Last weekend was another busy one on the Pitch & Putt front as the qualifers for the upcoming Munster Strokeplay Finals in Deerpark were decided in Castleisland last Sunday while the County U16 Strokeplay Championships were held in Listowel the previous day.
The Munster Strokeplay Qualifiers were dominated by a superb performance from a currently in-form James Dignan of Castleisland as he registered 16 consecutive birdies in his second round to top the Senior Qualifying list with 17 under par in total. In all 44 different Kerry players secured spots in the Mens Finals as follows:
Senior Mens
James Dignan (Castleisland) 91
Declan McCarron (Listowel) 92
Jason Cregan (Tralee) 93
Damien Fleming (Deerpark) 93
Jamie Blake (Tralee) 94
John McGrath (Deerpark) 93
Darren Goodall (Tralee) 93
Aidan O’Connor (Castleisland) 95
Jason O’Regan (Tralee) 96
Chris Gibney (Listowel) 97
Gavin Carroll (Tralee) 98
Killian O’Gorman (Listowel) 101
Jason O’Brien (Deerpark) 101
Jake Shine (Listowel) 103
Conor McCarthy (Deerpark) 105
Tony Blake (Tralee) 106
Intermediate Mens
Con O’Sullivan Jnr (Deerpark) 98
Ger Guerin (Listowel) 99
Michael Cronin (Deerpark) 100
James Fleming (Deerpark) 100
Gearoid Cronin (Deerpark) 100
Dan Broderick Jnr (Deerpark) 102
Bobby McCarron (Listowel) 105
Ajay Barrett (Listowel) 105
Declan Kelly (Deerpark) 106
Michael Creagh (Tralee) 106
John Fitzgerald (Castleisland) 106
Mark Lucey (Tralee) 107
Ger Casey (Deerpark) 107
Danny O’Leary (Tralee) 108
Daniel Kelly (Deerpark) 109
Junior Mens
Denis Duggan (Deerpark) 101
Paul Hayes (Listowel) 104
Paddy Murphy (Deerpark) 105
Jason Reen (Deerpark) 106
Alan O’Connor (Tralee) 107
Bobby Kelly (Deerpark) 107
Robbie Harnett (Deerpark) 108
James Foley (Deerpark) 108
John Lynch (Tralee) 109
Gavin Dillane (Tralee) 109
Adam Ricken (Castleisland) 110
John Clifton (Castleisland) 111
David Spillane (Deerpark) 111
Well done to all on securing their places in the final as we wish Deerpark well with their preparations for the event in the build-up to the Finals on the weekend of July 19th.
County U16 Strokeplay
Last Saturday event in Listowel saw a new winner of the Boys event as Deerpark’s Aodhan O’Halloran shot a winning score of four under par, three ahead of Joey Blake from Tralee who won the U13 section with his score of one under. The U16 section was won by Diarmuid Lyons from the host club with 112 on countback from Deerpark’s Fionn O’Callaghan as another Deerpark player in Fionn McMonagle was third on 117.
In the U13 section Ryan Deady of Listowel was second behind Joey Blake on 114 while Sean Stacks from the hosts was third on 120. The Girls section meanwhile saw Shona Griffin from the hosts retain her title from Mary Walsh with Sarah Walsh (both Listowel) in third. Well done to all our prizewinners as the event also served as the final trial for our Munster U16 Inter-County teams for the event in Fermoy at the end of the month. The Kerry Gold team will be made up of Deerpark members Aodhan O’Halloran (captain), Fionn Mac Monagle and Daniel Quinlan along with Tralee’s Joey Blake as the Green team will be captained by Deerpark’s Fionn O’Callaghan along with Listowel trio Sean Stack, Sean Keane and Ryan Deady.
Our thanks to our U16 officers Tom O’Connor and Monty Galvin for their work over the last two weeks with the team trials.
Elsewhere one event which unfortunately slipped through two stools for mention last week was the Bob Casey Memorial Inter-Club Strokeplay which concluded on June 23rd last and saw Tralee ‘Yellow’ reclaim the title for the club ahead of Listowel in second and Deerpark ‘Green’ in third. Individual honours went to Michael Conway (Tralee, Senior Mens), Ajay Barrett (Listowel, Intermediate Mens), James Foley (Deerpark, Junior Mens) and Eileen McCarthy (Deerpark, Ladies) as we thank all who took part in June this year.
This weekend sees the Irish Open in Pitch & Putt take place in Portmarnock in Dublin with Kerry entries in both the Adult and U16 events. Of the Kerry entries the most noteworthy is that of Deerpark’s Damien Fleming who is taking part in the event for the first time since the last of his three successes in the competition in Seapoint in Louth back in 2018. We wish all the Kerry players taking part the very best of luck this weekend.
(Pictured L to R as follows: Sean Stack (Listowel, U13 Boys Third Place), Fionn O'Callaghan (Deerpark, U16 Boys Runner-Up), Fionn MacMonagle (Deerpark, U16 Boys Third Place), Aodhan O'Halloran (Deerpark, Boys Overall Winner), Shona Griffin (Listowel, Girls Winner), Joey Blake (Tralee, U13 Boys Winner), Ryan Deady (Listowel, U13 Boys Third Place), Diarmuid Lyons (Listowel, Boys U16 Runner-Up), Mary Walsh (Listowel, Girls Runner-Up) and Sarah Walsh (Listowel, Girls Third Place).
