TRISH O’Brien recently represented Doonbeg in the All Ireland Captains final where she captured second place.
The competition was a three-day event at Roscrea Golf Club for all club male and female captains day winners from all over Ireland. The prize presentation was on Sunday night in Roscrea golf club.
Trish who is also a member of Dromoland Golf Club won the lady captains day in Doonbeg. In both rounds in Roscrea Trish scored an impressive 41 points.
Ennis Golf Club:
Ennis Golf club held its annual captains’ dinner on Friday night, last November 28, in the clubhouse, in honour of captains John Coleman and Mary Curley.
Incoming captains, Noel Pilkington and Mary T. McMahon announced their vice captains for 2026.
Four-time golfer of the year T.J. Scanlon, who joined Ennis Golf Club in 1986, and Audrey McEnery, who joined as a Junior Member in 1987, were named as the vice captains for 2026.
The men’s 18 hole turkey competition last week was won by Barry Lee (18) with 41 points and he was one ahead of Jim Griffin (13). Frank McEnery (23) was third with 37 points followed by Con Daly (28) also with 37 points.
Ronan Herbert with 34 points won the gross while the category winners were Mark Geraghty (9) with 37 points, John C McNamara (14) with 40 points, Gerry Daly (18) with 35 points and Frank Sheedy (24) with 40 points.
The ladies14 hole November Spirits competition was won by Mary Lenihan (17) with 27 points and she was one ahead of Monica Finerty (32) with third spot filled by Ann A Gallery (11) with 25 points.
Last week’s senior ladies scramble was won by Kathleen Pyne, Ann McMahon and Margaret Flanagan with 28.6. In second place was Alice Darcy, Bernie Brooks, Kathleen Frehill and Eileen Daly with 28.8. with third place filled by Maeve O’Grady, Mary Murray, Martins Corbett and Brid Cunningham with 30.8.
The senior men’s annual charity day scramble was won by Vincent Corbett, Pat P McInerney and Willie Donnellan with 48.5.
Senior men’s captain Tim Scanlon nominated two hospice charities, Cahercalla Hospice and Milford Hospice to benefit from the Charity Day, raising over €1,500 for both organisations.
Woodstock Golf Club:
The seniors committee for 2026 was elected at the seniors annual general meeting last week.
The committee comprises Ollie McNamara (captain), John O’Donovan (secretary), Paul Sherlock (treasurer) and Nick Germaine (competition secretary).
Thanks was extended to Brian Logue and Tony Coote for their work in the running of the seniors events in recent years while outgoing captain Frank McEnery was also thanked for his work.
Round 4 in the Ozone Health and Fitness Winter league took place at the weekend when the winners were Joe (8) and Pat Barry (9) with 59 points. They had eight to spare over second placed Paddy Meehan (8) and Brian Kilker (11) who had 51 points.
Round 5 takes place this week over 15 holes. The 15 hole club singles was won by Steve Lahiffe (13) with 34 points and he was followed by Gerry Kelly (7) with 33 points with third place filled by John Dreelan (10) with 31 points. There will be another club singles this weekend.
Winners in the 2’s competition were Vincent O’Grady (4th hole) and Ken O’Shaughnessy (14th hole).
Woodstock seniors played their Christmas vouchers competition on Tuesday when the format was 15 holes stableford. The winner was Dickie Pyne with 39 points from John McGrath with 38 with Frank McEnery in third place with 36 points.
Dromoland Golf Club:
Dromoand’s touring Professional Sara Byrne played in the last event of the year on the ladies European tour at Andalucia Open de Espana last week.
After the opening two rounds of level par, Sara was just outside the top 25. She finished on an impressive score of 3 over.
Áine Donegan will set her sights in the coming weeks on securing a tour card on the ladies European tour. This will see her playing the pre-qualifying from December 10th -12th at Palm Golf Marrakech and Samanah Golf club in Morocco. All going well she will move onto the final qualifying stage from December 16th – 20th at Royal Golf Marrakech.
Meanwhile last weekend’s 18 hole stableford turkey competition was won by Dylan Brown with 40 points. Second place was filled by Billy O’Mahoney with 39 points followed in third place by Gary Russell with 38 points Daniel Lennon with 34 points won the category for those with handicaps of 20 and over while the gross was won by Andrew Kenny with 37 points.
Spanish Point Golf Club:
The ladies 13 hole stableford competition at Spanish Point was won by Eileen Murrihy with 28 points with second place filled by Karen Twomey on 26 points while Fiona O’Boyle with 24 points was third.
East Clare Golf Club:
The men’s 2 ball scramble at East Clare at the weekend was won by Chris Withycombe and Michael Cooney with 44 points.
Phil Burke, Breda Reid and Brid Hayes were the winners of the ladies Wednesday competition from Noreen Skehan, Mary Farrell and Marie A. Kelly.
Friday’s mixed scramble was won byTadhg Murphy, Mary Farrell and Terry Coughlan from Breda O’ Loghlin, Kieran McNamara and Michael Heffernan with third place filled by Stephen Moloney and Brid Hayes.
The winter league and 9 hole re- entry competitions are continuing.
Kilrush Golf Club:
Sean Lyons (9) won the men’s 12 hole singles stableford competition at Kilrush at the weekend with 28 points
Finbar McMahon (14) was second with 27 points followed by Malcolm McCarthy (6) who also had 27 points. The gross was won by Brian Conway.
