The Lahinch ladies senior cup team continued their golden period when they claimed their third AIG women’s senior cup title in five years (no competition in 2020) by defeating Douglas golf club 4/1 in an all-Munster clash at Tramore.
On Friday, the ladies overcame a very strong Royal County Down team 3.5/1.5 to progress to the semi-final where they had a comprehensive win over Dun Laoghaire by 4.5/0.5.
At sun-drenched Tramore Lahinch sealed victory when Niamh O’Dwyer came from three down on the back nine to win her match on the 18th green.
The scores from the final are as follows: Aideen Walsh defeated Clodagh Coughlan 3&1; Sarah Cunningham defeated Karen O’Neill 2&1; Niamh O’Dwyer defeated Aoife Ni Thuama 1 hole; Olivia Lucas halved with Jemma Barry (match called in A/S playing 18) and Jenny Hennessy halved with Jessica Kavanagh (match called in with Jenny 2Up playing 17). The Lahinch team managers are Valerie Hassett and Aedin McCarthy.
The men’s senior cup team lost out to Tandragee golf club in their quarter-final match, 3.5/1.5 on Saturday morning. Despite the disappointment of Saturday’s defeat, team managers, David Conway and Kyle Cannon, and the entire panel have reason to be be proud of their achievement in bringing home a men’s Munster pennant to the club for the first time in thirty-eight years.
Meanwhile, the overseas member/guest tournament held last weekend at Lahinch was an enormous success and the wonderful atmosphere around the club was aided by glorious weather throughout the tournament.
After a busy month of August, normal service has resumed. September is historically one of the busiest months for overseas visitors and with daylight hours reducing week on week, the demand for tee times remains high. The One Member/One Guest Rule for members time (Monday to Friday) will remain in place up to the end of September to facilitate as many members as possible.
Members may bring up to three guests, outside of these times, subject to availability.
East Clare Golf Club:
President T.J McNamara’s prize was played for at East Clare golf club at the weekend when there was a big turnout.
Jason Horan emerged as the winner with a very impressive 45 points. He had one to spare over Brenda Moloney with Colm Kelly in third spot with 43 points followed by Danny Minogue with a similar score whole Ronan Molloy was fifth and he also scored 43 points. Eoin McGuinness won the gross with 74.
Richard McLoughlin had the longest drive while Terry Coughlan won the nearest the pin competition.
The president’s prize to the senior men’s section was won by Redmond Walsh with 41 poinrts from Matthew McNamara with 39 and Michael Heffernan with 38 points.
Redmond Walsh Senior won the past president’s prize while Niall Melody won the junior’s prize.
Loretto O’Donnell won the president’s prize to the ladies with 37 points from Siobhan Shanahan with 36. They were followed by Margaret Lynch with 36 and Noreen Skehan with 35 points. Rachel Whelan won the gross with 20 points, Brid Hayes had the longest drive while Pauline Nugent won nearest to the pic
The men’s open on Thursday was won by Charlie Hannon with 43 points from Brian Muldoon with 42 and Ronan Hayes with 39.
Last week’s senior men’s competition was won by Tony McNulty, Kevin Wallis and John Brett from Pat McNamara, Nick Ryan and Jackie Mc Hugh with third spot filled by Ailbe McDonnell, Jack Manley and Jim Fahy.
In the Wednesday ladies competition the winners were Phil Burke, Hannah Guinnane and Margaret Lynch.
The weekly men’s open singles continues on Thursdays with the mixed scramble continuing on Friday evenings at 5.30p.m.
Kilrush Golf Club:
The men’s competition at Kilrush at the weekend was singles stableford sponsored by Brew’s Hardware and gift shop which was won by Noel Kilkenny (19) with 43 points.
He won by one from Tom Fox (9) with third spot filled by Dominick Enright (15) with 41 poinra. The category winners were Michael F. Ryan (18) with 39 points, Shane Carey (15) with 40 points znd Tom Cleary (20) with 36 points.
In the women’s stableford competition the winner was Stephanie Roughan (20) with 40 points from Olivia McCarthy (26) with 39 points with third spot filed by Jean Lorigan (29) who also returned 39 points.
The category winners were Anne Brennan (12) with 38 points, Agnes Shannon (24) with 38 points and Edel Crowley (31) with 34 points.
In the 12 hole competition the winner ws Hanora O’Dea-Kilkenny with 31 points from Margaret Clune with 27 points.
Ennis Golf Club:
The Coco Restaurant ladies 18 hole stableford competition at Ennis was won by Kathleen Frehill (36) with 38 points from Rose Enright (24) with 36 points with third spot filed by Ann A. Gallery (18), also with 36 points. Peg Hanrahan (19) won the gross with 20 points.
The overall winner of the 9 hole competition was Theresa Lillis (25) with 23 points. Sinead Hegarty(10) won division 1 with 19 points, Bridie Keane (17) won division 2 with 21 points and Patricia O’Reilly (26) won division 3 with 39 points.
Last week’s ladies seniors outing to Gort was won by Phil Butler, Eileen J Corry and Frances 0’Reilly with 41 from Ann Kelly, Nuala D’Auria and Joan Cullinan-Coote with 41.1. In third spot with 42 were Mary McMahon, Peig Cleary and Patrice Ryan.
Last Thursday, one hundred and twenty members of the Ennis men’s seniors social group played to honour their captain Michael Cummins on his Captain’s d. The winner was Tony T McInerney with 40 points. In second place was Thomas Woulfe followed by Liam Barry and they also scored 40 points
Dromoland Golf Club:
Brian Shally won the men’s monthly medal at Dromoland at the weekend with 69. Cathal Nolan, with a similar score, was in second place with Diarmuid O’Connor in third spot with 70. George Smith won the gross with 76 while the winner in the 22 plus category was John O’Neill.
In the 9 hole mid week competition the winner was Alan O’Flanagan with 22 points from John Canny with 21 and Mark Skehan, also with 21.
Last week’s 9 hole competition winner was Brenda Fitzgibbon with 21 points Siobhan Doohan and Mairead Bergin, each with 33 points were the previous week’s winners
Woodstock Golf Club:
Senior captain Sean Howard’s prize was played for at Woodstock last week and Anthony Coote emeerged as the winner with 43 points.
He had one to spare over John McGrath with Michael Foley in third spot, a point further back on 41 points.
Martin White won the past captain’s prize with 40 points. Greg Fogarty won the over 75’s category with 40 points while the guests section was won by Gerry Daly, Ennis with 37 points.
The nines were won by Eugene Morrisroe with 22 points and Brian Logue with 20 points.
Last week’s ladies competition winner was Kathleen McEnery with 39 points from Teresa Sherlock with a similar score.
Gort Golf Club:
The Josie McInerney trophy was played for at Gort at the weekend when Niall Finnegan(13) emerged as the winner of the stableford event with 43 points.
Martin Callinan (11) won category 1 with 40 points, Colie McGarry( 15) won category 2 with 38 points and Steve Moylan (29) won category 3 with 42 points. Eanna Melville(4) won the gross with 34 points.
In the Friday open singles the winner was Colin Whelan (16) with 38 points
The ladies competition, a 9 hole waltz, was won by Olive Mulcair, Carmel Joyce and Bernadette Burke with 48 points from Anne Kerins, Ena Furey and Sandra Broderick with 41 points while third spot was filled by Joan Fogarty, Mary Dervan and Marion Mulvey Fahy, also with 41 points.
