May 23: In the Pierce Purcell Shield competition, yesterday Tulfarris came out in second place from 15 different Golf Clubs in the Regional Qualifiers played over the difficult terrain at Roundwood Golf Club. This was achieved through the great work of Team Manager, Mick Curran in preparing the panel for the competition over the past number of weeks. This placing brought us back this morning to Roundwood for the Regional semi-final against Killerig Golf Club. The five pairings, playing foursomes golf, lost narrowly with the final pairings going all the way down the 19th - the narrowest of margins. I have just heard that Killerig went on this afternoon to win the final bringing them through to the closing stages of the Leinster Competition.

Well done and thank you to Team Manager, Mick Curran and to the players - Keith Turner, Alan Satelle, James McCarron, Les Broderick, David Reid, John Devereux, Martin Lenihan, Damien Geoghegan, Ger Ryder, Charlie McGee (and myself).

2009 Team Manager: Noel Reilly

May 16^th: Tulfarris battled it out with host Club Craddockstown and 14 other Clubs in the Regional Qualifier for the Pierce Purcell Shield. In atrocious weather conditions - which forced the Irish Open to postpone their play - the Tulfarris team qualified for the semi-finals which were played this morning (Sunday). The results of the qualifiers which involved the four best gross scores from each team of five foursome pairs were as follows:

1st: Millicent 369

2nd: Kilcock 370

3rd: Tulfarris 371

4th: Curragh 373

In the first semi-final Millicent beat Curragh and in the other one Tulfarris beat Kilcock - again in wet and windy condidtions this morning. Tulfarris defeated Millicent in the afternoons final. They are now just 4 games short of the All-Ireland.

June 13^th: Tulfarris were beaten last evening 3/2 by Moate at The Heath in the Leinster quarter-final of the Pierce Purcell competition.

The 5 pairs from Tulfarris were James McCarron/John Devereux, Stephen McEntee/Alan Britton, Gareth Nolan/Frank Lewis, Keith Turner/Les Broderick and John Horan/Mark Reilly. They were greatly assisted by caddies Brendan Daly, Tom O'Shea, Jim Byrne, Billy Reilly and Jerry Lambe. Comiserations (and thanks) to them and to all those members who turned out to support them. Finally congratulations to Team Manager Noel Reilly and his Assistant Jim Byrne in getting the club to this advanced stage in the competition.