James Walsh won his first senior scratch cup on Sunday when he ended up on top of a competitive leaderboard in Dundalk. The Maynooth student who’s now in his third year on the Harrington Scholars programme shot an opening 66 (-6) to lead by three shots from Irish internationals Caolan Rafferty and Colm Campbell.
Walsh followed that with a second round 71 to finish on seven under. Rafferty, a multiple winner of this competition could only better Walsh by one shot and the Kinsale man was the winner by two shots. His win was particularly impressive given that the top ten as full of internationals and major winners.
Walsh is off to Sweden this week for the Swedish International Mens Championship. This is the second event on the Maynooth calendar and Walsh will be looking to continue his form after finishing in 21st place at the Bernard Langer German Men’s event which took place earlier this month.
Dundalk Scratch Cup sponsored by One Finance (Par 72)
Overall
137 James Walsh (Kinsale) 66, 71
139 Caolan Rafferty (Dundalk) 69, 70
140 Colm Campbell (Warrenpoint) 69, 71
141 Mark Cadden (Roganstown) 73, 68; Daid Kitt (Athenry) 70, 71
143 Eoin Murphy (Dundalk) 72, 71.
Round 1 Gross: Padraig Curry (Millicent) 71.
Round 2 Gross: Evan Farrell (County Louth) 70.
Overall Nett: Sean Ryan (+1.0, Warrenpoint) 144 (71, 73).
Fermoy won the Fred Daly which was also held in Tramore on Monday. They had beaten Cobh, Douglas, Lee Valley and Kinsale on their way to the final.
