Patrick Marnane was the winner of the men’s 18 hole singles stableford competition at Dromoland Castle golf club at the weekend with 44 points. He had two to spare over Eamon Power with Alan Pyne third on 39 followd by Gerry Barrett, also on 39. Brian Shally won the gross with 35.
In category A in the men’s seniors competition Alan White won with 20 points from James Linnane with 19 and Brendan Sicer, also with 19.
Catgegry B was won by John Murphy with 16 points from Kevin Kent with a similar score. Matthew Cooney, also with 16 points, was third.
There were two competitions for junior boys off the white tees and both were won by won by Cillian Mahon with 40 and 41 points.
There also were two competitions for junior boys off the black tees. On April 4th, Nathan Slattery won with 50 points from Conor Brennan with 49 while on April 6th, Simon Pereire won with 58 points from Ben O’Halloran.
In the junior girls competition Jennifer McCarthy won with 39 points from Rachel Staunton with 38 and Alison Hayes with 36.
Shannon Golf Club:
Last week’s ladies 18 hole stroke competition at Shannon was won by Sandra Ferguson (28) with 69 nett from Anna Keely (27) with 72 nett. Michelle Pyke (8) won the gross with 82.
Category 1 winner was Connie Corry (17) with 75 nett while category 2 was won by Deborah Roughan (26) with 79 nett and the category 3 honours went to Anna Corry (41) with 80 nett.
In the 9 hole stableford Dee O’Donnell (29) won with 13 points.
East Clare Golf Club:
East Clare hosted a team of three for men, ladies and mixed teams over the bank holiday weekend.
In the ladies competition the winners were Catherine Minogue, Siobhan Shanahan and Marie Donnellan with 64 points and they won from Rachel Whelan, Bridget Minogue and Celia Moloney with 59 points.
The winners of the men’s competition were Colm Kelly. Martin and Mark McInerney with 71 points. In second place with 68 points were Ger Teefy, Seamus Mason and John Fahy followed by Ray McInerney, Jason Horan and Noel Nash, also with 68 points.
In the mixed section the winners were Mary, Eoghan and Gearoid Mannion with 68 point.
The winners of the ladies Wednesday competition at East Clare were Ursula Hogan, Connie McKenna and Margaret Lynch.
Last week’s senior men’s competition was won by Kevin Grimes, Seamus Mason and Charles Stuart from Noel Earley, Michael Drew and Brian Corry. In third spot were Tom Larkin, Batt Skehan and Jimmy Nagle
Ennis Golf Club:
The ladies’ Ardagh Cup round 1 qualifier was played with the March medal at Ennis.
In the silver section Kitty Morris (15) won from Ann O’Loughlin (18), both finishing on 76 nett.
Patricia O’Reilly (48) won the bronze section with 70 from Mary Nagle (27) with 76.
In the 9 hole competition the overall winner was Della Burns (10) with 20 points.
In division 1, Sinead Hegarty (10) won with 14 points while Bridie Keane (17) won division 2 with 16 points with division 3 honours going to Joan Cullinane- Coote (19) with 18 points.
Last week’s senior ladies outing was won by Margaret Flanagan, Pat Lacey and Jacinta Nicholas with 37 from Una 0’Reilly, Mary Glynn, Eileen Corry and Anne McMahon with 30.
The Ennis men’s seniors social group competition played on Thursday April 6 was won by Pat Murphy, Brian Considine, PJ Garry and Tommy Heath with 77 points from Liam Pyne, Noel Pilkington, Michael Kerin and Fredie O Donoghue with 74 and in third place were Senan Ryan, Sean O Gorman, Michael A Considine and Denis O Ceallaigh also on 74 points.
Kilrush Golf Club:
The men’s singles competition at Kilrush on Sunday was won by Des Murphy (16) with 29 points from Sean Moran (15) who also had 29 points. Noel Thornton (11) was third with 28 points followed by Patrick Coleman (11) with 28 and Bernard Coleman (12), also with 28.
Last week’s ladies competition was won by Ann Marie Donnellan (11) with 28 points from Marion Brennan (18) with 27 points and Mary Keating (22) with 25 points.
Woodstock Golf Club:
David Quinn with 44 points was the winner of the club singles at Woodstock at the weekend from Paul Coote with 42 points. Michael O’Kelly was third with 338 points followed by Mark Hogan with 33 points.
The winners of the club fourball were Brian Kilker and Richard Pyne with 45 points from Ray Casey and Frank Mc with a similar score. In third place with 44 points were Cormac Walsh and Mark McCarthy. The competition this weekend will be a club singles.
Gort Golf Club:
The April masters 18 hole open singles at Gort, sponsored by Gort Road Tyres Ennis, was won by Cyril Doherty (23) with 45 points.
Category 1 was won by Robert Deegan (10) with 37 points, category 2 was won by John Neylon (19) with 39 points, category 3 by Pat Fitzpatrick (20) with 39 points while the gross was won by Eoin Magill (plus 2) from East Clare with 35 points.
In the open singles on Easter Monday, the winner was Peter Deegan (19) with 39 points while Paul Brennan (3) won the gross with 31.
The ladies subscription stakes on Easter Sunday was won by Ann Nolan (21) with 70 from Sara Broderick (21) with a similar score with Patricia Skehill (29) in third place with 72. Siobhan Forde (11) won the gross with 81.
