Boyle Golf Club
Open Week at Boyle Golf Club takes place throughout this week. Thursday is Men’s 18-hole, with a 9-hole for the ladies.
Friday is a 9-hole for ladies and gents. Saturday is a Fourball better ball with an added prize for best family team and the week finishes on Sunday with an 18-hole for ladies and gents.
Other upcoming events at the club are the Traders Weekend on Saturday/Sunday July 18th/19th, Boyle Arts Festival Open on Saturday July 25th, Men’s Captains Weekend on Thursday July 30th-Monday August 3rd, Roscommon Herald Fore club Alliance Weekend on Saturday/Sunday August 15th/16th and ‘Last Man Standing’ on Saturday August 22nd.
The Club are holding a series of six coaching sessions for beginners/new members commencing on Wednesday July 15th from 6.30-7.30 pm.
Carrick-on-Shannon Golf Club
Open Day continues every Tuesday. We look forward to welcoming you. With over 40 teams playing, it was a busy weekend.
The event included two competitions and the winning combination of Maureen Egan, Ann Campbell, Siobhan Talbot and Phil McWeeney took both the Ladies First Prize and the Yellow Ball Competition.
Ann Campbell, clearly on winning form, also won Nearest the Pin, while the longest drive was won by Dolores Mulvey.
Last weekend Renee Dolan returned a fantastic net of 68 to claim first prize. There are more great competitions ahead this month finishing with Captain’s Prize to Ladies on July 26th. This week we have the inaugural Di Vino’s Restaurant Stroke, followed by Cox’s Pharmacy Stroke next week.
Castlerea Golf Club
Results of Men’s Competition sponsored by Padraic Newman Menswear – 1st Michael Doyle with 43 points; 2nd Ronan Cahill with 41 points; Cat. 1 Paul Glynn with 39 points; Cat. 2 Patrick O’Connor Junior with 38 points; Cat. 3 Tony O’Keeffe with 41 points. Next Sunday’s competition is sponsored by Hester’s Golden Eagle and the Ladies competition on Tuesday 14th July is the Eileen McKeon Memorial.
Well done to the Cecil Ewing team who had a great win over Portumna by a margin of 3.5 to 1.5. Congratulations to Leona Maguire on finishing second in the Ladies European Masters. She is the number one amateur in the world. As Honorary life member of Castlerea Golf Club we compliment her on this achievement and wish her all the best for the future. Good luck to our Junior Cup team who play next weekend in the qualifiers in Athlone.
Roscommon Golf Club
Roscommon Golf Club has just hosted a very successful Open Week with large entries in every competition.
Well done to our Ladies’ Junior Foursomes Team who beat Ballinasloe in Mountbellew on Saturday and we wish them well in the next round.
Congratulations to our Miele Fourball Team who defeated Tuam in the quarter-final on Sunday and are through to the semi-final. Our Fred Daly team did us proud in the semi-final of the Fred Daly Plate in Athlone Golf Club when they gave a close run to Ballinrobe.
This is a great achievement when all of our youngsters will still be eligible for this U-18 boys competition for the next four years! The team consisted of Thomas Higgins, Alan Connaughton, Cian O’Connor, Kevin Connaughton, Joe Finnegan and the reserve was Fionn Hoare and Michael Costello was their convenor.
Roscommon Golf Club is delighted to welcome the cream of Ireland’s young golfers for the prestigious Connacht U-18 Boys Open Championship which takes place during the week.
