IT WAS A historic day for Lahinch junior boys at Castletroy golf club on Thursday when they won their first pennant for the club, defeating Ballybunion in the boys inter-club West Munster area final.
With the best three scores to count from five playing off their own handicap (range 5 to 24) Lahinch were always in control of the match. Their next outing will be in the All-Ireland finals which will be hosted by Castletroy in August.
The panel members are James Blackwell, Matthew Braja, James Cogan, Daniel Healy, Ciaran Hennigan, Niall Kelly, Cathal McNulty and Ralph Whelehan; their team managers are Kevin Glynn and Johnny Reynolds and coach Shane Carey. Glynn has managed they club’s junior boys programme for the past twenty-seven years.
This week, the Fred Daly boys will hope to make it a double when they play Killarney in their area final at Ballybunion.
Meanwhile preparations are nearing completion for this year’s Pierse Motors VW Ireland sponsored South of Ireland Amateur Open Championship which commences on Wednesday next.
Kilrush Golf Club:
The lady captain’s (Stephanie Roughan) prize to the men at Kilrush was played for at the weekend when the top three all returned 39 points.
On a countback Bernard Coleman (17) emerged as the winner from Feargal S. Crowley (13) with third spot filled by Pat Shannon (18) from Cranny. The category winners were Malcolm McCarthy (10) with 35 points, Patrick Coleman (14) with 37 points and Sean Moran (21) with 35 points.
The Gleeson’s sponsored ladies stableford competition was won by Margaret Donnelly (20) with 33 points from Mary Lyons (20) with 31 points with third spot filled by Mary Downes (32) with 31 points. The category winners were Anne Brennan (12) with 29 points, Claire Pyne (21) with 30 points and Mary McCarthy (30) with 29 points.
Dromoland Golf Club:
Gordon Daffy won the men’s 18 hole stableford competition at Dromoland at the weekend with 43 points. He had one to spare over Sean Hayes with Brian Aherne a point further back in third place with Patrick Vaughan in fourth place with 39 points. Enda Heneghan won the gross with 33 points.
The men’s 9 hole midweek competition was won by Cian Moloney with 23 points from Niall Woods with 20 points and Sean Hayes with 19 points.
In the ladies 18 hole stroke medal qualifier Mairead Toomey won with 67 from Carola Wixted with 72, Ann Nix with 73 and Joan Ryan with 74. Leslie O’Flynn won the gross with 84.
Kitty Quinn won the ladies 9 hole stroke competition while the ladies 9 hole stableford competition was won by Jo Linnane with Martina McInerney winning the ladies 18 hole stableford competition with 39 points.
East Clare Golf Club:
Lady captain Rachel Whelan (17) was the category 1 winner of the ladies 18 hole stroke competition at East Clare with 73.
Category 2 was won by Ursula Hogan (31) with 78 while the category 3 winner was Ann Harte (46) with 75.
The overall winner was Catherine Minogue (25) with 72.
The ladies Wednesday competition was won by Jenny Ryan, Nancy Starr and Margaret O Brien from Mary Hogan, Mary Collins and Siobhan Mulcahy with third place filled by Mary Farrell, Mary Stillman and Siobhan Tiernan.
The men’s open Thursday competition was won by Joe Geoghegan with 42 points from Mark Sweeney with 40 points. Eoin Magill won the gross.
Last week’s men’s 18 hole stableford competition was won by Paul Madden with 41 points from Colm Kelly with 40 points and Adrian Casey, also with 40 points. Eoin Magill won the gross.
Terry Coughlan, Martin McKeogh and Jim Fahy were the winner of the senior men’s competition last week from Paul Husband, J.J. Barton and Batt Skehan with third place filled by John Farrell, Danny Minogue and Tony McNulty.
The men’s open competitions continue on Thursdays with the mixed scramble continuing on Friday evenings at 5.45p.m.
Woodstock Golf Club:
Last week’s open singles at Woodstock was won by Mark Roche (18) from Slievenamon with 41 points Kieran Browne (18) was second with 41 points while David Keane (12), Kilrush was third and he also scored 41 points.
There was no competition at the weekend as a number of holes were closed following the heavy raid on Friday and Saturday.
The midweek open singles this week has been cancelled as a result of the weather.
The July Medal that was scheduled for this weekend has been postponed to another date and will be replaced by a singles stableford compeition off the green markers running from Friday to Sunday the 23rd of July.
Ennis Golf Club:
The ladies team of four competition at Ennis last week was won by Flor Coffey, Monica Finnerty, Una O’Reilly and Peggie Costello with 89 points. They had four to spare over Helen and Ann Gallery, Mary Nagle and Mary T McMahon while third place was filled by Jean Molony, Geraldine O’Rourke, Ethna Murphy and Rose Enright with 79 points,
In the 9 hole team of four the winners with 39 points were Carmel Cummins, Elaine Kelly, Gina Stokes, Toni Droney. They had two to spare over Margaret McEnery, Alice D’Arcy, Jackie Quinlan and Audrey McEnery while third spot was filled by Helen Brooks, Rita Meade, Sinead O’Sullivan and Mary Curley also with 37 points.
As a result of the course being closed on Saturday due to the torrential rain the scheduled GOY competition was postponed and will be rescheduled for a date in August.
There will be a presentation night on this Sunday July 23 for all open week competitions, the Ennis members’ prizes for St. Flannan’s PPU outing and the Shanahan Trophy.
Sunday’s men’s fourball was won by Senan Ryan (10) and David Considine (14) with 46 points, one more than Aaron Burke (15) and Martin Moroney (15) with third place filled by Padraig Cusack (14) and Noel Whelan (7) with 43 points
Ennis seniors played Ballinasloe in the P.V McInerney competition, a modified fourball competition last week. Ennis were the victors with a team score of 274 against a team score of 253 for Ballinasloe. The six pairings which brought in the winning score for Ennis were Sean Ryan and Matt Flynn with 48 points, Martin Coffey and Tommy Heath with 46 points, Peter Quinn and James Corcoran with 45 points, Tim Kelly and Noel Pilkington with 45 points, Cyril Lyons and Frank Cullinan with 45 points, Ger Hanrahan and Michael Butler with 45 points.
In the Tuesday fourball the winners were Brendan Pyne and Neil Cremin with 34 points from Tony McInerney and Rodger McMahon with a similar score. Michael Irwin and Eamon Corry were third with 33 points followed by Gerry O’Connor and Walter O’Brien with 31 points
In the junior boys competition on July 11, Diarmuid Corry (26) won with 40 points from David Loftus (14) with 39 points.
Gort Golf Club:
Michael Ryan’s captain’s prize to the ladies at Gort was played for on Saturday and Sunday when Mary F. Coen (21) was the winner with 41 points. She had three to spare over Tracey Brennan (30), with third spot filled by Teresa Mahon (25) with 37 points followed by Patricia Skehill (29) also with 39 points.
Siobhan Forde (10) won the gross with 28 points. Teresa Helebert was the get in to golf winner.
In the 18 hole singles stableford competition Shauna Burke (15) won category 1 with 38 points, Marcella Killeen (23) won category 2 with 34 points and Anne Flaherty (40) won category 3 with 35 points.
Louise Butler (16) was the winner of the 18 hole open singles with 34 points.
Fanny O’Deas society:
The Fanny O’Dea’s society’s captain’s (Tony McMahon) prize was played for at Glasson last weekend when Niall and Brid Coughlan from Coffee Rush were the sponsors.
There was a big turnout in support of a popular captain. Kevin Clohessy with 37 points was the winner on the day from Noel O’Shea who had a similar score. Decan Kelly was third with 35 points followed by Robert McMahon with 34, Liam Hayes with 34 and Mark Cottam with a similar score.
Pat Delap had the longest drive while Paul Faughnan was nearest the pin. Michael McMahon won the front nine while Tony McMahon was the winner of the back line. Marty Meaney won the scramble while Declan Kelly was the past captain’s prize winner with Niall Donegan and Gerry Meaney winning the lucky dip.
The next outing will be to Woodstock on August 19 when the format will be a champagne scramble.
