Castlegregory golf club Kerry

Members Achievements

Castlegregory Golf Club won the Kingdom Intermediate Shield in 2023.

The Ladies of Castlegregory Golf Club won the Noreen Moore Trophy at Tralee Golf Club on 10th September 2022 when they beat Killarney Golf Club it was the first time ever in the club's history their Ladies brought home the trophy. The team was Marion Bourke, Mary Ciepierski, Linda Flynn, Mary Moriarty and Margaret O'Callaghan with Patricia Goodwin (sub) and Manager.

Castlegregory Golf Club won the Kerry Shield in 2011, when the team was Pat Doody, Eddie Hanafin, Joe Mulcahy, Noel Earley and Kieran Shannon.
Castlegregory Golf Club won the Nines of Kerry, in 2007 when the team was Eddie Hannifin, Frankie Herlihy, Michael Burrows, Johan Rowan , Tom Ferriter, Jason Rowan, Joan Ferriter, Joe Mulcahy, Mike Keane, Tom Moriarty, Sean O’Connor, Marlyn O’Connor, Goretti O’Connor, Edel Randels, Lori Fitzgerald, Marie McCarthy and Teresa Rice.

Castlegregory Golf Club won the Nines of Kerry, in 2005 when the team was Mick Keane, Michael Burrows, Pat Prendeville, Eddie Hannifin, Jason Rowan, George Nash, Joe Mulcahy, Merlyn O’Connor, Tina Moriarty, Marie McCarthy, Edel Randels, and Marian Kennedy, they were managed by Kathleen Hennessey.

Castlegregory Golf Club won the Kerry Shield, in 1994 when the team was Martin Rice, Joe McKenna, Dan O’Connor, Con O’Connor, Stephen Hennessy, Fergus Moroney and Dr. Arthur Spring  
Castlegregory Golf Club won the Dr. Billy O'Sullivan Shield in 1992, when the team was, Tom Moriarty, Pat O'Driscoll, Sean O'Connor, Chris Searle, Eddie Hannafin, Stephen Hennessy, Jerry O'Connor, John F. Finn, Sean Leen, Kevin Moore, Leo Foley, Peter Breen and they were managed by Fergus Moroney.

Congratulations to Liam Ryan (11) who emerged triumphant in the Irish final of the Peugeot Challenge Cup at Adare Manor Golf & Country Club, where he returned a fine 71 nett in early August 2001. He booked his place to represent Ireland in the Grand Final in Paris in September.

Tom Moriarty became the first person ever to have an albatross on 373, yard index 6, 7th, on the Cashen Course at Ballybunion in May, 1999. He hit a 3-wood. The Captain of Ballybunion Fintan Scannell was playing in front of Tom on the memorable occasion.

The Ladies of Castlegregory were runners-up in the Munster Minor Cup at Lee Valley Golf Club on Saturday 22nd August 2015, when the team was Carol Shanahan, Marion Burke-Egan, Mary Sills, Helen Harty and Anne Woods, they were managed by Tina Mloriarty.

History of Castlegregory

It would appear golf has been played at Castlegregory as early as 1897, when The Sportsman's Holiday Guide describes it as "a very fine 18 hole course extending about three and a half miles in circuit. It lies along the coast and is quite the first course in the Kingdom of Kerry". It was the second links course of Tralee Golf Club which had been founded in 1896. The Golfing Annuals listed it until 1905. It would seem that after Tralee was reconstituted in 1907, the course fell into disuse until the club was re-founded in 1990.
What the Club tells us:

According to The Sportsman`s Holiday Guide 1897, a fine 18 hole golf course existed in the Castlegregory area – “about 3 1/2 miles in circuit it lies along the coast and is quite the first course in the Kingdom of Kerry”. The Golfing Annals continued to list Castlegregory until 1905. The course would appear to have fallen into disuse with the reconstituting of Tralee Golf Club in 1907.

In the late 1980s the idea of a golf course in Castlegregory was again mooted. Local man Maurice Fitzgerald had long harboured a desire for a links course in the vicinity, and eventually a general meeting of interested people was held in Tralee Bay Hotel in 1988. The outcome of that meeting was the renting of 57.28 acres of land beside Lough Gill, near Stradbally village, from Mrs. Peggy Griffin.

Later, a small bit of ground was acquired on lease from Mr. Sonny O`Donnell (this is now the site of the 7th green). A committee was formed and under the chairmanship of Dr. Tony Sills, work commenced on a nine-hole links golf course in 1989. The course architect was Dr. Arthur Spring and construction manager was Mr. Michael O`Shea. FAS, the National Training and Employment Authority, provided twelve workers for the project. In 1990 Mr. Martin Rice took over as Chairman of the Committee. Resulting from general meetings it was agreed to seek 75 Founder Members. Each Founder Member contributed £600 Irish Pounds to the project. The full list of original Founder Members is on a plaque, which is now on display in the Clubhouse.

In December 1994 Ms. Joan Ferriter became the first full time employee in the clubhouse, and in April of the following year Mr. Mike Dowd, as head greenkeeper, and Mr. Joe O`Flaherty, as his assistant, became the first full time workers on the course. In 1999 Dr. Michael Foxe was appointed as consultant agronomist to the Club.

Over the past thirty years the club has developed and now boasts a new clubhouse that has replaced the caravan that was the original clubhouse.