Cloverhill Golf Club - Benny Wins Newry Crash Repair Cup

Benny Tierney was the winner of the Michael Concannon sponsored Newry Crash Repair Cup. A strong field of 20 had qualified for Sunday's final by being one of the weekly nine hole winners over the course of the last 20 weeks. Despite being held in our typical Summer weather (a constant downpour of rain) scoring was very good over the 18 hole final. Colin Pilkington was the early clubhouse leader with 38 points but was quickly demoted by a father and son duo of Jim and Christopher McKay who along with Paddy Malone came in with 39 points. The top two finishers in the competition came in in quick succession with Noel Magill posting 41 points before the former Armagh All-Ireland winning goalkeeper came home with a winning return of 43 points.

In the singles stableford weekly competition it was the turn of Louth village man Ollie Martin to take the honours with 42 points from a Clareman Steve O Hara in second place with 40 points. Thirty nine points brought Raymond Flynn home in third place.

Sunday next will see another of our popular three category competitions take place. Lissummon GFC golf classic will take place on Saturday with lots of valuable prizes on offer including the chance to win a car for a hole in one.

JUVENILES JUST LOSE OUT
Our juveniles just lost out on a place in the Ronan Rafferty final after going down to Loughgall by two points over the two legged semi-final. The winners set themselves up for victory by holding a big lead coming to Cloverhill for the second leg. The valiant efforts of team members Miceal McGuinness, Niall Smyth, Ryan McGivern, Christopher McKay, Christopher Lynch and Caomhan Downey came up two points short in spite of the very spirited fightback.

FUNDRAISING NIGHT
The annual fundraising night will take place in the club on Saturday night next Sept 12.It poromises to be a great night and those members still with outstanding tickets are asked to return them during the week to enable for the smooth running of events on Saturday night. All ticket purchasers are invited to attend the draw, music and buffet commencing at 8pm on Saturday night.