While the ladies had their opening on Wednesday, 17 men in 9 teams of two played an Irish Stableford round. Stableford points are recorded with the best score of two on the first nine added to both scores on the back nine. Winners with 60 points were Brendan Chenhall(16) and Russell Wealands(24). Runners-Up were Allan Coates(9) and Chris Keogh(33) with 58 points. Third were Peter Johnston(16) and Brian Simmons(11) with 55 points. Allan Coates was NTP on the 2nd and the Club Award went to Ron O’Halloran/Brian Priestley with 52. Individual winner was Allan Coates with 40 from Brendan Chenhall 39.
Saturday saw the mens/mixed opening of the season with an Ambrose event which attracted 43 players. Conditions were good and we can thank ourselves fortunate to have water to irrigate our course. Best nett score went to a 4 Person Ambrose team of W.Rowe, G.Antrobus, K.Coghlan and M. Bett with 58.5.
Winners of the 3 Person Ambrose were Tony & Nicola Rule with John Phillips having a nett 59.33 on CB from second Chris & Taris Dunne and Luke Barclay. Third were Alan & Zach Pell and Robert Herbert with 60.17 nett. NTP on the 11th was Josh Cunningham. No Club Award.
