Deirdre tops Scratch Cup leaderboard
37pts. Category 2 (12–19): Declan Conlon (19) 37/20pts. Category 3 (20+): Larry Witherow (24) 37pts. Gross: Caolan Rafferty (+4) 39pts. CSS 72/36pts.
Golfer of the Year (best four cards after six rounds): 287 – Clem Walshe; 291 – Danny Miele; 293 – Neil Mullooly; 294 – Ciaran Johnson, Peter Rogers; 295 – Christy Ward, Brendan Keane, Neal MacKell; 296 – Aiden Gaughran, David Brennan.
DUNDALK LADIES
TUESDAY’S 18-hole Stableford: Class A - 1st Elaine Ward (11) 38 points, 2nd Kitty Duffy (17) 36/18/14 points, 3rd Teresa Matthews (19) 36 points; Class B - 1st Sally McDonnell (27) 36/21 points, 2nd Ger Minogue (21) 36 points, 3rd Violet McGeady (24) 34/19 points; Class C - 1st Joan McKenna (29) 33/15 points, 2nd Brenda Rogers (36) 33 points, 3rd Deborah Herr (36) 31/19; 9-hole: 1st Anne Doohan 14 points, 2nd Marie O’Connor 13/11 points.
LAYTOWN & BETTYSTOWN
CAPTAIN’S Prize qualifier stableford, played on July 15th: 1st Tony Weldon (17) 40pts, 2nd Robert Carey (6) 39pts, Gross prize John McGinn (scr) 36pts, 3rd Mark Gogarty (5) 38pts ocb. CSS 36pts.
Captain’s Prize qualifier stableford, played on July 14th: 1st Chris Black (16) 41pts, 2nd Sean Holcroft (15) 40pts, Gross prize Alan Mullen (4) 32pts ocb, 3rd Tom DEIRDRE Smith finished top of the pile following the final Scratch Cup Circuit event at Woodbrook last Sunday.
The prestigious series consists of eight 36-hole Scratch Cup events at some of Ireland’s most renowned golf courses, namely Carlow, Woodbrook Royal Portrush Valley Course, Royal Co Down, Cork, Lahinch, Hermitage and Royal Portrush Dunluce Links.
Points accumulated from a maximum of four events counted towards the top prize.
Smith won in Royal Co Down and finished second in Portrush, Woodbrook and Lahinch, accumulating 90 points over her four best events.
As well as winning the overall prize Smith set new course records in Royal Portrush Dunluce Links (73) and Woodbrook (70).
Speaking after clinching the title, the Co Louth sharpshooter said: ‘I’m delighted to win such a competitive circuit, and to set two new course records on such fantastic courses has been a real thrill for me.’
Paula Grant finished second in the series, while Louise Coffey was third. Behan (25) 39pts ocb. CSS 36pts.
LAYTOWN & BETTYSTOWN LADIES
LAST Thursday’s fourball stableford was won by Aileen Rooney (22) and Jean Kierans (23) with a score of 43 points (ob9). Nine-hole stableford winner Olwen Kirkpatrick (18) 23pts, 2nd Carmel Troy (29) 19pts.
PGA Tankard stableford held on July 14th & 15th: 1st Olwen Kirkpatrick (18) 38pts, 2nd Carol Wickham (scr) 37pts; Class 2 winner Margaret Cowan (22) 38pts ob9, 2nd Berna Carthy (20) 38pts; Class 3 winner Nicole Wenderworth 42pts, 2nd Joan White (29) 39pts. Nine-hole stableford winner Elma Delany (13) 22pts, 2nd Margaret Spellman (17) 21pts.
LUMPER’S SOCIETY
THE premier event of the year, Captain Day was held at Headfort Golf Club (Old Course) on Saturday, July 14th. At large number of members turned out to honour the Captain, Donal O’Hagan and to compete for his prize on a course that was presented in an excellent condition. With beautiful sunshine throughout the day, the members had a most enjoyable round of golf in near perfect weather conditions.
However, the narrow fairways, combined with fast greens and tight pin positions called for a high standard of shot making in order to achieve good scores and unfortunately many fell down in this department. But as often happens on these occasions, one individual managed to separate himself from the rest of the field and in compiling an excellent score of 37stableford points, Rory O’Hagan returned the winning scorecard and was a worthy winner of the Captain’s Prize.
When the round had concluded, the golfers enjoyed a meal and refreshments in the Clubhouse. Before the presentation of prizes, Captain, Donal thanked the committee and members of Headfort for the use of their facilities, the caterer for providing a delicious meal and the members of his own committee for assisting him with organising his Captain’s Day.
The Prize winners were as follows: Winner: Rory O’Hagan; Second: Alan Dullaghan; Third: Danny Murtagh; Front Nine: Niall Breen; Back Nine: Liam Manning; Nearest the Pin: Peter Morgan; Longest Drive: Vincent Loughran; Visitors Prize: Neil Murtagh.
Our next outing will see the conclusion of the Player of the Year Competition, with Thomas Dullaghan, David Lambe and Alan Dullaghan all in contention to win this much coveted prize at Ardee Golf Club, on Saturday, August 18th.
For full details of our activities, please visit our website www. lumpersgolfsociety.com.
MACBRIDE P&P
WEEK five of the Summer League took place on Monday and Tuesday last and was an 18 nett competition.
The Grade 1 winner was Mark Donnelly with a score of 42 nett (h/c-3), while Grade 2 was won by Andrew Meegan with 39 nett (h/c-12).
This week’s competition, an 18 gross, concludes this evening (Tuesday) at 6.30pm.
The MacBride Open Scotch Foursomes took place from Wednesday to Sunday and was a great success. We thank all those who travelled, and also our local clubs for their support. Results:
Gents 36 nett Alan Cluskey & Greg Hoey 82 h/c 3; 36 gross Barry Thornton & Mark Donnelly 86; 18 nett Danny Fitzpatrick & F O’Connor 37 5/8 h/c 9 3/8; 18 gross Ray McKenna & Tommy Dyas 42.
Mixed 36 nett Paul & Joanne Cooney 83 1/2 h/c 6 3/4; 36 gross Mary Agnew & John Donnelly 95; 18 nett Joe & Patricia Reilly 40 1/2 h/c 7 1/2.
Ladies 36 nett Bridie Hanratty & Marlo Everett 91 3/4 h/c 8 5/8; 36 gross Ger Ward & Sheelagh Elmes 99.
Hole-in-one winners: Luke Henry, Peter Kelly, Ged Thornton.
The Club Doubles Matchplay will commence on Wednesday August 1st and the entry sheet is on the club noticeboard.
Our Captains Day will take place