*The Shannon ladies team. Photograph: Joe Buckley
SHANNON managed by Bridget McCaul and Madge Young will take on Courtown in the All-Ireland ladies minor foursomes semi final at 12.10pm on this Friday at Shannon when a big turnout of local club members is expected to support the team.
A victory would see the team through to the final on Saturday. The members of the Shannon panel are Pauline Nally, Dee O’Connell, Sandra Ferguson, Maura O’Donnell, Ann Gordon, Joan Hoctor, Mary Fitzgibbon, Hannah Kinahan, Marlyn Kelly, Anna Corry and Dympna O’Callaghan.
East Clare Golf Club:
Martin McInerney has been crowned golfer of the year for 2024 in East Clare. His second place finish in the August medal confirmed thee winning of the award.
Colin Kelly (19) won the August medal with a net 59. Martin McInerney (23) was second with 65 one ahead of Pat (P.J) McMahon (14).
Last week’s senior men’s competition was won by Chris Davis, Jim Fahy and Terry Coughlan from J.J. Barton, Jerry O’Brien and Pat McMahon with third spot filled by Michael Drew, Martin McKeogh and Noel Earley.
The lqdies 18 hole stableford competition was won by Evelyn Skehan (18) with 36 points from Ann Harte (38) with 35 points. Eileen Donnellan (13) won the gross with 20 points
The ladies Wednesday competition was won by Mary Stritch, Evelyn Skehan and Geraldine Condron from Mary Brennan, Helen Conway and Brid Gurnett with third spot filled by Mary Farrell, Phil Burke and Maureen Clune.
Woodstock Golf Club:
Woodstock produced the goods in very testing conditions against Muskerry at Oughterard G.C. In the All-Ireland mixed fourball quarter final. The team is managed by Eilis and Tony Neville ad the members are Ollie McNamara and Margaret Ann Killeen, Mike ad Chaye Kelly;,John O’Connor and Eilis Neville, Pat and Hannah O’Brien, Liam O’Connor, Mary McNamara and Annemarie Russell
Three matches were won on the 13th and one match was called in on 15th. Woodstock return to Oughterard on the Friday September 26 for the All-Ireland semi-final against Portlaoise; Castlebar and Belvoir will contest the other semi-final. The final is scheduled for the following day.
Last week’s open singles at Woodstock was won by Jonathan Carrig (26) with 35 points from Bernardo Kelly (6) who had a similar score. Twenty seven played in the competition.
The competition at the weekend was the September medal sponsored by Sweet’N’Green. Eoghan Donnellan (18) was the winner with 64 while Sean Crowe (5) won the gross with 72. Category 1 was won by John Mulcahy (8) with 65 from Hugh McGrath (10) with 70. Kieran Quinn (14) with 70 won category 2 while Kenny O’Shaughnessy won the category for those in the 19 and over category.
Oisin Kelly (22) won the stableford competition for handicaps 19 and over with 42 points. The open singes continues on this Thursday while the weekend competition will be the Woodstock masters, a stableford competition off the white tees for the top thirty players in the order of merit.
Ennis Golf Club:
The Ennis ladies Intermediate foursomes team was narrowly beaten on Saturday by Castlecomer in the semi-final of the AIG All Ireland competition. In an exciting semi-final, Ennis were ahead in one of the matches throughout, that match ending 4 up with 3 to go, but the other matches were hard fought with all three going to the 18th ensuring a nail biting finish.
The final score was tied at two all. Kitty Morris and Mary T McMahon led Ennis down the 19th. It was still all square after one but the dream of reaching the final came to an end at the second tie hole.
Despite the disappointment, the ladies can take solace in knowing that they played some wonderful golf, which was much appreciated by the spectators and the large Ennis contingent present. Ennis finished third out of the 220 teams that entered the competition, a great achievement
Ennis finished second in the Auburn Lodge Trophy which was played in Woodstock, ten clubs took part. Sinead Hegarty, Joan Murphy and Aideen Considine had the best three Ennis scores and Anna Marie Darmody won the back nine.
In the September medal, the silver section was won by Mary T. McMahon (15) with 73 nett and she had one to spare over Peg Hanrahan (16). The bronze medal winner was by Sinéad O’Sullivan (48) with 71 nett with second place filled by Helen Harnett (27) with 78 nett.
The overall winner in the 9 hole stableford competition was Mary Woulfe (16) with 22 points while the divisions were won by Carmel Verling (11) with 13 points, Mary Walshe (18) with 17 points and Carmel Cummins (22) also with 17 points.
The following members have qualified for the Ladies Masters Competitions taking place on Saturday 21st September.
18 Hole Competition; Mary Lenihan (Leading qualifier), Mary T McMahon, Peg Hanrahan, Helen Harnett, Sinéad O’Sullivan, Rose Enright, Attracta Williams, Suzanne Deane, Bridie Hanrahan, Geraldine O’Rourke, Ann O’Loughlin, Rose Sharkey, Patricia Moroney, Helen Gallery, Mary Nagle
9 Hole Competition; Mary Walshe (Leading qualifier), Anne Kelly, Mary McMahon, Mary Leahy, Bridie Keane, Geraldine O’Mahoney, Celie Reilly, Maura Ryan, Margaret Flanagan, Mary Glynn, Mary Woulfe, Carmel Cummins, Marina Varden, Marian Irwin, Mary O’Halloran
Kilrush Golf Club:
Derek Garvey (13) with 41 points won the Kilrush Credit Union men’s singles competition at the weekend. Thomas Coffey (13) with 35 points won category 1 from Declan O’ Donovan (9) 34 points. Patrick Coleman (13) won category 2 with 38 points from Jason Gallagher (16) with 35 points. The category 3 winner was Joe McNamara (21) 32 points from Paul McGibney (22) with a similar score. The nines were won by Noel Thornton with 18 points and Eoin Fitzgerald with 19 points
Dromoland Golf Club:
The competition at Dromoland at the weekend was an 18 hole singles stableford which was won by Alan O’Flanagan (20) with 45 points. He had two to spare over Damien Lafferty (25) with 43 points. They were followed by Stephen Casey (16) with 37 points and Shane Collins (22) with 36 points. The gross was won by Brian Shally (1) with 36 points The 9 hole competition was won by Alan O’Flanagan with 25 points from Liam Flynn with 22 points and Patrick McCoy with 20 points.
The ladies Eye Candy mixed 18 hole stableford competition was won by Siobhan Doohan and Ruairi Price with 52 points from Mark Reynolds and Hannah O’Brien with 49 points with third pace filled by Julie Fitzgerald and Joe Walsh with 48 points. Julie Fitgerald recorded a hole in one at the 7th hole.
In the 9 hole stableford competition Siobhan Doohan won with 19 points from Mairead Bergin with 18 and Mairead Toomey with 18 points.
Gort Golf Club:
Last week’s men’s 18 hole v par competition at Gort was won by Kieran Reidy (17) with 9 up. The gross was won by Enda Craddock (2) who was level. The category winners were Kaelan Higgins (10) with 2 up Danny Losty (16) with 4 up and Martin Whelan (26) with 7 up
The ladies open 18 hole singles stableford competition was won by Patricia Reddy (21) with 35 points. The category winners were Ann Jordan (18) with 38 points, Yvonne Hogan (23) with 31 points and Patricia Callanan (33) with 33 points.
Sixmilebridge Golf Society:
Roscrea was the venue for an outing for members of the Sixmilebridge golf society last week. Pa Mulready emerged as the winner from Adam Merriman with Jason Loughnane in third place followed by Colm Murphy. The winners of the nines were Joe Murphy and David Purcell.
