A GOOD WALK
ARDEE
MR Andrew Callaghan’s Captain’s Prize: 1st Louis Taaffe 138, 2nd Patrick Malone (Student) 137, Gross Alan McAuley 150, 3rd Michael Malone 138, 4th Brendan Lee 140, Committee Prize Gerard Caffrey 145, Past Captain’s Fintan Kerr 141, Student/Juvenile Ben Phipps 147.
Day 1: 1st Paul Malone 63, 2nd Brian Duffy 66, Gross Brendan Healy 76, 3rd Brian Malone 68.
Day 2: 1st Paul Moynagh 67, 2nd Barry Hughes 68, Gross Gavin Daly 76, 3rd Declan Howell 68.
Nearest the Pin, sponsored by Ardee Traders: David Sharkey.
ASHFIELD
SENIORS 22 August: 1st Harry Tate, 2nd Tommy Campbell; 15th August: PJ Carroll, 2nd Martin Murphy.
Seniors competition every Tuesday commencing at 9.30. Members €5, visitors €12.
BELLEWSTOWN
SUNDAY’S Club Championship result: 1st Brendan McKenna 71, 2nd Stephen Welthagen 72, 3rd Gerard McLoughlin 72.
Saturday’s singles stableford: 1st Felix Zinyemba 40pts, 2nd Pat Carolan 39pts, 3rd James Torr 39pts.
BELLEWSTOWN LADIES
SATURDAY’S Summer League result: 1st Ciara Harris 37pts, 2nd Maeve Howard 31pts.
COUNTY LOUTH
SUNDAY’S Peter Lyons Memorial Trophy: 1st Patrick Joy (13) 70, 2nd Thomas Hanratty jnr (7) 71 ob9, Gross prize Padhraic O’Brien 74; Cat 1 Michael O’Brien (5) 71, Cat 2 Alan McEneaney (10) 71 ob9, Cat 3 Shane Winters (15) 72, Cat 4 Con O’Donoghue (21) 71. CSS 74.
Saturday’s Eugene Gillan Minor Scratch Cup: 1st Jason Hughes (Co Louth) 85, 2nd Aidan Hand (Ardee) 88, 3rd Eunan Conway (Fortwilliam) 89, 4th Oliver Garvey (Co Louth) 90, Nett prize Paul Flanagan (22) Ardee 71 ob9. CSS Home 71, Visitors 71.
Four-Person Team Event held at The Island on August 20th: 1st Thomas McDonnell (14), Martin Tolan (16), Adam Tolan (6) & Dermot Long (19) 85pts; 2nd Peter Sullivan (7), Joe Stafford (6), Cormac Sullivan (11) & Niall Flynn (9) 84pts.
August 17th Junior boys competition: White - 1st James Fanning (16) 39pts ob9, 2nd Niall McGinnity (22) 39pts ob6; Green - 1st Laurence Fay (26) 41pts, 2nd Cathal Quinn (28) 35pts; Ninehole competition - 1st Rory Mulroy (28) 19pts, 2nd Tadgh Gallagher (28) 18pts.
CO LOUTH LADIES
LAST Tuesday’s Professional’s Prize to Ladies (Paddy McGuirk): Class 1 winner Emily Murray (18) 38pts ob9, 2nd Anne Keane (12) 38pts, Gross prize Jackie Quinn 29pts; Class 2 winner Margot Dwyer (24) 36pts ob9, 2nd Grainne Weir (20) 36pts; Class 3 winner Geraldine Meegan (30) 41pts, 2nd Mary Kealy (28) 37pts. Past captains prize Sheila Nelson (14) 32pts ob6, Senior lady winner May Hayes, Nine-hole qualifier Sally McLeer (31) 16pts ob6. CSS Tue 75, CSS Sat 78.
August 17th Junior girls competition winners: Eighteen-hole - Aoibhinn Russell (19) 33pts; Nine-hole Emily Farrell & Beth Noer (tied).
DUNDALK
CAOLAN Rafferty’s search for one of the major Irish amateur championships continues after he was beaten in the quarter-finals of the Irish Close at Galway Golf Club last week.
Rafferty headed into the Close on the back of his best ever season and having finished as top points scorer in Ireland’s historic fourth successive win in the Home Internationals the previous week.
He eased to the matchplay stages with a third place finish in the two round strokeplay qualifiers, just missing out on a third leading qualifier medal of the year by a single shot after rounds of 71 and 68.
In the opening matchplay round he beat Palmerstown Stud’s Anthony McDaid 3&2 and then defeated former West of Ireland championship and Irish international Jonathon Yates of Naas by one hole to reach the last 16 where he met local favourite Ronan Mullarney who had knocked out the defending champion Alex Gleeson.
Undeterred by the large home support for Mullarney, Rafferty eased to a solid 3&2 victory to reach the last eight but his run came to an end when he was beaten 2&1 by Belvoir Park’s Marc Norton.
Best wishes to the Fred Daly Trophy team who head to Bray Golf Club on Tuesday looking to add the All-Ireland title to the Leinster pennant they have already picked up. Dundalk will face Lisburn in the semi-final with the winners meeting either Athenry or Muskerry in the final on Tuesday afternoon. The Dundalk squad is Eoin Murphy, Josh Mackin, Sean Laverty, Kyle Rafferty, Padraig Fallon and Conall Murdock.
Josh Mackin finished tied ninth at the Irish U16 Boys Championship in Rockmount. Mackin produced rounds for 74, 76 and 76 for a total of ten under par and finished ten behind the eventual winner Adam Smith from Mullingar. Kyle Rafferty was the other Dundalk player in the championship and he missed the cut after two rounds by two shots.
Gregory McCaughey won Sunday’s Singles Stableford with an impressive 40pts, some of which was collected during one of the heavy downpours that affected those with morning tee-times. Poll-forking meant that the greens were heavily sanded but that too didn’t deter the nine-handicapper who began fast with three point pars on the opening two holes. Over the next eight holes he collected two points on seven of them with his only dropped shot coming on the index three par five seventh which he doubled-bogeyed.
That left him on 21pts standing on the 11th tee and the next three holes saw him produce the fireworks needed to distance himself from the rest of the field. He parred the index two par four 11th for three points and then tossed in back to back birdies at the 12th and 13th for a three hole haul of 10pts. Another three points were gained at the 16th to move him to 38pts and he could afford to score one point bogeys at the final two holes and still win by two points from Joseph Laverty (10) and Anthony Tuite (14).
Laverty took Category One with Tuite winning Category Two and Johannes Steenvooden (25) took Category Three with 37pts. Best Gross was recorded by Peter Rogers with 34pts while James Murtagh (28) with 42pts won the Juvenile Prize.
Sunday, August 27 - Singles Stableford – Overall: Gregory McCaughey (9) 40pts. Category 1 (0-12): Joseph Laverty (10) 38pts, Zak Alderdice (10) 37/21pts. Category 2 (13-18): Anthony Tuite (14) 38pts, Gerry Oakes (17) 37/21pts. Category 3 (19-28): Johannes Steenvooden (25) 37pts, Graham Purcell (19) 36/17/15pts. Best Gross: Peter Rogers 34pts. Juvenile: James Murtagh (28) 42pts. CSS: 36pts.
GREENORE
THE final round of the Special Competition played on Sunday 27th August: 1st Jim Sheridan (11) 71+69 140, 2nd Mark McGrath (11) 72+70 142, Gross Cian Dullaghan (+1) 74+79 153, Cat 1 Damien White (6) 66+76 142, Cat 2 Larry Hughes (16) 74+71 145, Cat 3 Clinton McKeever (17) 74+73 147, Round 1 Michael Lennon (20) 71, Round 2 Niall O’Callaghan (5) 69.
Saturday’s Stableford: 1st Michael Mallie (13) 39, 2nd John Long (11) 38.
Tuesday’s Open Gents Singles kindly sponsored by McGeough’s Bar & Restaurant: 1st Brendan Lawlor (3) [Ardee G.C.] 42, 2nd Vincent Toner (8) [Warrenpoint G.C.] 41, Gross Cian Dullaghan (+1) 36, 3rd Conor Murphy (12) [Dundalk G.C.] 39.
Next Sunday 3rd September