John Murphy stormed to the top of the leaderboard on day 2 of the Munster Students Championship, thanks to an excellent 68.  He’s now four shots clear of the field on 6 under par.  68 was a popular number in Cork Golf Club today, with both James McKeever and Cathal Butler posting 68’s.  Butler will disappointed despite tying the low round of the day, he was seven under before carding a triple bogey on the 17th.  The Kinsale man dusted himself off and recovered with a par on the 18th.  Butler recorded six birdies and an eagle, with one bogey and the triple in the impressive round.

Murphy’s 68 was less dramatic four birdies and a bogey on the front nine saw him on -3 at the turn.  He added a birdie on the 10th and shot par golf for the remaining eight holes.  The four hole cushion gives him a big advantage going into the final round, but there are some quality golfers in the chasing pack.  Monkstown’s Sean Desmond is tied for 5th on level par and James Sugrue is just inside the top twenty on +4.  Jack Howard (Fota Island) and Darren Hourihan (Douglas) both made it through to the final round on the cut mark (+6).  Kinsale’s Gary Ward just missed out on the wrong side of that mark.

Munster Students Amateur Open Championship  R2 RESULTS

1	MURPHY, John	Kinsale	-6	70	68		138
T2	MCVICKER, James	Knock	-2	74	68		142
T2	BUTLER, Cathal	Kinsale	-2	74	68		142
T2	MC DONNELL, Jack	Forrest Little	-2	70	72		142
T5	CARR, Gareth Andrew	Mullingar	Par	75	69		144
T5	MULLARNEY, Ronan	Galway	Par	74	70		144
T5	DESMOND, Sean	Monkstown	Par	73	71		144
T5	MCCARRON, Kyle	Maynooth Scholars (b)	Par	72	72		144
T5	CUMMINS, Peter	Lurgan	Par	71	73		144
T5	GREENBERG, Stefan	Tandragee	Par	69	75		144
T5	FOY, David	Laytown & Bettystown	Par	69	75		144
T12	WOODROOFE, Colin	Dun Laoghaire	+1	75	70		145
T12	GRIFFIN, Eanna	Waterford	+1	74	71		145
14	SMALL, William	Tandragee	+2	75	71		146
T15	FOLEY, Hugh	The Royal Dublin	+3	76	71		147
T15	MURRAY, Ben	Waterford Castle	+3	76	71		147
T15	O’HARE, Hugh	Fortwilliam	+3	72	75		147
18	SUGRUE, James	Mallow	+4	76	72		148
T19	COLLINS, Ted	Dun Laoghaire	+5	78	71		149
T19	MCCORMACK, Marc	Ashbourne	+5	77	72		149
T21	BRAZILL, Robert	Naas	+6	79	71		150
T21	NOLAN, Cathal	Galway	+6	76	74		150
T21	HOWARD, Jack	Fota Island	+6	76	74		150
T21	HOURIHAN, Darren	Douglas	+6	75	75		150
T21	DUTTON, Ross	Tandragee	+6	75	75		150
T26	MCCANN, Nathan	Lurgan	+7	80	71		151
T26	DORAN, Brian	Baltinglass	+7	78	73		151
T26	WARD, Gary	Kinsale	+7	76	75		151
T29	GOGGIN, Eoin	Mallow	+8	78	74		152
T29	MELVIN, Craig	Corrstown	+8	77	75		152
T29	FLANAGAN, Sean	Co. Sligo	+8	75	77		152
T32	CROOKS, Owen	Bushfoot	+9	80	73		153
T32	LAWLOR, Brendan	Ardee	+9	75	78		153
T32	QUINN, Jonathan	The Island	+9	74	79		153
T32	BOLGER, Craig	Carlow	+9	74	79		153
T36	CARROLL, Senan	Ballybunion	+10	79	75		154
T36	STEEDMAN, Ross	Courtown	+10	79	75		154
T36	MCKENNA, Mark	DIT (B)	+10	79	75		154
T36	O’BRIEN, Eoin	Clontarf	+10	76	78		154
T36	COLLINS, Eoghan	Laytown & Bettystown	+10	75	79		154
T41	RIORDAN, Alan	Blarney	+11	84	71		155
T41	DINEEN, Rory	Cork	+11	81	74		155
T41	FORD, T J	Co. Sligo	+11	80	75		155
T41	KENNELLY, Michael Joseph	Athenry	+11	79	76		155
T45	GREHAN, Liam	Mullingar	+12	83	73		156
T45	BRADY, David	Co. Sligo	+12	81	75		156
T45	MCSWEENEY, Adam	Douglas	+12	80	76		156
T45	CROWLEY, Alex	The Island	+12	80	76		156
T45	HEALY, Mark	Kinsale	+12	77	79		156
T45	GEARY, Frank	Ballybunion	+12	84			84
51	O’FARRELL, Michael	Galway	+13	82	75		157
T52	O’NEILL, Joseph	Tralee	+14	85	73		158
T52	MCCARTHY, John	Stackstown	+14	83	75		158
T52	RUMLEY, Eric	Kinsale	+14	83	75		158
T52	HOWARD, David	Fota Island	+14	82	76		158
T52	COMERFORD, Aodan	NUIG (a)	+14	80	78		158
T52	FLEMING, Oisin	Dun Laoghaire	+14	80	78		158
T52	COAKLEY, Tristan	Bantry Bay	+14	77	81		158
T52	RYAN, Aaron	Thurles	+14	77	81		158
T52	CLEARY, John	Elm Park	+14	77	81		158
T61	FEENEY, Cian	Co. Sligo	+16	80	80		160
T61	MAGEE, Andrew	Powerscourt	+16	80	80		160
T63	CUMMINS, Luke	West Waterford	+17	80	81		161
T63	BYRNE, William	Baltinglass	+17	77	84		161
T65	KELLY, Paul	Glasson	+18	85	77		162
T65	MC GURK, Michael	Warrenpoint	+18	85	77		162
T65	ROCHE, Conor	Mallow	+18	83	79		162
T65	SPICER, Calum	Dromoland	+18	77	85		162
T69	MCDERMOTT, Keith	Highfield	+19	87	76		163
T69	FLYNN, Darragh	Carton House	+19	85	78		163
T69	GUILLER, Christopher	Cairndhu	+19	85	78		163
T69	BOYLAN, John	Douglas	+19	79	84		163
73	O’CARROLL, Cathal	Charleville	+20	86	78		164
74	LAWLOR, James	Naas	+21	87	78		165
T75	SHIEL, Michael	Athenry	+22	87	79		166
T75	MURRAY, Bill	Waterford Castle	+22	82	84		166
77	DEVLIN, Daniel	Fota Island	+23	89	78		167
T78	JORDAN, Patrick	Lurgan	+25	88	81		169
T78	ALTON, Jack	Slievenamon	+25	83	86		169
T80	O’SULLIVAN , David	Monkstown	+27	89	82		171
T80	O’ BRIEN, Daniel	Millicent	+27	86	85		171
DQ	HOOD, Jordan	Galgorm Castle	+1		73		73
DQ	BURKE, Sean	Galway	+3		75		75
RTD	MOLONEY, Cillian	Fota Island	+5	77			77
DQ	HARTE , Conor	Castle	+7		79		79
WD	GRANT , Jack	DIT (B)	+10	82			82
WD	LENNIE, Aaron	Clandeboye	+14	86			86
WD	TWOHIG, Paul	Fota Island	+14	86			86
WD	LYNCH, Kieran	Skibbereen	+15	87			87
WD	HERLIHY, Darragh	West Waterford	+18	90			90
NR	YOUNG, Gavin	Nenagh	+6
WD	CALNAN, Rory	Lee Valley	Par
RTD	O’FLYNN, Jack	Cork	Par