The sun shone and a fresh westerly breeze greeted the early starters in the St Paul’s Basketball Club Golf Classic in Beaufort on Saturday morning.
Club member Cllr Niall O Callaghan fired off the first drive at 8.40am and, by evening time, over 30 teams had negotiated their way around the long but pristine track.
When all the calculations were complete it was the Gallivan Murphy Insurance (GMIB) team of Tina O’Sullivan, Sinead O’Shea, Sinead Lynch and Lelia Moloney who displayed great course management and no little skill to find themselves in the winners’ enclosure.
But they had to be at their very best as another all-female combination chased them home all the way home as Aileen Curtayne and her team played wonderfully well and secured the silver medal.
Jim Delaney assembled a crack squad of Anthony O’Carroll, Donal Carroll and Ryan Kavanagh and they were the final group home, capturing third place.
The Tony O’Sullivan led Kerry Agri Business team are never far away from a podium finish and they dovetailed well to grab fourth place.
Lorcan King hit a beauty to the challenging second hole to secure nearest the pin while Paudie Kerins was like a radar on the fourth to pilfer that prize.
Over 35 teams took part and the event, in memory of club stalwart Connie Brosnan, was organised by a committee including Sean Brosnan, Joe Sheehan, Maurice O’Donoghue, Jim Delaney, John Carroll and Tom Looney.
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