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1 1 A Chara, You are very welcome to this the last BACKSPIN for 2017. This issue serves not as the definitive review of the year but more as a starting point to a number of items you will see over the coming weeks both on our website as well as our YouTube Channel. We hope that you enjoyed the videos with some of our National Champions from the year gone by when they were put up last November. Delighted to say that we had the TV cameras again at a major event in 2017, that being the National Inter-County Championships in Ryston back in September. Will Downing and his company Irish Sports Network were the filming crew again and we await details of when it will be broadcast on TV but at pre-sent both the Gents A and Ladies footage which includes commentary from both Will and Darren Keogh is up on YouTube for viewing.

2 Next week videos of interviews that were (continued on last ) BACKSPIN December, 2017 Official E-Zine of the Pitch and Putt Union of Ireland Photo Caption PPUI National Competition Coordinator & Patron Myles McMorrow, PPUI President Mervyn Cooney and former PPUI President & current Patron Eamonn Birchall pictured recently at the launch of the PPUI Strategic Plan 2017 2021 Issue Highlights: 2017 National Inter-Club 2017 Provincial Winners PPUI Launch Strategic Plan 2017 2021 Plus 2 2017 Scratch Gents Champions Fermoy have now emulated the St Annes team of 2013 and 2014 by winning two National Senior Inter-Club titles in-a-row with their latest success in Hillview last October.

3 The North Cork club have also matched the Shanakiel outfit by adding the 2017 National Handicap Inter-Club trophy to the senior tournament a feat St. Annes achieved in the inaugural year of the Inter-Club events, back in 2013. John Cahill played for the Collins/Fermoy amalgamated team (that came second in 2014) and was a leading figure on the 2016 and 2017 Fermoy senior Inter-Club winning sides. Joining Cahill as two-time Fermoy National Sen-ior Inter-Club winners are reigning Munster Strokeplay champion Bryan Delaney, Declan Freeman, Daniel Keohane, David Sexton and Conor Clancy.

4 Just a month previously, Cahill, Freeman and Delaney had helped Cork to the Inter-County championship at Ryston. St. Annes maintained their record of reaching the semi-final stages of every National Senior Inter-Club tournament. Their record in the last four is now W3 L2. Kieran Dunscombe, Frank Dineen, John O'Sullivan Ray Murphy, Tim Murphy Liam Myers and Darren Collins all hold two winners gongs for St. Annes. Fermoy s to victory over Riverdale is a new record for a National Handicap Inter-Club tournament final. Jimmy Quinn won a National Handicap Inter-Club medal on the same Hillview course where he had finished National Intermediate Strokeplay runner-up, two shots behind Conor Irwin, three months before.

5 Jimmy was joined in the Fermoy team by 2017 National Inter Club by John Manning PPUI National Ladies Promotional day winners Betty Fox (The Acres), Ann Sweeney (St. Bridget s) and Frances Murphy (Kilshannig) which was held in McDonagh P&P Club, Kildare 3 Cork Intermediate Strokeplay 2017 winner Peter O Donovan and by Quirke, who was third in the same championship. Jimmy Quinn and Quirke were also teammates on the Cork team that won the Munster Intermediate Inter-County championship at Castleisland. Deerpark appeared in their third National Handicap Inter-Club semi-final.

6 Their loss to Riverdale was the Killarney club s first loss at the semi-final stage. Fermoy become the third club after St. Anne's and St. Patrick s to win both the National Gent s Senior and the National Gent s Handicap Inter-Club. Lakeside s outstanding record in the Na-tional Ladies Inter-Club continued. The Temple-more team has now recorded two wins and one runners-up placing. The Templemore club re-versed the result of their 2016 National Ladies Inter-Club final against St. Bridget s. It s the first time the same two teams have met in successive Inter-club finals. Bridget Shelley, Helen McMor-row, Elaine Quinn, Josie McCormack and Mary Quinn have been part of the 2014 and 2017 win-ning Lakeside teams and were also on board the squad that lost to St.

7 Bridget s in the 2016 decid-er. Elaine Quinn was a Munster Junior Inter-County winner with Tipperary in 2017. Munster clubs have won 10 of the 14 Na-tional Inter-Club tournaments played since 2014 (the Ladies event was not held in 2015). All three titles were claimed by Munster clubs in 2017 - for the first time since 2013 when Riverdale la-dies triumphed alongside the St. Annes Gents double. Riverdale are now the first club to be runners-up in the National Handicap Inter-Club and in the National Ladies Inter-Club. Pictured with PPUI President, Mervyn Cooney are the Kildare team, winners of the PPUI National Ladies Inter County Championship 4 Photo Caption The PPUI recently launched its Strategic Plan for the period 2017-2021 in the presence of former Presidents, Patrons, NEC Officers, County/Regional Board officials and Glenville Pitch & Putt Club members at the Kiltipper Road course in Dublin.

8 The Plan which has been developed over the course of the last year under the Chairmanship of former NEC and FIPPA/EPPA Officer John Manning was formally unveiled, with John and PPUI President Mervyn Cooney amongst those to speak at the event. Formally introducing the Plan and describing himself as a keen observer of the game, John Manning said it had been a privilege and an honour to be asked to work with the Sub-Committee which included Hon Secretary Michael Murphy, National Coaching & Development Man-ager Paul Hayes, Munster/Connacht Co-Ordinator Mark Keohane along with Darren Keogh (Ryston) and Ger Holland (RGSC).

9 Eight Meetings were held by the Group who also interacted through e-mail as the Chair-man felt that a happy medium had been struck in the objectives set out in this Strategic Plan and that it was not too ambitious or too conservative in its scope, like previous plans may have been. He said that it was focussed on six key pillars with the success of the plan depending on their delivery. PPUI President Mervyn Cooney meanwhile said it was appropriate that the Plan was formally un-veiled in Glenville a year short of the club hosting the 2018 National Gents Strokeplay on its 70th anniversary.

10 He complimented the time and ener-gy that had been spent by the Sub-Committee on the Plan in the past year and felt that the needs of PPUI members are sufficiently addressed in the Plan. Sport Ireland CEO John Treacy, in his fore-word for the Plan complemented the PPUI on the PPUI Launch Strategic Plan 2017 2021 By Jason O Connor & Paul Hayes Pictured at the recent launch of the PPUI Strategic Plan 2017 2021 in Glenville P&P Club are John Carr (Gents Captain Glenville), PPUI President Mervyn Cooney, Pat Greene (Seapoint & LDM Regional Board) and Eileen Cousins (Lady Captain Glenville).