The Easter open team of three competition at East Clare Golf Club was well supported and produced some impressive scores.
The ladies section was won by Helen Downey, Kay Grimes and Pauline Nugent with 67 points and they were followed by Maria Kennedy, Geraldine Finnegan and Ann Harte. with 63 points.
In the men’s competition the winner were John Carmody, Keith McInerney and Chris Whitycombe with 69 points and they were three ahead of Martin and Brendan McInerney and Colm Kelly.
In the mixed team section the winners were Michael Hayes, Ger and Margaret Hoey with 70 points followed by Bryan and Maureen Clune and Helen Stewart with 64 points.
In last week’s open singles the winner was Flannan McMahon (29) with 41 points followed by Batt Skehan (18) with 39 points. The gross was won by Keith Farr (2) with 34 points.
The ladies Wednesday competition was won by Brid Hayes, Deirdre Tuohy and Deirdre O’Neill from Teresa Bradley Mary Farrell and Colette Ward with third spot filled by Mary Brennan, Mary Healy and Pauline Nugent.
In the senior men’s competition the winners were Willie Roche, Jackie McHugh and Tony Nelson from Noel Earley, Jim Willis and Michael Heffernan with third spot filled by Jonathan Walsh, John Torpey and Jim Bradley.
Kilrush Golf Club:
The annual Fr Pat Malone 18 hole ladies singles stableford competition at Kilrush took place last week when Nicola O’Leary (27) emerged as the overall winner with 44 points.
The category winners were Mary Lyons (21) with 41 points, Edel Crowley (24) with 43 points and Ursula Lineen (31) with 40 points.
The Clare Oil open singles at the weekend was won by Billy Clarke (16) with 42 points with second spot filled by Leroy Crowe (12) with 40 points. Declan O’Donovan (8) was third with 38 points while the gross was won by Michael F Ryan with 32 points.
The category winners were Pat Brennan (9) with 36 points, Cyril Kelly (16) with 34 points and Mark Cottam (17) with 37 points.
Michael J. Hogan won the front 9 with 19 points while the back nine was won by Tom Browne with 21 points.
Woodstock Golf Club:
Last week’s open singles at Woodstock was won by Cathal O’Sullivan (10) with 42 points with second place filled by Barry Ward (17) with 38 points.
In the Easter weekend’s club singles the winner was Patrick O’Donoghue (29) with 65 followed by Bernardo Kelly (5) with 68 with third spot filled by Frank Landy (15) with 70.
In the v par competition the winner was Michael Coughlan (22) with +6, who was one ahead of Ollie McNamara (16) who pipped Michael Foley (19) for second place on the back nine.
The Easter Monday Texas scramble was won by John and Cathal Clune with 44 points and they won on a countback from Kieran Dromey and Nicholas Germaine.
The Hotel Woodstock April medal will be the competition this weekend.
Dromoland Golf Club:
Michelle McCarthy was the winner of the ladies 18 hole stableford competition at Dromoland at the weekend with 37 points. She had two to spare over Cora O’Toole with Trish O’Brien, also with 35 points, in third spot.
Siobhan Doohan won the ladies 9 hole stableford competition with 20 points two more than Sinead Burke Keogh with Niamh McDermott a point further back in third spot.
Seamus Mungovan won the men’s stableford competition with 42 points followed by Niall Woods who had a similar score. Sam Kaghazchi was third and he also scored 42 points with Mike O’Shea in fourth spot with 41 points. The gross was won by Éanna McMahon with 40 points.
Gort Golf Club:
The masters open singles at Gort over the Easter Bank holiday, sponsored by Gort Road Tyres, Ennis, was won by David Callinan (9) with 42 points.
The category winners were Padraic Landers (7 with 37 points, Declan Grimes (16) with 40 points and Owen O’Donnell (26) 40 points. The gross was won by Joe Moran (+1) with 37 points.
It was a good weekend for David Callinan as he also won the Easter Monday singles with 40 points. The category winners on Monday were Mike McNamara (11) with 40 points, David Kennedy (14) with 32 points and Kieran Grimes (25) with 34 points.
Kildysart Golf Society:
Kildysart golf society members will travel to Cregmorepark golf club In Galway this coming Sunday, April 27 when tee times are from 11.30am.
