A GOOD WALK

BELLEWSTOWN LADIES

LAST weekend’s Winter League result: 1st Denise King 21pts, 2nd Sheila Cole 19pts.

December 30th Winter League 12-hole competition: 1st Catherine Geoghegan-Quinn 23pts, 2nd Elaine Collins 18pts.

COUNTY LOUTH

WINNERS from Sunday’s New Year’s Cheer singles stableford front nine competition: Class 1 Paul Reilly (5) 23pts, Class 2 Cathal Kelly (18) 21pts ob3.

Saturday’s Winter League No 13, sponsored by SSC Sports Surgery Clinic: Class 1 winner John Murphy (10) 67 ob9, 2nd Aaron Garvey (12) 67, Gross prize Ryan O’Doherty 71; Class 2 winner Malachy Stringer (27) 66, 2nd Martin Tolan (17) 68, Gross prize Damien Walsh 83. SSS 72 (non-counting). Team - Paul Reilly (5-1), Noel Reilly (7), Tod O’Reilly (6) & Sean Walsh (14-1) 56.

DUNDALK

THE first competition of 2019 attracted a full timesheet, with 50 pairings taking part in a Scotch Foursomes competition, and there was less than one shot between the top three at the end.

The relentless drizzle certainly didn’t hamper Jim Burlingham (28) and Pat Beirne (23) who blended perfectly to win with a nett score of 47.2.

That was half-a-shot better than the excellent 47.7 returned by 12-handicappers Pat Donaghy and Mark Browne, while Conor McCaughey (6) and John McGeady (24) returned a score of 48.3 to finish third.

The competition was the first played under the new rules of golf and members are reminded that they can find out more information about the changes on the club website www.dundalkgolfclub.ie.

The 2019 Rules of Golf has provision for a Local Rule which