On the inter-club scene the Jimmy Bruen Shield team had a great win in the second round against Roganstown.

Tony McGuinness & John Paul Casey won 3&1 while Barry Cunningham & Dennis Cunningham won their match 2&1 as did Cameron Kilcoyne & John McKeever. The final pairing, Gerry Murray & Jim Dwyer, lost by one hole.

​This weekend the Senior Cup team meet Greenore on Friday at 16:40 while the Mixed Foursomes team face Seapoint on Saturday at 14:10.

The Club Classic took place on Friday with the team of Anne Mc Entegart, Sinead T O’Callaghan, T Connolly and N Rooney winning with a score of 94pts which was one better than the team of Sean Dunne, P Hanratty, G Farrell and Benny O’Shaughnessy.

​Monies raised will go towards the clean-up after Storm Eowyn and the Junior Golf Programme. Thank you all the teams who played and those who provided sponsorship for the event.

Friday, 9 May – Club Classic 2025 – 18 Holes: 94pts - Anne Mc Entegart, Sinead T O’Callaghan, T Connolly, N Rooney.  93pts - Sean Dunne, P Hanratty, G Farrell, Benny O’Shaughnessy. 87pts - Mickey Browne, Noel Crowe, G Neary, Tony Mc Guinness. 9 Holes: 40pts - Geraldine Mohan, Maura Coyle, Anne McArdle, Geraldine McGeough. Nearest The Pin: Cameron Kilcoyne (Gents), Gabrielle Tuomey (Ladies). Longest Drive: Eoin Purton (Gents), Criona O’Reilly (Ladies). Best Dressed Team: Pink Ladies.
ENDS

Saturday 10 May: Ladies Intermediate Foursomes panel take on Laytown & Bettystown in the first round of the North Leinster section. 

Sunday 11 May: Having beaten Greenore in the previous round, the Jimmy Bruen panel take on Roganstown in the second round. First group will be out at 3.10pm. 

Best of luck to both panels.

 The Wednesday Open, sponsored by McKenna Man, was won by Fergal Sexton (13) who shot 38pts and won on countback from Eddie Sheridan (17) after a back nine of 19pts. Sexton’s round included nine pars as well as a no score at the sixth.
Wednesday, 7 May - McKenna Man Open Singles Stableford – Overall: Fergal Sexton (13) 38/19pts. Edmund Sheridan (17) 38/18pts. Division 1: Eugene J Hanratty (8) 37pts. Division 2:  Gearoid O'Conluain (16) 36pts. Division 3: Jim Burlingham (29) 37pts. Gross Recognition: Conor Curran (3) 31pts.

Sean McKenna (42) won the Open Singles Stableford which was played on the May Bank Holiday weekend. He shot 43pts in a round that included two four point pars at the fifth and 17th.
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Jack McCaughey (10), Flyn Kiernan (13) and Aidan Corcoran (25) won the three categories while Eoin Purton with 32pts had the day’s best gross score.

Monday, 5 May - Open Singles Stableford – Overall: Sean McKenna (42) 43pts. Division 1: Jack McCaughey (10) 40pts. Division 2: Flyn Kiernan (13) 38pts. Division 3: Aidan Corcoran (25) 40pts. Gross Recognition: Eoin Purton (4) 32pts.

Kevin Barry won the Cochrane Cup on countback over the May Bank Holiday weekend with a superb score of 66.
Playing off 16 he edged out Conor Martin (14) on a countback that went to the last six holes which Barry edged by 0.6 of a shot after both players had shot 32 nett on the back nine.
Barry’s round saw him par the second eighth and ninth on the front nine as he went out in 42 gross for a nett return of 34. On the back nine he had back to back birdies at the 13th and 14th and pars at the 15th and 17th before making the only blemish on his card when he double bogeyed the final hole as he came home in 40 strokes for a nett score of 32.
Martin had four pars on his front nine at the fourth, fifth, seventh and ninth as he went out in 41 for a nett 34. Coming home he birdied the 14th and parred the 10th, 13th, 15th and 16th with his 39 converting to a 32 nett for the final nine.
Teenager Cameron Kilcoyne shot the day’s best gross score with a two under par 70. He had four pars at the second, third, fifth and sixth as he went out in 32 and although he birdied the 14th, bogeys at the 10th, 11th and 16th meant he came home in 38.
Jim Dwyer (10) with a 67 won Division 1 on countback from Damien Garland (7) while Martin took the Division 2 category from Pat McEntegart (16). Division 3 was Simon Ryan (20) shoot 67 to beat Oisin Cairns (26) by two shots.
Saturday, 3 May and Sunday, 4 May - Cochrane Cup (GOY 2) – Overall: Kevin Barry (16) 66/32/17.7. Gross: Cameron Kilcoyne (3) 70. Division 1: Jim Dwyer (10) 67/33, Damien Garland (7) 67/33.5. Division 2: Conor Martin (14) 66/32/18.3, Pat McEntegart (16) 69. Division 3: Simon Ryan (20) 67, Oisin Cairns (26) 69.

Eoin Murphy finished second in the Munster Strokeplay Championship which was played at Cork Golf Club over the Bank Holiday weekend.
He produced his best performance of the season in the 72 hole event to finish tied second having led after shooting a three-under par 69 in the third round.
Murphy had opened with a 72 and a70 in the opening two rounds to lie one shot behind halfway leaders James O’Rourke, Keith Egan and TJ Ford.
​In the third round he raced lead thanks to four birdies in the first six holes and then held it together over the final 12 holes where three more birdies limited the damage caused by four bogeys.
That left him on five under, one shot ahead of Baltray’s Stuart Grehan  but he was unable to repeat his Sunday morning performance in the afternoon as three birdies were cancelled out by three bogeys which saw him finish the round on level par.
That left him one shot behind winner John Doyle of Fota Island who came through the field to win thanks to a six under par 66 which featured eight birdies. Murphy also finished second to Doyle in the U25 event.
Murphy now heads to Seapoint this weekend for the Flogas Irish Men’s Amateur Open Championship along with Caolan Rafferty. Murphy is out at 2.22pm from the 10th tee in the first round while Rafferty is first out at 8am off the first tee.  

Eugene Hanratty (9) won the McKenna Man Open Singles Stableford last Wednesday on countback from John Dunne (24) after both had shot 43pts. Hanratty’s round included an eagle three at the par five 10th, birdies at the 13th and 17th and nine pars.
Aidan Thornton (5). Eamon McEneaney (13) and Brendan Cleary (26) won the various categories with each shooting 39pts while Eoin Murphy shot 37pts for the best gross score.
​Wednesday, 30 April - McKenna Man Open Singles Stableford – Overall: Eugene J Hanratty (9) 43/24pts. John Dunne (24) 43/20pts. Division 1: Aidan Thornton (5) 39pts. Division 2: Eamon McEneaney (13) 39pts. Division 3: Brendan Cleary (26) 39pts. Gross Recognition: Eoin Murphy 37pts.

​Vincent Conlon led home a field of 269 and edged out Ross Kehoe on countback to be the leading qualifier in the Gold Medal competition.
The top 64 players qualified for the matchplay stages of the competition with the cut falling at 74/37.5/21.
Conlon, playing off 11, produced a superb round of 65 nett that included two birdies, 10 pars and, most importantly, no double bogeys as he went out in 39 gross and came home in 37 gross.  
He parred the opening three holes before bogeying the index one fourth and then parred the fifth,  sixth and eighth as he turned in 33 nett. He then birdied the 10th and 12th holes before reeling off four more pars at the 13th, 14th, 16th and 18th to complete the back nine in 32 nett.
Kehoe, who was off 16, got the perfect start with a birdie at the first followed by two pars. He then parred the fifth and sixth but dropped a shot when he double-bogeyed the index three seventh. A par at the eighth and a bogey at the ninth saw him complete the front nine in 40 gross which was 32 nett.
He recorded two more pars at the 10th and 12th before double-bogeying the par three 13th and then recorded pars at the 16th and 18th for a gross score of 41which was 33 nett.
That left him tied with Conlon on 65 nette but his back nine nett score was one shot more and so he had to settle for second place as Conlon took the honour of being leading qualifier.
Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27 – Gold Medal Qualifier – Vincent Conlon (11) 65/31.5, Ross Kehoe (16) 65/33.

The Irish Mixed Foursomes team has a great first round win over Laytown & Bettystown on Sunday. There were wins in Dundalk for Judy McDonagh & Brian Og Renaghan and Maeve Ahern & Neal MacKell and after Bernie McGuinness & Conall Murdock were beaten on the 17th it was left to Brid Rocks & Mark Gorham to secure the place in the next round by winning on the 18th.
The Junior Cup team fell at the first hurdle in the defence of their Leinster North title on Saturday going down 3-2 to Sutton in the first round. Ciaran Traynor and Peter Durnin won their matches in Dundalk but there no joy in Dublin as Ken Norton, John Sharkey and Clem Walshe were edged out.
The JB Carr team were also narrowly beaten in the Louth semi-final against Seapoint on Saturday where all five matches were played over the Termonfeckian links. Although Gerry Murray & John McLaughlin and Conor Byrne and Eamonn McEneaney were beaten, wins for Jim Dwyer & Gerry McDermott and Dennis Cunningham & Barry Grennan left the match delicately poised at 2-2. All eyes swung to the match involving Mickey Coburn & Tommy Renaghan, who had come from three down to finish all square after 18, but unfortunately they were beaten on the first tie hole.