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PGA Tankard Results - Saturday 12th May 2018
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1st Andrew Hayward 40pts (back six)
2nd Derick Hynes 40pts
Category 1
1st Mark Frazer 39pts (back nine)
2nd Michael McGuirk 39pts
Category 2
1st Paul Kelly 39pts (back nine)
2nd Mark Keogh 39pts
Category 3
1st Mark Hughes 34pts (back nine)
2nd Eamon Connolly 34pts (back nine)
Best Gross - Shea Smyth 36pts
Prize Giving will be on Saturday 19th May @6:00pm. All prize winners are expected to attend
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Away from the relative glamour and spotlight of tournaments like the Lonsdale Cup, the Captain's Prize and the Gerry Lenagh Open, or any of those with a sponsor's name attached, lies the unheralded competition type that provides the backbone of the County Armagh Golf Club fixture list: the Club Stableford.
Two such bread-and-butter events were held on consecutive Sundays either side of the April-May border yielding victories for Brian McGrady and Dean Chambers, neither of whom will care one jot about the comparatively low-key nature of their triumph. A win's a win.
On 29 April, McGrady prevailed with a splendid 38-point performance that included both birdies at the 2nd and 11th and a spirited back-nine recovery, which was necessitated by a spell of three double bogeys in four holes immediately before the turn that threatened to derail his challenge.
As it was, this pleasing result for Brian brought with it a definite sense of déjà vu given that he last secured a qualifying top spot in another Sunday bout on 23 April 2017. Seemingly, the big 13-handicapper peaks at exactly this time of year.
County Armagh Golf Club's 2nd hole: looking resplendent in sunnier times.
Returning to the present, Stephen Moloney matched the 38-point winning total but finished in the silver-medal placing after losing out on a break of tie, as was always likely due to McGrady's aforementioned homeward heroics.
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Senior Open Stableford
1st Anthony Conlon 34 points (back 9)
2nd Art McCrory 34 points
3rd Ian Beaddie 33 points
Open Stableford
1st Paul Traynor 35 points (back 9)
2nd Lee Campbell 35 points (back 9)
3rd Calum Connell 35 points
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A strong and bustling 170-man field competed gamely for County Armagh Golf Club's historic Hirsch Cup on 28 April but no one was a match for eventual champion, Patrick Brannigan.
A ragged spell of four dropped shots in as many holes immediately before the turn was Brannigan's only genuine wobble as, elsewhere in the event sponsored by Netstretch Internet Services, he gave his rivals little reason for hope.
A birdie at the 6th was the highlight of a winning round that also featured a streak of four consecutive pars on the way out and another six in a row on the back nine.
The heavy ground and penal rough continues to result in largely conservative scoring across the board, so this was a terrific performance from Patrick.
He would ultimately sign for a terrific nett 66 that, in addition to putting some silverware on the mantelpiece early in the season, returns the Ulster Cup stalwart to single-figure handicap status.
Hirsch Cup winner, Patrick Brannigan, is presented with the trophy by Cormac Knott from Netstretch Internet Services, competition sponsors. Also pictured are County Armagh Golf Club Captain, Colm Shannon, and other prizewinners Shea Smyth, Brian Hughes and Brian Cleland.
The overall runner-up position also had a popular occupant in the shape of Brian Hughes. The former planning officer plotted his way around the course to great effect and finished just one shot back from Brannigan.
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Club Stableford Results
1st Dean Chambers 37pts (back nine)
2nd Paul Traynor 37pts (back six)
Category 1
1st Caolan Doyle 37pts
2nd Philip Russell 36pts (back nine)
Category 2
1st Desmond Kinsella 35pts (back nine)
2nd Ed Hughes 35pts
Category 3
1st Kevin Smyth 36pts
2nd Paul Hughes 31pts
Best Gross John Maguire 33pts
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Bumblebee Cup - Results
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1st Paul Donnelly nett 61
2nd Paul Pender nett 65
Category 1
1st Jonathan McKnight nett 69
2nd Neil Linton nett 70 (back three)
Category 2
1st Jonathan Doherty nett 71 (back nine)
2nd Desmond Cassidy nett 71
Category 3
1st Eamon Connolly nett 70
2nd Stephen Miller nett 72
Best Gross Philip Kelly gross 70
Presentation of the Bumblebee Cup will take place on Saturday 12th May @6:00pm. All prize winners are expected to attend
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1st Shea Smyth 41points
2nd Kevin McElvanna 36points (back nine)
3rd joe rooney 36points
Sen. Open
1st John Lowe 35pts(back nine)
2nd Gerry Cullen 35pts
3rd don McKee 32pts
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The first Sunday qualifier of County Armagh Golf Club's 2018 campaign yielded a deserving winner in the shape of stormin' Norman Mallon.
Playing on 22 April, Mallon reached the turn in 44 blows before three pars on the way home enabled him to complete the back nine in the same number.
This was a day when, underfoot, the soft ground was offering little run, and, overhead, there was the customary stiff breeze. So, any decent return would necessarily be hard-earned. Norman's marvellous nett 67 was especially pleasing, therefore, and also seals for him a satisfying one-stroke handicap cut.
County Armagh's 17th Hole: par 4, Fairy Thorn
A single shot back and closest to Mallon in the overall standings was Stephen Catterall on nett 68. Catterall reeled off no fewer than 11 pars amid his high-quality gross 78, and this prolific prize-gatherer has been rendered a single-figure handicapper by virtue of his latest skilful display.
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