THE ANNUAL general meeting of the Woodstock ladies section took place at Hotel Woodstock last week when Mags Nash was elected as captain in succession to Chaye Kelly.
Others elected to serve on the committee for 2026 are Anne Kilker (vice captain) Hannah O’Brien (secretary), Marianne McGough (handicap secretary), Catherine Lyons (treasurer), Anne Marie Russell (competitions secretary), Chaye Kelly (Ex officio), Kathleen McEnery, Mary McNamara and Eilis Neville (committee).
A number of presentations were made at the meeting. Kathleen McEnery was presented with the golfer of the year award while she was also presented with the bronze medal. The silver medal was presented to Chaye Kelly. Mary Howard received the club championship winner’s prize with the runner up award going to Chaye Kelly.
The AMR golf Christmas hamper competition was won by Mags Nash with 37 points from Anne Kilker with 32 with third place filled by Eilis Neville with 31 points.
Kathleen McEnery won the October league, sponsored by Marianne McGough, with 91 points and she was one ahead of Mary Gleeson.
Meanwhile the men’s section annual meeting also took place last week before a big attendance at Hotel Woodstock when outgoing captain Gerry O’Malley thanked all for their cotributions during the year under review.
Incoming captain for 2026 is Pat Barry with Johnny Clune as the vice captain while Mary McNamara was elected to the role of club president.
Jimmie Kelly continues as club secretary while Cathal Nagle is the new treasurer.
Others elected at the meeting were Stephen Dunne (competition secretary), Tony Neville (handicap secretary), Mark Hogan as junior conveynor and Gerry O’Malley (ex officio).
Congraulations were extended to Callum Hayes on being awarded a scholarship to Royal Dornock in Scotland to pursue a career in professional golf management.
Congratulations went to all of the teams that represented the club during the year with the J. B. Carr team getting to the All-Ireland final.
Congratulations was also extended to Aideen Walsh on winning the ladies Bridgestone order of merit in 2025.
The men’s singles 15 hole competition at the weekend was won by Vinny McInerney (16) with 33 points.There wil be another 15 hoe singes competition this weekend.
Round 5 in the Ozone Health and Fitness Winter league is scheduled for this weekend and will be played over 15 holes. The format will be 1 to score on the first 6 holes with 2 to score for remaining holes
Sparkling performance by Áine:
Áine Donegan was in sparking form in Morocco last week where she won the first qualifier in her challenge for a tour card on the ladies European tour.
She won by a whopping eight strokes at the Samanah golf club in Morocco. The final qualifying round is taking place this week at Royal Golf Marrakech
Dromoland Golf Club:
Week 2 of the men’s wine competition at Dromoland was won by Chris O’Donovan with 19 points and he was one ahead of Niall Geraghty with third place filled by Denis Mulqueen with 17 points.
The gross was won by John Greer with 18 points while Pat Keogh with 16 points won the category for those with handicaps of 20 and over.
Ennis Golf Club:
The ladies mince pie 9 hole scramble at Ennis last week was won by Mary Nagle, Marian Irwin and Audrey McEnery with 31 and they won on the back six from Ethna Murphy, Patrice Ryan and Maureen Lynch. In third place, also with 31, were Ann A Gallery, Ann Pyne Gallery and Helen Gallery followed by Josephine Tone, Judith Brassil and Mary T. McMahon with 32.
Sinead O’Sullivan was named as the ladies golfer of the year while the Mary Pyne Brogan most improved player award went to Martina Corbett.
Due to inclement weather conditions the weekly mens, senior ladies and senior men’s competitions were cancelled.
Kilrush Golf Club:
Bernard Coleman (6) with 28 points was the winner in week 5 in the men’s singles stableford turkey competition at Kilrush and he had one to spare over Paddy Donohoe (10).
East Clare Golf Club:
The ladies 9 hole re-entry competition for November and December at East Clare was won by Evelyn O’Brien, Mairead O’Shea and Brid Gurnett from Deirdre O’Neill, Liz McMahon and Noreen Doyle with third place filled by Catherine Minogue, Ursula Hogan, Marie Donnellan and Brid Hayes. Pat Madden (12) with 44 points won the men’s Christmas turkey stableford competition
