Dromoland Castle golf club hosted their annual club week last week and it proved to be a tremendous success with great scoring in a variety of competitions.
The week started with a club singles which was won by Enda Finnucane with 41 points from Joe Walsh with 39 points.
Tuesday’s team of four competition was won by Jean Colleran, Katrina O’Neill, Shane Collins and Brian Arthur with 97 points. They had two to spare over Brian Sheedy, Vincent Sherlock, Seamus Lawlor and Eddie King with Ronan Cooney, Gavin, Oisin and Darren Reilly two points further back in third spot.
Wednesday’s singles competition was won by Tony Byrne with 41 points from Ciaran O’Donoghue with 40 and Damian O’Malley, also with 40 points.
In the champagne scramble the winners with 126 points were Gary, Eamonn and Mark O’Brien and Enda Cregg. In second place with 118 points were Eoin and Ruairi Brislane, Eamonn Kelly and Kevin Cummins. They were followed by Robin Mounsey, Dyan Brown, Darragh Healy and Harry Ward with 117 points.
The competition on Friday was a singles which was won by Laurence Neil with 43 points from Keith Coyle with 41 and Jamie Kavanagh with 39.
The weekend’s strokeplay competition off the white tees was won by Tony Higgins with 65 from Noel O’Brien with 68 and Enda Finnucane with 71. A similar competition off the blue tees was won by Ryan Enright with 72, Diarmuid O’Connor with 73 and Gavin Reilly with 74.
In the ladies 9 hole the club plus putter competition the winner was Geraldine Ryan with 19 points from Siobhan Fitzpatrick with a similar score. Joan Ryan was third with 18 points followed by Patricia O’Brien with 17 points.
Ennis Golf Club:
Last week’s Ennis ladies seniors competition was won by Claire Kennelly, Brid Cunningham and Kathleen Pyne with 52 1/5 points from Betty 0’Riordan, Mary Murray and Ann Casey with 52 2/3 points with third spot filled by Framces O’Reilly, Mary Gardiner and Carmel Verling with  53 2/5 points.
Lahinch Golf Club:
Entries are being taken for the Paddy Leyden trophy winter matchplay competition at Lahinch. The format is fourball matchplay and all matches will be played on the championship course off the green tee markers. The draw will be made on November 1st and round one must be completed by November 14th. Closing date for entries is Friday October 29th.
Clare/Galway seniors:
The Clare/Galway seniors alliance will hold their last outing of the season on Monday November 1 at Ennis when the tee will be available from 8.30am to 1p.m.and to book a tee time contact Ennis golf club
Woodstock Golf Club:
Pat Keane (14) was the winner of the club singles at Woodstock at the weekend with 43 points. Mike Reen (8) won category 1 with 40 points, Pat O’Brien (18) won category 2 with 43 points and Raymond Grogan (28) won category 3 with 42 points. There will be a club singles competition this weekend.
Meanwhile there has been a great response to the Autumn league and the deadline for entries has been extended to this Sunday, October 24. The league will begin on the weekend of October 30/31.
Kilrush Golf Club:
The men’s competition at Kilrush golf club at the weekend was for the Whelan prize and the winner was Brian Scanlan (11) with 43 points. He had two to spare over David Abbott (17) with third spot filled by Finbarr McMahon (20), also with 41 points.
George Nolan (14) won division 1 with 41 points, Patrick Coleman (16) won division 2 with 36 points and John Stapleton (21) took the division 3 honours with 38 points.
Shannon Golf Club:
In the men’s green tee challenge at Shannon last week, Ian Fox (4) was the winner with 46 points from John Burns (20) who had a similar score. Eric Daly (21) was third with 43 points followed by Declan Collins (28), also with 43 points. Ed Hickey (scratch) won the gross with 35 points.
The men’s 9 hole singles competition was won by Michael McInerney (9) with 22 points. The autumn league continues this week when the format will be scotch foursomes.
Portumna Golf Club:
Monica Cormican (35) was the winner of the ladies weekly competition at Portumna with 43 points. Vera Smyth (10) was second with 35 points followed by Patricia Rowland (6) with 34 points. The senior section was won by Dagmar Ullrich-Werner (28) with 33 points.
Banner Classic:
Banner GAA club in Ennis held a very successful fundraising golf classic recently at Woodstock when the winners were Tony and Eilis Neville, Liam O’Connor and P.J. Carmody.
They were followed by Tony Nugent, Kieran Drummy, Seamus Kelly and Nick Germaine with third spot filled by Greg, Jason and John Dormer and Colm Byrne. Mark Duffy won the prize for nearest the pin while Shane Cusack was the longest drive winner.
Clarecastle Society Outing:
Noel Connellan with an impressive score of 44 points, was the winner of a recent Clarecastle society outing at the Castle course in Lahinch. Pake Murtagh was second with 43 points beating Pat Healy with a similar score into third place. Tom Coughlan was fourth with 42 points and Frank Conway fifth with 40 points. The nines’ winners were Liam Barry and Paul Higgins. The society’s next outing is to Ennis on Saturday November 13.
