The 2026 season officially gets underway at Woodstock on Sunday at 3pm with the captains drive in.
Captains Pat Barry and Mags Nash, seniors captain Oliver McNamara, junior captains David Nihill and Sarah Crowe and club president Mary McNamara will all ‘drive in’ to office and the ceremony will be followed by a 9 hole scramble which will start from both the first and tenth holes.
Meanwhile round seven in the Ozone Health and Fitness Spring league took place last week when the format was modified betterball.
Winners on the day were Pat (9) and Joe Barry (8) with 61 points and they were seven ahead of Paul (8) and Tony Coote (10). In third place, also with 54 points were Mike Kelly (11) and Jack Duffy (13) followed by Colin Higgins (10) and Pat O’Brien (10) with 53 points, John McGrath (10) and Tommy Flynn (12) with 51 points, Mike Liddy (9) and Joseph Kennedy (11) with 51 points, Aidan (6) and Noel Mulcahy (9) with 48 points, Barry McNamara (9) and Paudie O’Connell (10) with 46 points, Cathal O’Neill (6) and Brian Keogh (8) with 45 points with tenth place filled by Frank Tone (8) and Eoin Collins (10) who also had 45 points.
Round 8 in the league will take place this weekend and the presentation of prizes for both the Winter and Spring leagues will take place in Hotel Woodstock on Sunday evening after the captain’s ‘drive in’ at approximately 5pm.
Last week’s club singles was played over 15 holes and was won by Kevin Toner (11) with 35 points while Cathal Nagle (8) won the gross with 27 points.
Category 1 (+ to 8) was won by Barry Scanlan (8) with 33 points, category 2 (9 to 15) by Mike Martin Hogan (10) with 30 points and category 3 (16 +) by Mike Horgan (18) with 28 points.
Winners in the 2’s competition were Cathal Nagle (6th hole), Alan Markham (11th hole) and Ken Horgan (4th hole). There will be another club singles competition this weekend.
Spanish Point Golf Club:
The ladies 18 hole stableford competition at Spanish Point this week was won by Eileen Murrihy with 35 points and she was four ahead of Ann Dunne with third place filled by Noelle O’Connor with 28 points.
Ennis Golf Club:
Last week’s team of two men’s scramble at Ennis was won by Flan Lyons and Martin Moroney with 59 and they won on a countback from David Considine and Kieran Ryan. In third place with 61 were John A. Byrne and Jim Griffin followed by Flan Glynn and John C McNamara with 62.
Last week’s senior ladies competition was won by Brid Cunnigham, Mary Kearns and Mary Glynn from Carmel Verling, Judith Brassil and Jacintha McNicholas.
The overall winner in the Michael and Fiona McMahon, MMEL sponsored ladies 13 hole Spring league was Ann A Gallery (11) with 107 points (best 4 of 5 cards).
Mary Lenihan (17) was second with 100 points followed by Martina Corbett (33) with 97 points.
The weekly winners were Helen Harnett (30) with 25 points (week 1) Josephine Tone (35) with 26 points (week 2), Geraldine O’Rourke (29) with 26 points (week 3), Ann Pyne Gallery (33) with 25 points (week 4) and Helen Gallery (24) with 27 points (week 5).
The overall winner in the 8 hole singles stableford competition was Geraldine O’Rourke (15) with 18 points.
Division 1 was won by Rose Enright (10) with13 points, division 2 by Phil Butler (15) with 15 points and division 3 by Marian Irwin (21) with 14 points.
Kilrush Golf Club:
The Johnson’s Bar Spring series qualifier continued at Kilrush at the weekend when the winner was Mark Cottam (10) with 29 points. He was one ahead of Pat Brennan (7) with John Robinson (19) a point further back in third place with 27 points. The gross was won by Dominic Enright.
Gort Golf Club:
Last week’s 18 hole singles stableford competition at Gort resulted in victory in category 1 for Joseph Caulfield (10) with 37 points.
Category 2 was won by Niall O’Shaughnessy (14) with 45 points, category 3 was won by John Neylon (16) with 37 points while John Doody (28) won category 4 with 37 points. The gross was won by Joe Moran (0) with 31 points.
East Clare Golf Club:
Last week’s senior men’s competition at East Clare was won by Terry Coughlan, Denis Corcoran and John Nihill from Tom Larkin, Willie Roche and Jim Bradley. In third place were Eamonn Goode, Paddy O’ Brien and Noel Earley.
The ladies Wednesday competition was won by Brid Hayes, Connie McKenna and Margaret O’Brien. In second place were Noreen Skehan, Teresa Bradley and Marie A. Kelly with third place filled by Breda McCarthy, Pauline Nugent and Phil Burke.
The ladies International Women’s Day scramble was won by Teresa Bradley, Brid Hayes and Margaret O’Brien from Mary Farrell , Mary Donoghue and Siobhan Shanahan with third place filled by Breda Reid, Maureen Clune, Colette Ward and Breda McCarthy.
Fanny O’Deas society:
Twenty eight golfers from the Fanny O’Dea’s society headed to Fuengirola Spain last week for a 4-day trip and 3 rounds of golf.
Day one winner from Calanova was Johnny Leahy with Brendan McMahon in second place. Other winners on the day were Larry Culligan, Gerry Lordan, Pat Bohannon, Tim Shanahan, Niall Coughlan, Paul Faughnan and Declan Kelly.
Round 2 was at EL Chaparral where Eibhear Slattery was the winner from Pat Delap and other winners on the day were James Whelan, Robert McMahon, Mark Cottam, Dermot Custy, Francie O Halloran, Danny Lynch and TJ Monahan.
Round 3 was a scramble in Lauro golf course and the winners were Daniel Delap, Paddy Corcoran, Johnny Leahy, and Eibhear Slattery. Other winners on the day were Tom Monahan, Alan Carmody, Jack Faughnan, Declan Conway, Marty Meaney, Brian Kilker, Tony McMahon and Jim Carmody.
The society’s next outing will be on April 12 to Gort.
Kildysart Golf Society:
Kildysart Golf society tees off its year at Adare Golf club on this Sunday March 22 at 12.30. The society welcomes new members and anyone interested can leave a message on the club’s Facebook page.
