Jonathon Deeny won the latest leg of the National Time and Flooring Autumn Series which was played over the October Bank Holiday weekend.
Playing off 19 he had a steady start with a three-point par at the first followed by a one point double bogey and a two-point bogey to leave him on six points after three holes.
A four point par at the index one fourth kick-started his round and he parred every hole after that to the turn to cover the front nine in an impressive 25 points which was the gross equivalent of three over par.
The back nine wasn’t as impressive as he came home in 16pts thanks to three three-point pars, two two-point bogeys and three one-point double bogeys.
However, he had done more than enough on the front nine to take the overall victory with 41pts which was three more than Brian Gaughran (13) in second place.
Paul Murphy (2) with 37pts took Division 1 and also recorded the best gross with 35pts. Division 2 was won by Sean Gallagher (12) with 37pts while Barry Rafferty (21) also shot 37pts on hs way to winning Division 3, edging out incoming vice-captain Martin McDonnell.
Saturday, October 25 and Sunday, October 26 - National Tile and Flooring Autumn Series Singles Stableford – Overall: Jonathan Deeny (19) 41pts.  Brian Gaughran (13) 38pts. Division 1: Paul Murphy (2) 37pts; Peter Rogers (3) 36pts. Division 2:  Sean Gallagher (12) 37pts, Kenneth Cairns (15) 36pts. Division 3: Barry Rafferty (21) 37pts, Martin McDonnell (21) 35pts. Gross Recognition: Paul Murphy 35 pts.

Incoming Captain Michael O’Sullivan and Lady Captain Leone Baillie announced their Vice Captains, Presidents and Boys Captains to a packed Clubhouse on Sunday night.

Martin McDonnell will be the 2026 Vice Captain with Micheál Byrne as President and Roan Quigley Norton as Junior Boys Captain.

The Lady Vice Captain will be Catherine Duff with Fionnuala Dullaghan as Lady President and Grave Cosgrove as Junior Girls Captain. 

 

Tom Corcoran won the latest edition of the National Tile and Flooring Autumn Series on Sunday, October 20.
A super back nine of 23pts proved to be key to Corcoran’s win as his score of 40pts was good enough to win by two points.
Playing off 24 he went out on 17pts with the highlights being his three point par at the ninth and his three point bogey at the fourth.
After scoring two points at the 10th for a bogey six, Corcoran scored 10pts over the next three holes thanks to a three bogey at the 11th, a four point birdie at the 12th and a three point par the 13th.
That left him on 29pts for 13 holes and he took another 10pts from the next four holes thanks to a three point par at the 14th and a three bogey at the 15th as well as a two point bogey at 14 and a two point double bogey at the 16th.
That got him to 36pts and a three point at the 17th and one point double bogey at the 18th saw him finish on 40pts and two ahead of Alan Wilson (27).
Wilson won Division 3 with his 38pts while Emmet McCabe Savage (7) continued his rich vein of form by winning Division 1 with 37pts. The Division 2 winner was Patrick Clarke (14) with 36pts.
Sunday, October 20 – National Tile and Flooring Autumn Series – Singles Stableford - Overall: Tom Corcoran (24) 40pts.  Division 1: Emmet McCabe-Savage (7) 37 pts. Division 2: Patrick Clarke (14) 36pts. Division 3: Alan Wilson (27) 38pts.

Visitor Derek Yorke (14) from Mannan Castle won Wednesday’s McKenna Man Open Singles Stableford with a score of 42pts as Ciaran Johnston (+1) took both the Division 1 and Gross Recognition accolades. His gross score of 68 included an albatross at the par five sixth when his six iron second shot found the hole.  Daniel Gallagher won Division 2 and Timothy Jewell (28) won Division 3.
Wednesday, October 15 - McKenna Man Open Singles Stableford - Overall Position: Derek Yorke (14, Mannan Castle) 42pts. Division 1: Ciaran Johnston (+1) 39pts. Division 2: Daniel Gallagher (17) 40pts. Division 3: Timothy Jewell (28) 41pts. Gross Recognition: Ciaran Johnston 40pts. 

Ciaran Traynor produced a flawless round of golf to win the latest leg of the national Tile and Flooring Autumn Series over the weekend of October 11 and 12.
Playing off six, he had 17 pars and a birdie at the third hole, to go around in 71 gross.  He earned four points for that birdie and had three-point pars at the fourth, seventh, 11th, 15th and 16th to record a stableford score of 43pts having gone out in 22pts and come home in 21pts.  
That was enough to give him a one point victory for the in-form Adrian Kenny who recently won both the Gold Medal and the IJM Minor Scratch Matchplay Trophy.
Playing off 19, Kenny went out 20pts thanks to three point pars at the first and eighth and three point bogey at the index one fourth with his only blemish coming at the third where he double-bogeyed for one point. He had another double bogey at the 17th but three-point pars at the 10th, 11th, 14th, 15th and 18th saw him cover the back nine in 22pts for an overall total of 42pts.
Alan McCabe (11) made a welcome return to the prizes by winning Division 1with 40pts which was one better than Paul Murphy (2) while John Predergast (16) took Division 2 with 41pts with Robert Lynch (16) a point further back. Countback was needed in Division 3 as Noel Reidy (20) pipped Michael Noone (21) after both had shot 39pts.
Niall Henry with 38pts took the gross prize. His round of 70 gross included an eagle three at the 10th, a birdie three at the 16th and a bogey five at the eighth as he parred the other 15 holes.
Saturday, October 11 and Sunday, October 12 –  National Tile and Flooring Autumn Series – Singles Stableford – Overall: Ciaran Traynor (6) 43pts, Adrian Kenny (19) 42pts. Division 1: Alan McCabe (11) 40pts, Paul Murphy (2) 39pts. Division 2: John Prendergast (16) 41pts, Robert Lynch (16) 40pts. Division 3: Noel Reidy (20) 39pts, Michael Noone (21) 39pts. Gross Recognition: Niall Henry 38pts

Caolan Rafferty made his Eisenhower Trophy debut this week in Singapore as Ireland finished 21st of the 36 teams.
He shot rounds of 75-70-74-74 to finish on five over for the competition and was tied 58th of the 11 players in the field.
The tournament was won by South Africa whose top player Christiaan Maas won the individual title. 
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Ben Cahill finished T23 in the latest round of the R&A Student Series which was played at Malone Golf Club in Belfast. He shot rounds of 74, 73 and 73 for the 54 hole event. He is T18 on the Order of Merit after two of the four qualifying rounds.  The top 30 players will qualify for the Series Final which will be played in St Andrews next April.  

Wednesday’s McKenna Man Open Singles Stableford was won by Ben Walsh (8) who shot 39pts to take the overall victory on countback from Aidan Thornton (5), Dermont Murphy Jnr (5), and Anthony McGuinness (22).
Walsh went out in 18pts after parring four of the first five holes and birdieing the par five seventh for four points. He had 21pts on the back nine as he birdied the par four 14th and had six other pars.
Thornton took Division 1 from Murphy on countback while McGuinness claimed Division 2 winning it by three points from Liam O’Mahony (20).In Division 3 Paul O’Hare (30) had four points to spare over David Corrigan (37) after shooting 36pts. Gross recognition went to Ciaran Johnston with 34pts.  
Wednesday, October 9 - McKenna Man Open Singles Stableford – Overall: Ben Walsh (8) 39pts. Division 1 Aidan Thornton (5) 39pts, Dermot Murphy Jnr (5) 39pts, Division 2: Anthony McGuinness (22) 39pts, Liam O'Mahony (20) 36pts. Division 3: Paul O'Hare (30) 36pts, David Corrigan (37) 32pts. Gross Recognition: Ciaran Johnson 34pts.

Graham Purcell made it two wins in a week when he claimed overall ivctory in the national Tile and Flooring Autumn Series on October 5 having already won the McKenna Man Open Singles Stableford competition on October 1.
The fact he sponsors the competition made the win even sweeter as he held off the challenge of Martin Byrne winning on countback after both had shot 39pts. Purcell, playing off 18, had the better back nine scoring 20pts on the trip home compared to Byrne’s 18pts.   
Purcell got off to a great start with three-point pars at the first and third and two-point bogeys at the second and fourth leaving him on 10pts after four holes. Two more three pars at the sixth and eighth were sandwiched between three one-point double bogeys as he turned on 19pts.
His fourth one-point double bogey came the par five 10th and it proved to be his last as he recorded three three-point pars at the 13th and 15th and 17th and five two-point bogeys.
Byrne, who was also playing off 18, went out in 21pts thanks to three pars and six bogeys but down the back he could only manage two pars which were cancelled out by two double bogeys as he shot 18pts to lose by two points on countback.
Connor McCaughey (6) need countback to edge out John Sharkey (7) in Division 1 after both finished on 37pts as did Fergal McKenna (16) who needed it to pip John McKenna (17) for the Division 2. In Division 3 Sean Dunne (20) shot 38pts to beat Oisin Cairns (22) while Conall Murdock with 32pts had the day’s best gross score.
Sunday, October 5 – National Tile and Flooring Autumn Series – Overall: Graham Purcell (18) 39pts, Martin Byrne (18) 39pts (18). Division 1:  Connor McCaughey (6) 37pts, John Sharkey (7) 37pts. Division 2: Fergal McKenna (16) 37pts, John McKenna (17) 37pts. Division 3: Sean Dunne (20) 38pts, Oisin Cairns (22) 37pts. Gross Recognition: Conall Murdock 32pts.

Graham Purcell, who kindly sponsors the Autumn Series, found himself on the winner’s podium on Wednesday when he shot 41pts off 19 to win the latest edition of the McKenna Man Open Singles Stableford.
His round included a four-point par at the index one fourth and three-point pars at the fifth, seventh, eighth, 10th, 11th, 12, and 14th as he went out in 20pts and came home in 21pts.
Damien Garland (5) with 38pts won Division 1 while Ciaran Dunne (15) won Division 2 and Gerard Cluskey (25) took Division 3 with 40pts. The gross recognition went to Gerard Brennan with 33pts.
Wednesday, October 2 - McKenna Man Singles Stableford – Overall: Graham Purcell (19) 41pts. Division 1: Damien Garland (5) 38pts. Division 2: Ciaran Dunne (15) 38pts. Division 3: Gerard Cluskey (25) 40pts. Gross Recognition: Gerard Brennan (3.1) 33 gross pts.
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