Three players return best scores

Three players - Peter Cunningham, Frank Byrne and John Mulligan - returned the best scores in the Singles Stableford competition held on December 8.
All three returned excellent cards of 35pts which earned Cunningham and Byrne top spot in Divisions 3 and 2 respectively while Mulligan took the runner-up in Division 2 after losing out to Byrne on countback.
The 14 hole competition did not include the third or fourth holes on the front nine and the 15th and 16th on the back nine.
Playing off 14 Cunningham had four-point birdie twos at the ninth and 13th and had five three point pars which came at fifth, sixth, 11th, 12th and 17th as he went through the front seven holes in 17pts and the back seven in 18pts for his 35pts.
His score beat Byrne and Mulligan on countback and he took Division 3 by one point from Danny Gallagher (14).
Byrne, the recently crowned 2024 Golfer of the Year, was off nine and opened up with a three-point par and four-point birdie on the first two holes. Three three-point pars followed at the seventh, eighth and ninth as he completed the opening seven holes in 19pts. His back seven was bookended by three-point pars at the 10th and 18th and in between were five solid two-pointers as came home in 16pts.
Mulligan, playing off nine, took the runners-up spot in Division 2 losing out by one point on countback to Byrne. His 35pts included three birdies which yielded three points at the sixth and 14th and four points at the 18th. He also had three point pars at the first, second, seventh, eighth and 10th.
Turlach King (9) took Division One on countback from Peter Durnin (30) after both shot 32pts while Colm Garvey (16) with 34pts won Division 4 by one point from Ciaran Corbett (17).
The aftermath of Storm Darragh, which saw a tree blocking Birch’s Lanes at the entrance to the Golf Club on the Saturday morning, meant that the second round of the Precision Cables Winter League had to be postponed.
Sunday, 8 December - Singles Stableford - Division 1: Turlach King (9) 32/21pts, Peter Durnin (3) 32/20pts. Division 2: Frank P Byrne (9) 35/22pts, John Mulligan (9) 35/21pts. Division 3: Peter Cunningham (14) 35/24pts, Daniel Gallagher (14) 34pts. Division 4:Colm Garvey (16) 34pts, Ciaran Corbett (17) 33pts.