*Captain’s Prize winner Eugene O’Byrne with Sue and Keith Buckley, captain of Shannon Golf Club. Photograph: Joe Buckley Captain Keith Buckley’s prize was played for at Shannon on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and attracted a huge turnout of members.
*Winners of the Club Clare Golf Classic – Conor Gilligan, Sean Neylon, Martin McGivern, Tom Galvin. Captain John Casey’s prize was played for at Dromoland at the weekend when Hugh O’Neill emerged as the winner with 99.
With the weather over the past few days, one would be forgiven for thinking we were back in winter. Ironically, East Clare’s winter league final was scheduled for this weekend.
*Renata Brulinska ladies captain and David Eastham men’s captain at their recent drive in Trump Doonbeg Golf course. The return of competitions at golf clubs last week resulted in big entries all round.
*Tom Clancy, Peter Tim Lynch, Karl Lynch and Peter Tim Lynch Jnr were among the golfers hitting the fairways of Shannon Golf Club on Monday. Photograph: Joe Buckley One hundred and seventeen days after golf was last allowed, clubs throughout the country welcomed back their members on Monday.
While the majority of club golfers concentrate on the various competitions in their clubs, those in the low handicap bracket aspire to competing in scratch cup events throughout the country and progressing on to qualifying to play in such prestigious competitions at the South of Ireland amateur championship.
*Keith Buckley. Photograph: Joe Buckley Golfing history will be made in Shannon in August of this year when the annual inter Pro competitions will be hosted by the club as this will mark the first time that the men’s and ladies events will be held together.
Two long standing competitions at Ennis golf club, the Knox and Koley Cups, concluded on Monday when the finals were decided.
Since golf courses re-opened over a week ago, Shannon has hosted a number of 9 hole competitions which resulted in impressive scoring.
Shannon were narrowly defeated in the Munster final of the Jimmy Bruen shield played at Mahony’s Point golf course in Killarney on Saturday.
