Woodenbridge golf club Wicklow

Members Achievements

Woodenbridge won the the Brennan Cup in 1996, 2000 and 2001.

They were County Champions in the J. B. Carr Diamond Trophy in 1999 and 2005.

The Ladies won the Midland District Senior Cup in 1997.

Lady Captain Phyllis O'Rourke, Captain Ian Bothwell and Honorary Secretary Brian Hurley, qualified for the National Finals of the Mercedes-Benz Irish Independent Executive Golf Classic at The K Club on August 12th 2002.

Lady Captain Phyllis O'Rourke (19) and her Captains Prize Winner Anne Mernagh (14) qualified for the National Finals of the Volkswagen-Irish Independent Lady Captains' Golf Classic at Druid's Glen in October 2002, when they returned 43 points at The Royal Dublin Golf Club in September.

Prior to 2001:

Members who played representative golf for Country or Province;

R. J. Moran represented Leinster at Senior Interprovincial level in 1979 playing 4-times won 2-matches and lost 2-matches accumulating 4-points;

Denise McCarthy was selected to play in the European Ladies Team Championship at Wentworth Golf Club in 1991 and played in the Ladies Home Internationals at Wrexham in 1995 and she won the Stroke Play Foursomes together with Miss Eavan Higgins of Douglas in 1992;

History of Woodenbridge

Instituted 1897 affiliated 1899

There is some confusion as to the origins of this club. The "Irish Field", on the 25th of July 1908, records "The club was started in 1897 and owes a great deal to the late Colonel Bayly, who did all in his power to further its interests, giving the land free"

There are claims that in 1884, Colonel Bayly invited Sir Stanley Cochrane to field a team of gentlemen to play golf at Woodenbridge.

The best account of the formation of Woodenbridge is given in "The Irish Golfer" on the 3rd October 1900, and it records "This club was formed about three years ago.

The original members numbered only about six or seven. Owing to the kindness of Colonel E. R. Bayly, Ballyarthur, Co. Wicklow, the President of the club, who permitted grounds of his, adjoining the Woodenbridge Railway Station, to be turned into a golf links, the difficulties attached to the formation of the club were speedily got over.

It has improved every year, so that now there are about sixty members. The links is a grassland course, are beautifully situated, bounded on one side by the woods of Ballyarthur, and the other side by the river Avoca, the greens are carefully kept and the sod on them is considered to be second to none on any inland links in the country"

Woodenbridge has since extended to eighteen-holes and it is the most scenic inland course I have seen in the country.