The men’s and ladies Christmas hampers competitions took place at Dromoland over the Bank holiday weekend.
In the men’s competition Daniel Lennon emerged with the best score of 40 points.
He had one to spare over Noel O’Brien with David N. O’Brien a point further back on 38 points.
Fourth place was filled by Paul O’Brien, also with 38 points and he was followed by Noel McMahon with 37, Paudie Dorgan with 36 and Jimmy McManus with 34.
Seamus Cusack with 38 points won the gross.
The ladies Christmas hampers competition was won by Siobhan Fitzpatrick with 41 points from Joan Ryan with 39, Breda O’Donovan with 35 and Anne McMahon with 34.
Last week’s men’s 9 hole winner was Sean Hayes with 18 points while Niamh McDermott won he ladies 9 hole competition.
Ennis Golf Club:
Joseph O’Brien (15) was the winner of the men’s competition at Ennis at the weekend with 38 points.
He won by one from Cyril Corry (15) with David Pender (11), also with 37 points, in third place.
Last week’s senior ladies competition was won by Carmel Verling, Mary Murray and Geraldine O’Mahoney from Eileen Daly, Brid Cunningham and Maureen Moloney.
The weekly ladies competition, an 18 hole singles in the October league, sponsored by Sheils Motor group, was won by Bridie Hanrahan (20) with 33 points.
In second place with 31 points was Mary T. McMahon (13) followed by Geraldine O’Mahoney (35), also with 31 points
In the 9 hole singles October league, sponsored by Helen Gallery Auctioreers/Valuers and Or na hOige Jewellery the winner was Carmel Verling (12) with 16 points. She won by one from Helen Harnett (15) with third spot filled by Ethna Murphy (16), also with 15 points.
The senior men played a 14 hole competition for hampers. The winner was Neil Cremin (24) with 31 points from Padraig Cusack (16) with 30 points. In third place, also with 30 points, was John C McNamara (15).
Kilrush Golf Club:
The men’s competition at Kilrush at the weekend was a 12 hole singles which was won by Padraic Cotter (12) (Dromoland Castle) with 28 points. He won from Sean Lyons (10) with 26 points with John Stapleton (15) also with 26 points, in third spot. The gross was won by Dominic Enright with 19 points.
The Joe Lillis Construction ladies 12 hole competition at Kilrush was won by Edel Crowley (12) with 28 points. She won by two from Margaret Donnelly (14) with Ursula Linen (21) in third place with 25 points. Anne Gallagher (9) was fourth also with 25 points.
Woodstock Golf Club:
Bernardo Kelly (5) with 40 points won the Bank holiday weekend singles at Woodstock which attracted forty two entries. He had one to spare over John Dreelan (8) who claimed second place with a better back nine from Tommy Flynn (13) who also had 39 points
Seosamh O’Riordain and Matt O’Brien with 55 points won the modified team of two betterball while winners in the 2’s competition were Cathal Nagle (6th hole) and Sean Crowe (4th hole)
Round one in the Ozone Health & Fitness Winter league will take place this weekend when the format will be a modified team of 2 betterball. The format will be 1 to score for the first 6 holes and 2 to score for the remaining holes.
The best 5 of 8 rounds will count in the league standings. Each week there will be stand alone competition for weekly prizes.
There will also be a club singles this week
East Clare Golf Club:
The winners of the ladies champagne scramble at East Clare on Sunday were Noreen Doyle, Ann Harte and Marie Donnellan with 58 points and they were three ahead of Eileen Donnellan, Catherine Murphy and Bridget Minogue.
The ladies Wednesday competition was won by Phil Burke, Tricia Kerr and Helen Conway from Brid Hayes, Mary Farrell and Deirdre Tuohy with third place filled by Connie McKenna, Kay Grimes and Breda O’Loghlin.
The men’s team of four scramble on Sunday was won by B. McCarthy, B. Stritch, E. Rosney and S. Cawley with 56 points and they had two to spare over the team of J. Fahy, N. Ryan, J. Nihill and G. Teefey. Winners of the three ball scramble were W.O’Brien, R. Walsh Snr, and P. Carey with 51 points
Last week’s senior men’s competition was won by Danny Minogue, Tadhg Murphy and Denis Corcoran from Terry Coughlan, Jim Fahy and Willie Roche with third place filled by Stephen Lynch, Brendan, Moloney and Sean Jones.
Jason Horan, Dominic Stuart and Stephen Moloney won the Friday scramble from Mary Farrell, Jim Lynch, Willie Roche and Terry Coughlan. The Winter League has started and will continue over the coming weeks.
Gort Golf Club:
The winner of the weekend’s 18 hole singles competition at Gort was Ronald Ryan (18) with 41 points.
The category winners were Chris Murphy (8) with 36 points, Kyle
MacFarlane (18) with 38 points and Tom Costelloe (19) with 40 points. The gross was won by Paul Brennan (2) with 31 points.
Monday’s open 18 hole singles stableford competition, sponsored by Ward and Burke, was won by John O’Mahony (23) with 42 points.
The previous week’s overall winner was Rob Boyce (13) with 43 points. The category winners were Peter Deegan (7) with 37 points, Martin Flaherty (18) with 43 points and Diarmuid Tobin (25) with 38 points. The gross was won by Ger Niland (4) with 33 points.
