The first round in the Summer Series was played on Tuesday 26th May and on a sunny but blustery afternoon the scoring did not match the warm conditions. The winners all hailed from Kanturk Golf Club in County Cork and posted a very achievable target of 81 points. The format of the competition was, as usual, a 4 person team event with two scores to count on the first 17 holes and three scores to count on the 18th hole only.
As it was a shotgun start there was no delay in finding the winning team and they only just got home by a point from two sets of brothers from Galway. The winners scored consistently enough but could only muster 2 points on the last hole where they expected to score at least six points. They had nines of 43 and 38 respectively to pip the team of brothers who returned 80 points.
The prizes for the day were sponsored by Titleist/Footjoy and were presented immediately afterwards. The next round in the Summer Series takes place on Wednesday 24th June and places can be booked by phoning golf reservations at 056/7773064 or 7773071 and again it will be a shotgun start at 2pm.
Results, Tuesday 26th May
Winners
Tony McAuliffe (7)
John Corbett (9)
Donal Begley (16)
Anthony Browne (18)
(Kanturk Golf Club)
81 points
Runners-Up
Paul Keane (11)
Kevin Greally (11)
(Cregmore Park Golf Club)
Alan Greally (11)
(Headfort Golf Club)
Derek Keane (14)
(Loughrea Golf Club)
80 points
On the Inter-Club scene the last surviving team in the men’s section played Castlecomer in the Leinster Fourball Trophy. This resulted in a win for Castlecomer by the odd match of five and only on a tie hole at Castlecomer. The advantage of the home draw lay with Castlecomer so they had three matches at home and two were played at Mount Juliet.
At Mount Juliet Kevin McCartan and Ken MacDonald won after a very tight match but unfortunately Padraic O’Connor and Ronan Murphy lost. But the real drama was played out at Castlecomer where the Captain, Billy Murphy and his partner Dermot Divilly, making their debut, won handsomely. Tommy Butler and John Mulholland were dormie 5 down but took their opponents to the 18th before succumbing. In the last match, Chris McHugh and Arthur Hickey then went to the 19th before victory was secured by the home team.
