On Sunday, the annual Costello cup fixture, a scotch foursomes competition, between Woodstock and Ennis will take place at Ennis with tee times available between 9.30am and 11am.
Last week’s ladies competition at Woodstock was an 18 hole v par which was won by Louise Guilfoyle with 4 down.
In the men’s singles at the weekend the overall winner was Kevin J Burke (19) with 44 points while the gross was won by Darren Russell (4) with 31 points. The category 1 winner was John Dreelan (10) with 35 points from Paddy Meehan (10) with 34 points.
Category 2 was won by Chris O’Leary (18) with 41 points from Brian Logue (16) with 36 points while category 3 was won by Tony McGrath (31) with 36 points.
Winners in the 2’s competition were Joe Green, Colin Higgins and
Niall Reynolds (all 8th hole) and Chris McGrath (6th Hole).
In the team of 4 modified better ball competition the winners were Jason (3) and Robbie Dormer (8), Paul (9) and Tony Coote (10 with 94 points
This weekend there will be a club singles and a club fourball betterball.
East Clare Golf Club:
The ladies 18 hole stableford competition at East Clare on Sunday was won by Geraldine Finnegan (28) with 39 points and she had one to spare over Maria Kennedy (35) with Siobhan Mulcahy (38) a point further back in third place. The gross was won by Siobhan Shanahan.
Last week’s ladies Wednesday competition was won by Deirdre Tuohy, Ursula Hogan and Connie McKenna from Margaret Lynch, Mary Healy and Jenny Ryan. Third place was filled by Brid Hayes, Mary Bugler and Hannah Guinnane along with Siobhan Mulcahy, Mary Collins and Mary Stillman.
Sunday’s men’s open singles was won by Flannan McMahon with 40 points on a countback from Michael Hayes. Eoin Magill won the gross.
In the senior men’s competition last week the winners were Kieran McNamara, Tom Larkin and Dominic Stuart from Danny Minogue, John Fielding and Denis Corcoran with third spot filled by Pat Duggan, Eamon Goode and Jonathan Walsh.
Friday’s mixed scramble was won by Mary Hogan, Ailbe McDonnell and Brendan Moloney from Evelyn Skehan, Terry Coughlan and Mary Noonan with third spot filled by Mary Farrell, Pat Duggan, Sean Jones.
Lahinch Golf Club:
Lahinch ladies club will hold their annual Play in Pink Invitational day in aid of Breast Cancer Research on Monday next, April 14 on both the Old and Castle courses.
The format on the Old Course is a team of 4 ladies only and the cost per team is €100. The format on the Castle Course is a mixed team of any combination and the cost per team is €60. A minimum of one member is required per team.
Traditionally club members have been very generous, supporting this cause in various ways such as sponsoring a tee box, donating money/raffle prizes or buying tickets on the ‘iDonate’ platform.
The annual general meeting of the men’s club at Lahinch will take place in the Castle course clubhouse on April 18 at 4pm. The club annual general meeting will follow at 5p.m. in the main clubhouse.
Dromoland Golf Club:
The weekend’s men’s singles stableford competition at Dromoland was won by Eamonn Power with 43 points from Edmund Crowe who had a similar score. Vincent Derham was third with 40 points followed by Darren Sherlock, also with 40 points while the gross was won by Shane O’Brien with 36 points.
In the ladies 18 hole Easter egg competition the winner was Ann Fahy with 37 points. She was one ahead of Marie Meaney with Trish O’Brien third with 33 points followed by Mairead Bergin, also with 33 points,
Mary Arthur won the 9 hole competition with 19 points from Siobhan Doohan with 16 points.
Gort Golf Club:
Pat Corcoran (15) was the winner of the men’s 18 hole singles at Gort at the weekend with 30 points.
The category 1 winner was Jerry Leahy (12) with 36 points. David McAllen (15) won category 2 with 38 points, Brian Leahy (26) was the winner of category 3 with 35 points while the gross was won by Paul Brennan (scr,) with 34 points.
Friday’s open singles was won by Gerry Gynn (24) with 38 points while the category winners were Enda Cradock (2) with 35 points, Gerard Hannon (16) with 36 points and Len Baker (24) with 37 points.
In last week’s ladies singles stableford competition the category 1 winner was Bernie Diskin (18) with 29 points. Category 2 was won by Josie Collins (22) with 32 points, category 3 by Marion Mulvey Fahy (38) with 30 points and category 4 by Angela Fahey (43) with 37 points
Sixmilebridge Golf Society:
There was a good turnout at Tipperary Golf Club for an outing of Sixmilebridge Golf Society members last Saturday.
Conditions were windy but sunny and scoring was high. The winner was Alan Murphy with Fergal Kennedy second, Conor Collins third and Dermot McNamara fourth. The nines were won by Conor Murphy and Dave Watson.
Clare Football:
Woodstock golf club is the venue for the annual fundraising golf classic in aid of Clare football. The Tom McNamara Art Data Centres sponsored event will take place on Thursday April 24 and Friday April 25. All funds raised go to support the development of football at development squad, minor, under 20 and senior levels.