What a Squash Irish Open we had this weekend. John Rooney former Irish Professional player from Galway won the men’s over 35 beating defending champion Keith Moran from Sligo, both pictured below. Neal Murphy from Nass successfully defended his over 40 title beating Dara O’Flynn from Fitzwilliam in Dublin 3-1 in the final. Well done to Sundays Well for hosting this prestigious Tournament and to Johnny Hurley as Tournament Director.
The Sunday’s Well Squash Open took place on the 9th December 2017. Well done to all who took part, some photos of the prizegiving are given on facebook at this link
The American Tournament which ran monthly from April – October was again a big success, we had 82 people take part over the 6 months and every month bar one was fully booked. The finals of the American Tournament took place on October 27th, Joe O’Mahony and Alex Daly were the overall winners. The tournament was backed with sponsorship from Cantor Fitzgerald and Human+Kind and the good news is that Human+Kind have already agreed to sponsor it again next year.
Insight Senior Close week took place between 24th-30th September 2017. Approximately, 90 members took part in 13 events over the 5 day period. The weather was testing at times during the week cause some matches to be rescheduled but the week finished on Saturday despite the changes. Winners and runners-up were given Club gear as prizes for the first time.
Sunday’s Well was asked to host these at relatively short notice when St Anne’s was unable to do so. I am very happy to say that we were able to oblige and that we also had two teams playing on the day. Congratulations go to our Grade 4 mens’ team and our Grade 6 ladies who both won their respective events in a nail-biting superdoubles.
The Munster Senior Open was held in June. With 30 events and 420 entries it was a yet again a big undertaking. Dara Carberry again did a wonderful job as tournament director. In 2016, Dara Carberry & Trish Murphy did a considerable amount of work collecting and analysing data about the open. They looked at court time, number of players etc.. This year we were able to apply the lessons learnt from the data analysis and it made for a very smooth open with very few players playing late and…