The Sligo Champion

ONtheFAIRW­AYS

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O’HARA’S of Foxford Spring League Final

1ST Ailbhe Bourke/Johnny Leonard/Emmett Loftus/Tim Kelly 84pts 2ND Derek Tuffy/Evan Nealon/ Martin Egan/ Peggy Diamond 82pts back 7

3RD Sean Mulligan/Liam Grimes/ John Helly/BP o’Brien 79PTS back 7

PLATE

1ST Eugene Doyle/Peter Coffey/ Irene Basquill/Paddy Dunleavy 89pts

2ND Andrew Gray/Peadar Flynn/ Tommy Geraghty/Beatrice Timlin 85pts

3RD David Kennedy/James O’Toole/Dermot Forde/Pauline Campion 84pts

DAY 1 winners

EDWARD Rafter/Tony Ward/Jimmy Tighe/Marian Forde 82PTS

DAY 2 winners

PAUL Carney/Joe Cawley/Odhran Cloonan/Margaret Geraghty 80pts DAY 3 best score

LIAM Casey/PJ King/Mark McMahon/Lynn Crumley 85PTS.

CO SLIGO GOLF CLUB

RESULTS: Saturday 10-March-2018: 18 Holes- Stableford; White Tees; 1st Kieran O’Brien (10) 37 Pts (B9), 2nd John Fitzgerald (15) 37 pts. Entries: 26; CSS: Non-Qualifying. RESULTS: Sunday 11-March-2018: 18 Holes- Stableford; White Tees; 1st Fergal O’Flaherty (6) 39 Pts (B9), 2nd Sean McLoughlin (14) 39 pts. Entries: 46; CSS: Non-Qualifying.

Open Weekend this weekend: Saturday 17th/ Sunday 18th/ Monday 19th March.

Winter League final takes place on Sunday 8th April.

Ladies results: Saturday March 3rd Competitio­n cancelled due to Storm Emma.

Tuesday 6th March 9 Hole team of 3 Waltz

1st Patricia McLoughlin (20) Emma Flanagan (25) Colette Armstrong (27) 44 Pts 2nd Mary Durcan (16) Caroline Bradshaw (22) Oonagh McDermot (33) 41 Pts (B6) 3rd Marie Rooney (11) Rosie Mullan (24) Josephine Scanlon (32) 41 Pts

Saturday 10th March 18 Hole S/Stableford 1st Una Howley (22) 33pts (B9).

CASTLE DARGAN

CAPTAINS Drive In

THIS coming St Patrick’s Day sees incoming Men’s Captain Mr Paul McGonigle and incoming Ladies Captain Mrs Bridie Henry have their Captains drive in. CAPTAINS Drive In takes place on our traditiona­l date of 17th March. Mixed Scramble, with Drive-In at 5pm, followed by finger food, refreshmen­ts and music. Hope to see you all there. Music will be provided by Tony Marren to finish the night off. Raffle for two hampers in aid of Sligo Cancer Care Centre will take place on the day. Tickets for the raffle can be bought in the Prop Shop. Please support. We look forward to seeing you there and to officially marking the beginning of the 2018 Season! GOOD Friday/Easter Saturday Scramble

THE first and very important fundraiser for the gents club this year takes place on Good Friday and Easter Saturday . The event is a 3 person scramble costing €75 per team. Teams can play on either the Friday, Saturday or Sunday and can be gents, ladies or mixed. Great prizes available. Start getting your team lined up.

GOLF Membership

THE membership will be available at the golf shop at a attractive price of €399 from now until April 2019. Offer is available the all new and existing members. For more informatio­n you can contact the golf shop on 0719118541. FIXTURES

THE club is nearing completion of the current year’s fixture booklet and will be available in the golf shop in the near future. Qualifying for the cup competitio­ns including the Castle Dargan cup which is an Open competitio­n will be first up so keep a eye on your dates not to miss out.

BOYLE

RESULTS - An 18 hole Gents’ Foursomes competitio­n took place on Sunday the 10th of March. In first place were Patrick and Lorcan Egan with 61 nett, second place went to Brendan Gaffney and Conor Hamill with 61.5, and Terry

Canning and Charlie O’Donnell were third with 67. We would be grateful if any membership­s due could be paid in the next few weeks. For any new members, membership rates are available on www.boylegolfc­lub.com, with particular­ly competitiv­e rates for those who are taking up golf for the first time. We have been happy to see some new faces playing golf in Boyle in the past few weeks and the Mens’ Committee meeting this month approved applicatio­ns for 5 new members. UPCOMING COMPETITIO­NS - A Gents 18 hole Stableford will take place on Sunday the 18th of March, followed on Sunday the 25th of March by the Boyle heat of the Holmpatric­k Cup for the men. There will also be an 18 hole Stableford for the Ladies that day. The Easter weekend will see a club fundraiser, playable from Saturday the 31st of March to Monday the 2nd of April inclusive. The format will an 18 hole Fourball Shambles. All members are encouraged to enter and to recruit any of their friends in other clubs that may be interested in playing. THE first of the Interclub matches for 2018 takes place in early April with the Boyle men hosting Ballaghade­rreen in the Connacht 9 hole clubs competitio­n. THERE is a sheet on the noticeboar­d for all members interested in going on the club outing to St Margaret’s on the 14th of April. THERE will be a meeting held in the clubhouse in the coming weeks to organise volunteers for various duties during the year. Volunteers are absolutely essential for the running of the club and members are encouraged to consider contributi­ng a few hours of their time during the year, whether it be behind the bar, on the course or maintainin­g the clubhouse.

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