Men’s Captain Michael Ryan, President Patricia Skehill & Women’s Captain Petra Carrick O’Connor
The president (Patricia Skehill) and captains (Petra O’Connor and Mike Ryan) ‘drive in’ took place on Sunday at Gort in front of a big attendance.
A 9 hole team of four competition was held in conjunction with the drive in.
Winners of the front 9 competition were Gavin Lally, Con O’Donoghue, Ronnie Killeen and Teresa Helebert with 45 points from Tommy Kelly, Pat Fitzpatrick, Johnny Joyce and Regina Malone with 38 points.
The competition on the back 9 was won by Alan Minogue, Gerry Broderick, Mary Dervan and Niamh Carr with 42 points from Niall Hoarty, Ruth Naughton, John O Connor and Pat Fogarty with 40 points.
Rob Boyce (12) won category one in the men’s 15 hole singles at the weekend with 36 points.
Category 2 was won by Declan Grimes (15) with a similar score. Michael O’Dell (20) won category 3 with 40 points while the category 4 winner was Colm Rogers (24) with 35 points.
In the Bank holiday Monday 18 hole men’s singles, Ryan Boyle (4) won category 1 with 40 points. Alan Fogarty (13) won category 2 with 43 points.
The category 3 winner was Ronald Ryan (17) with 44 points while Declan Fahy (22) won category 4 with 46 points.
Dromoland Golf Club:
Mairead Toomey was the winner of the ladies 18 hole stableford competition at Dromoland last week with 37 points. She won on a countback from Siobhan Doohan with Ann Fahy, also on 37 points in third spot.
The 9 hole competition was won by Mairead Bergin from Linda Kochar with Dolores Fox in third spot and all three scored 19 points.
In category A of the senior men’s competition, Brendan Lennon won from Pat McGrath with Brendan Spicer in third spot. Category B was won by Philip Hehir from Kevin Kent with Tom Sayers in third position.
East Clare Golf Club:
The ladies Wednesday team competition at East Clare last week was won by Ursula Hogan, Mary Stritch and Marie A Kelly from Kay Grimes, Phil Burke, Pauline Nugent and Noreen Doyle.
Last week’s senior men’s competition was won by Kevin Wallis, Steve Symes and Michael Drew from Ailbe McDonnell, Sean Jones and Michael Heffernan with Willie Roche, Martin McKeogh and Ted Harrington in third spot.
The winners of the mixed scramble on Friday were Terry Coughlan, Willie Roche and Evelyn Skehan. In second place were Michael Heffernan, Tony McNulty and Mary Farrell and they were followed by Ailbe McDonnell, Kevin Grimes and Mary Hogan.
The mixed scramble continues on Friday morning at 10 am while round three of the Winter league is underway.
Lahinch Golf Club:
The 2023 inter-club competitions are due to commence over the coming months and the men’s club at Lahinch is anxious to hear from members who are interested in representing the club this year.
Donal McSweeney and Shane Carey will be assisting teams with preparation in the academy throughout the duration of the competitions.
Dan O’Donovan and Brian McElhinney will be in charge of the Fred Perry team which is for over 55’s.
Those interested in representing the club in the Jimmy Bruen shield should contact Padraig Hayes.
John Skerritt and Mick O’Riordan will be in charge of the Pierce Purcell team while the junior cup team will be managed by David Givens.
Kilrush Golf Club:
Michael J Hogan (12) was the winner of Sunday’s weekly singles at Kilrush followed by John Stapleton (13) with third place filled by Dominic Enright (9) and all three returned 26 points.
Woodstock Golf Club:
Henry Butler was the winner of the club singles at Woodstock at the weekend with 38 points from T. J. McNamara with 37 points.
In the modified fourball the winners were Paddy Meehan and Eugene Conroy with 52 points with second place filled by Dickie Pyne and Seamus Kelly with 48 points.
Last weekend’s singles at Woodstock was won by Pat O‘Brien with 47 points from Henry Butler with 41, Brian Cahill with 39 and Oisin Kenneally also with 39. This weekend’s competition will be a singles stableford.
