A GOOD WALK
ARDEE LADIES
AUSTRALIAN Spoons Foursomes on March 7th: 1st Bernie Breen & Mary McGahon 40pts back 9; 2nd Susan Corcoran & Alison Lawson 40pts.
ASHFIELD
LAST Tuesday’s 14-hole Seniors result: 1st Carroll, 2nd Tommy Campbell.
Competitions are on every Tuesday, commencing at 9.30am. It’s €5 for members, €10 for visitors - ladies and gents combined and all very welcome.
CLOVERHILL
CLUB Captain Paddy Malone will be hoping that it is ‘third time lucky’ when he re-fixes his Captains Drive-in which has been twice postponed due to the efforts of ‘the Beast from the East and it’s offspring’. With work commitments next week Easter Saturday as opposed to Easter Sunday is a possible date that will be put to the membership. Meanwhile next weekend the season will start with
Once again we are delighted to announce and most grateful that Murphy’s, Bar, Restaurant and Function Room are going to be the generous sponsors of our eight Monthly Medal Competitions. 028 3084 8789. This will be the fourth year that the famed hostelry and eatery have been our competition sponsor.
Indeed our first Golfer of the Year counting competition will be the March Monthly Medal on March 24.
Yes members, the weather might suggest otherwise but the start of the 2018 Inter-Club Golf Competitions is upon us. Our Ulster Cup and All-Ireland Fourball teams have to have home and away legs of both competitions played before April 16. The Ulster Cup matches against Ballyclare have been fixed for Sat April 7 @ Ballyclare 2pm and home the following week April 14 at 12 noon.
The All-Ireland Fourball team will be in action on the same two Saturday’s April 7 at home to Strabane and away on April 14 with a 12 noon tee-off time for both matches.
The first of our Green Tee Bank Holiday Singles Stableford Open on Monday March 18 fell victim to the snow. The next Open will be on Ester Monday Tee times can be booked through the Golfnet Booking system or by contacting the club at 30889374 or 30 889580. Entry Fee is £12 or £6 for members.
CO LOUTH LADIES
RESULTS from last Tuesday’s 18-hole stableford competition, sponsored by B O’Leary, R Brannigan and E Hall:
Class 1 winner Catherine O’Brien (22) 42pts, 2nd Rhone Kelly (21) 40pts; Class 2 winner Susan McGuirk (33) 42pts ob6, 2nd Karen Upton (32) 42pts.
DUNDALK
TOMMY Renaghan (13) and Mia Quinn (5) were the winners of the nine hole singles competitions on St Patrick’s Day while Alison Quigley (36) & David Murden (8) won the Front Nine Scotch Mixed and Pauline Campbell (11) & Gerry Campbell (25) took the honours down the Back Nine.
Congratulation to Caolan Rafferty who helped Maynooth University claim the Irish Colleges Match Play Series at Woodbrook last week.
Playing for Maynooth C, Rafferty partnered Eanna Griffin in a foursomes pairing and it was their two-under par effort across the final nine holes that clinched the title on countback as Maynooth teams filled the top three positions.
Congratulations to Eoin Murphy and Josh Mackin have been selected on the Irish Boys team to face Wales in Cardigan on March 24 and 25.
St Patrick’s Day Results - Gents 9 Hole Singles: 1st, Tommy Renaghan (13) 21pts; 2nd, Conor McCaughey (5) 20/15pts; 3rd, Sean Quigley (17) 20pts. Ladies 9 Holes Singles: 1st, Mia Quinn (5) 15pts. Scotch Mixed Front Nine:1st, Alison Quigley (36) & David Murden (8) 32; 2nd, Deborah Herr (36) & Ultan Herr (13) 36.75. Scotch Mixed Back Nine: 1st, Pauline Campbell (11) & Gerry Campbell (25) 35/27; 2nd, Teresa Giff (16) & Nigel Giff (20) 35.
DUNDALK LADIES
THE first 18-hole stableford competition took place on Saturday 10th and Tuesday 13th March. The weather gods are certainly not in our favour at the moment, but hopefully this is only a temporary setback.
Some ladies were not deterred by the challenging conditions and scored well. Congratulations to Kitty Duffy who won Class A with a very good score of 34pts. Kitty played well and managed the course well.
We had another great score from Mary Dwyer who wins Class C with 34 points - and well done to our ex officio Maeve Ahern who emerged as the winner of Class B with 32 points. Congratulations to all the winners.
Class A - 1st Kitty Duffy (16) 34 pts; 2nd Una Kelly (14) 33 pts; 3rd Mary Carthy (14) 32 pts.
Class B - 1st Maeve Ahern (21) 32 pts; 2nd Joan Sexton (27) 30 pts; 3rd Anne King (20) 30 pts.
Class C - 1st Mary Dwyer (36) 34 pts; 2nd Grainne Mullins (36) 31 pts; 3rd Joan McKenna (31) 29 pts.
9-hole Ladies: Siobhan Duffy (23) 20 pts
Twos: 5th Pauline Campbell, 17th Kitty Duffy and Mary Carthy.
LAYTOWN & BETTYSTOWN
RESULT from the March 11th Spring League No 2 competition, which was sponsored by Jack Doran Motors Drogheda: Cat 1 winner David Donnery (11) 67, 2nd Raphael Smyth (5) 69 ocb, Gross prize Jack McDonnell (+2) 72; Cat 2 winner Don Hammond (13) 69, 2nd Patrick Casey (14) 70 ocb, 3rd Cyril Sullivan (16) 70. CSS 72, SSS 71.
March 10th fourball stableford: 1st Cianan Murray 19/17 & Dominic Tiernan 25/23 45pts; 2nd Michael Sweeney 5/5 & Aiden McKeown 13/12 43pts.
MACBRIDE P&P
THE much-anticipated week five of the MacBride Winter League was once again hampered by the snowy weather conditions on Sunday, resulting in two sessions of play taking place on Monday (results not available at time of going to press).
The final week of the league will take place later this week. Times of play are Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 10am and this will be an 18 gross competition.
The presentation of prizes to all the individual weekly winners and the overall league-winning teams will take place following play on Sunday.
There was no winner of the most recent club lotto jackpot draw which took place last Wednesday. The winning numbers were 1, 5, 13 & 26. The lucky dip winners were Molly Ryan, Sonia McCabe & Mary Cottrell jnr.
The next draw will take place on Tuesday March 27th when the jackpot prize up for grabs will be €2,950. Thank you for your continued support.
MacBride held our Annual Cheltenham Fundraiser last week and this was well supported once again.
Congratulations to Danny Coyle who was the overall winner at the end of the four days.
If you would like to know more about MacBride Pitch & Putt Club, please visit our website www. macbridepitchandputt.com or contact us via the club Facebook page.
SEAPOINT
THE rescheduled Captains’ Drivein will now take place next Sunday, with a reception at 12.30pm. The incoming captains are Mary Upton and Bernard Seery.
March 11th 18-hole stableford: 1st Gerard Murphy (20) 42pts, 2nd Paddy Carr (20) 41pts, 3rd Barry Farrell (14) 40pts, Gross prize Norman Lovie (4) 41pts; Cat 1 Michael McCabe (7) 38pts, Cat 2 Tony Doyle (13) 39pts, Cat 3 Noel Moore (18) 38pts ocb.
March 10th Spring League stableford, sponsored by LMFM: Overall - Darren Bohill (6) 38pts; Cat 1 Paul Dyas (4) 37pts ocb, Cat 2 Cyril Reynolds (11) 36pts, Cat 3 Philip Woods (16) 35pts.
Upcoming events: Open Singles each Tuesday; Open Two-Person Team Event on Easter Monday (041-9881066); Senior Ladies Golf Society on April 16th; Chairman’s Prize on Sunday April 29th; Beginner lessons for ladies will take