*Michael O’Reilly accepts John Lillis’ senior men’s captains prize.
President Alan O’Neill’s prize was played for at East Clare last weekend when the overall winner was Danny Minogue.
Teddy O’Hanlon (18) had 45 points to win the men’s section and he was followed by Pat Madden (14) with 44 points with Pierce O’Shiel (21) next with 41 points. Anthony Sweeney (scratch) won the gross with 69.
Diarmuid Cunningham (18) with 24 points won the front 9 while the back 9 was won by Eddie Rosney (16) with 23 points. Ronan Hayes had the longest drive, Tony Duggan won nearest the pin and the past president’s prize was won by Jack Brennan.
The winner in the senior men’s category was Ger Lenihan (20) with 47 points from Paddy O’Brien (30) with 41 points with third spot filled by Syl Dolan with 38 points.
Batt Skehan (13) with 79 won the gross while the nines were won by Pat Fitzgerald (19) with 20 points and Dave Condren (16) with 21 points. Ger Hoey had the longest drive and Michael McMahon was nearest the pin.
The president’s prize to the ladies was won by Trish Nash (40) with 43 points with second place filled by Deirdre Tuohy (31) with 40 points with Maria Kennedy (27) in third place with 40 points.
Siobhan Shanahan (16) won the gross with 22 points while the nines were won by Rachel O’Halloran (30) with 27 points and Breda McCarthy (32) with 20 points.
Geraldine Finnegan had the longest drive and Noreen Skehan won the nearest the pin category while the winner of the 9 hole competition was
Annette Rowan.
Last week’s ladies team of 2 was won by Colette Ward and Brid Gurnett with 42 points from Mary Donoghue and Joan Crotty with 41 points.
Last week’s senior men’s competition was won by Willie Roche, Ailbe McDonnell and Steve Symes from Danny Minogue, Donal Fleming and Pat Duggan with third place filled by Seamus O’Dwyer, Tony Nelson and Paddy O’Brien.
Woodstock Golf Club:
Woodstock’s senior captain’s Ollie McNamara’s prize was played for on Tuesday of last week when Gerry Griffey (22) with 42 points captured the honours.
John O’ Connor (17) with 43 points had the best score but he wasn’t eligible for the main prize as he didn’t have the required number of outings played. He was awarded second prize.
They were followed by Rory O’Dea (22) with 39 points, Sean Howard (16) with 39 points, Barry Pavitt (12), also with 39 points and Luke Duffy (26) with 38 points.
Paddy Meehan (8) with 37 points won the past captain’s category while Leo Quinlan with 20 points won the front nine with the back nine honours going to Nick Germaine, also with 20 points.
The senior captain’s prize to the ladies was won by Marianne McGough (30) with 44 points with second place filled by Mary McNamara (22) with 38 points. The nines were won by Mags Nash with 22 points and Edel Clune with 21 points.
The Halfway House club championship 2026 was the competition at the weekend when the winner of the 36 hole event was Sean Myatt (1) on 137 with the gross won by Sean Crowe (2) on 149.
Category 1 was won by Paddy Meehan (8) with 143 from Josh Bravender (5) with 144. Category 2 was won by Neil McCarthy (14) with 141 while category 3 (19+) won by Tom O Donohue (20) with 147. Sean Crowe, Evan Greer and Chris McGrath were winners in the 2’s competition.
Last week’s open singles was won by Ruairi Breen (15)with 45 points with the gross won by Rob Cantwell (4) with 38 points. The category winners were Ken Horgan (9) with 39 points, Mark Hogan (13) with 40 points and Chris Pollard (19) with 39 points.
Winners in the 2’s competition were Chris McGrath, Conor Sexton, Sean Crowe, Ruairi Breen and Barry McNamara. The AMR open singles continues this Thursday and this is the last qualifying round for the grand final. The weekend competition will be a club singles.
The Costelloe cup v Ennis will be played at Woodstock on this Sunday. The format is scotch foursomes and the top 5 combined scores from each club count towards the final result. It will be played off green tees,
Winners of club mixed, sponsored by Haven Holly’s Pharmacy were PJ Carmody, Anne Kilker, and Robert Tokarz with 26.6 from Liam O’Connor, Marie McNamara and Brian Kilker with 27.1
In the ladies club championship, sponsored by Al Hayes Motors, the winner was Eilis Neville (20) with 39 points and she was two ahead of Hannah O’Brien (25).
The club’s ‘Wee Wonder ‘Amelia Malone finished fifth in the grand final in Scotland.
Shannon Golf Club:
The AON sponsored 2026 men’s Masters and a golfer of the year event at Shannon was won by Neil O’Brien (6) with 142 and he was one better than Eoin Collins (8) with Fergal Coughlan (8) in third place with 145. Colm Hanley (1) won the gross with 148.
David Jones (8) won the first 18 with 69 while the second 18 winner was Keith Buckley (4) with 71. The golfer of the year for 2026 is Tony Higgins (7) with a total of 429.
Last week men’s 9 hole winner was Paschal Regan (9) with 19 points.
In last week’s men’s green tee challenge Kieran Joyce (20) won with 39 points from Ronan Murphy(12) with 38. In third place was Kevin Meehan (10) with 37 points while the gross was won by Mark Lefevre (4) with 31 points.
Wednesday’s men’s open singles was won by Paul Barry (16) with 43 points from Graham Culleton (6) with 42 with third place filled by Jimmy O’Sullivan (21) with 39 points. Adam McInerney Hynes (1) won the gross with 39 points.
In the parent and child scotch fursomes sponsored by Shinners Engineering Supplies, the winners were Daragh and Daniel O’Shea with 46 points from Evan and Gerard O’Brien with 44 with third place filled by Declan and Ciara Heffernan with 43 points.
Aine Twomey played great golf to win the 36 hole ladies Masters while Madge Young was crowned Golfer of the Year for 2026. Aine (9) with 149 nett won by two from Eileen Carey (18) with third place filled by Jean Murphy (15) also with 151 nett. Linda Boland (20) was fourth with 153 nett while Michelle Pyke (8) won the gross with 172.
Suzanne McMahon (16 with 75 nett won the first 18 while the second 18 honours went to Margaret Ryan (33) with 78 nett
The club’s Junior Cup team will compete in the All Ireland Finals on this Thursday at Millicent golf club in Clane, Co. Kildare. The first match will tee off at 10.40am
Kilrush Golf Club:
The ladies 18 hole stroke competition at Kilrush, sponsored by GolfStyle was won by Suzie Glynn (35) with 65 nett and she had a stroke to spare over Joanne Haffey (48) with Margaret Donnelly (19) in third place with 69. Annie Gallagher (13) won the gross with 86.
The nines were won by Marion Brennan (27) with 32.5 and Fiona Kinsella (11) with 33.5.
In the Versiv men’s open singles at the weekend the winner was Bernard Coleman (10) with 40 points, one more than Neil Browne (7) with Gavin Duffy (17) in third place, also with 39 points. Tom Browne (0) won the gross with 38 points.
The category winners were Brian Scanlan (12) with 38 points, Joe Daly (15) with 38 points, Allyn Dalton (21) with 38 points and Ian Dillon (24) with 36 points.
The AMR Golf sponsored ladies open team of three competition was won by Eimear Johnston (25), Claire Bracken (22) and Fiona O’ Boyle ( 15) with 85 points.
They were two ahead of Honor Kyne (25), Kathleen Haugh (39) and Anne Cooper ( 40 ). In third place, also with 83 points, were Geraldine Burke (20), Ailish Lorigan (22) and Margaret Donnelly (19).
Fourth spot was filled by Carmel Verling ( 24), Mary Howard (28) and Deirdre Molyneaux (22) with 81 points and they were followed by Mary McNamara (20), Marie McNamara (39) and Kathleen McEnery (34) with 80 points.
Munster title for Dromoland:
Dromoland were crowned Munster West Irish mixed fourball champions at East Clare last week with a 2.5 to 1.5 win over Killarney. Derirdre Cooney and Niall Geraghty won on 18th, Siobhan Dyer and Philip Aldritt won 2 and 1. Francs Bergin and Billy O’Sullivan halved their match while Trish O’Brien and Adrian Glynn lost 2 and 1.
The team is managed by Willie and Julie Fitzgerald and they will now contest the All-Ireland quarter final on this Saturday, September 5, in Westmanstown Golf club, Dublin.
The ladies Autumn major for the Deirdre Fitzpatrick trophy was won by Aislinn Keogh with 46 points and she had five to spare over Colette Colleran. Sheila Kent was third with 39 points followed by Niamh McDermott with 38.
Mairead Twomey won the gross while the nines were won by Michelle McCarthy with 21 points and Anne McMahon, also with 21 points. Joan Ryan won both the long drive and nearest the pin while Lisa Quinn won the 9 hole competition with 18 points.
The weekly 18 hole competition was won by Aislinn Keogh with 38 points from Patricia Moroney with 32 points. The weekly 9 hole competition was won by Julia Fitzgerald with 19 points from Ann Moloney, also with 19 points.
The men’s 9 hole competition was won by Philip Hehir with 20 points from John Higgins with 19 with Brendan Lennon, also with 19 points, in third place.
The men’s blue tees competition was won by Hugh O’Neill with 68, one better than Thomas Cooney while Daniel Brennan won the gross with 72. The winner of the competition off the white tees was Darragh O’Keeffe with 59 from Brendan Hughes with 69.
Ennis Golf Club:
Senior men’s captain, John Lillis’ prize day was last Thursday when Michael O’Reilly (23) claimed top spot with 43 points. He won by two from Brian Touhy (21) with third spot filled by James Corcoran (13) with 40 points followed by Pat McInerney (17) with 40 points with fourth place filled by Paul Kenny (29) with 39 points.
They were followed by Gerry Daly, Michael Irwin, Neil Cremin each with 39 points, Steve Burns, Eamnn Kelly, Martin Coffey and Joe O’Brien each with 38 points, John A Murphy, Kevin Murray and Philip Brigdale, each with 37 points.
Jim Hennessy won the 9 hole stableford competition with 21 points from Seamus Hanrahan with 19.
Sunday’s singles stableford competition was won by Ross McLoughlin (17) with 40 points and he was one ahead of Tim Scanlon (18). In third place, also with 39 points, was Michael Studdert (20) followed by Eoin O’Keeffe (12) with 38 points. Alfred Jones won the gross with 32 points.
Last week’s senior ladies 14 hole competition was won by Judith Brassil, Eileen Daly and Brid Cunnigham from Kathleen Pyne, Phil Butler and Martina Corbett. The 9 hole competition was won by Bernie Brooks, Mary Woulfe and Mary McGrath Fahy
Kitty Morris defeated Peg Hanrahan in the Ardagh cup final while the Challenge cup was won by Ethna Murphy who defeated Phil Butler. In the Bluett cup, Dympna Hehir defeated Mary Curley.
Ennis hosted the All-Ireland ladies intermediate foursomes and the Men’s Pierce Purcell quarter finals on Saturday when 16 teams from all provinces competed. Going on to compete in the All-Ireland semi-finals on Friday September 18 with the finals being held on Saturday September 19 are Portadown, Naas, Cahir Park and Killiney in the ladies foursomes and Blackbush, Portumna, Cobh and Nenagh in the Pierce Purcell.
Lahinch Golf Club:
The Lahinch ladies senior cup team, managed by Valerie Shannon and Aedin McCarthy went down to the eventual All-Ireland winners in the semi-final at Shandon Park in Belfast on Saturday. This was a repeat of last year’s All-Ireland final.
Lahinch defeated Elm Park in a thrilling quarter final on the previous afternoon, winning on a 3.5 to 1.5 scoreline.
The men’s Barton Shield team, managed by Patrick Crowley, defeated Dun Laoghaire in their quarter final match by 3 holes to progress to the semi-finals where, after a tight match, they lost out to eventual champions Douglas by 4 holes.
The Lahinch club operations manager, T.J. Ford was a member of the Sligo team which competed in the men’s senior cup competition.
Sixmilebridge Golf Society:
Sixmilebridge golf society president Alan Murphy’s prize was played for at Portumna last week when Eric Purcell emerged with the honours. He was followed by Adam Breen with Daire Bucke in third place followed by Ed Crowe.
Adam Merriman and Ian Mulready won the nines while Joe Murphy won the longest drive with the nearest the pin prize won by Daire Bucke, Pat Kearney won the par 3’s competition while the guest’s prize was won by Jack Gleeson.
