Brian Keogh

Golf Ireland selects Underage High Performance Development Squads

Brian Keogh
Golf Ireland selects Underage High Performance Development Squads

Golf Ireland has announced the Underage High Performance and Performance Development squads for 2022.

There are three Underage High Performance squads for Boys (U18 and U16) and Girls (U18)

Five regions will also be the base for Performance Development squads (Boys U17 and U15 and Girls U17).

Over 100 players from 62 clubs in all four provinces (plus one in Spain) have been selected for the High Performance and Performance Development squads.

Douglas Golf Club has five players on different squads  — Jack Murphy and James Walsh on the national High Performance Under 18 squad, and Sean Reddy in the U16 squad, as well as Sean Deasy on the South U17 squad and Barry O’Connell on the South U16 squad.

Galway Bay has two players on the U18 Boys squad in Adam Challoner and Luke Cunningham as well as Caolan Coleman and Rory Gallagher on the West U15s.

Clubs such as Ballinasloe, Ballykisteen, Belvoir Park, Black Bush, Clandeboye, Co Sligo, Edmondstown, Elm Park, Fota Island, Holywood, Hilton Templepatrick, Laytown & Bettystown, Kinsale, Knock, Malone, Massereene, Moyola Park, Naas, Oughterard, Royal Belfast, Royal Portrush and Tullamore are also well represented.

High Performance Squads

U18 Boys

Adam Buchanan (Malone)        
Adam Challoner (Galway Bay)
Luke Cunningham (Galway Bay)
Fionn Dobbin (Malone)
Darcy Hogg (Belvoir Park)
Alex King (Faithlegg)                  
Jack Murphy (Douglas) 
Sean McLoughlin (Co. Sligo)
Gavin O'Neill (Malahide)
James Walsh (Douglas)          

U18 Girls
Olivia Costello (Roscommon)
Kate Dillon (Oughterard)
Emma Fleming (Elm Park) 
Rebekah Gardner (Clandeboye)
Hannah Guerin (Royal Tara)
Marina Joyce Moreno (Llavaneras)
Molly O’Hara (Clandeboye)
Katie Poots (Knock)
Caitlin Shippam (Ballykisteen)

U16 Boys         
Donncha Cleary (Tipperary)
Sean Cooper (Enniscorthy)       
John Doyle (Fota Island)
Mark Gazi (Tralee)        
Evan Hogg (Belvoir Park)          
Harry McArdle (Warrenpoint)
Scott McCabe (Massereene)
Evan Monaghan (Tullamore)     
Sean Reddy (Douglas)   
Charlie Smyth (Slieve Russell)

Performance Development Squads

Midlands-East        

U17 Boys                     
Ethan Garvey (Laytown & Bettystown)    
Ben Hanratty (Donabate)
Luke Mitchell (Portmarnock)
Gavin Tiernan (Co. Louth)

U17 Girls
Ella Cantwell (Esker Hills)                       
Sinead Ni Cealleachair (Tullamore)
Caoimhe O'Grady (Black Bush)
Niamh O'Grady (Black Bush)
Ellen O'Shaughnessy (Castleknock)
Sophie Sharp (Royal Tara)                  

U15 Boys
Adam Fahey (Seapoint)            
Matthew Lynch (Greenore)
Daniel McKenna (Laytown & Bettystown)
Jack McKenna (Laytown & Bettystown)
Harley Phipps (Ardee)                       

North

U17 Boys
Sam Allister (Belvoir Park)
Noah Bickerstaff (Massereene)             
Harvey McCabe (Massereene)
Josh McKee (Hilton Templepatrick)       
Jamie Nevin (Holywood)
Michael Rocks Jnr (Lisburn)
Corey Scullion (Moyola Park)                                            

U17 Girls
Aoife Browne (Lurgan)
Olivia Currie (Royal Portrush)
Hannah Lee-McNamara (Foyle)
Gemma McMeekin (Massereene)
Kayleigh Mulholland (Moyola Park)
Alana Ross (Knock)

U15 Boys
Rory Adamson (Royal Belfast)   
Eoin Burrows (Holywood)
Finn Eager (Royal Belfast)
Harris Fleming (Galgorm Castle)
Paul Fletcher (Royal Portrush)
Conail Fitzsimons (Ardglass)      
David Lyttle (Castlerock)
Stuart Nesbitt (Hilton Templepatrick)
Harry O’Hara (Clandeboye)

South

U17 Boys
Eoghan Cassidy (Kinsale)
Sean Deasy (Douglas)
Sean Healy (Kinsale)
Matthew Kelleher (Fota Island)
Lucas Lyons (Limerick)
Ryan Lyons (Blarney)    
Paddy Quill (Cork)

U17 Girls
Jiaren Eina Pang (Portarlington)

U15 Boys
Gordon Sillett (Ballykisteen)
Barry O’Connell (Douglas)           

South-East

U17 Boys
James O’ Rourke (Naas)
Aidan O'Carroll (Elm Park)        
Neil Patterson (Baltinglass)       
Greg Healy (Bray)         
Adam O'Loughlin (Killeen)        
Charlie Quinn (Castle)  
Patrick Curran (Edmondstown) 
Dylan Holmes (Greystones)      

U17 Girls
Anna Abom (Edmondstown)     
Kate Fleming (Elm Park)
Caoimhe McKeon (Stackstown)
Ciara Waldron (Naas)

U15 Boys
Calum Duane (Royal Curragh)
Fionnan O'Connor (Edmondstown)

West

U17 Boys         
Aodhagan Brady (Co. Sligo)
Padraic McNeela (Oughterard)             
Charlie Mooney (Ballinasloe)    
Cathal Penney (Athenry)           

U17 Girls
Maebh McLoughlin (Co. Sligo)

U15 Boys
Jack Clohessy (Ennis)
Caolan Coleman (Galway Bay)   
Niall Conneely (Ballinasloe)      
Rory Gallagher (Galway Bay)                                                     
Owen Kelly (Castlebar)                         
Luke Murphy (Portumna)
Isaac Oliver (Ballinasloe)