Dr. Crokes Golf Society 2025
Happy 2025 to all members.
Our Golfing season is all set to go for 2025.The good news is we were able to get Waterville again into our calendar for 2025. Please take note of the arrangements for the Waterville outing further down the letter.
So we look forward to a wonderful and enjoyable 2025 golfing year.
Leading the Golf Society in 2025 is Captain Joey Sheehan and President Liam Hartnett.
Captain Joey Sheehan
The Captain leading us out for 2025 is Joey Sheehan. Joey played underage with the Crokes, under mentors Ger Cullinane and Jackie Looney and has fond memories of travelling to blitzes in Buckleys Volkswagon bus all over the county.
Basketball was ultimately his calling and he first played with St. Vincents as a teenager in the 1978/79 season. Due to the vision of another great Crokes man, Paudie O Connor (RIP) who introduced the 1st American player to Irish basketball and from this Joey was introduced to National League basketball winning multiple National League titles. He played along side current society members Brian Clarke and Niall Botty O Callaghan at National League level. He also represented Ireland with the Garda Basketball team.
Joey is a member of the society since the start and is a great supporter of all the outings. An accomplished golfer he has won 5 Captain Prizes, 2 President prizes along with numerous other outings with the society. He is proud to have won the Eddie Barry Memorial Cup 3 times as player of the year. A retired Garda,he is married to Teresa and they have one daughter Robyn.
Joey is quick to remind us that even though he has won many times, he has lost a lot of tenners on the course……
President Liam Hartnett
The President of the society for 2025 is Liam Hartnett. Liam,also known as Bill,is a former playing stalwart of the club and an uncompromising defender who played minor,junior,U21 and senior with Kerry but his greatest day out was starring alongside his 19 other colleagues in claiming the All-Ireland Club Championship in 1992 beating Thomas Davis of Dublin in the final.
His medal haul saw him claim 2 Munster Club in 1990 and 1991,2 County Championships in 1991 and 2000 and won 7 O Donoghue Cups. He also has won every County and East Kerry title at underage level.
He also served as an officer of the club and was part of the senior management team at one stage.
Past Captain of the society and Killarney Golf Club who served on the Golf society committee for over 20 years. He stepped down to coincide with his retirement as Postmaster from Killarney Post Office.
Liam is married to Catherine and they have 2 daughters Niamh and Aisling.
Membership:
Membership of the society will be €30.00 and Club membership is €60 and must be paid in order to be a member of the society. There is also the Clear Air Boys membership which is a very important initiative for the club. The Clear Air Boys membership pays for the upgrade of the club house and grounds i.e. Gym, Storage shed and scoreboard to mention a few. The fee for this is €100.There is a link attached below to link into the club force app to pay the Club memberships etc. As the club depends on membership, we would appeal to you to pay this as soon as you can.
Please also note that the society is open for new members of the Golf Society. Contact committee with any new members.
Fixtures 2025:
Timesheets:
Please note we are changing the Dooks outing to Friday 18th April as to avoid the Kerry v Cork game which is on Saturday 19th April 2025.
Timesheets will be in operation as usual. Please e-mail or text Ger O Shea(geroshea77@gmail.com) or 087/2316068.
Please do not include your name if you are doubtful about travelling as members will be disqualified for the next outing if they fail to show on the day.
Timesheets, results and news will be on our Facebook page.
Waterville outing Friday 21st March 2025:
Our first outing will be in Waterville on Friday 21st March 2025. We are very pleased to have received tee times (11.00am – 12.50pm ) to play Waterville. The cost of the day for golf will be €80.00. As we have limited times we will require members to have the outing and membership paid for in advance. Those interested in playing the outing please pay €110.00 (€80.00 for outing and €30.00 for membership ) to Vince Casey or Keith McMahon (revolut) before Saturday 8th March 2025.
Sponsors:
We would like to thank our sponsors and ask you to support them throughout the year especially in these very challenging times.
We have 2 Perpetual Trophies, The Denis Coffey Memorial Trophy and The Maurice O Donoghue memorial Trophy. These will be presented to the winners at the relevant outing each year.
Also in 2024 we presented the inaugural Malachy Walsh memorial trophy in Kenmare. We also have a beautiful memorial bench in remembrance of Malachy on the 4th Hole. The trophy will be presented at each Kenmare outing in Malachy’s Honour.
A huge thank you to our outgoing Captain Maurice O Donoghue and Outgoing President Colm Galvin for their successful year and we hope they enjoyed their year.
Thank you also to the committee for all your hard work to make the society a very successful one.
Finally, we wish all our members and families the best of luck in the year ahead and hopefully 2025 will be an enjoyable golfing year for everybody.
On Behalf of the Committee.
Ger O Shea.
087/2316068
Brendan Keogh (Treasurer), Vincent Casey, John O Leary, Keith McMahon and Wayne McDonald.
