Eventful year for Mitchelstown

AN eventful year in the history of Mitchelstown Golf Club has come to a close as members look back on the celebration of the club’s centenary.

One of the highlights was the publication of a book dealing with the first 100 years, expertly compiled by John McCarthy and Bunty Flynn.

They spent a great deal of time trawling through minute books and newspapers and the finished product details the evolution and progress of one of the best known clubs in the country.

The Cork Examiner of October 13th, 1910 provided the information on the club’s founding when a meeting, chaired by the Rev Canon Courtenay Moore, was held in the Town Hall for the purpose of ‘discussing the possibility of forming a golf club in the town.’

Promising the project his every support, the chairman said the introduction of a golf club would be of great benefit to the town, socially and commercially, and a golf ground would be a great health resort and would afford great amusement in the winter months.

The meeting voted unanimously to form a club and Mitchelstown has never looked back, evolving from a nine hole club in the challenging early days to 15 for a period and 18 in the last decade.

The book features the club’s numerous successes; highlights its dedication and interest in the promotion of golf for men, ladies and juveniles and is brimful of pictures through the decades.