MARIE DONNELLAN and Ray McInerney were serve as captains of East Clare golf club for 2027. The vice captains will be Margaret Hoey and Alan O’Neill.
The category 1 winner in the ladies singles matchplay for October is Ursula Hogan while Colette Ward won category 2 and she was the overall winner.
In the mixed foursomes matchplay, Helen Ahern and Enda Donnellan captured the honours with the runners up award gong to Catherine Murphy and Paul Madden.
The ladies Wednesday competition winners were Brid Hayes, Amanda Dalton and Maureen Clune from Pauline Nugent, Mary Jo Minogue and Mary Hogan with third place filled by Margaret Egan, Marie A. Kelly and Mary Bugler.
Martin McInerney (16) won the men’s singles competition from yellow tees with 46 points. Paul Hayes (13) with 37 points was second while Shane McInerney (8) won the gross with 74.
The weekly senior men’s competition was won by Terry Coughlan, Paddy O’Brien and Jim Fahy from Sean Ahern, Kevin Grimes and Chris Davis with third spot filled by Tom Larkin, Ger Shortt and Steve Symes.
Congratulations to Deirdre Tuohy who recorded a hole in one at the 4th hole on Monday. Meanwhile the Winter league is continuing
Ennis Golf Club:
The senior ladies 12 hole scramble at Ennis last week was won by Mary Kearns, Brid Cunningham and Jacnta McNicholas with 36.3 from Josephine Tone, Martina Corbett and Mary Murray with 37.2.
The winners of the senior ladies 9 hole scramble were Phl Butler, Eileen Holly and Mary Woulfe with 27.9.
The ladies 18 hole stableford hampers competition was won by Mare Connolly (45) with 37 points from Martina Corbett (30) with 35 points with third spot filled by Ann O’Loughlin (21) with 33 points. Ann A. Gallery (13) won the gross with 21 points.
The 9 hole hamper competition was won by Sarah Connolly Barnes (25) with 18 points from Celie Reilly (19) with 17 points with Judith Brassil (27) in third place with 14 points.
Saturday’s scramble was won by Joan Murphy, Vivienne Lawless and Ronan Herbert with 74 points and they were two better than Patrcia O’Reilly, Joe O’Brien and Brian Logue. In third place with 66 points were Marie Connolly, Paul Kenny and Noel Connellan followed by Martina Corbett, Andrew McGloin and Conor Murphy with 64 points.
The men’s fourball competition at the weekend was won by Senan Ryan (7) and Gerry Daly (15) with 47 points and they had one to spare over John Brack (17) and Ken Morrissey (15). In third place with 45 points were Barry (6) and Sean Larkin (12) followed by John A. Byrne (10) and Jim Griffin (12) with 44 points while fifth place was filled by Brendan Nevin (31) and Andrew Turner (11), also with 44 points.
Kilrush Golf Club:
Last week’s men’s 12 hole singles at Kilrush was won by Tommy Clancy (11) with 28 points and he won on a countback from Alan Jackson (9) who had a similar score. In third place was John P. Ryan (10) with 26 points.
Spanish Point Golf Club:
Last week’s ladies competition at Spanish Point was won by Honor Kyne with 26 points from Fiona O’Boyle with 25 points with third place filled by Claire Bracken with 22 points. Niamh O’Regan won the gross with 16 points.
Dromoland Golf Club:
James Purcell won the men’s turkey competition at Dromoland at the weekend with 45 points from John Higgins with 41 points with Conor Barry in third place, also with 41 points. George Smith was fourth with 39 points while Seamus Cusack won the gross with 34 points.
Last week’s ladies competition was won by Annette Shanahan with 20 points from Katrina O’Neill with a similar score. Anne McMahon was third, also with 30 points while Mairead Bergin was fourth with 19 points.
Lahinch Golf Club:
This year’s Winter League at Lahinch will be in a Scotch foursomes format.
The qualifiers will run over two alternate stableford competitions on the Castle course on Sunday, November 22 and Saturday, November 28. The top 16 pairs across both events will qualify for the league matchplay, which will be played on the Castle course.
Woodstock Golf Club:
Paddy Meehan and Sean Howard were the week two winners in the Winter league at Woodstock with 62. They won by two from Pat Keane and Pat Solan. They were followed by Brendan Neylon and Johnne clune with 59, Dickie Pyne and Eugene Conroy with 59, Brendan Mulcahy and Robert Doherty with 57 with sixth spot filled by Chris and Josh Bravender with 55.
The league continues this week when the format will be Texas scramble. The club singles last week was v par when the winner was Paul O’Shea (16) with +3 while Kieran Cunnane (2) won the gross with +2.
Cathal Nagle (7) won category 1 withc+2, Henry Butler won category 2 with +1 and Ronan Doyle (16) won category 3 with +2.
There will be another club singles this week.
O’Keeffe’s bar in Steele’s Terrace will be the venue on Friday week, November 20 for the annual club prize presentation evening.
Shannon Golf Club:
The mixed hampers competition at Shannon, played over 15 holes, was won by William O’Brien and Michelle Pyke with 35 points. In second place, a point behind were Ray Kiely and Carmel McMahon.
Last week’s men’s green tee challenge was won by Dermot O’Brien (14 with 44 points and he won on a countback from Donal Madden (10). Darren Griffin (10) was third with 41 points followed by Paul Keary (8) with 40 points. Sean Óg Murnane (3) won the gross with 34 points.
Gort Golf Club:
Derek Kinsella (10) with 37 points was the category 1 winner in the weekend men’s singles 18 hole stableford competition at Gort.
Category 2 was won by Kevin McGourty (12) with 39 points, category by Danny Losty (16) with 42 points and category 4 by Ken Murray (27) with 33 points.
The gross was won by PJ McAllen (3) with 33 points.
