There was an excellent turnout for the Play in pink day at Woodstock last week, an event which raised funds for breast cancer.
In the ladies section the winners were Doreen Byrne, Maura Leonard and Brenda Tighe from Athenry with 76 points. Second place was filled by Kathleen McEnery, Patsy Nugent and Louise Guilfoyle with 74 points and they were followed by Chaye Kelly, Margaret Ann Killeen and Moira Cunningham, also with 74 points.
The men’s section was won by Tony Neville, Ollie McNamara and Fergus O’Brien with 93 points from Martin White, Frank McEnery and Mike Gardiner with 91 points with Kieran Quinn, Pat O’Brien and Pat McMahon in third spot with 85 points.
Last week’s open singles was won by John Baker (22) with 68 from John Clune (1) with 70 with Cathal O’Sullivan (11) in third spot with 70 while Kieran Cunnane (2) won the gross with 73.
The winner of the club singles at the weekend was Hugh O’Byrne (21) with 41 points from Evan Greer (12) with 40 and Sean Williams (17), also with 40 points. Alan Markham (5) won the gross with 33 points.
In the Holmpatrick cup qualifier, a fourball better ball competition, Paul Coote (11) and Adrian Kearney (12) won with 48 points. The go forward to the Munster regional finals which will be held in Blarney on August 29.
The weekly open singles continue on Wednesdays and Thursdays while the competition at the weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) will be for the president’s (Oliver McNamara) prize.
Ennis Golf Club:
Anne Kelly (29) was the overall winner of last week’s ladies 18 hole stableford competition at Ennis with 40 points.
Division 1 was won by Peg Hanrahan (18) with 33 points, division 2 by Jean Moloney (27) with 38 points and division 3 by Kathleen Frehill (37) with 34 points
Ann Casey (15) won the 9 hole competition with 25 points. The category winners were Monica Finnerty (12) with 19 points, Mary Leahy (16) with 19 points and Liz Kelly (22) with 21 points.
Sinead Hegarty’s minor team defeated Ballyneety in Ennis on Saturday and Ann O’Loughlin’s Revive Active team won on Sunday in Ballykisteen.
Ennis golf club’s lady captain’s (Mary Lenihan) prize to the men was played for over the Bank holiday weekend and resulted in victory for Gerry Bredin (16) with 63. He had one stroke to spare over Michael Sullivan (17), with Sean Mulqueen (17) a stroke further back in third spot followed by Tony Lawlor (16) on 66.
Kieran Fox won the gross while the category winners were Darragh Murphy (7) with 67, Noel Kenny (15) with 67 and P.J. Hehir (34) with 68.
In the Friday open singles Paul Morrissey Dromoland Golf Club (26) won with 42 points from Noel Whelan (9) with 40 points and Aaron Greene (14) also with 40 points.
The captains’ mixed foursomes on Friday was won by John Kearse and Helen Harnett with 36 points from Tom Woulfe and Margaret Flannagan with 26 points.
In the Ennis seniors competition on Thursday the winners were Frank Cullinan, Jimmy Kearns, J.K. Considine and John R. Cullinan with 81 points. In second place with 77 points were Pat P. McInerney, Seamus Bowe, Gerry Fitzmaurice, and Brendan Pyne and they were followed by Noel Connellan, Paul Higgins, Michael Kerin and Pat Rutherford with 70 points. They were a point ahead of Michael A. Considine, Sean O’Gorman, Andrew McGloinn and Paul Kenny who, in turn were one ahead of John O’Flynn, John Lillis, Liam Pyne and Ollie Kennelly. with sixth spot filled by Matt Flynn, Tom Greene, Neil Cremin and Michael Dempsey, also with 68 points. Peadar Cosgrove, Sean Fitzpatrick, Tommy Heath and Ger Hanrahan had 67 points as had Roger McMahon, Denis O Ceallaigh, Liam Barry and Ger O ‘Brien.
The Tuesday fourball was won by Ollie Kennelly and Peter Quinn with 39 points, three ahead of Michael Irwin and Pat Murphy while third placed Frank Coffey and Michael Ball also had 36 points. In fourth spot with 34 points were Pat Shannon and Eamonn Corry followed by Damon Murphy and Joseph O’Brien with 33 points while sixth spot was filled by Ronnie Guinnane and PJ Garry also with 33 points.
Dromoland Golf Club:
Ian Mulready won the weekend stableford competition at Dromoland Castle golf club with 42 points, one more that Cillian O’Connor with Michael Browne in third spot with 40 points while Denis Minihane on 38 points won the category for those on handicaps 22 and over. Jason O’Leary won the gross with 35 points.
In the 9 hole competition Brian Michael Foudy won with 22 points from Cathal Nolan with 19 and Shane Ryan, also with 19.
In the ladies 18 hole stroke competition Joan Ryan won with 68 from Mairead Toomey with 70 and Mairead Bergin with 75. Leslie O’Flynn won the gross with 82.
The ladies 9 hole stroke competition was won by Siobhan Fitzpatrick with 33 from Katrina O’Neill with 37.
Shannon Golf Club:
Carole Bagnall (26) won the ladies June medal at Shannon with 70 nett and she was followed in second place by Sandra Ferguson (26) with 72.
Michelle Pyke (8) won the gross with 82 while the category winners were Emma O’Halloran (20) with 73, Mary Whelan (29) with 74 and Karen Dunne (42) with 74.
Kilrush Golf Club:
The weekend competition for men at Kilrush was sponsored by Kepak and was won by Thomas Coffey (13) with 44 points. He was one ahead of John McGrath (13) with Fergal O’Connor (17) a point further back on 42 points.
The category winners were Shaun Mathews (9) with 40 points, Derek Garvey (13) with a similar score and Noel Kilkenny (21) with 41 points.
Ruairi Young (12) won the front nine with 23 points while Jack McGrath (17) won the back nine with 22 points.
The ladies 18 hole Irish House competition was won by Anne Marie Golden (52) with 47 points from Loretta Maher (38) with 42 points with third spot filled by Bernie Tubridy (50) with 41 points.
The category winners were Mary Bolton (18) with 37 points, Ailish Lorigan (21) with 39 points and Anne Cooper (36) with 41 points.
Claaire Murphy won the 12 hole competition with 25 points from Anne McMahon who had a similar score.
East Clare Golf Club:
The winners of the ladies open team of three competition at East Clare last week were Eileen Donnellan, Noreen Doyle and Helen Downey with 64 points from Margaret MacNamara, Brid Hayes and Eileen Donnellan with 60 points.
In the ladies 9 hole re-entry the winner was Helen Ahern with 20 points from Mary Farrell with a similar score.
The ladies Wednesday competition was won by Marie Minogue, Noreen Skehan and Carmel Lenihan from Mary Hogan, Breda O Loughlin, Mary Collins and Breda McCarthy.
Sean McCarthy with a nett 60 was the winner of the men’s golfer of the year competition from Enda Quinlan with 61 and Colm McInerney with 63. James McNamara won the gross with 76.
In the senior men’s competition last week the winners were Sean Ahern, Mchael McNamara and John Nihill from Terry Coughlan, Brian Torpey and Ailbe McDonnell with third spot filled by John Farrell, Tony McNulty and Seamus Mason.
The men’s open continues every Thursday as does the mixed scramble on Friday evenings at 5.45.
The club’s Play in pink day will take place on Wednesday June 28 when the format will be an open team of 3 for ladies, men and mixed teams.
Gort Golf Club:
The men’s competition at Gort at the weekend was an 18 hole fourball which was won by Tom Helebert (20) and Joe Keehan (26) woth 52 points. In second place with 48 points were Chris Fahy (19) and Pat Fogarty (28) while the gross was won by David Quirke (3) and Niall Loftus (10) with 38 points.
Gary Kavanagh (24) won the Friday open singles with 42 points while Ray Keogh (5) from Ennis won the gross with 28 points.
Last week’s ladies 18 hole singles was wo n by Ruth Naughton (18) with 45 points from Bernadette Burke (47) with 41 points with Petra O Connor (17) in third place with 39 points.
The winners of the Rosebowl 18 hole foursomes stroke competition were Margaret McMahon and Paddy Coghlan with 65 from Ena Furey and Ronnie Killeen with 68 while Regina Malone and Jerry Leahy, also with 68, were third.
Sixmilebridge Golf Society:
The next Sixmilebridge golf society outing is Adam Merriman’s captains prize day which will take place at Nenagh golf club on this Saturday, June 17. The tee-time is reserved from 10am and as usual only those pre-booked can attend on the day.
