Rory O’Brien was the winner of the weekend singles at Woodstock with 44 points two more than Ronan O’Looney who was in a second place.
Vincent O’Grady, also with 42 points was in third place followed by Joe Keane with 41 points with fifth spot filled by Mike Liddy, also with 41 points.
Alan Markham’s and Ray Casey’ teams qualified for the Spring league final at the weekend when they were victorious over the teams captained by Colm Geary and Ross Darmody.
There will be a club singles this weekend while the annual Costello fixture between Ennis and Woodstock will take place on Sunday at Woodstock. The format will be scotch foursomes.
Ennis Golf Club:
The ladies section of Ennis golf club will have a busy time over the coming weeks. Next week (April 23 to 26) the Australian Spoons competition will take place.
The Tadhg O’Flynn Jewellers fourball competition will take place on May 7 to 10
Followed on May 21 to 24 by the Cummins Garage fourball. The Bogey cup, sponsored by Coco Restaurant will take place on May 31 to June 7.
The Eileen Murphy foursomes will be played on June 25 to 28 followed on July 12 by the Play in Pink day, sponsored by Tadhg O’Flynn Jewellers .
The TempleGate hotel sponsored GAity Cinema cup will take place on August 6 to 9 while the Ardagh cup and Challenge cup finals will be on August 27.
Last week’s senior ladies competition was won by Carmel Verling, Kathleen Pyne and Bernie Brooks with 29.
Meanwhile the Ennis senior men’s social group competition played on Thursday April 13 was won by Sean Daly, Kevin Murray, Michael A Considine and Sean O Gorman with 70 points.
In second place were Brendan Pyne, Ronnie Guinnane, Michael Ball and John R Cullinan on 69 points followed in third place by Tony Lawler, Michael Neylon, Michael Kerin and Declan Hanley on 68 points.
Dromoland Golf Club:
Philip Alldritt was the winner of the men’s 18 hole singles stableford competition at Dromoland last week with 43 points. He had two to spare over Niall Geraghty with Joe Walsh, also with 41, in third spot followed by Tim Kennelly with 39 . Killian Howard won the gross with 36 points.
The ladies 18 hole stroke medal 1 qualifier on Sunday was won by Carola Wixted with 70 nett from Cora O’Toole with 76, Julie Fitzgerald with 77 and Mairead Toomey with 78.
The 9 hole stroke competition was won by Catherine Quinn with 40 nett.
In the men’s 9 hole singles stableford competition Robert Deegan won with 23 points from Alan Pyne with 19 and Patrick Vaughan, also with 19.
Kilrush Golf Club:
Michael Shannon Senior (17) won the men’s weekly competition at Kilrush with 35 points from Tom Buckley (8) with 29 , Leroy Crowe (10) with 28 and Brian Scanlan (6) with 27.
Gort Golf Club:
Keis Finnegan (7) was the winner of the men’s singles at Gort at the weekend with 44 points.
Category A was won by P.J. McAllen (9) with 39 points, category B as won by John Dempsey (18) with a similar score, Shane Kavanagh (21) won category C with 40 points while the gross was won by David Quirke (3) with 35 points.
East Clare Golf Club:
Mary Farrell (36) won the ladies 18 hole stableford (non qualifying) competition at East Clare last week with 35 points. Eileen Donnellan (13) won the gross with 18 points. Best wishes are extended to the club’s Lady Captain Rachel Whelan who is getting married on this Friday April 21 to Shane McGrath.
