A GOOD WALK
ARDEE LADIES
AUGUST 9th Lady President Vera Commins’ Prize 18-hole stroke medal (Major) competition: 1st Dolores Malone 69, 2nd Gillian Breen 70 ob9, Gross prize Joanne McShane 81, 3rd Sharon McQuaid 70. Nine-hole winner Desiree Kleyhans 13.
ASHFIELD SENIORS
RESULT from the competition played the week before last: 1st Danny Sherry, 2nd Celine Sherry. Well done to the dream team.
Seniors golf takes place every Tuesday from 9.30 onwards and it’s €5 for members and €12 for visitors, with first and second and visitors prizes.
BELLEWSTOWN
SUNDAY’S President’s Prize: 1st Neil Kearney 68, 2nd Diarmuid Wilson 68, 3rd Pat McKay 69.
Saturday’s singles stableford: 1st Shane Donnelly 38pts, 2nd Gerard McLoughlin 36pts, 3rd John Donnelly 36pts.
BELLEWSTOWN LADIES
SUNDAY’S Lady President’s Prize: 1st Mena Ball 73, 2nd Jean Gogarty 73, 3rd Denise King 75.
CLOVERHILL
YOUNG Jamie Duffy capped off what has been an very eventful week for him on and off the course in fine style by capturing the Fred Daly Qualifier competition.
Jamie (5) will head to Lisburn on Friday week for the Mary Peters Trust run Fred Daly Annual competition. The A star pupil and golfer will be well able to absorb the pressure of keeping this prestigious trophy in the club for the third consecutive year following the previous wins of the Pilkington brothers (David (twice) and Colin.
With Captains Day next week there was no holding back from some golfers in this qualifier as the scoring reflected. Jamie held off his nearest challenger and playing partner David Hamill (9) who finished runner-up with 41 pts one more than Kevin Haughey (23) who in turn had a point to spare over his mate Eamon Devlin (18). With the leading quartet all losing a shot will it be costly next Sunday in the biggest prize of the lot Seamus McParland’s Captain’s Day.
With plenty of early betting activity already done and the starting times and playing partners known the momentum is rising as the biggest golfing day of the year the Captain’s Prize is there to be won. On Sunday next Seamus McParland will host his Captains Day.
Realistically the schedule for the popular Captain Seamus begins on Thursday morning when the Seniors take centre stage followed by the Juveniles on Saturday morning, the Captain’s friends and guests at midday Saturday followed by a meal.
The real battle (which will dwarf the earlier Mayweather v McGregor contest) begins at 7am on Sunday as members try to qualify for the play-off 9 holes as they bid to get their hands on any of the 14 Waterford Crystal prizes on offer especially the stunning Captain’s piece. No doubt Seamus will have a terrific day and night as the members honour his year of captaincy.
We will soon have to change the name of the BC Electrics, Dundalk (0035342 9338140) sponsored Friday Open to the Lorcan Rafferty Open as he took his winning total to three last Friday. Since the arrival of our resident PGA professional Keith Shannon this Summer Lorcan has seen his handicap tumble from 17 to 10 as he shot 44 points on Friday on his way to a third open victory. Runner-up was club Treasurer Emmett Fearon (12) on the countback from visitor Seamus McArdle (17) after both finished on the scratch mark of 36 points.
Ashfield’s Seamus now takes over on the better back 9 from Sean Kelly (13) Killymoon for the best visitor for the Month of August bonus prize of €100 sponsored by Charlie McShane of BC Electrics with just this Friday to count. Friday Open Entry Fee- Members £7/€8 Visitors £12/€14 (which includes entry to the 2’s). You can book on-line or through the clubhouse.
Vice Captain Paddy Malone emerged the overall winner of the Front 9 White marker contest in the Wednesday Cup which came to a terrific conclusion on Wednesday.
Paddy was nearly assured of success before round 5 off this section concluded as his 3 best cards were already a long way in front of the chasing pack. For the participants there was a place in the 18 hole final to play for.
It turned into a great contest in one fourball as Daniel Hughes beat Kevin Haughey on an extended countback after both returned 24 points one better than Gareth Gorman. This week is the last week off the Back 9 Green Markers.
Raymond Kelly was the winner of the Seniors Golfer of the year round on Thursday with John Hazzard in second place. This Thursday the Seniors at 10 am will be playing 18 holes for Seamus McParland’s Captain’s Prize.
COUNTY LOUTH
SATURDAY’S Intermediate Scratch Cup: 1st Colm Kerr (Seapoint) 82 ob6, 2nd Kenneth Pickens (Seapoint) 82 ob9, 3rd Harry Collier (Co Louth) 82, 4th Niall Newman (The Island) 83 ob3, 1st nett Sean Flanagan (Summerhill) 71 ob9, 5th Michael Redmond (Co Louth) 83, 2nd nett Declan McVeigh (Co Louth) 71. CSS Home 73, Away 73. Centenary Cup winner Declan McVeigh, Cairnes Cup winner Seamas Keenan.
Results from the August 10th Captain’s Prize (Mr Harry Collier) to the Juniors were as follows:
Boys (white): 1st Tadgh Maher (17) 41pts, 2nd Saul O’Reilly (20) 40pts ob9, 3rd Frank McClean (20) 40pts. CSS 37pts. Boys (green): 1st Aaron Garvey (27) 49pts, 2nd Euan Canniffe (28) 40pts. CSS 39pts. Girls: 1st Aoibhinn Russell (20) 40pts, 2nd Ciara McNally (36) 38pts. Boys nine-hole competition: 1st Evan Dolan 15pts ob6, 2nd Tadgh Gallagher 15pts ob6, 3rd Daniel O’Brien 15pts. Girls ninehole winner Ava Briscoe.
CO LOUTH LADIES
RESULTS from last Tuesday’s President Michael McGuigan’s Prize to the Ladies were as follows:
Overall winner Teresa Ronan (25) 72 nett, 2nd Deirdre Smith (-1) 73 nett, Gross prize Mia Quinn 85. Class 1 winner Valerie Reddan (12) 75 nett, 2nd Dorothy Collins (14) 76 nett; Class 2 winner Mary Joy (27) 74 nett ob9, 2nd Bronagh McCaffrey (20) 74 nett; Class 3 winner Geraldine Meegan (30) 74 nett, 2nd Imelda Murphy (33) 77 nett ob9. Student/Junior/Intermediate Prize Aoibhinn Russell (19) 76 nett. Front nine Diana Connolly (28( 33 nett, Back nine Margot Dwyer (24) 35 nett, Senior ladies winner Felicity Matthews. Nine-hole qualifier Delia Berkery (20) 16pts. CSS Sun 75, Tue 75.
DUNDALK
CONGRATULATIONS to Caolan Rafferty on his superb performance for Ireland at last week’s Home Internationals. Caolan, who was making his debut, was Ireland’s top scorer as the team crested history by retaining the title for the fourth successive year.
The excellent season being enjoyed by our Juveniles continued last week when the Boys U13 and U18 teams won their respective county titles at Seapoint. The U13s captured the McCooey Cassidy Cup which is named after Brendan McCooey and Jimmy Cassidy, two men who had a long standing association with the club. The team of Zak Alderdice, Joseph Laverty, Christopher Clarke and Aaron Spaight beat Co Louth in their final while the U18s beat Ardee. The U18 team was Josh Mackin & Sean Laverty, Eoin Murphy & Kyle Rafferty and Conall Murdock & Ciaran Johnston.
The countdown is well and truly underway to the Fred Daly Trophy Final on Tuesday, August 29, in Bray Golf Club. This is the All-Ireland Boys U18 inter-club finals and Athenry, Muskerry and Lisburn have also qualified with the semi-finals taking place in the morning foloeed by the final in the afternoon. A supporters bus, which is free of charge, will be leaving Dundalk Golf Club at 6am on the day. There are limited spaces available and further details are available from the office
Poll Forking is taking place this Tuesday and Wednesday so all competitions are cancelled and