The Winter league at East Clare concluded last week with victory going to Team A with 182 points. The members of the winning team are Martin, Barney and Mark McInerney, Colm Kelly, Mary Farrell and Breda Reid.Â
Team F comprising Teddy O’Hanlon, Duffy, John G. Doyle, Sean Kelliher, Noreen Doyle and Ursula Hogan won the shield with 177 points.
The novice winners with 172 points were team 1 which included Kieran Kennedy, Tony Duggan, Damien Keniry, Martin Breen, Helen Downey and Helen Ahern.
Winners of the ladies Wednesday competition on March 22 were Joan Kinsella, Connie McKenna and Mary Brennan from Mary Farrell, Mary Stack and Eileen Donnellan with third place filled by Kay Grimes, Breda Reid and Phil Burke.
The Clare Haven team of three 14 hole scramble was won by Eileen Donnellan, Joan Kinsella and Siobhan Shanahan from Marie Donnellan, Tricia Nash and Eileen Donnellan with third spot filled by Noreen Doyle, Helen Downey and Margaret Lynch.
The last Friday morning scramble will take place on this Friday, March 31 at 10am.
East Clare Ladies club are having an Easter Open Team of 3 from April 7 to 10. (Good Friday to Easter Monday). Mixed, Ladies and Men’s teams are welcome and to book a tee time phone 061-921322
Last week’s senior men’s competition at East Clare was won by Ger Shortt, Chris Davis and Kevin Wallis. In second place were Pat McNamara, Nick Ryan and Terry Coughlan with third spot filled by Michael Moloney, Willie Roche and John Nihill
Woodstock Golf Club:
The Spring league continued at the weekend when the format was a modified team of four played over 15 holes.
The winners with 83 points were Ray, Edward and Stephen Casey and Frank McEnery and they are the current league leaders, eight points ahead of their nearest challengers They had three to spare over Ross and Jack Darmody, Colm O’Callaghan and John Brennan with Paddy Meehan, Richard Pyne, Brian Kilker and Eugene Conroy, also with 80 points, in third place.
The league continues this weekend when the format will be singles. On completion of this competition the semi-final lineup will be finalised when first will play fourth and second will play third in a matchplay format consisting of 1 pairing of foursomes and 1 pairing of fourball betterball. The Foursomes will play first followed by the fourball betterball. All matches must complete 18 holes as aggregate scoring will be used. In the event of a tie the fourball will continue until a result is reached.
The club singles competition at Woodstock at the weekend was played over 15 holes and was won by Padraig O’Connor with 35 points. Adrian Kearney was second with 33 points followed by Tom O’Donoghue with 32 points
There will also be a club singles this weekeend.
Kilrush Golf Club:
Michael Shannon Senior (17) was the winner of the weekend singles at Kilrush with 29 points.
He had two to spare over Sean Moran (15) with Dominic Enright (9) a point further back in third spot with 26 points which was also the total returned by Eoin Fitzgerald (9) and Brian Scanlan (6).
Dromoland Golf Club:
Dermot O’Neill with 44 points was the winner of the singles competition at Dromoland at the weekend. He had three to spare over Tom O’Sullivan with Denis Mulqueen, also with 41 points, in third spot. Adam Merriman was next with 40 points while David O’Brien won the gross with 35 points.
The Winter league was won by Brian Arthur, John McDermott, John O’Neill and John Canny from Willie Fuller, Paul English, John Murphy and James Purcell.
In third place were Ryan Enright, Ben O’Halloran, Shane Ryan and Darragh McCoy followed by Enda Finnucane, David Browne, Damien Finnerty and Cathal Turner.
Ennis Golf Club:
The winner of the men’s singles at Ennis at the weekend was John McInerney with 44 points from Oliver O’Loughlin with 41, Philip Brigdale with 40 and Tommy Stack with 39.
Ronan Herbert won the gross with 32 points while Mark Geraghty with 37 points won division 1, Damian Pilkington with 39 points won division 2 and Con Daly with 39 points won division 3.
The winner of the Lions and Cubs outing at Ennis last Wednesday were Claire Kennelly, Pat Leacy and Mary McMahon with 44.
In last week’s senior ladies competition the winners were Betty O’Reilly, Mary McMahon and Bernie Brooks from Mary Glynn, Joan Murphy, Margaret Flanagan and Ann White.
Gort Golf Club:
The competition at Gort at the weekend was an 18 hole singles stableford and David Quirke (2) won category 1 with 41 points.
The category 2 winner was Stephen Dervan (14) with 38 points, Tom Coatello (19) won category 3 with 44 points and Cyril Doherty (23)) was the category 4 winner with 47 points.
