Des lends his support to Sacred Heart fundraiser
FORMER Ryder Cup star Des Smyth featured on the winning team as this month’s Sacred Heart Golf Classic proved a tremendous success.
In all, 27 teams turned out at County Louth Golf Club in Baltray to compete in the fundraiser for sports development facilities at Sacred Heart School.
On arrival each team was greeted by Sacred Heart principal Ms Leoni Carroll, deputy principal Ms Deirdre Lynch and teachers James Campbell, Miriam O’Hara, Catherine Horan and Melanie Kirwan. Retired Sacred Heart teacher and keen golfer Joe Mc Laughlin was also there to greet the golfers.
Team members received their scorecards and a goodie bag sponsored by McGuirks Golf, Dunnes Stores Southgate and Lynch Fruit & Veg Dunleer, spirits were high and many students were there to support the teams.
First to tee off were four Sacred Heart pupils, namely Carenza Rock (head girl), Bronagh James, Áine McMahon and Ellen Cooney, and this team was kindly sponsored by the McCullen family.
It was a cold, wet and windy start to the day, but all the golfers were treated to warm soup and snacks at the 12th hole and the sun came out in the afternoon.
Players competed for three additional prizes. A hole-in-one competition to win a Seat Ateca worth €30,980 was set up at the 17th hole and there were Nearest the Pin and Longest Drive competitions. Each team member was treated to a delicious two-course
O’Donnell 22pts, 2nd Sally Rooney 20pts ob6. meal in the clubhouse afterwards.
Event organiser James Campbell made careful calculations on all the scorecards and a presentation was held in the clubhouse later that evening. Principal Leoni Carroll announced the winners and thanked the generous sponsors, team members, school staff and students involved in the event. She also thanked the staff of County Louth Golf Club.
Fantastic raffle prizes were donated as follows: Town Centre Pharmacy beauty hamper, Tesco voucher, All Pets voucher, Boyne Valley Foods hamper, Signed Meath jersey, five golf lessons from Karl Herbert in Kinsealy Golf Academy, Loop Clothing voucher and gym membership.
Results
1st Des Smyth team 83 pts ob9 - D Smyth (scr), P Smyth (8), B Reddan (4) & G Cumiskey (15); 2nd Glanbia 83pts - B Farrell (14), D McEntaggart (18), P Moore (18) & J Broughton (16); 3rd Whytes 82pts - A Cooney (25), E Cooney (25), B Cooney (5) & C Cooney (10); 4th Dublin Road Bureaus Newry 81pts - S Leatham (14), R Trainor (9), B Trainor (8) & G Trainor (14). Longest drives Niall Walsh & Barbara Cooney, Nearest the pin Noelle Hurley.
that the draw for the first round of the Match-play Competition will take place at this outing.
Please pay a visit to our website at www.lumpersgolfsociety.com for a full list of our outings and activities.
MEATH P&P
RESULT from Saturday’s Spring Alliance Scramble, held in Trim:
36 nett Liam Anderson (Trim), Barry O’Leary (Navan), Angela Owens (Trim); 36 gross Evan Carry (Castletown), Kieran Quinn (Rathfeigh), Jim Melady (Navan).
The Leinster Mixed Foursomes Qualifying takes place in Dunshaughlin this Saturday at 10am.
PUNTER’S SOCIETY
THE society held its second outing of the year at Corballis golf club in Dublin on Wednesday 11th April.
Weather-wise it was still cold for this time of the year and windy as you would expect with most links courses. It was hard work as a lot of the holes are blind so if you don’t know the layout of the course you could easily get into trouble. Having said that the greens were superb and very challenging.
18 members took to the tee at the start of play and the overall winner on the day was Ken Larkin with a score of 33 points after a countback. In category one the overall winner was Paul Hughes with a score of 33 points also.
Second was Eamonn O’Farrell on 31 points with Chris Murden third on 30 points. In category two the overall winner was Peter Monaghan on 29 points. Second was Tony Casey on 28 points with Noel McGill third on 26 points.
Prizes were presented by Captain Micky Noone in The Punters Bar afterwards in the evening.
Our thanks to all the players who participated and also to the bar staff on the night. Next outing is in St. Margarets GC on Monday 7th May tee off 12.30. Look forward to seeing as many members there as possible and new members are always welcome. FORE!