*East Clare Golf Club’s Lady Captain, Rachel Whelan, presenting the Captain’s Prize to winner Ciara Minogue.
Lady Captain Rachel Whelan’s prize was played for at East Clare last Sunday when Ciara Minogue (38) emerged as the winner with 38 points.
She had one to spare over Mary Brennan (27) with 37 points and they were followed by Maureen Clune (34) with 34 points and Noreen Skehan (24) who also had 34 points.
The gross was won by Eileen Donnellan (16) with 19 points while the category winners were Kathleen O’Brien (22) with 34 points, Bernie Cox (29) with 34 points and Breda McCarthy (38) with 27 points. Catherine Minogue (23) won the past captain’s section with 34 points.
Other prize winners were Celia Moloney with 20 points (front 9), Evelyn Skehan with 27 points (back 9), Ciara Minogue (long drive), Mary Collins (nearest the pin), Hannah Guinnane with 13 points (9 hole competition) and Evelyn O’Brien (get into golf).
The lady captain’s prize to the men was won by Teddy Murphy (17) with 40 points from Maurice Costelloe (17) with 38 points while Keith Farr (4) was third with 38 points while the gross was won by Eoin Magill (2) with 39 points.
The lady captain’s prize to the senior men was won by Teddy O’Hanlon (13) with 44 points from Brian Corry (24) with 41 points while Michael Heffernan (21), also with 41 points was third.
The ladies Wednesday competition was won by Breda O’Loghlin, Mary Farrell and Liz McMahon from Breda Reid, Mary Jo, Minogue and Jenny Ryan.
In the senior men’s competition last week, the winners were Brendan Moloney, Sean Jones and Ted Harrington from Michael Heffernan. Brian Corry and Kevin Burke with third place filled by Paul Husband, Jimmy Nagle and Denis Corcoran
There will be no open Thursday competition this week due to course work.
Ennis Golf Club:
President’s James P. Horgan’s, prize was played for at the weekend in Ennis when there were 282 competitors across both gents and ladies sections. The winners were James Corcoran and Della Burns.
James Corcoran (14) won with 42 points from Paul O’Leary (37) with 40 points, Mark O’Connor (16) with 39 points, Paul Kenny (32) with 39 points, Enda Heaney (11) with 38 points, Damian Pilkington (14) with 38 points and Senan Ryan (11) also with 38 points.
The gross was won by Ronan Herbert with 34 points. The category A winner was Tom Saunders (7) with 37 points from Diarmuid Meere (8) with 36 points. Category B was won by Andrew McGloin (12) with 37 points from Noel Normoyle (14) with 36 points. Category C was won by Ollie Kenneally (26) with 38 points from Gerard Hannon (26) with 36 points.
Other prize winners were, Past President: Steve Burns (16) with 37 points, Guests: Gearoid Barry (25) with 37 points, 9 Hole: Declan Hanley and the Putting competition was won by Conor Malone.
Della Burns (22) won the ladies section with 36 points from Kate Keohane (19) with a similar score. They were followed by Audrey McEnery (40) with 35 points and Phil Butler (30) also with 35 points. The gross winner was Ann A Gallery with 20 points.
Category A was won by Mary Lenihan (18) with 34 points from Peg Hanrahan (17), also with 34 points. Category B was won by Mary Nagle (27) with 35 points from Patricia O’Reilly (36) with 34 points. The 9 hole winner was Rita Meade.
Last week’s senior ladies competition was won by Mary Murray, Liz Kelly and Mary McMahon with 54 from Loretta Torpey, Maeve 0’Grady and Jean Moloney with 56.1.
Lahinch Golf Club:
The Lahinch men’s President’s prize (Ray Hennessy) will be played for on this Friday and Saturday, August 18 and 19. The President’s prize to the senior men takes place on the Castle Course on Saturday between 12.00noon to 2.00pm.
On the inter-club scene, the men’s Jimmy Bruen team were defeated by Kenmare in their second round match at Limerick last week while the ladies Junior cup team won their quarter final match against Limerick but bowed out of the competition when losing to Ballybunion in the West Munster Area semi-final.
Woodstock Golf Club:
Last week’s open singles at Woodstock was won by Paul O’Shea (28) with 44 points from Brandon O’Connell (23) with 43 points with third spot filled by Kieran Quinn (16) with 41 points. Sean Myatt (+1) won the gross with 36 points.
The Michael Cullinan memorial trophy was played for at the weekend and resulted in victory for Martin White (21) with 43 points. He had one to spare over Declan Reidy (10) with John Baker (23) a point further back in third place. Ross Kenny Junior (+2) won the gross with 34 points.
The categories were won by Jack Joyce (8) with 40 points, Steven Horgan (15) with 38 points and Pat McMahon (22) with 39 points.
The open singles continues on this Thursday and there will be a club singles off the green markers over the weekend.
There will also be a team of 3 Texas scramble strokeplay. Re-entry will be allowed on a different day with different partners.
Senior captain John O’Donovan’s prize will be played for on this Saturday from 1.30pm and a timesheet will operate.
Woodstock seniors had a team modified scramble over 15 holes on Tuesday when the winners were Dickie Pyne, Ollie McNamara, Michael O’Brien and John O’Donovan with 44 points. In second place with a similar score were Frank Garrihy, Michael Griffin and Paddy Kearse.
Kilrush Golf Club:
The men’s Central Sports v par competition was won by Dominic Enright (14) with 8 up from Kenneth Hartigan (12) Ballyneety with 2 up with third spot filled by John Lillis Ennis (21) with 1 up.
Ross Cullinan (16) with 43 points was the winner of the Ennis Electrical prize on Wednesday from Malcolm McCarthy (9) with 40 points with third spot filled by Tom O’Dea (41) with 39 points. The category winners were Thomas Coffey (12) with 38 points, Pat Donnellan (18) with 36 points and Noel Cooney (25) with 39 points. The nines were won by Liam Griffin (Corrstown) (17) with 21 points and Finbar McMahon (22) with 20 points.
The KG&SC singles on Saturday was won by John Donnelly (18) with 35 points.
Sunday’s competition was for the Jason Hanrahan prize and was won by Michael Shannon Snr (25) with 42 points from Noel McMahon (10) with 40 points with Noel Kilkenny (20) in third place followed by Michael J Hogan (21) and they also had 40 points.
The category winners were David Keane (10) with 38 points, Tony Lock (16) with 38 points and Paul McGibney (21) with 39 points while the nines were won by Dominic Enright (13) with 20 points and Pat Shannon (20) with 22 points.
The ladies competition for the Central Shoes prize was won by Anne Hogan (39) with 40 points from Marion Brennan (27) with 37 points and they were followed by Peggy Mulqueen (32) with 36 points and Anne Cooper (36) with 35 points. The category winners were Anne Brennan (12) with 34 points, Edel Crowley (26) with 33 points and Bernie Tubridy (44) with 35 points. The 12 hole winner was Hanora O’Dea-Kilkenny with 29 points.
The Hyland’s Burren Hotel scotch mixed foursomes was won by Anne Gallagher and Tom Clancy (6) with 61 from Michael J Hogan and Ursula Lineen (24) with 63 with third spot filled by Michael Studdert and Mary Downes (27) with 64.
The gross prize was won by Geremiah and Anne Brennan (13) with 80.
Dromoland Golf Club:
Last week’s v par competition at Dromoland was won by Robert Bailey with 5 up, one better than Brian Maloney while third placed Frank Melody also had 4 up and they were followed by Tony Kelly with 3 up. The gross was won by Shane O’Brien with 1 down.
Brian Maloney won the 9 hole competition with 22 points from Ian Mulready with 19 and Andrew Kenny, also with 19.
Last week’s ladies competition was won by Mairead Toomey with 35 points from
Carola Wixted with 34 and Ursula McManus with 31. Leslie O’Flynn won the gross with 22 points.
Siobhan Doohan won the 9 hole competition with 21 points from Joan Ryan with 30 points.
Gort Golf Club:
The August Bank holiday open singles at Gort was won by Peter Deegan (10) with 39 points.
Sean Crowe (7) from Woodstock won category 1 with 38 points, Martin O’Reilly (19) won category 2 with 36 points while category 3 was won by Joe Cooney (27) with 34 points.
The winner of the Friday open singles was Jack Losty (17) with 37 points while the ladies open singles on Friday was won by Noreen Doyle (19) from Esst Clare with 31 points.
