A GOOD WALK
Garvey (18) 36pts ob9, Gross prize Nigel Beirth 33pts. CSS 35pts (73).
CO LOUTH LADIES
RESULTS from the Lady President’s Prize (Ms Felicity Matthews) stroke 125 medal GoY competition played last Tuesday and sponsored by Sally McLeer & Dorothy Mallon:
1st (& winner of the 125 Medal) Andrea Byrne (35) 65, 2nd Mia Quinn (6) 72, Gross prize Deirdre Smith 73, Past presidents winner Sally McLeer (31) 79, Veteran winner Vivienne O’Sullivan 75. Class 1 winner Mairead Duffy (17) 75, 2nd Frances Curran (18) 76 ob6, 3rd Jenny Matthews (16) 76 ob9; Class 2 winner Orla Docherty (Junior) (21) 72, 2nd Catherine O’Brien (22) 73 ob9, 3rd Geraldine Meegan (27) 73; Class 3 winner Orla Briscoe (36) 77, 2nd Sheila McCann (32) 80, 3rd Imelda Murphy (33) 82. Front nine Kathleen Stamer, Back nine Pat Murray, Nine-hole qualifier Geraldine Doggett (26). CSS Tue 75, Sun 75.
DUNDALK
HOPES of lifting the Fred Daly Trophy for the first time in the club’s history were ended at the All-Ireland semi-final stage when they lost 4-1 to Lisburn at Bray Golf Club.
With a line-up consisting of four one handicappers and a plus open handicapper Lisburn went into the semi-final as favourites and straight from the start they took control of the match and never gave Dundalk a look-in.
The standard of golf was incredibly high and in the top match Eoin Murphy was two under but still lost 3&2 to Aaron Marshall while Josh Mackin was beaten 4&3 by Kyle Patton and Jack Shellard beat Padraig Fallon 6&5. Sean Laverty and Kyle Raffferty halved their matches against Joshua Robinson and Mark Stewart respectively.
Lisburn were subsequently beaten in the final by Athenry but Dundalk can take a lot from a campaign that yielded a first Leinster title and saw Murphy and Mackin win international and interprovincial caps. Five of Dundalk’s sixman squad are underage for next year so the future for looks bright for Vincent Conlon’s charges.
The juveniles have certainly made their presence felt this year and it was another of the club’s up and coming players Joseph Laverty, who won Sunday’s Singles Stableford. The 10 handicapper won on countback from Fergal Sexton (11) after both had shot 42pts and it resulted in Laverty seeing his handicap cut by two shots to eight.
It was Laverty’s superb shortgame that delivered his victory as time and again he managed to get up and down after missing greens. He opened with three points pars at the first, second and fourth and then hit a wobble with a no score on the fifth followed by a solitary point at the sixth but after a three point par at the par five seventh he produced three successive birdies to get to 24pts after 10 holes.
Four more three point pars followed on the back nine as he parred 12, 15, 16 and 18 and although he dropped shots at the 13th and 17th he did enough to come home in 21pts and it was that back nine score which got him through on countback.
Billy Carins (7), Stephen Haughey (13) and JP Connolly took the category prizes with the best gross of 36pts being returned by Carins.
The Wednesday Open Singles Stableford was won by Richard Barry (10) with a score of 42pts which will see him fall to single figures. He beat Colin Roche by one point with Zak Alderdice (10), Len Mullins (15) and John Copas (25) taking the category prizes. Brendan Lawlor (2) has best gross and Tom Dunne (16) took the Juvenile Prize.
Entries are now being accepted for the 36 hole Dundalk Scratch Cup, sponsored by One Finance, which will be played at Dundalk Golf Club on Sunday, September 17. Entries can be submitted to the Pro Shop at Dundalk Golf Club on +353 42-9322102.
Sunday, September 3 - Singles Stableford – Overall: Joseph Laverty (10) 42/21pts, Fergal Sexton (11) 42pts. Category 1 (0-12):