Cian McNamara (Monkstown GC) pictured during the 2014 Irish Open at Fota Island.; Picture: Niall O’Shea
Monkstown’s Cian McNamara followed yesterday’s good performance with another one today to Continue reading
Solid Finishes for McNamara
Month: June 2015
Murphy Goes Low for 4th Place Finish in Irish Boys Open
Kinsale’s John Murphy in action in the Fred Daly Trophy
Kinsale’s John Murphy went low on the final day of the Irish Boys Open in Tuam, and doing so rocketed up the leaderboard to 4th place. Murphy had a poor finish on Thursday, after starting well he dropped five shots on the back nine. There were no such mistakes on Friday, he was the only golfer to beak 70 as he recorded five birdies and two bogies for a closing 69. Murphy won recently won the Under 18 Medal at the Leinster Youths has shown great form at inter-club level and will no doubt be looking forward to the Munster Boys Open Championship in Mallow in two weeks.
Monkstown’s Sean Desmond finished in Continue reading
Barton Shield South Munster 2015
Five Cork golfers through to Final Round of Irish Boys
Monkstown’s Sean Desmond is joined by four Kinsale goflers in qualifying for the final round of the Irish Boys Open Championship in Tuam tomorrow. Of all the Cork golfers involved Continue reading
Skibbereen beat Mahon in Irish Mixed Foursomes Area-Final
Skibbereen v Mahon Result 3-2
(Skibb names first)
Darren O’Brien and Bernie Ryan beat Continue reading
Gallery : Mahon v Skibbereen Irish Mixed Foursomes South Munster Area-Final
Pictures from the Irish Mixed Foursomes South Munster Area-Final at Bandon Golf Club: Continue reading
Sean Desmond in Top 10 at Irish Boys
Monkstown’s Sean Desmond shot a one under par 71 in the second round of the Irish Boys to climb into the top 10. Tuam Golf Club is the venue for the 72 hole competition and Desmond carded five birdies in his round today. He was three under through the 13th hole but he gave back two shots with bogeys on the 14th and 15th. A 36 hole total of 145 (+1) see’s the Monkstown golfer in a tie for 7th place. Continue reading
Glorious Geoff embarrasses playing partners
Superstitious Geoff going through his usual routine of sniffing the golf ball before every shot
Geoff Lenehan shamed his playing partners today with an amazing display of golf that saw his leave his partners hanging their heads in disgust as he stormed ahead of them.
Lenehan, who for the first time in his career was part of the tallest threeball on the course, avoided the embarrassment of a triple bogey on the easiest par four on the course, he also avoided a double on the easy 16th.
As a result of the wonderful round, Lelehan was allowed to leave the threeball, and O’Keeffe and Cannon will have a box jumping contest on the 1st tee tomorrow to decide who goes through to the second mtchplay round. Meanwhile Lenehan was rewarded with soft draw against some hack from the north west.
Weekend Round Up #CorkGolfNews
Sunday started with high hopes for plenty of golfers, O’Donovan, O’Brien and Gorey were all in contention at the Irish Mid-Am in New Forrest. Cian McNamara and Wayne O’Callaghan were in the top 10 in the Shell Carne Pro-Am and Fernhill were due to take on Blarney in the first round of the Barton Shield at Muskerry. Continue reading
Kinsale v Fota Island, Fred Daly Trophy Area-Final
Kinsale v Fota Island, Fred Daly Trophy Area-Final, Castlemartyr Links, Friday 19th June 2015
(Kinsale names first)
Gary Ward & Paul Twohig halved
Cathal Butler beat Dave Howard 6&4
John Murphy beat Pat Hayes 9&8
Eric Rumley Jack Buckley
Mark Healy lost to Gareth Manley 3&2
James Bohan beat Don McKenna 5&3
Daniel O’Flaherty lost to Luke O’Connor 7&6
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