THE winner of the ladies golfer of the year competition for 2024 at East Clare golf club is Evelyn Skehan who is also President of the club.
The winners of the ladies Wednesday competition were Noreen Doyle, Deirdre O’Neill, Mary Farrell and Brid Hayes from Noreen Skehan, Connie McKenna, Mary Collins and Marie A. Kelly.
The men’s August medal competition at East Clare was won by Patrick McNamara (19)with 65 from Darren Rosney (18) with 67 and Brian Lenihan (18), also with 67. Tony Cleary (-1) with 73 won the gross. Ronan Molloy won the longest drive while Ben Rittweger was nearest the pin.
Last week’s senior men’s competition was won by Nick Obolewicz, J.J Barton and Michael Heffernan from Terry Coughlan, Chris Davis and Paddy O’Brien with third spot filled by Willie Roche, Michael Drew and Steve Symes.
Kilrush Golf Club:
The competition at Kilrush on Sunday was for the Shannon Ferry prize which was won by Rory Flynn (16) with 40 points. Shane Carey (14), also with 40 points was second while third spot was filled by Michael Miniter (15) and he also had 40 points.
The category winners were David Keane (9) with 38 points, Colm Murphy (18) with 38 points and Gerard Hehir (24) with 39 points. The nines were won by John Robinson (26) and Jason Gallagher (17).
Shannon Golf Club:
Lady vice-captain Sandra Ferguson’s prize was plyed for at Shannon last week and resulted in victory for Carmel McMahon (41) with 50 points from Pauline Nally (22) with 42 points. In third spot with 38 points was Dee O’Connell (41) followed by Eileen Carey (16) with 37 points.
Aine Twomey (10) won the gross with 28 points while the category winners were Noeleen Neylon (10), Carmel Regan (21), Dympna Hogan (27) and Therese Hurley (46) each with 37 points. The 9 hole competition winner was Nancy Parry.
Dromoland Golf Club:
The winner of the ladies player of the year competition at Dromoland was Sheila Kent with 37 points and she had one to spare over Mairéad Bergin with Jean Colleran in third spot with 34 points while Mairéad Toomey won the gross.
In the ladies 9 hole competition the winner was Mairéad Bergin with 20 points from Mairéad Toomey with 19 points. The men’s blue tee stroke competition was won by Donnagh Murphy (15) with 70 from Brian Shally (3) with 70 while John Greer won the gross with 76.
P. J. Conway (25) won the competition off the white tees with 59 from Mike Tobin (17) with 66. The men’s 9 hole competition was won by Stephen Bergin with 20 points from Diarmuid McMahon with 19 points and Damien O’Malley with 18 points
Woodstock Golf Club:
The ladies club championship 18 hole stableford competition at Woodstock, sponsored By Al Hayes Motors, Skoda Ennis, was won by Chaye Kelly (12). with 34 points from Eilis Neville (31). who had a similar score and they finished a point ahead of Kathleen McEnery (39).
In the ladies fourball on Sunday the winners were Eilis Neville and Anne Kilker with 44 points.
The AMR golf sponsored ladies hampers competition takes place this week.
Thirty nine played in last week’s open singles at Woodstock which was won by Barry Keane (18 with 39 points from Noel O’Shea (25) with a similar score. Andrew Mason (12), also with 39 points was third.
Joe Barry (13) won the Western Joinery August medal with 65 while Brian Gilligan (scratch) won the gross with 68.
The category 1 winner was Alan Markham (6) with 70 from John Mulcahy (9) with a similar score. Category 2 was won by Kevin Toner (13 with) 68 from Chris McGrath (13) with 72 while category 3 was won by Barry Conway (20) with 69.
In the stableford competition for those 19 and over handicaps the winner was Rory O’Brien (26) with 39 points from Aaron Lavery (27), also with 39 points. There will be an open singles on this Thursday while the weekend competition will be the club championship, a strokeplay competition off the white tees.
The last tee times for competitions is 4pm.
Ennis Golf Club;
Ennis intermediate ladies golf team qualified for the All-Ireland semi-final with victory over Kinsale at Gort last week. They now advance to an All-Ireland semi-final against Castecomer, to be played on Friday week, September 13, at 12.10pm, in Gort.
A large number of club members turned out to support the team last Saturday and an even bigger attendance is expected on Friday week for the semi-final.
In the ladies August medal, an 18 hole strokeplay competition, the winner of the silver division was Suzanne Deane (14) with 70 nett from Patricia Moroney (17) with 74 nett. Cora Kearns (30) won the bronze section with 73 nett from Helen Harnett (27) with 76 nett. The overall winner of the 9 hole stableford competition was Bernie Brooks (24) with 17 points.
Yvonne Keohane (9) won division 1 with 15 points, Betty O’Reilly won division 2 with 16 points and Eileen Holly (20) won division 3 with 16 points.
The winners of last week’s ladies seniors competition were Marie Dilleen, Phil Butler, Therese Lillis and Alice D’Arcy with 58 from Mary McMahon, Eileen Daly and Mary Glynn with 56.
Gort Golf Club:
The men’s 18 hole stableford competition at Gort, sponsored by the Burren Inn, was won by Con O’Donoghue (21) with 43 points. The gross was won by Gavin Lally (+1) with 38 points.
In last week’s ladies 18 hole singles the winner of category 1 was Roisin Walsh (19) with 35 points. Yvonne Hogan (23) won category 2 with 34 points while the category 3 winner was Fran O’Reilly (34) with 29 points.
