BRIGHT sunshine was the order of the day as the Woodstock captains for 2025 ‘drove-in’ to office last Sunday.

The officials for 2025 are Gerry O’Malley (Men) Chaye Kelly (Ladies), Frank McEnery (Seniors), Sean Crowe (Junior boys) and Grace O’Halloran (junior girls).

A nine hole scramble with teams starting from the first an tenth tees followed.

The front nine winners were Mike Kelly, Helen Frost O’Neill, Patsy Nugent and Ross Kenny while the back 9 winners were Joe Keane, John Clune, Joan Cullinan Coote and Ramona Gleeson.

Round 6 in the Ozone Health and Fitness Spring league saw victory go to Mike and Cathal Kelly with 54 points with Seamus and Barry McNicholl in second place with 52 points.

The final standings in the league after last week’s round reveal Pat and Joe Barry with 219 points in first place. In second place with 210 points are Mike and Cathal Kelly followed by Paddy Meehan / Dickie Pyne with 202, Pat O’Brien / Colin Higgins with 20, Paul Coote / Chris McGrath with 201 with sixth spot filled by Kieran Dromey / Jarlath Fahy with 198.

Last week’s club singles was won by Colin Reidy (15) with 35 points from Noel Moloney (13 with 34 and Gerry Walsh (18), also with 34.

Winners in the 2’s competition were Noel Mulcahy (7th hole), Dickie Pyne (7th hole), Ronan Horgan (7th and 11th holes) and Ken Horgan (6th and 8th holes).

There will be another club singles this weekend while there will be a fourball betterball competition throughout the bank holiday weekend with re-entry with a different partner on a different day allowed.

Kilrush Golf Club:

The Johnson’s Bar Spring qualifier continued at Kilrush at the weekend when this week’s winner was Geremiah Brennan (8) with 30 points. In second pace was Jim Young Snr (6) who also scored 30 points with Noel Thornton (11) a point back in third spot.

East Clare Golf Club:

East Clare hosted an International Women’s day scramble in aid of Clare Haven o Sunday when the winners were Brid Hayes, Terry Mulvihill and Marie A. Kelly. In second place were Evelyn Skehan, Maureen Clune and Joyce Purcell followed by Bridget Minogue, Deirdre O’Neill and Helen Conway.

Last week’s ladies Wednesday competition was won by Trish Kerr. Brid Hayes and Phil Burke. In second place were Teresa Bradley, Ursula Hogan and Geraldine Condren with third spot filled by Helen Downey, Siobhan Mulcahy and Connie McKenna.

In the men’s 18 hole stroke competition on Sunday, Redmond Walsh Senior (12) was the winner with 65 from Neil Harrington (10) with a similar score with Stephen Hickey (25) a stroke back on 66.

Last week’s senior men’s competition was won by Kieran McNamara, Jim Willis and Nick Obolewicz from Danny Minogue, Eamon Goode, and Donal Fleming with third spot filled by John Fielding, Steve Symes, and Jim Greene.

Friday’s mixed scramble was won by John Nihill, Breda O’ Loghlin and Pat Duggan from Mary Jo Minogue, Willie Roche and John Fahy with third spot filled by Mary Collins, Terry Coughlan and Dave Condren.

Ennis Golf Club:

Last week’s ladies 13 hole fourball better ball at Ennis was won by Mary Curley (51) and Sinéad O’Sullivan (41) with 32 points. They had one to spare over Nuala D’Auria (39) and Mary T. McMahon (12) . In third place with 28 points were Flor Coffey (18) and Peggy Costello (21) followed by Rose Enright (19) and Geraldine O’Rourke (26) with a similar score.

In the 8 hole singles the winner was Martina Corbett (21) with 21 points followed by Marian Irwin (21) with 16 points, Phil Butler (14) with a similar score with Flor Coffey (10) with 14 points and Celia Reilly (18), also with 14 points.

The senior ladies scramble was won by Carmel Verling, Pat Lacey and Martina Corbett from Nuala D’Auria, Mary Kearns and Ann Kelly with third spot filled by Marie Dilleen, Alice Darcy and Therese Lillis.

Gort Golf Club:

Barry Cahill (8) was the category 1 winner with 42 points in the men’s 18 hole singles stableford competition at Gort at the weekend. Category 2 was won by Martin Callinan (14) with 41 points, category 3 by Pat McNamara (19) with 41 points and category 4 by Brian Crossan (23) with 40 points.

Sixmilebridge Golf Society:

Sixmilebridge golf society had its first outing of the year to Ennis last Saturday where Brian Murphy emerged as the winner from Pat Kearney with Colin Murphy in third spot followed by Vinny Purcell. The nines were won by John McNamara and Joe Joe Murphy.

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