LAHINCH ladies senor cup team will take on Kilkenny in the All-Ireland competition at Douglas in Cork on this Saturday. The team is managed by Valerie Shannon and Aedin McCarthy.
Congratulations have poured in this week for club member Marie O’Connor who has won a number of medals at the World Transplant games. She won gold in darts, silver in golf and bronze in Petanque.
The final evening of the social mixed foursomes is scheduled to take place on this Friday, August 29 on the Old Course.
East Clare Golf Club:
Lady captain Helen Downey’s prize was played for at East Clare on Sunday when Noreen Doyle captured the honours with 41 points. She had one to spare over Tricia Kerr with Evelyn O’Brien in third place, also with 40 points and she was followed by Helen Ahern with 39 points.
The gross was won by Rachel Whelan while the category winners were Brid Hayes with 36 points, Maureen Clune with 35 points and Marie A. Kelly with 36 points.
Margaret Egan and Ursula Hogan won the nines while Rachel Whelan won the long drive and Teresa Tonna was nearest the pin.
The 9 hole competition was won by Terri Mulvihill from Mary Healy.
Helen’s prize to the men was won by Ray Hogan (18) with 44 points from Teddy O’ Hanlon (12) with 42 points. They were followed by Conor Meade (4) with 42 points while the gross was won by Ronan Molloy (2) with 69.
The nines were won by Gerry Nugent (21) with 22 points and Tony Nelson (11) with 22 points.
Darren O’Sullivan had the longest drive while Ronan Molloy was nearest the pin.
The lady captain’s prize to the senior men was won by Michael O’ Halloran with 43 points from Brian Corry with a similar score. Teddy Murphy was third with 40 points while William O’Brien won the gross. The nines were won by Nick Ryan and Michael McMahon while Pat Carey had the longest drive and Dave Condren was nearest the pin.
The ladies Wednesday competition was won by Siobhan Mulcahy, Kay Grimes and Mary Stritch from Ursula Hogan, Liz McMahon and Breda Reid.
Last week’s senior men’s competition was won by Paul Truss, Brian Corry and Teddy Murphy from Ailbe Mc Donnell, Brian Torpey and Chris Davis with third place filled by Terry Coughlan, John Torpey and Michael Heffernan.
Woodstock Golf Club:
Stephen Clancy (16) won the Brian Pyne Tiles August medal at Woodstock with 65 while Kieran Cunnane (1) won the gross with 74. Category 1 was won by Gerry Kelly (10) with 67 from Morgan Lahiffe (8) with 68.
Stephen Dolan (13) won category 2 with 70 from Mike Martin Hogan (16) who had 71. Category 3 was won by Brendan Keogh (19) with 65 while winners in the 2’s competition were Niall Reynolds (4th and 6th holes), Sean Williams (8th hole), Jamie Ivors (8th hole) and Frank Landy (11th hole).
The singles competition for those with handicaps of 16 and over was won by Kenneth Warren (16) with 44 points.
Last week’s open singles at Woodstock was won by Paul O’Shea (24) with 42 points. The gross was won by Alan Markham (2) with 33 points.
The category winners were Donal Buckley (9) with 38 points, Michael Lydon (Lahinch) (17) with 42 points and Andrew Mulligan (21) with 40 points
Winners in the 2’s competition were Niall Reynolds (6th Hole), Alan Markham (14th Hole) and Adrian Kearney (8th Hole).
Thursday evening’s Holly’s Haven Pharmacy mixed scramble was won by John Clune. Kathleen Mc Enery and Noel Mulcahy with 25.4 from Seo O’ Riordain, Colette Coakley and Anne Marie Russell with 25.9 with third spot filled by Liam O’Connor. Edel Clune and Vincent O Grady with 26.3.
The open singles continues on this Thurday as does the Holly’s Haven Pharmacy mixed scramble which will be at 5p.m.
The weekend competition will be the club championship, a strokeplay competition off the white tees.
Kilrush Golf Club:
Lady President, Mary Young’s prize was played for at Kilrush at the weekend where Anna Moody (18) emerged with the honours with 37 points.
She won by one from lady captain Clare Pyne (22) who was followed by Mary Bolton (16) with 36 points, Helen Williams (26) with 35 points, Agnes Shannon (22), also with 35 points and Ailish Lorigan (18) with 32 points. The gross was won by Anne Gallagher (11) with 23 points while the category winners were Sheila O’Grady (17) with 31 points, Mary O’Sullivan (26) with 27 points and Ursula Lineen (28) with 27 points.
The nines were won by Mary Lyons (15) with 15 points and Anne Marie Donnellan (13) with 19 points.
Jean Lorigan (32) won the past president’s category with 26 points while the committee member’s prize was won by Martina Walsh (22) with 26 points
The Central Shoes sponsored 18 holes stableford competition for Kilrush ladies was won by Imelda Griffin (52) with 40 points.
The category winners were Anne Galllagher (12) with 35 points, Miriam Saunders (23) with 35 points and Anne Marie Gollden (44) with 34 points
Ennis Golf Club:
The annual club classic at Ennis, sponsored by Vitalograph, was held last week and was a big success.
The winning team included Michael Killeen (14), David Cahill (21), Noel Murphy (12) and Ross Killeen (20) and they scored 89 points.
They had one to spare over Tommy Stack (17), Michael M Vaughan (15), Martin Coffey (16) and Frank Cullinan (29). In third place with 87 points were Tim Kelly (24), Paul Higgins (19), Joe O’Brien (23) and Noel Connellan (18).
The mens team winners were Jerry Linnane (26), Vincent Healy (16), Sasanka Are (18) and Declan Daly (12) with 86 points while the ladies team winners were Margaret Flanagan (33), Phil Butler (27), Sinead Hegarty (17) and Martina Corbett (28) with 82 points
The winners of the 9 hole competition were Margaret Flanagan (16), Phil Butler (13), Anne McMahon (22) and Patricia Kerwin (16) with 41 points.
Winners of the longest drive were Michael Killeen and Kate Keohane while the nearest the pin winners were Kieran Fox and Peg Hanrahan.
Last week’s senior ladies competition winners were Brid Cunningham, Geraldine O’Mahoney and Maeve O’Grady from Carmel Verling, Margaret McEnery and Eileen Corry with third place filled by Bernie Brooks, Martina Corbett and Mary Murray.
The overall winner in the weekly ladies singles competition was Betty O’Reilly (36) with 40 points.
The category winners were Rose Enright (20) with 38 points, Helen Harnett (30) with 35 points and Norah Power (55) with 39 points.
The overall winner in the 9 hole singles competition was Mary Walshe (19) with 22 points from Mary O’Halloran (19) with 21 points.
The category winners were Carmel Verlling (12) with 15 points, Josephine Tone (17) with 18 points and Muriel O’Meara (28) with 21 points.
Friday’s open singles was won by Simon Cuddy (21) with 39 points from Donagh Stack (9) with 38 points with Damon Murphy (23) in third place with 35 points.
Dromoland Golf Club:
The weekend’s stableford competition at Dromoland was won by Michael Lally with 40 points from Michael O’Shea with 39, Sean Hayes with 38 and Seamus Cusack, also with 38. Brian Shally won the gross and he also returned 38 points.
Tadhg Lyne won the mid week nine hole competition with 20 points from Gordon Daffy with 18 and Tom O’Brien, also with 18
In the ladies player of the year 18 hole competition the winner was Deirdre Cooney from Julie Fitzgerald with Jean Colleran third while Leslie O’Flynn won the gross.
Dorothea Madden won the 9 hole competition from Niamh McDermott.
Junior captain Donncha Mahon’s prize saw Cian Cullinan with 40 points win the boys section from Thomas O’Dea with 39 and Dylan Tobin with 38. Cian Breslin won the nearest the pin prize.
Victoria Doyle with 35 points won the girls prize from Rachel Staunton with 30.
Kildysart Golf Society:
Kildysart golf society enjoyed a great trip to the popular Portumna Golf Club on Sunday where Gary Brooks emerged as the winner with 40 points to win on a countback from John McNeilis. Liam Crowe was third with 37 points.
The nines were won by Mark Cottam with 20 points and Joe Hogan with 19 while Patrick Browne won the guests section with 37 points.
The next outing is the captain Kevin Kelly’s prize at Westport golf club on September 20.
Sixmilebidge Golf Society:
Trevor Whyte’s captain’s prize in Portumna last Saturday was won by Conor Murphy from Trevor Whyte with third spot filled by Ed Crowe with Alan Murphy fourth.
The nines were won by John Chaplin and Dermot McNamara. Nearest the Pin was Conor Murphy, while the longest drive was won by Alan Murphy. The guest prize was won by Jack Corry.
