LAHINCH ladies club will hold their annual Play in Pink Invitational day in aid of Breast Cancer Research on Monday April 14 on both the Old and Castle courses.
The format on the Old Course is a team of 4 ladies only and the cost per team is €100 payable on entry on the day. The format on the Castle Course is a mixed team of any combination and the cost per team is €60 payable on entry on the day. A minimum of one member is required per team.
Traditionally club members have been very generous, supporting this cause in various ways such as sponsoring a tee box, donating money/raffle prizes or buying tickets on the ‘iDonate’ platform.
East Clare Golf Club:
Sunday’s ladies fourball betterball competition at East Clare was won by Siobhan Shanahan and Brid Gurnett with 49 points, three more than second placed Brid Hayes and Siobhan Mulcahy.
Last week’s ladies 18 hole stableford competition winner was Celia Moloney with 36 points.
The ladies Wednesday competition was won by Deirdre Tuohy, Pauline Nugent, Mary Farrell and Phil Burke from Mary Jo Minogue, Connie McKenna, and Brid Hayes with third spot filled by Evelyn Skehan, Kay Grimes and Margaret O’Brien.
Sunday’s men’s singles competition was won by Noel Nash (24) with 44 points from Michael Hayes: (21) with 42 points with third spot filled by Tony Duggan (16) also with 42 points. The gross was won by Anthony Sweeney with 36 points.
The winners of last week’s senior men’s competition were Steve Lynch and Batt Skehan from Nick Ryan and Brian Torpey with third spot filled by Ger Lenihan and Dominic Stuart.
Friday’s mixed scramble was won by Mary Hogan, Brian Torpey and Tony Nelson from John Fahy, Brendan Moloney and Evelyn Skehan with third place filled by Noreen Skehan, Pat Duggan and John Nihill.
Dromoland Golf Club:
The men’s Winter league concluded recently at Dromoland with victory going to Peter Doyle, Jimmy Neville, James Purcell and Brian Ahern. In second place were Billy O’Mahony, Shane Collins, Brian Maloney and Alan Brennan. Third place was filled by Christy Cusack, Denis Minihane, Robert Bailey and Eamon Power with fourth spot filled by Brian Sheedy, Mervin Frazer, Daragh McCoy and John McCarthy.
Last week’s ladies 18 hole stableford competition was won by Marie Meaney with 35 points from Siobhan Dyar with 32 points and Dorothy Meaney with 31 points.
The 9 hole competition was won by Sinead Burke Keogh with 20 points from Sandra Moylan with 18 and Mairead Bergin with 17 points.
Ruairi Price was the winner of the men’s 18 hole stableford competition with 48 points from Jobn O’Grady with 43 and John McCarthy with 41. Eamon Power won the category for handicappers 20 and over with 39 points while the gross was won by Jason Towney with 38 points.
Last week’s senior men’s outing saw John O’Shaughnessy win category A from Willie Delaney with Jimmy Neville in third place.
Category B was won by Ger Ryan from Jerry O’Gorman with George O’Carroll in third place.
Woodstock Golf Club:
The weekend’s club singles at Woodstock was won by Niall Reynolds (18) with 48 points while the gross was won by Kieran Cunnane (scratch) with 37 points.
Category 1 (0 to 10) was won by John Clune (8) with 34 points on a count back from Mark Sweeney (8).
Category 2 (11 to 18) was won by Tony Neville (12) with 42 points one more than Paddy Meehan (12).
The category 3 (19 plus) winner was Jarlath Fahy (24) with 41 points
There will be another club singles this weekend and a modified team of four competition.
The annual Costello Cup fixture between Woodstock and Ennis will take place on Sunday week, April 13 at Ennis.
The Costello Cup is an annual match open to men from both clubs. Woodstock retained the cup in October last year. The format is scotch foursomes Woodstock players will be partnered up with a pairing from Ennis.
Ennis Golf Club:
Rose Enright (22) was the winner of the ladies 17 hole singles at Ennis last week with 36 points. She won by five from Bridie Hanrahan (18) with third spot filled by Ethna Murphy (32) with 30 points.
The Lions and Cubs 13 hole scramble in aid of Clare Haven was won by Martina Corbett, Mary Kearns and Margaret Flanagan (26) with 35 nett.
Last week’s senior ladies scramble was won by Maureen Moloney, Mary Murray and Martina Corbett from Alice D’Arcy, Brid Cunningham and Mary Kearns.
Gort Golf Club:
The winner of the men’s singles stableford competition at Gort at the weekend was Ben Geoghegan (17) with 40 points. Category 1 was won by Jean Luc Bellevergue (11) with 39 points, category 2 by Danny Losty (15) with 40 points, category 3 by Martin Whelan (26) with 40 points while the gross was won by Kris Finnegan (scratch) with 33 points.
Kildysart Golf Society:
The members of the Kildysart society have a very attractive list of outings for this year and their next outing is to Cregmore on April 27. That will be followed by outings to Esker Hills on May 24, Oughterard (June 29), Kilrush ( July 27) Portumna (August 24), Westport (September 20) and Killarney (October 19).
Anyone interested in joining can contact Bryan Hayes on 087-647 0596 or log on to the Kildysart Golf Society Facebook page.
Sixmilebrige Golf Society:
Members of Sixmilebridge Golf Society will enjoy a trip to Tipp this Saturday as they compete in the society’s second outing of the season. The venue is Tipperary golf club with first tee at 10am. New members are welcome, email davidpurcell10@gmail.com if interested.
Fanny O’Deas Golf Society:
Fanny O’Dea’s golf society Lissycasey had their first trip abroad to Alicante last week. Twenty six members went for the five days with some playing 4 rounds over the trip, while everyone played 3 rounds at the Bonalba Golf course, Font del Llop, and Alicante golf course in sunshine.
Winners over the weekend were James Clancy, Michael McMahon, Peter O’Leary, and Pat Bohannon with second place filled by Danny Lynch, Marty Meaney, TJ Monahan, and Paddy Corcoran.
Other prize winners over the weekend were Niall Coughlan and Pat Bohannon.
The society’s next outing is to Gort on Sunday April 13th.
