team for the Boys' Interprovincial Championships at Warrenpoint from 25th to 27th August 2004.
Darren Clarke participated in the Home Internationals from 1987 to 1989. He won the Willie Gill Perpetual Award in 1989, with 125 points and again in 1990, with 160 points and the Boys in 1985. He played Ulster Youths from 1986 to 1989, winning 14 of his 17 matches. R. Daniel represented Ulster in 1997, as did J. R. McDonald in 1997.
Carol Wallace won the Irish Girls Close Championship in 1968.
Benny Shields recorded two consecutive holes-in-one on the 9th (Darren Clarke hole) in 2005 on the same week with the same ball, same club and he has a bishop to verify it.
Card of the Course (yards)
Name Hole No White Green Par Index Red Par Index Mullaghmore 1 477 455 5 11 454 5 11 Wee Spoon 2 160 154 3 5 161 3 13 Kilymoon 3 557 549 5 1 512 5 1 Burton's Gap 4 341 332 4 13 315 4 5 Hare's Leap 5 421 329 4 7 314 4 7 Roden's 6 144 127 3 15 129 3 17 Browne's Delight 7 492 467 5 17 410 5 15 Springfield Folly 8 390 374 4 3 364 4 3 Darren Clarke 9 159 143 3 9 118 3 9 Out 3,037 2,930 36 2,777 36 The Cherries 10 347 337 4 12 308 4 12 Ranfurley 11 183 171 3 8 143 3 14 The Sperrins 12 490 460 5 16 457 5 16 Derreen 13 335 318 4 2 290 4 4 Donnelly's 14 374 364 4 6 319 4 6 Three Harry's 15 284 269 4 14 262 4 10 The Garden 16 89 89 3 18 90 3 18 O'Neill's Castle 17 554 523 5 4 441 5 2 Slevin's Plateau 18 358 320 4 10 335 4 8 In 3,014 2,930 36 2,645 36 Total 6,155 5,781 72 5,422 72 SSS 69 67 72
Men's Course Record: Peter Davidson, Paddy McAleer & Darren Clarke
Ladies Course Record:
Roll of Honour Mrs. H. McKee 1989 Ladies Captain P. P. O'Kane 1989 Men's Captain Mr. O. P. Dolan 1989 President Mrs. P. G. McGowan 1990 Ladies Captain A. J. Shiels 1990 Men's Captain Mr. O. P. Dolan 1990 President Mrs. A. E. Smith 1991 Ladies Captain B. I. Currie 1991 Men's Captain Mr. O. P. Dolan 1991 President Mrs. B. Lamb 1992 Ladies Captain J. C. Boyd 1992 Men's Captain Mr. O. P. Dolan 1992 President Mrs. B. Conlon 1993 Ladies Captain H .I. McCourt 1993 Men's Captain Mr. O. P. Dolan 1993 President Mrs. A Hopkins 1994 Ladies Captain J. Frew 1994 Men's Captain N. Alexander 1994 President Mrs. S. Campbell 1995 Ladies Captain G. K. Hopkins 1995 Men's Captain N. Alexander 1995 President Ms S. E. McKee 1996 Ladies Captain Dr. A. Ghosh 1996 Men's Captain N. Alexander 1996 President Ms M. Quinn 1997 Ladies Captain J. McCausland 1997 Men's Captain O. P. Dolan 1997 President Ms. B McQuaid 1998 Ladies Captain W. Stevenson 1998 Men's Captain Mr. O. P. Dolan 1998 President Mrs. Bernadette Keenan 1999 Ladies Captain Mrs. E. Alexander 1999 Ladies President Hugh Finnegan 1999 Men's Captain O.P. Dolan 1999 President Mrs. H. Annesley 2000 Ladies Captain Mrs. E. Alexander 2000 Ladies President Sammy Wilson 2000 Men's Captain Mr. O. P. Dolan 2000 President June Nelson 2001 Ladies Captain Una Wallace 2001 Ladies President Vincent Donnelly 2001 Men's Captain R. J. Wallace 2001 President Mairead Keogh 2002 Ladies Captain Kenneth Weir 2002 Men's Captain Joseph Hackett 2003 Men's Captain Kathleen Boyle 2004 Ladies Captain Jennifer Eitle 2004 Ladies President Ivan Brown 2004 Men's Captain Boyde Hunter 2004 President Libby Soye 2005 Ladies Captain Peter Hughes 2005 Men's Captain Boyd Hunter 2005 President Ann Shields 2006 Ladies Captain Tom Givans 2006 Men's Captain Boyd Hunter 2006 President Pat Hughes 2007 Ladies Captain Peadar Quinn 2007 Men's Captain H. I. McCourt 2007 President Sarah Rafferty (7) 2008 Lowest Ladies H'cap Peter Davidson (1) 2008 Lowest Men's H'cap
Holes-in-One Person Date Hole No. Club Used Distance Charles McKillion 3 June 2000 2nd 161 yd's Mark Wallace 11 August 2000 2nd 161 yd's
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